Migration
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The Death of William Rockwell In 1640 and His Legacy
William Rockwell died in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1640. The book treats his death as the close of the first generation of the Rockwell family in New England, after a decade marked by migration, civic service, and church office. The book records William Rockwell’s death in Windsor in the year 1640, only a few years after
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Rockwell Family’s Bold Leap to the New World
In 1630, William Rockwell, his wife Susan Capen, and their two young children crossed the Atlantic aboard the ship Mary and John as part of the Winthrop emigration. The voyage lasted about seventy days and ended with an unplanned landing at Nantasket Point. Within days, the family and their fellow passengers selected Dorchester as their