Ralph Roote

GM Directory:

• Roote, Ralph: Unknown; 1635 on Abigail; Boston [GM 2:6:91-93].
• According ti Anderson:
• place of birth and origin unknown
• 1st wife is Mary _________
• 2nd wife was Mary Curtis, widow of Thomas Ruggles

Children with 1st wife:

• Sarah m James Balston,
• Jane m Buttell,
• daughter m man from Lynn.
• (Maybe Mary Roote age 15, servant of Henry Collins also on the Abigail)

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Disputed Origins

There was a Ralph Roote, son of John and Alice baptized 5 May 1594 in Maresfield, Sussex, England.[1]. If the age on the passenger list is accurate, then this Ralph is about ten years too young to be the immigrant.

Biography

"Born about 1585 (aged 50 on 17 June 1635). Planter & husbandman who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 on the "Abigail" & settled in Boston. (On 17 June 1635, "Ralph Roote," aged 50, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Abigail). Died in February 1665/6. MARRIAGES: (1) By about 1633 Mary _____. "Mary wife of Ralph Roote" died at Boston on 15 November 1655. (probably) (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."

"Mary Roote," aged 15, a servant of HENRY COLLINS {1635, Lynn}, sailed for New England on the same vessel with Ralph Roote, but no place has been found for her in this family (although she might be the daughter who married in Lynn).

References

• ↑ 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."
• Anderson, Robert C. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635 Vol. VI R-S (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Great Migration Study Project, Boston, 2009). Pages 91-93. View with NEHGS Membership.