ORIGIN: Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: As one of the leaders of the migration to Dorchester in New England, Rossiter was presumably a member of the Dorchester church, but there is no record to confirm this.
BIRTH: Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, say 1575, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (_____) Rossiter [NEHGR 138:10-11].
DEATH: 23 October 1630 ("Mr. Rossiter one of the Assistants died" [WP 2:268]). "The Lord hath stripped us of some principal persons: Mr. Johnson and his lady, Mr. Rossiter, Mrs. Phillips and other unknown to thee, we conceive that this disease grew from ill diet at sea and proved infectious" [WP 2:320].