Robert Ring

Abt 1614 - 1691  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Robert Ring  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1614	of Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1690  [2]
  Death	1691  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I6055	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	John Ring   d. Between 24 Dec 1635 and 6 May 1636, Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire, England
  Mother	Joan Mason alias Rogers   d. Between 23 Sep 1639 and 3 Dec 1639, Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire, England
  Marriage	4 Nov 1593	Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire, England   [5]
  Family ID	F24296	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth
  Marriage	Bef 1654	Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Jarvis Ring,   b. Dec 1657, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. Bef Mar 1728 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Family ID	F3454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "Robert Ring was born in 1614 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and traveled to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 as an indentured servant on the ship the Confidence. That same year English colonists traded enslaved Pequot Indians they had defeated in war for the first cargo of African slaves brought to Massachusetts. Unlike the group of slaves arriving from the West Indies, Ring's period of servitude was not for life. Indeed, his contract was remarkably short compared to the typical indentured servant who served 7 years in exchange for passage to the New World. In 1640, just two years later at the age of 28, Ring became a freeman. After acquiring head right land in Salisbury, Mass., he returned to England for a period of 8 years and then came back to the colony. Upon his return he initiated and won a suit against Essex County which had tried to reclaim his land while he was absent. He established a fishing business on what came to be known as Ring's Island and also was a cooper and a planter." [Natalie J. Ring, "Ancestors, Indentured Servitude, and the Salem Witch Trials"] The idea that he was the Robert Ring baptized 7 Apr 1615 at Stanton St. Bernard, Wiltshire, son of John and Joan Ring is, if not solidly proved, certainly plausible: * John Ring married "Joan Mason alias Rogers" at Stanton St. Bernard on 4 Nov 1593. * Stanton St. Bernard is only nine miles from Marlborough, also in Wiltshire. * Jarvis Ring, son of the Robert Ring of this page, married Hannah Fowler, whose father Thomas Fowler was baptized at St. Mary the Virgin in Marlborough, a son of the William Fowler who was baptized in that church in 1605 and who married Jane Wilshire there in 1625. Jane was buried in the same church in 1643. William Fowler's father John Fowler was buried there in 1647. All of which looks entirely like typical early New England kinship-network stuff.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3768] "Old Norfolk County Records." The Essex Antiquarian 2:12, 1898. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S3769] Harold Clarke Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 89:360, Oct 1935. [S4678] Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, on ancestry.com.