Person:Mary Curtis (82)

Name^[2]	Mary Curtis
Gender	Female
Christening^[2]	Mar 1589	Nazeing, Essex, England
Marriage	1 Nov 1620	Nazeing, Essex, Englandto Thomas Ruggles
Marriage		to Roote (add)
Death^[3]	14 Feb 1674/75	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial^[1]^[3]	14 Feb 1674/75	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ 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 wid. of Thomas, m. aft. 1662, a Roote, whose name of bapt. is unkn. and of her, at the date of her bur. 14 Feb. 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."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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.
↑ ^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. (Boston, Massachusetts: 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].