Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Royce family (252)

570. Robert Royce. Born ca 1603 in Somerset, England. Robert was baptized in Martock, Somersetshire, on 9 Jun 1603. Robert died on 22 Sep 1676 in New London, CT. Occupation: shoemaker.

Savage2 claimed the Robert Roice of Boston was identical with a man of the same name who appeared in Connectifcut some years later, but since the latter had wife Mary, and the only known wife of the Boston man was Elizabeth, who outlived him, this cannot be true.5

Robert came from England in the Francis; settled at Stratford, CT, in 1644/48; at New London, 1660; Member of City Council.

Robert was a freeman at Boston 1 Apr 1634, one of the disarmed 1637 as a supporter of Mrs. Hutchinson in her revelations, or of Wheelwright in his opinions, had removed before 1657 to New London, perhaps in 1650 was of Stratford, but constable in 1660 and in 1661 representative for New London where he lived in good repute.2

On 4 Jun 1634 Robert married Mary [Royce] in Martock, Somerset, Eng.30 Born ca 1609. Mary was baptized in England ca 1615. Mary died on 4 Jul 1697 in New London, CT.

Clarence Leslie Hewitt, Jr., argues in his article “Some light on the marriage of Robert and Mary Royce of Connecticut” in New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. 122 (1968): 274-277 that Mary, Robert’s wife was not Mary Sims, Simms, or Symmes, of Long Sutton, Somerset. There was a Robert Royce who married a Mary Sims in Long Sutton on 4 Jun 1624. Hewitt says the “1624 wedding hardly works out, credibly or chronologically, with their emigration to America or the birthday of their first born. ... It would therefore seem most unlikely that Robert and Mary would have remained continent or been barren from 1624 to 1634 or that all their children born in that decade could have perished in infancy.” It remains a possibility, though, that they could have been married in 1624 and all their children from the first ten years died.

Their children include:
2016 i. Sarah Royce (ca 1635-1 May 1711)
2017 ii. Nehemiah Royce (ca 1636-12 Dec 1706)
2018 iii. Jonathan Royce (ca 1637-Jul 1690)
2019 iv. Ens. Samuel Royce (ca 1638-24 Dec 1711)
2020 v. Ens. Nathaniel Royce (24 Mar 1639-8 Feb 1726)
2021 vi. Isaac Royce (ca 1643-1681)
2022 vii. Ruth Royce (7 Dec 1645-19 Feb 1690)

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