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• Death: 8 Feb 1736

Ensign married Esther MOSS on 27 Oct 1673 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. Esther was born on 2 Jan 1653/54 in New Haven, New Haven, CT; died on 19 Jun 1677 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ensign married Sarah LATHROP on 21 Apr 1681. Sarah was born in Oct 1655 in Norwich, New London, CT; died on 11 Nov 1706 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah was the 2nd of Nathaniel Royce's 4 wives.

Ensign married Hannah WILCOXSON on 24 Aug 1707 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. Hannah was born on 19 Jan 1666 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT; died on 6 Feb 1708 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ensign married Abigail COOK on 25 Aug 1708 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. Abigail was born on 1 Mar 1659/60 in Windsor, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary UNKNOWN. Mary was born about 1609; died on 4 Jul 1697 in New London, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.