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Thomas Root
1605 - 1694 (~ 89 years)-
Name Thomas Root Born Y [1, 2] Christened 16 Jan 1605 Badby, Northamptonshire, England 
[3] Gender Male AFN 2N6V-H7 Died 17 Jun 1694 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States [4, 5, 6] Person ID I672 James Henry Martineau Last Modified 27 Oct 2015
Father John Root, b. 24 Jun 1576, Badby (of), Northamptonshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown Mother Mary Ann Russell, b. 18 Apr 1574, Badby, Northamptonshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 23 Jul 1600 Badby, Northamptonshire, England [3] Family ID F487 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth, b. Abt 1618, Badby, Northamptonshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married 1639 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Children + 1. Joseph Root, b. Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 19 Apr 1711, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 71 years)2. Thomas Root, b. Abt 1644, Hartford, , Connecticut, United States , d. Aft 1722 (Age ~ 79 years)3. John Root, b. 10 Jun 1646, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 9 Sep 1677, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age 31 years)4. Jonathan Root, b. Abt 1648, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 25 Dec 1741 (Age ~ 93 years)5. Hezekiah Root, b. Abt 1650, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 29 Sep 1690, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States (Age ~ 40 years)6. Jacob Root, b. Abt 1652, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 9 Aug 1731, Hebron, , Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 79 years)7. Sarah Root, b. Abt 1654, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 5 Jan 1719 (Age ~ 65 years)Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 Family ID F274 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Married - 1639 - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States 
Died - 17 Jun 1694 - Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - BIRTH: "Root Genealogical Records 1600-1870" by James Pierce Root, pg. 101. This work is not regarded highly by genealogists.- D0009
Parentage not proven. See notes under tentative father (John) and second Thomas said to have been born to that family.
CHRISTENING: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague) Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS pg. 1 - D0007
MARRIAGES: 1992 Ancestral File shows marriages to Mary Kilbourne, Elizabeth (in 1988) and unknown (in 1639).
Children of Mary and Elizabeth virtually identical. A Mary Kilbourne, daughter of Thomas and Frances of Wethersfield, CT was married to John Root.
None of the other sources cited here on Thomas have identified his wife.
"Genealogies and Biographies of Ancient Wethersfield", p. 467 does not show a second Mary, daughter of Thomas Kilbourne. The first lived long past supposed birth of this Mary and was married to John Root.
It seems several competent genealogies have not yet identified Thomas' wife.
DEATH: D0007, pg. 1; Seldon, p. 271
HISTORICAL NOTE: Served in Pequot War in 1637 - D0007, pg. 1
Sheldon, George, "A History of Deerfield, Mass", 1896, v.2, pt.2, p. 271: found among the first settlers of Hartford, 1637; one of the petitioners for the town of Northampton, MA and settled there 1654; was one of the eight pillars of the church; selectman
B 3 a 23, p. 101. He came to America About the year 1637, and was one of the first settlers of Hartford,Connecticut, where he lived many years, and where his children were born. This Thomas Root is to be disquished from the Thomas Root who was a resident of Salem, Massachusetts. After a residence of about 15 years in Hartford he removed with his 6 sons & one daughter, and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 9 May 1654, as one of the olanters of what was then called Nontuck
- BIRTH: "Root Genealogical Records 1600-1870" by James Pierce Root, pg. 101. This work is not regarded highly by genealogists.- D0009
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Sources - [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. 102 (Reliability: 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. 101 (Reliability: 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. 93 (Reliability: 3).
- [S73] Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, n.d.), R.Rm. REF F74 M48 M54 1903., Corbin Collection Vol. 1, Northampton, Hampshire County: Deaths 1694. (Reliability: 3).
Root, Thomas Sen. June 17 1694 - [S2] Rusper & Horley Parish Reg's in Rusper & Horley, Sussex, England, p. 93 (Reliability: 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. 102 (Reliability: 3).
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- [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. 102 (Reliability: 3).