Person:Robert Roice (1)

Robert of Stratford and New London not the Robert of Boston

"Some writers have claimed that Robert Rice or Royce, who was living in Boston in 1640 with a wife Elizabeth, was the same person who later appeared in New London, Connecticut, with a wife Mary. An examination of the Suffolk County Deeds proves beyond question that Robert Royce of Boston died prior to October 1668, at which date his widow had become the wife of Michael Tarne or Tearn. Other facts … show that Robert Royce of New London … was living in 1670, thus proving the impossibility of this claim."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Robert Roice, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   III:1599-1600.

   ORIGIN: Unknown.
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church (as "Robert Roys") as member #137, which would be in the sumer of 1632 [BChR 14].
   FREEMAN: 1 April 1634 (as "Roberte Roise") [MBCR 1:368].
   DEATH: By 27 October 1668 [SLR 9:393] (and probably some years earlier).

2. ↑ The Family of Robert Royce, in Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915)
   I:295.