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Henry Rolfe[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Male Bef 1585 - 1643  (> 57 years)


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  • Name Henry Rolfe 
    Birth Bef 5 Sep 1585  [4] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 5 Sep 1585  [4] 
    Will 15 Feb 1642/3  [8, 9] 


    • The 15th 12th month 1642 I desire to comend my soule into the hands of the lord Jesus Christ, I desire my goods may be equally divided to my wife & all my children, only my sonne John Roffe must have the howse & land more then all the rest of my children and that their porcons shalbe divided when they be 21 yeares of age if they marry not before In case my wife dye or marry then the goods shalbe divided; otherwise not till my eldest childe come to be 21 yeares of age But still to remayne in their mothers hands with the rest till that either of them are 21 yeares of age or marry.
      If any of my children dye then that porcon shalbe equally divided betweene my wife & the rest of my children I doe give vnto my wife one great brasse pott and one great brasse pann, and a great brasse posnett and a chafing dish and five pewter platters I doe give vnto my Kinsman Thomas whittear a swarme of bees.
      I desire my brother John Roffe and my Cosen John Saunders of Sallisbery and william Mondy of Newberry to oversee my will & order it to my desire & accordinge to my will.

      Henry Roffe
      Witness:
      Thomas Hale
      Thomas Cowllman
      william Mose
    Inventory 1 Mar 1642/3  [9] 
    by John Woodbridg, Henry Short and Richard Knight
    • howse & land, £30; Six kowes, £30; foure oxen, £24; one bull & one steere, 3 yeare old, £7. 10s.; three beasts, two years old, £8; two beasts, one yeare old, £2. 10s.; three Calves, £1. 4s.; three hoggs, £1. 4s.; Bees, £7. 10s.; haye, £4; Soyle, £1; Cart, Slead & 3 Yoaks, £1. 6s.; within the howse: one fetherbed & flockbed, £3. 10s.; Six fether pillowes, 18s.; 4 Coverleds, £2; 5 blanketts, £1. 10s; 3 paier of Sheets, £1. 8s.; 2li. and a halfe of bee wax, 2s. 6d.; bowlster Case & pillow & napkins, 10s.; porke, £2. 7s.; butter & Cheese, 12s.; barrells & butte[r] Cherne & other lumb., 18s.; Pewter, £1. 7s. 6d.; Brasse, £3. 13s.; a Brasse pott, £1; iron potts, £1. 6s.; A chafing dish & a posnet, 5s.; 12 bushells of indian corne, £2. 2s.; 9 bushells of wheate, £2. 6d.; 2 bushells of pease, 9s.; hogsheads & howes & other lumber, 16s.; in apparrell, stockins & shoes, £3; muskett & fowling peeces & 2 Swords & bandileers, £1. 19s.; working Tooles & lanthorne, 15s.; bookes, £1; spining wheeles, 10s.; a chest & chaiers & other lumb., 16s.; harrow tines, 10s.; total £153. 8s. 6d.
      Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 3.

      Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts; 1635 - 1681," In three volumes, The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916, Vol. 1, Pg. 21.
    Death 1 Mar 1642/3  Newbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8, 10] 
    Probate 28 Mar 1642/3  [9] 
    Person ID I2894  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2008 

    Father John Rolfe,   b. 1550, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Oct 1625, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Honor Rolfe,   b. Abt 1555, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 8 Jul 1619, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1578  Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Family ID F574  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Honour Rolfe   d. 19 Dec 1650, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 7, 11, 12] 
    Marriage Bef 1626  [1, 3, 4, 13] 
    Children 
     1. Anna Rolfe,   b. Abt 1626, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Hannah Rolfe,   b. Abt 1630   d. 16 Nov 1678, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 48 years)
     3. John Rolfe,   b. 10 May 1634, Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1681, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
     4. Benjamin Rolfe,   b. Abt 1638, Newbury, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1710, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 72 years)
    Family ID F3021  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

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  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S23] Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Family, 330, 00219.

    2.  2.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 36:143, 00390.

    3.  3.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 140:316, 00390.

    4.  4.  [S18] Salisbury and Amesbury, 1003, 00466.

    5.  5.  [S867] TAG, 20:180, 00863.

    6.  6.  [S1409] Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, 182, 00159.

    7.  7.  [S867] TAG, 74:55, 00863.

    8.  8.  [S18] Salisbury and Amesbury, 301, 00466.

    9.  9.  [S437] Essex County Wills, rolfeh.htm, 00181.

    10.  10.  [S65] First Settlers of New England, Vol. 3., 571, 00192.

    11.  11.  [S682] TEA, 9:71, 00682.

    12.  12.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 6879055, 00974.

    13.  13.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 15:364, 00390.