John Root, III

Eleanor= 1st wife

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Birth: 1719 Plainville Hartford County Connecticut, USA Death: Dec. 21, 1778 Plainville Hartford County Connecticut, USA

Root, John, died Dec. 21, 1778, age 59

Message received: "James Pierce Root cites his birth as 1718.. but you could also be right. Until I see some grave photos, I can't say for sure."

John ROOT Birth: 11 OCT 1718 in Plainville, CT Death: 21 DEC 1778 in Plainville, CT

(Birth in 1718 would mean he died at age 60, not 59. One would guess then, that he was actually born in 1719.)

Father: John ROOT b: 9 SEP 1690 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut Mother: Martha ORVIS b: 6 MAY 1683 in Farmington, Hartford, County, CT

Married: 1) Eleanor ?

Married: 2) Silence (Silioma) ORVIS b: 17 JUN 1723 in Simsbury, Hartford, CT

Children Hezekiah ROOT b: 14 APR 1747 in Plainville, CT Rosanna ROOT b: 1748 in Plainville, CT Simeon ROOT b: 3 MAY 1750 in Plainville, CT Salmon ROOT b: 30 JUL 1752 in Plainville, CT Elijah ROOT b: 27 OCT 1754 in Plainville, CT Samuel ROOT b: 1 APR 1757 in Plainville, CT Joel ROOT b: 30 MAR 1759 in Plainville, CT Mary ROOT b: 10 APR 1761 in Plainville, CT Elizabeth ROOT b: 10 FEB 1764 in Plainville, CT

Family links:

Spouse:

 Silance Orvis Root (1723 - 1804)*

Children:

 Mary Root Hotchkiss (____ - 1823)*

 Hezekiah Root (1747 - 1808)*

 Salmon Root (1752 - 1824)*

 Samuel Root (1757 - 1811)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Old East Street Burying Grounds Plainville Hartford County Connecticut, USA

Created by: Zoe Tom Record added: Feb 11, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 65495555

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John Root III (1718 - 1778)

John Root III
Born 1718 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of John Root II and Martha (Orvis) Root
Brother of Hannah (Hunn) Cook [half], Nathaniel Hunn [half] and Hezekiah Root
Husband of Silance (Orvis) Root — married 21 Dec 1778 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Hezekiah Root, Salmon Root and Elijah Root
Died 21 Dec 1778 at about age 60 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesmap
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Biography

John Root III was born in 1718. He passed away in 1778. [1]

Father: John ROOT b: 9 September 1690 in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut
Mother: Martha ORVIS baptized: 6 May 1683 in Farmington, Hartford, County, Connecticut
Married: 2) Silance ORVIS b: 17 June 1723 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut
Children
Hezekiah ROOT b: 14 April 1747 in Farmington, Connecticut
Rosanna ROOT b: 1748 in Farmington, Connecticut
Simeon ROOT b: 3 May 1750 in Farmington, Connecticut
Salmon ROOT b: 30 July 1752 in Farmington, Connecticut
Elijah ROOT b: 27 October 1754 in Farmington, Connecticut
Samuel ROOT b: 1 April 1757 in Farmington, Connecticut
Joel ROOT b: 30 March 1759 in Farmington, Connecticut
Mary ROOT b: 10 April 1761 in Farmington, Connecticut
Elizabeth ROOT b: 10 February 1764 in Farmington, Connecticut
JOHN ROOT, son of John (361), grandson of Joseph (351), b. September 9, 1690, at Farmington, Connecticut ; married on December 9, 1714, to Martha (Orvice) Hunn, widow of Nathaniel Hunn. He settled in Southington, on the place now occupied by Mr. Washburn Dunham, and probably lived in the same house. In the survey of the first highway that was laid through the town (June, 1722) the house of John Root is mentioned on the high ground south of the river. It is now in Plainville. He died in 1767.

No where in the volume does he cite the source of John's birth. If James Root referred to a Roote family record or an early researcher who noted John's birth as ie ye 11th d 10th m 1818, this may have resulted in October 11, 1818 instead of January 11, 1718/1719 or the year may have been nearly illegible. Unfortunately without a citation, the tombstone becomes the primary and ONLY source so far for John's date of birth, and likely occurred in 1719.[2]

Even though John Sr and his son John II both resided in what is now Plainville (John II may have inherited his father's residence) their birth and death residences are not considered Plainville because:

Originally Farmington
Out of Farmington, Southington (South Farmington) was created in 1779, after John II's death.
Out of Southington, Plainville was created in July 1869.
Buried in Old East Street Burying Grounds, Plainville, Hartford County, Connecticut
Find A Grave Memorial# 65495555: [1]
Sources

↑ Entered by Porter X, Friday, November 8, 2013.
↑ This is the quote from James Pierce Root's "Root Genealogical Records
No sources. The events of John's life were either witnessed by Porter X or Porter plans to add sources here later.

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 June 2018), memorial page for John Root (1719–21 Dec 1778), Find A Grave: Memorial #65495555, citing Old East Street Burying Grounds, Plainville, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Neal Gardner (contributor 47316673) .
Acknowledgments

Thank you to Porter X for creating Root-1002 on 8 November 2013.