Joseph Rockwell

Male 1670 - 1733  (63 years)


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  • Name Joseph Rockwell 
    Born 22 May 1670  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    AFN 8Q6D-GG 
    Died 26 Jun 1733  East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Buried South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I763  James Henry Martineau
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 

    Father Samuel Rockwell,   b. 28 Mar 1631, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1711, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Mary Norton,   b. Abt 1638, Deans, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1678, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Married 9 Apr 1658  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Family ID F315  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Drake,   b. 2 Nov 1675, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 12 Jun 1733  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 23 Jan 1694  Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9
    Children 
     1. Joseph Rockwell,   b. 23 Nov 1695, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Oct 1746, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years)
     2. Elizabeth Rockwell,   b. 12 Dec 1698, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1699, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Benjamin Rockwell,   b. 26 Oct 1700, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1775  (Age 74 years)
    +4. James Rockwell,   b. 3 Jun 1704, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Oct 1776, , Litchfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     5. Job Rockwell,   b. 13 Apr 1709, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1751, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     6. Elizabeth Rockwell,   b. 24 Jul 1713, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Sep 1751, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 
    Family ID F310  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 22 May 1670 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 23 Jan 1694 - Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • BIRTH: "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630", by Burton W. Spear, vol 7, pg. 117 - D0004
      MARRIAGE: "Search", vol 7, pg. 117 (spouse and children only)
      DEATH/BURIAL: "Old South Windsor Graveyard", copy at Conn. State Library
      Will dated 12 June 1733, proved 4 Sep 1733 lists wife and all living children
      Hartford, CT probate records

      Source: Descendants of John Drake by F,B, Gay pp 16-25-32,; NEHGR Vol 54,p.22
      Recs. of Simsbury, Hartford,Connecticut., Births,Marr's. & Deaths, 974.62/S4 - V2b or GSF#896,756, History of Ancient Windsor, Vol 2, pp. 647-9

  • Sources 
    1. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), p. 57 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S14] The Descendants of John Drake, Compiled by the Direction of Frank B, Gay, (The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1933), p. 32, (Reliability: 3).
      He was age 63 at his death.

    3. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), p. 48 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S10] Grant, p. 63 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), p. 192 & 45 (Reliability: 3).
      p. 45,This record lists the mg, date as 7 Apr 1660

    6. [S133] Early Records of Windsor , Connecticut, vol 5, p. 361 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S5] Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, (http://www.newenglandancestors.org: 2002), REF F7/G74., William Rockwell, p. 1594-7. accessed 14 October 2015. (Reliability: 3).
      BIRTH: Baptized Fitzhead, Somersetshire, 6 February 1590/1, son of John and Honor (Newton) Rockwell (Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, Pedigree Of Rockwell and Allied Families: Extracted from the Records Of the College of Arms (London, n.d.), p. 2). (Other sources give the year of baptism as 1591/2 [Rockwell Gen 188-92; M&JCH 17:131-33].)
      DEATH: Buried at Windsor 15 May 1640 [Loomis Rec 1:50; Grant 79 (gives only year of death)].
      MARRIAGE: Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, 14 April 1624 Susan Capen [Dorset Marr 7:9], daughter of BERNARD CAPEN. She married (2) Windsor 29 May 1645 as his second wife MATTHEW
      GRANT [Goodwin Anc 106]. She died at Windsor 13 November 1666 [CTVR 22].

      CHILDREN:
      i.?tab?JOAN, bp. Dorchester, 25 April 1625 [M&JCH 17:133]; m. (1) Windsor 15 November 1642 Jeffrey Baker [Grant 27]; m. (2) Northampton 10 December 1668 Richard Ingram [Pynchon VR 142].
      ii.?tab?JOHN, bp. Dorchester 18 July 1627 [M&JCH 17:133] (d. Windsor 3 September 1673, aged 46 years [CT VR 27)]; m. (1) Windsor 6 May 1651 Sarah Ensign [Grant 63]; m. (2) Windsor 18 August 1662 Deliverance Hayes [Grant 63].
      iii.?tab?JOHN, bp. Dorchester 18 July 1627 [M&JCH 17:133] (d. Windsor 3 September 1673, aged 46 years [CT VR 27)]; m. (1) Windsor 6 May 1651 Sarah Ensign (Grant 631; m. (2) Windsor 18 August 1662 Deliverance Hayes [Grant 63].
      iv.?tab?SAMUEL, b. 28 March 1631 [Grant 63]; m, Windsor 7 April 1660 Mary Norton [Grant 63].
      v.?tab?RUTH, b. say 1633; m. Windsor 7 October 1652 Christopher Huntington [NorVR 37], son of SIMON HUNTINGTON.
      vi.?tab?SARAH, b. say 1639; m. Windsor 22 March 16581/9?) as his second wife Walter Gaylord [Grant 42], son of WILLIAM GAYLORD.
      http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image/?volumeId=12107&pageName=1594&rId=235192927

    8. [S14] The Descendants of John Drake, Compiled by the Direction of Frank B, Gay, (The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1933), p. 32 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), p. 102 (Reliability: 3).
      The Mothers of the Family,chp.