Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Ruth Royce
1645 - Aft 1690 (> 45 years)-
Name Ruth Royce [1, 2] Birth 7 Dec 1645 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
[3] Gender Female Death Aft 19 Feb 1690 [4] Alternate death Bef 5 Jun 1695 [5] 
Siblings2 siblings Person ID I2351 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 18 Nov 2017
Father Robert Royce d. 1676 Mother Mary d. 1696, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Marriage 4 Jun 1634 Martock, Somerset, England [1] - ski
Family ID F1250 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Lathrop, b. Bef 7 Dec 1645, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 25 Aug 1688, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age > 42 years) Marriage 15 Dec 1669 [1, 2, 4, 6] Children + 1. Ruth Lathrop d. 10 Aug 1750, Norwich, New London, Connecticut Family ID F2226 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Nov 2017
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Notes - Quite a few online sources have Ruth Royce's death date as 19 Feb 1690 (or 1689). This probably derives from E. B. Huntington's 1884 Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country (citation details below):
"[John Lothrop] died, as the Wallingford records show, Aug 25, 1688, Æt. 44. Ruth, his widow, in Feb. 19, 1689-90, drew lot no. 4, in the distribution of that date."
In other words, 19 Feb 1690 is merely the last date on which Ruth Royce shows up in the records, but the qualifier "after" has fallen off that date in some transmissions.
In fact, as Huntington does not note but Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 does, by 19 Feb 1690 Ruth Royce was not only the widow of John Lothrop; she was also the wife of Abraham Doolittle, who she had married on 12 Feb 1689. They were each other's second spouses. Doolittle subsequently married Elizabeth Thorp on 5 Jun 1695, so Ruth has to have died between 19 Feb 1690 and that date.
- Quite a few online sources have Ruth Royce's death date as 19 Feb 1690 (or 1689). This probably derives from E. B. Huntington's 1884 Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country (citation details below):
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Sources - [S185] Families of Ancient New Haven, originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, vols. I-VIII, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Rome, New York: Clarence D. Smith, 1923-1932.
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- [S185] Families of Ancient New Haven, originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, vols. I-VIII, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Rome, New York: Clarence D. Smith, 1923-1932.