Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Deacon William Rockwell and Susannah Chapin




Husband Deacon William Rockwell 1 2 3

           Born: 1593 - Dorchester, England 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 May 1640 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 3 4
         Buried: 


         Father: [Ancestor] Rockwell (      -      )
         Mother: 


       Marriage: 14 Apr 1624 - England 1 3 4



Wife Susannah Chapin 4

            AKA: Susanna Capen,5 Susanna Chapin 5
           Born: 5 Apr 1602 - Dorchester, England 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Nov 1666 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 5
         Buried: 


         Father: Bernard Chapin (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 



   Other Spouse: Matthew Grant (1601-1681) 1 2 - 29 May 1645 5


Children
1 F Joan Rockwell 3

           Born: 25 Apr 1625 - England 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Jeffrey Baker (      -      ) 3


2 M Sgt. Samuel Rockwell 3

           Born: 18 Jul 1627 - England 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1711 - East Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Mary Norton (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 7 Apr 1660 6


3 M John Rockwell 3

           Born: 28 Mar 1631 - Dorchester, Suffolk Co, MA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



4 F Ruth Rockwell 1 3

           Born: 1 Aug 1633 - Dorchester, Suffolk Co, MA 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Christopher Huntington (      -1706) 3 7
           Marr: 7 Oct 1652 3


5 F Sarah Rockwell 3

           Born: 21 Jul 1634 - Windsor, Hartford Co, CT 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Walter Gaylor (      -      ) 3



General Notes: Husband - Deacon William Rockwell


He was a Puritan, who, in 1630, with 140 families, organized into a church and left England for America. His family was of Norman origin, running back to Sir Ralph de Rockville, a knight of the 10th century.

The first of the Rockwell line in America, he was born in Dorchester, England, and came to America with his wife and two children in 1630. He located first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was one of the twenty-four freemen who took the oath of fidelity on May 18, 1631. He was a deacon in the church there, and was one of the jurors in the first manslaughter case tried in the colony. In 1637 he removed with his family to Windsor, Connecticut, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was also a deacon in the church at Windsor.

He was in later life one of the deacons of a Baptist church formed in the New Hospital, Plymouth, England, and in company with one hundred and thirty-nine other members of that society sailed in the ship, "Mary and John," from Plymouth, March 30, 1630, and after a voyage of seventy days during which the Gospel was preached or espoused every day by the two ministers, Meverick and Wareham, they landed at a point on the Massachusetts coast, now [1913] the site or nearly so of the town of Hull. Thence they proceeded to Dorchester and a few years later a large portion of the colonists migrated to Connecticut settling at Windsor. At that place he died leaving a widow, three sons and three daughters. [GPHAV, 748]


General Notes: Wife - Susannah Chapin


She may have been the daughter of Bernard Capen (Chapin).

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Sources


1 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 369.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 748, 946.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1268.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 748.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 946.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1269.

7 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 368.


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