Person:Roger Pritchard (1)
Roger Pritchard
b.Est 1600 England
d.27 Jan 1670/71 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  Roger PritchardEst 1600 - 1670/71
  • W.  Frances _____Est 1604 - 1650/51
m. Abt 1624
  1. Alice PritchardEst 1625 - 1692
  2. Joan PritchardAbt 1626 - 1690
  3. Nathaniel PritchardAbt 1628 - 1710
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m. 18 Dec 1653
  1. Joseph Pritchard1654 - 1676
  2. Benjamin Pritchard1657/58 - 1743
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Facts and Events
Name Roger Pritchard
Gender Male
Birth[4] Est 1600 England
Marriage Abt 1624 to Frances _____
Marriage 18 Dec 1653 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Prudden
Death[1][2] 27 Jan 1670/71 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Origins

Nothing is currently known of his origins or when or how he emigrated to New England

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Life in New England

  • 1643: Was in Springfield
  • 13 April 1648: Freeman at Springfield
  • 1651: Wife Francis died in Springfield
  • Abt 1653: Went to Milford, CT (where in this year he was listed as one of the town's principal after-planters) and married (2) Elizabeth, widow of William Slough; daughter of James Pruden.
  • 1668: After Elizabeth died in April 1668, he moved to New Haven, perhaps to be near his daughter Alice Bradley.
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Legacy

Died in 1671 in New Haven, CT

Children included:

  • Alice, who married Wm. Bradley
  • Joan who married John Lombard
  • Nathaniel
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Additional Sources

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  1. History of Springfield Mass
  2. NEHGS vol 3, p. 191
  3. NEHGS, vol 57, p. 134
  4. History of Milford, p. 8
  5. Jacob Le Roy Pritchard, Compilation of Some of the Descendants of Roger Prichard, C1600-1671; Madison, WI: Univ of WI (1953); 51 pages. [Can't find online; try to track down a hard copy]
References
  1. ↑ Complied by Frank R. Holmes. Directory of the Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 pg 208. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore MD. Reprint 1974).
  2. ↑ Roger Pritchard, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Roger Pritchard (Prichard) Family. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1968)
    44:193.

    Perhaps Roger moved to New Haven to live with his daughter, Mrs. Bradley, for he died here 26 Jan. 1670/1.

  3.   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)
    Volume III, p. 486.

    ROGER, Springfield 1643, freem. 13 Apr. 1648. His w. Frances d. 1651, and he rem. 1653 to Milford, m. 18 Dec. in that yr. Elizabeth wid. of William Slough, d. of James Prudden, rem. thence to New Haven, there d. 26 Jan. 1671. Alice, perhaps his d. at S. m. 18 Feb. 1645, William Bradlee of New Haven; and Joan, perhaps ano. d. m. at N. H. 1 Sept. 1647, John Lumbard of S.

  4. ↑ Estimate based on the birth dates of his children
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