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Facts and Events
See also Hotten 292; DeTR 1 :33; DeVR 1; DeChR 21; MBCR 1:379
References
- ↑ John Roper, in 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)
3:574-575.
JOHN, Dedham, possib. s. of the preced. [the first John Roper] came, 1637, aged 26, with w. Alice, 23, and two ch. Alice and Eliz. a carpenter from New Buckenham, Co. Norfk. as says the rec. [See 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 99.] At D. by w. Alice he had Rachel, b. 16 Mar. 1640, d. next yr.; Hannah, 5 Bapt. 9 Apr. 1642; Ephraim, and Benjamin, b. 23 Feb. tho. the rec. of bapt. has Ephraim and Nathaniel tw. 2 Mar. 1645; and I would gladly tell more if kn to me. An Alice R. bec. perhaps third w. of John Dickinson of Salisbury.
JOHN, Charlestown, 1647-58, may be he wh. rem. to Lancaster, and was k. by the Ind. early in 1676, on the same day when all the other inhab. gave up their residences to conflagr.
- ↑ Roper, Ella E. The Ropers of Sterling and Rutland. (East Orange, New Jersey: Fred.H. Colvin (under the auspices of the Roper Association), 1904)
83-84.
John Roper, Jun., b. probably New Buckenham, Eng., 1611, known to be son of John of Dedham, m. in Eng. Alice ----- b. 1614; was examined Apr. 13, 1637, at Yarmouth, Eng., in regard to his intentions incoming to New England. Sailed probably on the Rose, of Yarmouth, John Andrews master, with wife and two daughters; carpenter; made freeman, Dedham, June 2 1641; resided Dedham, Charleston [Charlestown], Lancaster; select man in latter town; massacred there by lurking Indians Mar. 26, 1676. Alice his wife m. 2nd Charlestown, Apr. 14, 1681, John Dickinson; resided Salisbury, Mass. He d. Dec. 30, 1683. She m. 3d. Salisbury, 1684, William Allen. She died in that place Apr. 1 1687.
- Leslie Mahler, FASK and Nathan W Murphy, AG, The English Ancestry of Alice Reynolds Wife of John1 Roper of Dedham, Massachusetts. , in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
85:222-34, July 2011.
The authors review the research published by Lyman Mower and Ella E Roper and note that they and Robert Charles Anderson find them unreliable. They state unequivocally that that the elder John Roper in their books was not only not the father of this John Roper but he did not exist! The immigrant was the John Roper who married Alice Reynolds. John Roper and Alice Reynolds were married 3 Oct 1633 in New Buckingham, Norfolk, England [parish records for New Buckingham]. The records include the baptism of 2 of their daughters: Alice 10 Sep 1634 and Elizabeth 25 Jan 1635/6. They include a deposition where John Roper states his desire to immigrate to New England dated 13 Apr 1637. He was named in the will of Simon Reynolds, etc.
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