Jonathan Royce I

• General Notes
  • Was made freeman Oct 1663. May have died Jul 1690.
    
    Families of Ancient New Haven (Conn N2b) 7:1549-1550: Mary (Royce) Beachby whom he had one child, (B12 # 35 pg 1-14 Jonathan Royce married2nd,Deborah Calkins 4 Jun 1660 by whom he had no children.
    
    
    Names of the First Settlers of Norwich, CT in 1660 include:
    
    Hugh CALKINS
    John CALKINS
    Jona ROYCE
    (New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume 1, October 1847, p315)
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    Jonathan Royce, son of Robert and Mary Royce, was probably the eldest sonin this family, and must have been born about 1636, or earlier, as hedoubtless married (first) in 1656, Mary Spinning, daughter of HumphreySpinning of New Haven (see Vol. 80, p. 107 of the N. E. H. G. Reg., D. L.Jacobus), and (second) June, 1660, Deborah Caulkins. (See Caulkins IV.)She survived her husband and married (second) (???) Woodward of Lebanon,Connecticut. By the first wife, Mary Spinning, Jonathan Royce is believedto have had a daughter, Mary, who in 1678 married John Beach ofWallingford.
    
    The record of the settlement of the estate of Jonathan Royce is found inthe New London Co. Court Records by Mr. Jacobus, under date of September22, 1690: "The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Royce was exhibited inCourt, approved and ordered to be recorded, etc." "The Inventory of theEstate of Jonathan Royce of Norwich, deceased, having been exhibited inCourt September last and power of administration was then granted to theRelict: this Court proceeds to distribution." Jonathan Royce resided atthe time of his first marriage in Stratford, removing first to New Londonand after his second marriage to Norwich, Connecticut, where the birthdates of all his children by the second wife are to be found on the VitalRecords of the town. (Vol. I, page 33.) The marriages of the children areshown by the distribution of the estate, and a still later record wasfound by Mr. Jacobus in the settlement of the estate of David Royce,youngest son of Jonathan, who died unmarried, and the Court determinedthe heirs among his brothers and sisters and the "children of hisdeceased sister, Eliza Bacchus, Habijah Wade, and Mary Beach, his halfsister." Dated January 13, 1712-13.
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    A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, BEFORE1692 - Vol. 3 - Savage, James - 1860-62:
    
    ROYCE, JONATHAN, Norwich, s. of Robert of New London, m. June 1660,Deborah, d. of Hugh Caulkins, had Elizabeth b. Jan. 1662; John, 9 Nov.1663; Sarah, Oct. 1665;  Abigail, Sept. 1667, d. nextyr.; Ruth, Apr. 1669; Hannah, Apr. 1671; Abigail, again, Apr. 1673;Jonathan, Aug. 1678; Deborah, 10 Aug. 1680; and Daniel, 19 Aug. 1682.

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