Pane-Joyce Genealogy
1238. Robert Royce. Born ca 1613. Robert died in New London, CT in 1676. Occupation: shoemaker.

Savage25 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.16

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.25
Robert married Mary. Born ca 1617. Mary died in Wallingford, CT in 1696.

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:
2920i.
Sarah Royce (ca 1635-May 1711)
2921ii.
Nehemiah Royce (ca 1636-12 Dec 1706)
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Jonathan Royce (ca 1637-Jul 1690)
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Ens. Samuel Royce (ca 1638-24 Dec 1711)
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Ens. Nathaniel Royce (24 Mar 1639-8 Feb 1726)
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Isaac Royce (ca 1643-1681)
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Ruth Royce (7 Dec 1645-19 Feb 1690)
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