Rose (Stoughton) Otis (bef. 1629 - bef. 1677)

Born before 22 Nov 1629 in Worplesdon, Surrey, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Otis — married 1 Jan 1648 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died before 3 Jul 1677 at about age 47 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

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Biography

Rose (Stoughton) Otis,^[1] daughter of Anthony Stoughton and Agnes Pierce,^[2] was born probably shortly before her baptism at Worplesdon, Surrey, England,^[3][4] 22 November 1629.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

In 1643, the midst of the English Civil War, her widowed father sent her (at age 14) to New England with Israel Stoughton (said by Horatio Otis to be a kinsman, but see research notes below). Israel shortly returned to England to fight for the Parliamentarians, but died in 1644.^[7][8] Who and where Rose was cared for before her marriage to Richard Otis is unknown, though Israel's wife, Elizabeth Knight, remained in New England, and his sister, Elizabeth (Stoughton) (Scudder) Chamberlain had also immigrated and was alive until 1647.

Rose died, probably at Dover, New Hampshire, before 3 July 1677 when her husband Richard Otis gave a bond of £500 as guardian to John Heard, heir to John and James Heard. Later that year, 5 November, the court approved Articles of Agreement to transfer executorship and administration of the will of John Heard to Richard Otis and James Chadborn. The record states, in part, "…Richard Otis, who being ye now husband of Shuah the Relict or Widdow of James Heard…."^[6][9]

Marriage

She married Richard Otis, blacksmith,^[2] probably at Boston, Massachusetts, about 1649. The estimated marriage date is based on her second son Stephen being born about 1652.^[6] Richard was apparently in Dover, New Hampshire 20 October 1652 when he filed a complaint against Job Hawkins of Boston. See his profile for details. He was an inhabitant of Boston in May 1655, but by the end of that year the couple were in Dover, New Hampshire where he received a grant of land.^[2][6]

Children

They had 4 sons and 4 daughters (in approximate order):

• Richard Otis^[2] (eldest son) married Susanna Hussey.^[6][10]
• Stephen Otis^[2] born about1652; married Mary Pitman, 16 April 1674.^[6][10][11]
• Solomon Otis^[2] born 15 October 1663; died about 1 March 1664.^[6][10][11]
• Nicholas Otis^[2] of age by 1694; killed by Indians 26 July 1696.^[6][10]
• Experience Otis^[2] born 7 Nov 1666; married (1) Samuel Heard,^[2] (2) Rowland Jenkins^{[2][6][10][11]}
• Judith Otis^[2] married Ensign John Tuttle Jr.^[6][10]
• Martha Otis^[2] (called Rose in some secondary sources)^[10][12] married John Pinkham.^[2][6][10]
• Anna Otis married Thomas Austin.^[2][6][13]

Research Notes

Immigration

Richardson states "They immigrated to New England," possibly implying they were married in England. That's possible, but there is no evidence of it in his sources.^[2]

It is stated in several early published sources (and has been repeated many times since) that she came in 1643 with Israel Stoughton (see below).^[5][7][14] Those three sources all cite a single source for Rose's ancestry and immigration to New England in 1643: her brother's manuscript on the Stoughton family, now held at the British Library.^[15]

Alleged Kinsman, Israel Stoughton

None of the various accounts or pedigrees of the Stoughton families show Anthony and Israel Stoughton as in some way related. Most likely, when Horatio Otis wrote his 1851 account, the rationale was simply "the name's the same."^[7] In his account, Ralph Stoughton makes no attempt to connect the two men.^[8] At present it is mere speculation to attempt to answer how Anthony came to know Israel well enough to entrust his daughter to him, though it is quite possible they were related in some fashion for which evidence has not yet been found.

Rose Otis, alleged daughter of Richard Otis and Rose Stoughton and wife of Jean Poitevin

A previous version of this profile included an additional daughter, Rose, wife of Jean Poitevin.

