Person:James Rollins (2)

James Rawlins
b.Bef 1613
d.Bet 16 Dec 1685 and 13 Aug 1687 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
  • HJames RawlinsBef 1613 - Bet 1685 & 1687
  • WHannah UnknownBef 1623 - Aft 1685
m. Bef 1643
  1. Rebecca RollinsEst 1643 -
  2. Ichabod RollinsEst 1645 - Bef 1700
  3. Joseph RollinsEst 1647 - Aft 1685
  4. Samuel Rollins1649 - 1694
  5. Elizabeth RollinsEst 1649 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] James Rawlins
Alt Name[2] James Rollins
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1613 Based on date of freemanship.
Emigration[1] 1633
Residence[1] 1633 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 14 May 1634 Admitted freeman.
Residence[1] 1640 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Marriage Bef 1643 to Hannah Unknown
Will[1] 16 Dec 1685 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Death[1] Bet 16 Dec 1685 and 13 Aug 1687 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Probate[1] 25 Jul 1691 Will proved.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 James Rawlins, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1552-55.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    RETURN TRIPS: In London 1661, in New Hampshire again 1663.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. In list of Dover freemen dated 5 April 1653 [NEHGR 4:247].
    DEATH: Dover between 16 December 1685 (date of will) and 13 August 1687 (apprenticeship of son Benjamin, in which his father is called deceased [NHPLR 4:30a]).

    In 1874 John R. Rollins published a genealogy which presented a list of children for James Rawlins quite different from that compiled by Noyes, Libby and Davis [ Records of Families of the Name Rawlins or Rollins in the United states (Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1874), p. 4]. Some of these children are actually of the third generation and not the second.

  2. 2 James Rollins, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
    595.

    2 James Rollins, Dover (part later Newington), prob. he who was at Newbury 1634-1638. Signed Dover Comb., 1640; wit. a York deed, 1643. Town gr. in 1644 and 1656 (100 a. at Bloody Pt.). Bot a ho. at Long Reach from James Johnson, 1651. Presented for neglecting meeting in 1656 and for entertaining Quakers in 1659. In 1661 he was in London, where he received cloth to be deliv. to Mr. Cogswell of Ips. and Mr. Raynes of York. In 1663-4 he and sons Ichabod and Joseph gave a bond to Mr. John Cutt, and in 1676-7 he mtg. his ho. and land to Cutt, excepting 8 a. already deeded to s. Morse and 18 a. to s. Samuel. … He d. bef. 13 Aug. 1687. Will, 16 Dec. 1685-25 July 1691, names w. Hannah, eldest s. Ichabod, sons Benjamin, Joseph, 'all my ch., sons and daus., every one of them,' Henry Langstaff, Obadiah Morse and Philip Chesley overseers. A lot gr. to him was laid out to Amos Murrell (q.v.) in 1722. Ch: Ichabod. Rebecca, m. Isaac Stokes and left him bef. 1663-4 when she promised to go back. Joseph, carpenter, charged with stealing a canoe in 1672, his bros. Ichabod and Samuel on his bond. No further rec. Samuel. Benjamin,± 23 in 1685, at Portsm. with Ichabod, who was responsible for his lodging, in 1678; gave a note in 1682; appren. to br. Samuel to learn trade of wheelwright 13 Aug. 1687, his fa. then dead. Sold 35 a. to John Pickering jr., 1689, with consent of bros. Ichabod and Samuel, and was prob. dead in 1690 when wit. prov. the deed. His sis.-in-law Rebecca Rollins(5) obtained his est. by paying his debts and deeded it to her sons in 1734. … A dau., m. Obadiah Morse(9). Sarah, m. Philip Chesley(3). Poss. Thomas (6), and John. Abigail (Rollins 5) Richards stated in a depos. in 1749 that she had liv. bef. her marriage with -John-, s. of James Rollins, poss. a scrivener's error. One John m. in Newbury 9 Oct. 1702 Mary Thomas of Oyster Riv., bot land there of Roger Rose and leased it back to him in 1705, wit. Obadiah Morse (strong ev. of some relationship to this fam., altho a cursory glance at the Newbury rec. would seem to place him as John, s. of Nicholas R., b. 1680).

  3.   Rollins, John R. Records of families of the name Rawlins or Rollins, in the United States: in two parts. (Lawrence, Mass.: Geo. S. Merrill & Crocker, Printers, 1874).