Mary Root

Mary Curtis, the daughter of Thomas Curtis and 1st wife Mary Camp, married Thomas Ruggles 1 November 1620 in Nazeing, Essex, England per John William Linzee citing Parish registers.[1]. She was baptized on Mar 1589 in Nazeing, Essex, England.[4]

She was the sister of William Curtis, who married Sarah Elliot, of Nazeing, England who came to Roxbury with his family in 1632.

Thomas and Mary came to Roxbury in 1637 with two of their children, Sarah and Samuel.

Thomas died in 1644 at Roxbury.[1]

After Thomas Ruggles died she married second to Ralph Roote, his 2nd wife.

She died on 14 February 1674/5 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Children of Thomas Ruggles and Mary Curtis were:

1. Thomas b. about 1621/2, died in England.[1]
2. John bapt. Jan 6, 1624/5 in Nasing, England. died in Roxbury Sept. 16, 1658 m. Abigail Crafts.[1]
3. Sarah bapt. in Nasing Feb. 16, 1627/8. m. William Lyon Sr.[1]
4. Samuel b. 1629 d. Aug. 15, 1692. m (1) Hannah Fowle; m(2) Anna Bright[1]

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Curtis-7
• ↑ John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston, Mass. : J.W. Linzee, 1913) page 452
• ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 3:588. Mary the widow of Thomas, m. aft. 1662, a Roote, whose name of baptism is unknown and of her, at the date of her bur. 14 February 1675, Eliot writes thus: "Old mo. Roote, wh. was Thomas Ruggles' wid. afore. She lived not only till past use, but till more tedious than a child. She was in her 89th yr."
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ralph Roote, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), VI:93. On 14 February 1674/5, "Old Mother Roote who was Tho[mas] Ruggles widow afore" died or was buried at Roxbury. "She lived not only past use, but till more tedious than child. She was in her 89 year" [RChR 181; Parker-Ruggles 448].
• ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960), 204.
• ↑ Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchhill, City Printers, 1884) Vol. 6. Roxbury Land and Church Records p 181 link
• Bailey, Franklin. The Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury (Boston, 1896) Page 5
• Find A Grave: Memorial #37184560 Mary Ruggles Roote - No Burial, no stone - Gives date of baptism as 28 March 1589

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Mary Curtis Ruggles Roote
BIRTH
1586
Nazeing, Epping Forest District, Essex, England
DEATH
14 Feb 1674 (aged 87–88)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID
37184560 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 4
FLOWERS 14
Ralph Roote probably married (2) Mary (Curtis) Ruggles, sister of William Curtis and widow of Thomas Ruggles. On 14 February 1674/5, "Old Mother Roote who was Tho[mas] Ruggles widow afore" died or was buried at Roxbury. "She lived not only till past use, but till more tedious than a child. She was in her 89 year."
No recorded children of this marriage.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

Mary's birth year is incorrect, she was age 88 at her death 14 Feb 1674, thus 1674 - 88 = 1586 per the following sources:
- Roxbury Vital Records, Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849; Essex Institute; Salem, Massachusetts.
- Bailey, F. L. (1896). Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury, 1637, to Thomas Ruggles of Romfret Connecticut: The genealogy of Alitheah Smith ... and Samuel Ladd of Haverhill, Mass. Boston.
- Mackenzie, George N, and Nelson O. Rhoades. Colonial Families of the United States of America: In Which Is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies from the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. New York: The Grafton Press, 1907.
- Pope, C. H. (1900). The pioneers of Massachusetts: A descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. Boston: C.H. Pope.
- Spooner, Thomas. Records of William Spooner, of Plymouth, Mass: And His Descendants, Vol. I. Cincinnati: Press of F.W. Freeman, 1883.
Family Members
Parents
Thomas Curtis
1560–1606

Mary Camp Curtis
1560–1594

Spouses

Thomas Ruggles
1584–1644 (m. 1620)

Ralph Roote
1585–1665 (m. 1660)

Siblings

William Curtis
1592–1672

Dr Thomas Curtis Jr
1598–1681

Half Siblings
Richard Curtis
1600–1693

Children
Mary Ruggles
1623–1623

Sarah Ruggles Lyon
1628–1688

Capt Samuel Ruggles
1629–1692