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Family: Nicholas Rockwood / Silence Bowers (F516)

m. 25 May 1675


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  • Male
    Nicholas Rockwood

    Birth  Abt 1628  England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  26 Jan 1680/01  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Marriage  25 May 1675  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Jane Adams | F515 
    Marriage     
    Other Spouse  Margaret Holbrook | F387 
    Marriage  16 Jul 1656  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Richard Rockwood | F34 Group Sheet 
    Mother  possibly the daughter of Zachary Bicknell | F34 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Silence Bowers

    Birth     
    Death  9 Nov 1677  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Other Spouse  Elnathan Dunkley | F8050 
    Marriage  14 Oct 1656  Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Male
    Isacc Rocket

    Birth  22 Jul 1677  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  11 Oct 1677  Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     


  • Notes 
    • MacKenzie (1966) gives their marriage date as 1677. [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S82] Tilden, William S. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts 1650-1886 , (Boston: George H. Ellis, Printers, 1887).

    2. [S520] Flagg, Charles Allcott. The Descendants of Eleazer Flagg and his wife, Huldah Chandler of Grafton, Mass. , (Boston: The Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1903).

    3. [S804] MacKenzie, George Norbury. Colonial Families of the United States of America, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1966).

    4. [S93] Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903).

    5. [S142] Bunce, Bonnie. Email: 1998-07-02 "Rockwood/Rocket, Braintree Medfield, Mass. ca. 1620-1763" , (Email message from bbunce (at) idcomm.com, 2 July 1998).

    6. [S1665] Medfield Marriage Book, (manuscript), Church Marriage Record of Nicholas Rockett and Silence Dunkling.

    7. [S1666] Medfield, Massachusetts Vital Records, (Medfield, Massachusetts: manuscript), Marriage Record of Nicholas Rockwood and Silence Dunklney.