Person:Walter Roper (2)

Watchers
Walter Roper
b.Abt 1614 England
Facts and Events
Name[1] Walter Roper
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1614 England
Marriage to Susan (add)
Will[2] 15 Jul 1680 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 15 Jul 1680 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[2] 19 Aug 1680 Inventory Taken
Probate[2] 28 Sep 1680 Will proved

Will & Probate

The will of Walter Roper mentions: "Susan my wife;" "sonn John;" "Sonn Nathll;" "dafter mary;" "dafter Elizabeth;" "dafter Sarah;" "my grandchild Elizabeth Sparks;" "my grandchildren Susan margerit rose & Sarah Sparks;" "grandchild John Sparks;" "my grandchild John duch;" "my grand children: Elizabeth & susan duch;"

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Walter Roper, in Roper, Ella E. The Ropers of Sterling and Rutland. (East Orange, New Jersey: Fred.H. Colvin (under the auspices of the Roper Association), 1904)
    p 84.

    Walter Roper. Reckoned as second son of John of Dedham, b. England, 1614, m. Susan __; d. Ipswich, Mass., July 15, 1680; carpenter; made freeman, Boston, May 18, 1642.
    Walter and Susan Roper had issue: Mary 1639 m. Robert Dutch; Nathaniel d at sea Sept 29, 1685; Benjamin, d. Bloody Brook, Sept. 18, 1675; John b 1649, m. Anne Caldwell; Elizabeth; Sarah m. __ Sparks.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Walter Roper of Ipswich, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    3:388-390.

    "I haue heruntoe sett my hand & sealle this fiuetenth of Jeuly 1680." - Walter (his R mark) Roper (seal). Witness: John Whipple, Sen., John Denison, Sen., John Brewer, Sen.
    Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 28, 1680, by Capt. John Whipple and John Denison.
    Inventory taken Aug. 19, 1680, by John Whipple, sr., John Denison, sr. and John Brewer, sr.