ROLFE Henry

Male Bef 1585 - 1643  (> 57 years)


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  • Name ROLFE Henry 
    Birth Bef 5 Sep 1585  Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Baptism 5 Sep 1585  Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Will 15 Feb 1642/3  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • (Estate of Henry Roffe of Newbury

      "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.
      Proved 28:1:1643
      Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 2.


      Inventory taken 1:1:1642, 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, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Will (proved) 28 Mar 1642/3  [4
    _UID F7C60D38EB9ED5118A064445535400003104 
    Person ID I28108  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 23 Jan 2018 

    Father ROLFE John,   b. Abt 1550, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 Oct 1625, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Mother [ROLFE] Honor,   b. 1555, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1579  Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F11031  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ROLFE Honor,   b. Abt 1593   d. 19 Dec 1650, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Marriage 28 May 1621  Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • Doubtless an error in the Parish Registers of Whiteparish, Wiltshire, 1559-1655 which says John Rolfe and Honor Rolfe.
    Children 
     1. ROLFE Anna,   b. Between 1622 and 1630, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1678, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 56 years)
     2. ROLFE Hannah,   b. Between 1622 and 1630, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1678, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 56 years)
     3. ROLFE John, Sr.,   b. Between 1622 and 1635, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1681, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years)
     4. ROLFE Benjamin, Sr.,   b. Abt 1638, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Aug 1710, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 72 years)
    Family ID F11030  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Bef 5 Sep 1585 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 5 Sep 1585 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 May 1621 - Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S47] CD-NEHG Register, Vol. 66, July 1912, p.251.

    2. [S116] Book-Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, MA.

    3. [S47] CD-NEHG Register, Vol. 66, July 1912, p.250.

    4. [S116] Book-Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, MA, p.301.

    5. [S149] Book-Savage, Vol. 3.

    6. [S47] CD-NEHG Register, Vol. 66, July 1912, p.249.