Joseph Root

Male 1665 - 1690  (25 years)


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  • Name Joseph Root 
    Born 15 Jan 1665  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    AFN 8R46-JT 
    Died 23 Oct 1690  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I1184  James Henry Martineau
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 

    Father Joseph Root,   b. Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1711, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Mother Hannah Haynes,   b. Abt 1641, Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1691, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
    Married 30 Dec 1660  Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F484  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah,   b. Abt 1662, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1691, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 29 years) 
    Married Abt 1685  Northampton (of), Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 
    Family ID F485  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 15 Jan 1665 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 23 Oct 1690 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • BIRTH: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague) Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS, pg. 26 - D0007: 15 Jan 1664
      Sheldon's "History of Deerfield, MA", 1896, v2,pt2,p271: 16 Jan 1665
      Corbin Collection, Northampton VR, NEHGS reel 82-16, item 5486: 15 Jan 1664/5
      item 5485A 5 Jan 1664
      MARRIAGE: "Ancestry", pg. 26 (spouse only); Sheldon, p 272 wife's given name and two children, first born in July 1686
      Torrey, Clarence, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700": m. Hannah Benton abt 1686, ref. Northampton, Northfield records and Root genealogy
      DEATH: "Ancestry", pg. 26
      HISTORICAL NOTE: Moved from Northampton to Northfield in 1685, where he was an original grantee. Returned to Northampton, where he died (Sheldon, p 272)
    • (Research):!BIRTH: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague)
      Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS,
      pg. 26 - D0007: 15 Jan 1664
      Sheldon's "History of Deerfield, MA", 1896, v2,pt2,p271: 16 Jan 1665
      Corbin Collection, Northampton VR, NEHGS reel 82-16, item 5486: 15 Jan 1664/5
      item 5485A 5 Jan 1664
      MARRIAGE: "Ancestry", pg. 26 (spouse only); Sheldon, p 272 wife's given name
      and two children, first born in July 1686
      Torrey, Clarence, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700": m. Hannah Benton abt
      1686, ref. Northampton, Northfield records and Root genealogy
      DEATH: "Ancestry", pg. 26
      HISTORICAL NOTE: Moved from Northampton to Northfield in 1685, where he was an
      original grantee. Returned to Northampton, where he died (Sheldon, p 272)

  • Sources 
    1. [S118] Root and Roots Families in America --Root Genealogical Rec's, 1600-1870, James Pierce Root, (R.C. Root, Anthony & Co., in Liberty St., New York 1870), p. 104 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S114] NEHGS Register, "Register of Deaths in Northampton, Ms.," (October 1849, p. 400). (Reliability: 3).
      1690, 23 October, Joseph Root

    3. [S118] Root and Roots Families in America --Root Genealogical Rec's, 1600-1870, James Pierce Root, (R.C. Root, Anthony & Co., in Liberty St., New York 1870), p. 104 (Reliability: 3).
      His age listed as 26 at Death.

    4. [S118] Root and Roots Families in America --Root Genealogical Rec's, 1600-1870, James Pierce Root, (R.C. Root, Anthony & Co., in Liberty St., New York 1870), p. 103 (Reliability: 3).