John Root

- 1684

• Name	John Root  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aug 1684	Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I14743	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Mary Kilbourn,   b. Abt 1619, Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England d. 1697 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1639  [1, 4]
  Children	+ 1. John Root,   b. 1642, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut d. 24 Sep 1687, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 45 years)
  Family ID	F9175	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  First at Wethersfield in 1639. He is widely alleged (including on his latter-day replacement tombstone) to have been born at Badby, Northamptonshire, but this appears to be unproven.

  
  

• 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. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952., "abt. 1640".