Edward Rossiter

Abt 1575 - 1630  (~ 55 years)

• Name	Edward Rossiter  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1575	Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Oct 1630	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I19859	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Rossiter,   b. Abt 1539, of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England d. 1 Apr 1608 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. 26 Apr 1608
  Marriage	Abt 1570  [4]
  Family ID	F12388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	(Unknown) Combe
  Marriage	Bef 1600  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Dr. Bray Rossiter,   b. Abt 1610   d. 30 Sep 1672, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 62 years) + 2. Joane Rossiter,   b. Abt 1616   d. 9 Jun 1681, Plymouth Colony (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F12384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  One of the assistants to Governor John Winthrop. He was one of the few stockholders in the Massachusetts Bay Company to actually settle in America. He emigrated to New England in 1630, on the Mary and John that set sail from Plymouth, Devon on 20 March 1630, and he died in the same year.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S5541] Genealogical History of Samuell Hartt, from London, England, to Lynn, Mass., 1640, and Descendants, to 1903; Nicholas Hart, from London to Taunton, Mass., 1642, at Boston, Mass., 1643, and Warwick, R.I., 1448, and Descendants; Isaac Hart, from Scratby, England, to Watertown, Mass., 1636, Later of Reading, Mass. by James M. Hart. Concord, New Hampshire, 1903. [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.