Women’s History
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Susan Rockwell: Holding the Family Together After Loss
After the death of her husband in 1640, Susan Capen Rockwell survived as a widow in Connecticut. The book treats her role as essential to the continuity of the Rockwell family through its second generation, though surviving records preserve only limited detail. Susan Capen Rockwell had crossed the Atlantic with her husband and young children
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The Petition for Jane Davis
Rockwell, Samuel Forbes. Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston. North Andover, Mass., 1932. Based on the genealogical records of early Roxbury and Boston, the story of the petition for Jane Davis offers a poignant glimpse into the social dynamics and legal struggles of the year 1700. The narrative begins with the death of the