Lydia ROYCE

Lydia married Capt. Daniel MESSENGER on 28 Jan 1703. Daniel was born about 1683; died about 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Robert and Mary Royce

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Biography of Nehemiah Royce Early life

He was born about 1636 in England, the son of Robert Royce (c1606-1676) and Mary (_____). He may have been the Nehemiah Royce christened on May 30, 1637 at St Michael the Greater Anglican Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. There was only one Nehemiah Royce in all of England, coincidentally christened 1637, whose parents coincidentally are named Robert and Mary. He died on November 1, 1706 at New Haven, Connecticut and is buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, Connecticut.[2]
Marriage and family
On Nov. 20, 1660, he married Hannah Morgan at New London New London County, Connecticut. They were the parents of nine children. She was born on July 18, 1642 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and died on June 19, 1677 at Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of James Morgan and Margery Hill. He married as his second wife, Esther Moss in 1678.
Royce, a carpenter, joiner and blacksmith by trade, was one of Wallingford's original 38 proprietors authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1667 to purchase land from Mantowese and Sunk Squa, daughter of the Great Sachem of the Quinnipiacs. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people settled in the town. On May 11, 1693 Royce was elected deputy representing Wallingford to the Court of the Connecticut Colony [3].
Descendants
Nehemiah Royce's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include:
Jonathan Brace,[4] (1754?1837) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Harwinton, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1779.
Clint Eastwood,[5] American film actor, director, and producer
Millard Fillmore,[6] (1800?1874) was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party (United States) to hold that office.
Hamilton Jeffers,[7] (1893?1978) was a noted astronomer.
John Robinson Jeffers,[8] (1887?1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. He is considered an icon of the environmental movement.
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822?1903) was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City.
House
Built in 1672, the Royce house is an example of American colonial saltbox architecturial style[9] and is the oldest extant house in Wallingford. George Washington visited the house in 1775, when he was on his way to take command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts (he passed through Wallingford again in 1789). He stopped in Wallingford to purchase gunpowder from a nearby mill and addressed the residents of the town in front of the house near the Elm.
The Royce family occupied the house for over 200 years. The house was moved to its current location in 1924. For a time it was a museum and then was used as a residence by Choate Rosemary Hall, until the school donated the house to the Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust in 1999. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Notes
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11711015
^ Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776
^ http://www.cslib.org/memorials/bracejo.htm
^ McGilligan, Patrick. Clint: The Life And Legend; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 13.
^ http://www.notablekin.org/gbr/eastwood.htm
^ ^ http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html
^ http://books.google.com/books?id=CPYfSsQ-WE4C&pg=PA503&lpg=PA503&d q=who+has+owned+the+Nehemiah+Royce+house%3F&source=bl&ots=H0FVp-3-oT&sig=hoxegL12iWrK_F7 K118tVG7_LRY&hl=en&ei=CcA7Srr9IaWoM97u7L0O&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&res num=1
VALORI SCHOBERGadded this on 11 Jan 2010

Nehemiah married Hannah MORGAN on 20 Nov 1660. Hannah (daughter of James MORGAN and Margery HILLS) was born on 18 May 1642 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts; died on 19 Jun 1677 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary SIMS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James Morgan, the emigrant ancestor and progenitor of the Morgan family, was born in Wales in 1607. He m. Margery Hill of Roxbury, Mass., Aug. 6, 1640. He was made freeman there, May 10, 1645. Early in 1650 he had lands granted him in Pequot, now New London, as New London records show which was soon occupied by him as a homestead, 'on the path to New street or Cape Ann street,' as it was called in honor of the Cape Ann Company, who chiefly settled there. On the 25th day of December 1656, he sold his homestead and removed soon after, with several others, across the river, upon large tracts of land previously granted them by the town. The spot where he built his first house in Groton in 1657, and where he ever resided and died, is a few rods southeast of the dwelling of Elijah S. Morgan, about three miles from Groton ferry, on the road to Poquonock Bridge. He was nine times afterwards chosen member of the assembly, the last in 1670, and he was also an active and useful member of Re. Richard Blinman's church, as his name is prominent in every important movement or proceeding.

He also served in he early Colonial wars.

James married Margery HILLS on 6 Aug 1640. Margery was born in 16 Jun 1611 in Essex, England; died on 28 Apr 1690 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was buried in Avery-Morgan Cemetery, Groton, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]