Dr. Bray Rossiter

Abt 1610 - 1672  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Bray Rossiter  [1]
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	Abt 1610  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Sep 1672	Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I14011	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Edward Rossiter,   b. Abt 1575, Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England d. 23 Oct 1630, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	(Unknown) Combe
  Marriage	Bef 1600  [1]
  Family ID	F12384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Alsop,   b. Bef 15 Feb 1614   d. 29 Aug 1669, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age > 55 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1630  [2]
  Children	1. Joanna Rossiter,   b. Jul 1642   d. 12 Oct 1702, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F8815	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Bryan, Brian. Emigrated in 1630 on the Mary and John with his father. One of the first physicians in Connecticut, he was admired by many and reviled by some. In the December 1663 dispute between the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, the document "New Haven's Case Stated" calls Rossiter "a man of a turbulent, fractious, restless spirit," as evidenced by his having recently arrived in New Haven with several companions at the ungodly hour of 10 PM.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1586] Meredith B. Colket, Jr., "Edward Rossiter, Colonist, of Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Rossiter English Lineage." Based chiefly on research by Charles Fitch-Northen. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 138:4, January 1984. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S1582] John Wingate Thornton, "The Cotton Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1:164, April 1847., place only.