Person:Jonathan Royce (1)

Jonathan Royce was probably the eldest, rather than the youngest son in this family, and must have been born about 1636, or earlier, as he doubtless married (first) in 1656, Mary Spinning, daughter of Humphrey Spinning of New Haven (see Vol. 80, p. 107 of the N. E. H. G. Reg., D. L. Jacobus), and (second) June, 1660, Deborah Caulkins. (See Caulkins IV.) She survived her husband and married (second) (_____) Woodward of Lebanon, Connecticut. By the first wife, Mary Spinning, Jonathan Royce is believed to have had a daughter, Mary, who in 1678 married John Beach of Wallingford. The following record of the settlement of the estate of Jonathan Royce was found in the New London County Court Records by Mr. Jacobus, under date of September 22, 1690: "The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Royce was exhibited in Court, approved and ordered to be recorded, etc." "The Inventory of the Estate of Jonathan Royce of Norwich, deceased, having been exhibited in Court September last and power of administration was then granted to the Relict: this Court proceeds to distribution." Jonathan Royce resided at the time of his first marriage in Stratford, removing first to New London and after his second marriage to Norwich, Connecticut, where the birth dates of all his children by the second wife are to be found on the Vital Records of the town. (Vol. I, p. 33.) The marriages of the children are shown by the distribution of the estate, and a still later record was found by Mr. Jacobus in the settlement of the estate of David Royce, youngest son of Jonathan, who died unmarried, and the Court determined the heirs among his brothers and sisters and the "children of his deceased sister, Eliza Bacchus, Habijah Wade, and Mary Beach, his half sister." Dated January 13, 1712-13.

1. ↑ Jonathan Roise, 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)
   3:569-570.

   Jonathan (Roise), Norwich, s. of Robert of New London, m. June 1660, Deborah, d. of Hugh Caulkins, had Eliz. b. Jan. 1662; John, 9 Nov. 1663; Sarah, Oct. 1665; Abigail, Sept. 1667, d. next yr.; Ruth, Apr. 1669; Hannah, Apr. 1671; Abigail, again, Apr. 1673; Jonathan, Aug. 1678; Deborah, 10 Aug. 1680; and Daniel, 19 Aug. 1682.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Calkins, Jerome Reynolds. The History and Genealogy of A Branch of The Calkins Family. (Toledo, Ohio: The Author, 1967)
   1:19.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Royce, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   8:1549.

   Jonathan (Royce), d 1690; res Norwich.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Helen Elizabeth Royce. Parentage of Mary, Wife of John(2) Beach of Wallingford, Conn: Prepared at the Request and with the Cooperation of Miss Helen Beach. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1926)
   80:108.