Hannah Roper

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• History: 11 Sep 1697; He was taken captive among the Indians in 1697. He was ransomed from captivity by Jonathan Farnsworth in 1699. After his return, Richard Moore became his guardian.
• Residence: 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; They lived on Tatnuck Hill.
• Residence: 1721, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Offices Held: 14 Oct 1722 to 28 Nov 1722; He was a Sentinel to keep garrison, or range the woods.
• History: 21 Mar 1729; He was taxed 2 shillings for the laying out of a road to Marlborough.

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Buried:
All traces of his grave and stone were removed with the burying ground was turned into a park. The location of the grave and it's inscription were copied by William S. Barton and deposited in the Worcester Antiquarian Society. His gravestone read:
Here lies Buri'd ye Body of
EPHRAIM ROPER
who dparted this life February ye 16, A.D. 1730,
in ye 43d year of his age

Ephraim married Sybilla Moore about 1713 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Sybilla (daughter of Richard Moore and Mary Collins) was born on 2 Sep 1694 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Abt 1695, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; They lived on Tatnuck Hill.
• Residence: 1721, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Residence: Abt 1731, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• History: 17 May 1732; Mary Roper petitioned the court that the mother, Sybilla, be made guardian of Mary then 17 years of age. Granted 14 July 1732.
• History: 25 May 1750; She wrote a letter to Joseph Star of Middletown, Conn., her sister's husband. Sybilla's daughter, Hannah, was probably staying with the Stars at that time. At this time her last name was Chamberlain.

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• History: 10 Mar 1676, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Ephraim was the sole person to escape from the Rowlandson garrison. Both is wife and daughter were killed.
• Military: 18 May 1676; He was with Captain Turner and his band when they supersized the Indians at what is now Turner's Falls and attacked them, killing many, and hurling their bodies into the river. The scattered Indians regrouped and counter attacked, killing Captain Turner and 38 of his men. Capain Turner's body was found at the foot of the falls later named for him.
• Moved To: 1684, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Ephaim and Hannah returned to rebuild Lancaster.
• Probate/Proved: 13 Sep 1697; Inventory was taken of his possessions two days after the massacre. Among the probate records is a charge against the estate by Jonathan Prescott for curing one of Ephraim's daughters from wounds inflected by the Indians. Obviously a serious wound, but which daughter is unknown.

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Birth:
He was a twin, and their birth date was recorded as 23 (12) 1644.

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Died:
He was killed during the Second Lancaster Massacre along with his wife and daughter.

Ephraim married Hannah on 20 Nov 1677 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Hannah died on 11 Sep 1697 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: I need to verify the following, sent via email: "The wife of Ephraim Roper was Hannah (Brewer) Goble, widow of Daniel Goble."
• Moved To: 1684, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Ephaim and Hannah returned to rebuild Lancaster.
• Complier's Note: 2005; I need to verify the following, sent via email: "The wife of Ephraim Roper was Hannah (Brewer) Goble, widow of Daniel Goble."

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Died:
She was killed along with her husband and daughter, Elizabeth, in the second Lancaster Massacre.

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Married:
2ed - Ephraim
2ed - Hannah

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• Residence: Abt 1695, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Moved To: 6 Jun 1714, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He lived in Needham, Mass. at first, on 6 June 1714, and moved to Oxford.
• History: say 1715, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; According to Daniels (1892), He "was among the leading men of Oxford in its early history. He had ample means and was long the largest landholder in the south part of the town; the first justice of the peace in the vicinity and transacted a large pat of the conveyancing, probate and other official business during the early years;....He had force of character and great tenacity of purpose, and early had a controversy with the Oxford Church, the exact nature of which is not apparent, but yielded at last."
• Occupation: 1715, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was licensed by Oxford as an innholder, which he ran for many years afterwards.
• Offices Held: 1715 to 1741, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was a Selectman.
• Offices Held: 1715 to 1734, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was the Town Clerk.
• Offices Held: 1721; He was elected the Representative to the Massachusetts General Court from Oxford.
• Offices Held: 1721 to 1729, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was the Town Treasurer.

Richard married Mary Collins. Mary (daughter of Samuel Collins and Mary) was born on 16 Jun 1672 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died on 12 Jul 1760 in Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Abt 1690, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
• Residence: Abt 1695, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts

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• Offices Held: 3 Feb 166, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was elected a Selectman.
• Legal: 13 Apr 1637, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; He was examined in regard to his and his family's intentions to go to New England.
• Immigration: Abt Jul 1637; John and Alice sailed in the Summer on board the Rose of Yarmouth, John Andrews Master. This is same ship his parents sailed on. Accompanying them were their two daughters, Alice, and Elizabeth.
• Occupation: say 1638; He was a carpenter.
• Freeman: 2 Jun 1641, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1645, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; They remained in the Dedham Church.
• Residence: 1649, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Moved To: Before 1654, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• History: 22 Mar 1656, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He signed the Lancaster Covenant.
• Legal: 9 Oct 1662, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; The administrator of John Day's estate sued John Roper, as he had occupied land originally given to John Day. The court ruled in John Roper's favor as John Day, while having erected buildings and fencing, had never occupied the land as required by the Lancaster Covenant. John Roper was to pay the estate 15 shillings for the buildings and fencing. The court order was signed 9 (8) 1662.
• Complier's Note: 1982; There was a Rachel Roper who died 16 July 1641 in Dedham. Whose daughter is unknown.

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John married Alice Reynolds on 3 Oct 1633 in New Buckenham, Norfolk, England. Alice (daughter of Simon Reynolds and Alice) was born about 1609 in England; died on 1 Apr 1697 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: 1637; John and Alice sailed in the Summer on board the Rose of Yarmouth, John Andrews Master. This is same ship his parents sailed on. Accompanying them were their two daughters, Alice, and Elizabeth.
• Religion: 13 Sep 1639, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; She was admitted to the Dedham Church.
• Residence: 1645, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; They remained in the Dedham Church.
• Moved To: Before 1654, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Residence: After 14 Apr 1681, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Will: 24 Mar 1687, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

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Birth:
Roper (1982) gives her birth year as 1614.

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Married:
1st - John
1st - Alice

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• Deed: 1697; Jacob deeded 130 acres to his eldest son, Jacob. A few months later, he added one half of his homestead.
• Land/House: 1716; He disposed of the rest of his property, dividing it between his other sons.

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Birth:
His birth date was recorded as 28 (2) 1645.

Jacob married Elizabeth Loker on 29 May 1667 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Loker and Hannah Brewer) died on 14 Dec 1691 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1650, Scotland; He lived in Scotland for a few years, before returning to New England
• Residence: 28 Feb 1667, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
• Residence: 1670, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
• Legal: 4 Nov 1691; "Charlestown, Nov 4 1691, I whose name is underwritten, do oblige myself, my heirs, executors, and assigns, to set free for himself a Mulatto Boy, which was givin me by my mother, Mrs. Martha Collins, at the age of thirty- one years, which boy was born in the year 1686, on the 30th of March. In witness herof I set my hand and seal. Samuel Collins."

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Buried:
Here lyes the Body of
Mr. Samuel Collins
who Died
the 10 January 1696
beign in the 60 year
of his age

Samuel married Mary in say 1663 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary died on 5 Mar 1713/14 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]