Person:Josiah Roots (1)
Josiah Roots
chr.7 Mar 1612/13 Ashford, Kent, England
d.3 Jun 1683 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
Parents and Siblings
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m. 27 Jul 1603
  1. Edmund Roots1604 -
  2. Em Roots1605/06 -
  3. Richard Roots1607 -
  4. Thomas Roots1610 -
  5. Josiah Roots1612/13 - 1683
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1642
  1. Josiah RootesEst 1642 - Aft 1673
  2. Bethiah RootesEst 1644 - 1714
  3. John RootesCal 1645 - 1723
  4. Susanna Rootes1648 -
  5. Thomas Rootes1650/51 - Bet 1683 & 1683/84
  6. Jonathan Rootes1665 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4] Josiah Roots
Gender Male
Christening[5] 7 Mar 1612/13 Ashford, Kent, England
Emigration[1][2][3] 1635 On the Hercules.
Residence[2] 1635 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1642 to Susanna Unknown
Will[1] 15 May 1683
Death[4] 3 Jun 1683 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)


Hercules (1635)
From Hotten:s Original Persons: "Of all such persons as embarked themselves in the good ship called the Hercules, of Sandwicxh, of the burthen of 200 tons, John Witherley, master, and therein transported from Sandwich to the plantation called New England in America; with the cerificates from the ministers where they last dwelt of their conversation, and conformity to the orders and discipline of the church, and that they had taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy. (The certificates, all dated February and March, 1634, are here omitted.)
Sailed: early 1635 from Sandwich, Kent, England under Master John Witherley
Arrived: summer 1635 at Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Passengers:
~50 (Full List) 		Jonas Austen family - Thomas Besbeech family (and Egelden children, servant Agnes Love, Thomas Neuley, Joseph Pacheing) - James Bennet - Jno. Best - Thomas Bonney - Thomas Bridgen family - Robert Brook family (and Gallant children) - Thomas Champion - Isaac Cole family (servant Rose Tritton) - Hen. Ewell - Parnel Harris - William Hatch family (servants Joseph Ketchrell - Simon Ketcrell - William Holmes, Symon Sutton, Lydia Wells)- Samuel Hinkley family - Thomas Heyward family - Margaret Johnnes - Jno. Lewis family - Em. Mason - Jos. Rootes - James Sayers - Comfort Starre family (servant John Turkey) - Nathaniel Tilden family (servant Sara Couchman, Edward Ford, Thomas Lapham, Marie Perien) - Fannet not Wise - William Witherell family (servant Anne Richards) -
Resources: Primary Sources:
Other information: Sandwich history - Hotten's list - Bisbee (longer list and includes history of lists)

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 4. Josiah Roots, in Root, James Pierce. Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America. (New York: R.C. Root, Anthony & Co., 1870)
    50-52.

    "4. Josiah Rootes. He was a brother of Thomas and Richard, and probably of Joshua [there is no evidence for a Joshua Root(s) in Salem during that period] of Salem, Mass. He had lands granted to him there in 1636, and again in 1649. He would appear to have been a native of Great Chart, a parish in England, about fifty miles southeast from London [and less than three miles from Ashford, where he was baptized]. He was, according to the record, the first of the name and of his family who came to this country. He immigrated here in 1634 [1634/35] in the ship Hercules, which returned in July 'by St. Georges' to cut masts to carry to England.' … He came to Salem, and settled on the Beverly side, and joined the Salem church in 1648. On the 23d of April, 1667, the brethren belonging to Bass River petitioned the first church of Salem to set off as a church, with Rev. John Hale as pastor, and the names of Josiah Rootes and family are attached to this petition. Hence he became one of the founders of the Beverly church. His wife's name was Susanna, as appears by the will made by him May 15, 1683, just nineteen days before he died. … In this document he gave his personal estate to his wife Susanna till his youngest son Jonathan should come of age."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Joseph Rootes, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    6:95-96.

    "ORIGIN: Great Chart, Kent [NEHGR 75:220].
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Hercules of Sandwich (on 20 March 1634/5, 'Joseph Rootes of Great Chart,' Kent, was enrolled at Sandwich as a passenger for New England on the Hercules [NEHGR 75:220]).
    COMMENTS: This passenger is almost certainly Josiah Roots, bp. Ashford, Kent, 7 March 1612/3, son of Edmund and Emma (Norrington) Roots. His mother m. (2) John Mason, and as "Emme Mason of the parish of Eastwell widow," she appears as the next entry in the passenger list of the Hercules [GM 2:5:71-74]."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Josiah Root, 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)
    3:573.

    "Josiah (Root), Salem, came in the Hercules, 1635, from Kent, aft. join. the ch. 1648, had bapt. Josiah, Bethiah, John, and Susanna, 24 Sept. of that yr. and Thomas, 16 Feb. 1651; was one of the found. of Beverly ch. 1667. Susanna was imprison. in the witchcraft madness; but we may hope that her f. was d. bef."

    It was the wife, Susanna, not the daughter, who was accused of witchcraft.

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley, 1924-1928)
    1:373.

    "Josiah Roots;2 planter; lived on Bass River Side, in Salem; married Susanna _____; died June 3, 1683; she survived him; children: 1. Josiah3 (probably); mariner; living in Salem in 1669; 2. Bethiah;3 married John Lovett; 3. John;3 living in 1683; 4. Thomas;3 living in 1683; 5. Jonathan,3 baptized Oct. 28, 1665; minor in 1683."

  5. ↑ Emma Mason, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    5:73.

    "Josiah Roots, bp. Ashford, Kent, 7 March 1612/3; …"

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