Person:Roger Sterry (2)

Roger Sterry, who came to Stonington, Conn., by 1670, died about 1680 (after the birth of his son in 1674 and before mid-1681 when his wife appears of record as a widow), probably in southern New England or at sea. The only other record, other than the births of his two children, is in the proceedings of the New London County Court. On September 16, 1673 the Court noted that it had issued a warrant for Roger and his wife to appear and they had not done so (the reasons for the warrant and the non-appearance are not given).The paucity of record forces one to wonder if Roger may not have been a mariner, a trapper, or a soldier lost in the Great Swamp Fight against the Narragansett Indians (at Kingston, R.I.) on December 19, 1675. The town of Stonington from its founding was important as a port, and its inhabitants lost many men in shipwrecks.================STERRY, ROGER, Stonington 1670, m. that yr. Hannah, wid. ofThomas Huet, of the same.

1. ↑ Before the remarriage of his widow in Aug 1681.