• Richardson says that the Rose of this profile had a daughter of the same name, a Rose who married Jean Poitevin. One of his two citations for Rose's entry is the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire.^[2] This says that Richard Otis had a daughter Rose who married Jean Poitevin, and that her mother may have been either the Rose of this profile or Richard's second wife Shuah Heard.^[2][6]
• William Otis's 1924 book on the Otis Family in America says that Richard Otis had a second marriage to Susanna Beard, by whom he had two children - Francoise Rose, who married Jean Poitevin at Beauport in 1696, and Jean-Baptiste, who attended the marriage of Francoise Rose.^[12]
  • Richard Otis's second wife was Shuah Starbuck, widow of James Heard.^[6][9] "Susanna Beard" may be a misreading of "Shuah Heard".
• A 1921 work on the Otis family says that Richard Otis and "Anna Shuah (?)" had a son Jean-Baptiste, born in 1680, whose sister Françoise Rose married Jean Poitevin in 1696.^[16]
• Later research has found that the 29 October 1696 marriage contract of Rose Otis and Jean Poitevin clearly identifies Rose's parents as "Steeven Otis et Marie" - Stephen, son of the Rose of this profile, and Mary Pittman. Jean-Baptiste Otis was son of Richard Otis, another child of the Rose of this profile, and Susanna Hussey. Jean-Baptiste Otis and the Rose who married Jean Poitevin were therefore grandchildren of the Rose of this profile, and cousins, not siblings.^[17][18][19]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume V , pages 49-51 STOUGHTON.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17} Richardson, Royal Ancestry, V:51 STOUGHTON 21.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Parish Registers for Worplesdon, 1510-1901, FHL microfilm 0991749 #2, img 85; if at FHL or FHC: FamilySearch Image|JW26-266; "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW26-266 : 5 February 2023), Rosse Stoughton, 1629.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Surrey History Centre, ref. WOR/1/1, Surrey Baptisms, FindMyPast with linked image of parish register.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Owen Manning & William Bray, The History and Antiquities of The County of Surrey, 3 vols. (J. Nichols, London, 1804-1814), 1:169-172, Familysearch (image pages 322ff.).
6. ↑ ^{6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13} Sybil Noyes, et al. (eds.), Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 5 vols. (Southward Press, Portland, Maine, 1928), 4:520-521, FamilySearch (4:520-521).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Horatio N. Otis, "Family of Stoughton," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (July 1851): 350, Internet Archive.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Ralph M. Stoughton, "The Stoughton Families of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn.,"The American Genealogist 29 (October 1953): 193-204, at 200.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Albert Stillman Batchellor, Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, Vol 1, 1635-1717, Documents Relating to Towns in New Hampshire (title varies), 40 vols. (Concord, New Hampshire : George E. Jenks, 1867-1943), 31:188-190, Internet Archive.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7} Horatio N. Otis, "The Otis Genealogy: Richard Otis of Dover, N. H. and His Descendants," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (April 1851): 177-196 at 184, Internet Archive.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} "Early Records of N. H. Families" in Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society (Scales & Quimby, Dover, 1894), Vol. I, 1894, p.120, Internet Archive.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} William A. Otis, A Genealogical And Historical Memoir of the Otis Family In America (Schulkins, Inc., Chicago, 1924), pp. 59-66, Internet Archive.
13. ↑ Noyes, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 1: 69, FamilySearch (1:69).
14. ↑ James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862), 3:324, Internet Archive
15. ↑ [ https://searcharchives-beta.bl.uk/primo-explore/search?vid=BLNUI , search term "Add MS 6174"]
16. ↑ Gérard Malchelosse, Généalogie de la Famille Otis: Branche Canadienne (Montreal: G. Ducharmel. 1921), 23-24, Internet Archive.
17. ↑ Annette Potvin, "L'histoire de Rose Otis (1676-1729)" (1ère partie), L’Ancêtre 35 (2009): 149.
18. ↑ Annette Potvin, "L'histoire de Rose Otis (1676-1729)" (2e partie), L’Ancêtre 35 (2009): 245
19. ↑ Roger W. Lawrence, "The Identity of Rose Otis", American-Canadian Genealogist 15 (1989): 38.

See also:

• Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 113-114, STOUGHTON 16, Google Books
• William A. Otis, A Genealogical And Historical Memoir of the Otis Family In America (Schulkins, Inc., Chicago, 1924), 47-54, Internet Archive.
• Annette Potvin, "Otis Ancestors from Somerset England," American-Canadian Genealogist, 20 (1994): 72.
• Charles Nelson Sinnett, Richard Pinkham of Old Dover, New Hampshire and His Descendants East and West (Rumford Print. Co., Concord, N.H., 1908), 20, Internet Archive.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Greg Cooke in May 2023, and reviewed for the Project by Michael Cayley on 11 May 2023.

Rose (Stoughton) Otis is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xv-xxi) in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron William de Huntingfield (vol. V, pages 49-51 STOUGHTON) that was badged by the project on 22 August 2023.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Magna Carta Trails

Badged Richardson-documented trail to Huntingfield (MCA IV:112-114 STOUGHTON; RA V:49-51 STOUGHTON):

Gateway Ancestor Rose Stoughton (badged/100%)

1. Rose is the daughter of Anthony Stoughton (badged/100%)

2. Anthony is the son of Lawrence Stoughton (badged/100%)

3. Lawrence is the son of Elizabeth Lewknor (badged/100%)

4. Elizabeth is the daughter of Edmund Lewknor(badged/100%)

5. Edmund is the son of Roger Lewknor (badged/100%)

6. Roger is the son of Roger Lewknor (badged/100%)

7. Roger is the son of Thomas Lewknor (badged/100%)

8. Thomas is the son of Roger Lewknor (badged/100%)

9. Roger is the son of Thomas de Lewknor (badged/100%)

10. Thomas is the son of Roger de Lewknor (badged/100%)

11. Roger is the son of Thomas de Lewknor (badged/100%)

12. Thomas is the son of Joan de Keynes (badged/100%)

13. Joan is the daughter of Richard de Keynes (badged/100%)

14. Richard is the son of Sarah de Huntingfield (badged/100%)

15. Sarah is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety William de Huntingfield

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