ELEVENTH GENERATION

1562. Henry Rolfe (21520) (21521)(21522) (21523) was born before 5 Sep 1585. (21524) He was baptized on 5 Sep 1585. (21525) He signed a will on 15 Feb 1642/43. (21526)(21527)

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

He died on 1 Mar 1642/43 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. (21528)(21529) (21530) He had estate inventory taken by John Woodbridg, Henry Short and Richard Knight on 1 Mar 1642/43.(21531) 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.

His estate was probated on 28 Mar 1642/43. (21532) He was married to Honour Rolfe before 1626. (21533)(21534) (21535)(21536)

1563. Honour Rolfe(21537) (21538) (21539)(21540) (21541) died on 19 Dec 1650 in Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. (21542) (21543)(21544) (21545) She died at the home of Thomas Blanchard. Children were:

child i. Anna Rolfe(21546) (21547)(21548) (21549)(21550) was born about 1626 in England.(21551) (21548) (21552) She died on 16 Nov 1678 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
child781 ii. Hannah Rolfe.
child iii. John Rolfe(21553) (21554)(21555) was born on 10 May 1634 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (21556) He died on 30 Sep 1681 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. (21557) (21558)
child iv. Benjamin Rolfe(21559) (21560)(21561) was born about 1638 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. (21562)(21563) He took the oath of freeman in 1670.(21564) He signed a will on 14 Mar 1705.(21565) He died on 10 Aug 1710.(21566) He was a weaver.(21567)