Bryan 'Bray' Rossiter, Dr

See http://www.maryandjohn1630.com/passengerlist.html which lists as PROBABLE passengers on the Mary and John (1630):

• Edward Rossiter, age 55
• wife of Edward Rossiter, age 53
• Nicholas Rossiter, son of Edward, 31
• Ann, wife of Nicholas, age 29
• child of Nicholas and Ann, age 4
• child of Nicholas and Ann, age 2
• Bray, son of Edward, age 20
• Jane, son of Edward, age 16
• Hugh, son of Edward, age 15
• Joan, daughter of Edward, age 14
• four unnamed people who are either relatives of Edward or his servants

See The American Genealogy, January 1937 (available from NEGHS) "Edward Rossiter, His Family, and Notes on His English Connections" by Meredith B. Colket Jr.

Married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John Alsop of Crewkerne, Somerset.

His son-in-law was John Cotton. Bryan was admitted freeman at Dorchester, 18 May 1631. He was a noted physician, died at Guilford, CT 30 Sept 1672. His wife, Elizabeth Alsop, died at Guilford 29 August 1669. They had children.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume 55

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 December 2020), memorial page for Bryan “Bray” Rossiter (1610–30 Sep 1672), Find a Grave Memorial no. 175807934, citing Village Green Cemetery, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Mookie (contributor 47515129) . 

GEDCOM Note

Category: Puritanism, North America Category: 17th Century American Immigration Category: Puritan Great Migration Category: Mary and John sailed March 20 1630 Category: Founders of Windsor

Biography ==Bray (Bryan) Rossiter arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony,in 1630 aboard the Mary & John from England, with his father. Bray Rossiter settled in Windsor, Connecticut, where he practiced as a physician, became a landed proprietor of the settlement, its first town clerk and registrar, and later moved to Guilford, Connecticut in 1652. He performed the first post-mortem in the colony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wells_Rossiter "Bray" Rossiter became a Massachusetts Freeman 18 May 1631.<ref>Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England. Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853 p. 366</ref> "Bryan" Rossiter died in Guilford, 30 Sep 1672.<ref name="Barbour">White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Guilford. (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.) </ref> Bray Rossiter once the owner of land and a farm in Dorchester near Boston, which he had purchased from the Natives and granted by the town [Lechford 157] At 1639-40 this land was in the hands of the William Hutchinson family.<ref>by subscription Page 479 Vol. 3 Anderson, R C, The Great Migration Begins...</ref>

Sources

<references />* "Founders' Series: Bray Rossiter, Man of Science, Man of Mischief," windsorhistoricalsociety.org* Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, Dec. 2006) Vol. 39, No. 3, Page 343* Ancestral File(R) The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints. Ancestral File Number: 927X-R0* Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. ExtractsFrom The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 152* Early New England Families. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) Bray Rossiter* Smyth, Hon. R. D., Dr. Bryan (or Bray) Rossiter of Guilford, Conn., and His Descendants, The NewEngland Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1901) Vol. 55, 149-50.