Thomas Rootes1

b. 16 February 1650
Thomas Rootes|b. 16 Feb 1650|p9088.htm|Josiah Rootes|b. bt 1613 - 1618\nd. 3 Jun 1683|p9083.htm|Susanna (—?—) (Rootes)|b. s 1625\nd. a 1692|p9084.htm|||||||||||||

6th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Thomas Rootes was baptized 16: 12m: 1650 (16 February 1650) in First Church, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Josiah Rootes and Susanna (—?—) (Rootes).1
     
Additional Data
Thomas Rootes was mentioned in his father Josiah Rootes's will dated 15 May 1683 in Beverly. He was left twenty shillings.2

On 20 June 1655, Thomas' uncle, Thomas Rootes, conveyed to him by deed of gift, sixty acres in Salem. On 26 February 1660, Thomas' father Josiah sold his son's land to Henry Kenny (Keene or Kenney). In September 1683, in Thomas Rootes of Boston, mariner v. Henry Kenny of Salem, by which Thomas sought to recover the sixty acres, "Susanna (her mark) Rootes [Thomas' mother] certified that her husband sold her son Thomas' land to Keyny and had not left Enough to satisfy him for it..."3 Thomas recovered twenty acres, but the ruling was later reversed.4

Citations

  1. [S852] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1916-1925), citing church record, First Church.
  2. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, IX: 66. 67.
  3. [S855] George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, VIII: 87, 88.
  4. [S855] George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, VIII: 425.