Sibbel Roper

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• Married: 15 Oct 1781, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Daniel Walker Esq, the son of Captain Phineas and Beulah (Clap) Walker. He was born on 30 November 1759 in Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He served as a Justice of the Peace. He died on Saturday 20 April 1850 in Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Sally Walker (1782-1842) 2. Lydia Walker (1784-1863) 3. Susanna Walker (1787-____) 4. Polly Walker (1789-____) 5. Asa Walker (1791-____) 6. Reuben Walker (1794-1871) 7. Eliza Walker (1800-____)

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Died:
Sibbel died at the Daniel Walker homestead in Rutland.

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• Residence: 1747, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Military: 1775 to 1776; He served under Capt. Benjamin Richardson, Colonel Nicholus Dike's regiment stationed at Dorchester Heights.
• Residence: Abt 1778, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts

Daniel married Sarah Greenwood on 18 Mar 1756 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Greenwood and Sarah Adams) was born on 3 Aug 1734 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died on 7 Jan 1808 in Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Abt 1778, Rutland, Worcester County, Massachusetts

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Birth:
She was a twin.

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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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• Religion: 1730, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; They were received into the church in Sutton by a letter from the church in Framingham.
• History: 20 Dec 1731, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; At a town meeting he was reported by the committee to seat the meeting house as having the fore seat in ye side gallery.
• History: 8 Sep 1742, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Daniel was one of the petitioners to the Town of Sutton to establish an independent parish. The petition was denied. The next year he was one of the petitioners who carried the petition for an independent parish to the Massachusetts General Court, where it was granted. In 1813, this parish was incorporated as the Town of Millbury, Massachusetts.
• Occupation: say 1758; He was a farmer.
• Offices Held: 1 May 1780, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was a a member of a committee to consider the matter of the national constitution and report "what they do, and do not approve of."
• Offices Held: 20 Feb 1781, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; He was a delegate to a county convention called to remonstrate with the Massachusetts General Court against an act repealing a tender act.

Daniel married Sarah Adams on 6 May 1728 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Deacon John Adams and Elizabeth Goddard) was born on 27 Jun 1707 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: 1730, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; They were received into the church in Sutton by a letter from the church in Framingham.

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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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• Estate Admin: 1693, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He took the property of his father upon his death in 1693, and paid Thomas Greenwood, his brother, for his share, and supported James and William until they were fourteen years of age, as well as contracting to take care of his mother, Abigail during her lifetime.
• Occupation: say 1694; He was a weaver and a carpenter.
• Offices Held: 1703, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; In 1703 he was the Surveyor of Highways for Newton, Massachusetts.
• Offices Held: 1704, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; In 1704 he was appointed a Constable for Newton, Massachusetts.
• Offices Held: From 1711 to 1713, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; From 1711 to 1713 he was a selectman for Newton. He served again in 1715, 1717-1721, 1725-1727, and 1729-1736.
• Offices Held: 1711, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; In 1711 he was the Newton Assessor. He served again in 1713, 1716, and 1723-1724.
• History: 1712, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was a member of the committee to negotiate with John Mason over a pew in 1712.
• History: 1723, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; In 1723 he was a member of the committee to locate a site for a schoolhouse in Newton.
• Offices Held: say 1730, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was a Justice of the Peace.
• Offices Held: From 1735 to 1737, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; From 1735 to 1737 He was the Representative to the Massachusetts General Court for Newton.
• Will: 1737, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He made his will in 1737. He left his wife, Alice, £66.
• Last Full Review: 26 Jan 2021

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Birth: Paige (1877) and Gozzaldi (1930) give his birth as about 1671.

John married Hannah Trowbridge in 1695 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon James Trowbridge and Margaret Atherton) was born on 15 Jun 1672 in Cambridge Village (now Newton), Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1728 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 26 Jan 2021

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• Religion: 1722; John and Elizabeth were admitted to the church.
• Religion: 1726, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; He was elected a Deacon.
• Will: 1743, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Probate/Proved: 11 Dec 1754, Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Birth: His birth date was recorded as 12 (1) 1683.

Birth: Adams (1898) gives his birth as in Framingham.

John married Elizabeth Goddard on 27 Jun 1706 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Goddard and Deborah Treadway) was born on 8 Jan 1680/81 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: 1722; John and Elizabeth were admitted to the church.
• Living: 1767