Person:Edward Rossiter (1)

Name^[1]^[2]	Edward Rossiter
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1575	Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England
Marriage	Bef 1599	Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England(probably) to _____ Combe
Residence^[1]	1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Immigration^[1]^[3]	30 May 1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, MassachusettsMary & John from Plymouth, England
Death^[1]	23 Oct 1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusettsprobably Dorchester

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 Edward Rossiter, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
3:1600-01.

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].
↑ 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)
3:577-578.
↑ Spear, Burton W. Search for the passengers of the Mary & John, 1630. (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, c1985-).
Colket, Meredith B., Jr. Edward Rossiter, His Family, and Notes on His English Connections. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1937)
13:145-151.