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Hugh married Sarah SLUMAN in May 1689. Sarah (daughter of Thomas SLUMAN and Sarah BLISS) was born on 13 Mar 1670 in Norwich, New London, CT; died in 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
John + Sarah ROYCE. Sarah (daughter of Robert ROYCE and Mary UNKNOWN) was born in 1634; died on 1 May 1711 in Norwich, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Thomas married Sarah BLISS on 16 Dec 1668 in Norwich, New London, CT. Sarah (daughter of Thomas BLISS and Elizabeth BIRCHARD) was born on 26 Aug 1647 in Saybrook, Middlesex, CT; died on 29 Aug 1730 in Norwich, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Note: Hugh of Gloucester, probably a Welchman, came with Rev. Richard Blinman and first sat down, 1640, at Marshfield, removing next year to Lynn, perhaps only for short season, was freeman 27Dec1642, when he was of G. selectman 1643-8, rep 1650-2 but removed to New London before beginning to serve under this last election and was selectman and rep. half the years of his redisence there, and town elk. for all, removed 1662 to Norwich, and was the first deacon on oraniz. the the ch. rep. also for this town 1663 and 1664.
Deacon married Anne EATON in 1622 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, WALES. Anne was born in 1605 in Monmouthshire, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Robert + Mary UNKNOWN. Mary was born about 1609; died on 4 Jul 1697 in New London, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Married: 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.
Residence: "Thomas came to America with his parents about 1638 and was granted a house-lot adjacent to that of his father in Hartford in 1640. Sometime thereafter, Thomas Jr. removed to Saybrook, Connecticut. Though the "Bliss Genealogy" of 1881 states that this occurred after his father's death , it is more likely that Thomas removed to Saybrook in about 1644, where his marriage to Elizabeth is recorded, as are the births of six of their children. At Saybrook his allotment of land was east of the Connecticut River, in what is now Lyme. He sold this land July 23, 1662 to John Comstock and Richard Smith, having removed with his family to Norwich, Connecticut two or three years previous. His homestead at Norwich was still occupied by his descendants in 1880, seven generations of the same name having successively inherited the homestead and dwelt therein."
Thomas married Elizabeth BIRCHARD on 30 Oct 1644 in Saybrook, Middlesex, CT. Elizabeth was born about 1623; died on 28 Feb 1699 in Norwich, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]