Joseph Munroe

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Only three of Joseph & Mary's children -- Ann, Joseph, & Mary -- are registered in the town records. Also recorded is "Daughter" of Joseph, but it is not with the other birth records. The names of the others came from The Monroe Book (by Dr. Joan Guilford, Genealogy Publishing Service), which I have found to be incorrect in some places.

Some family trees at Rootsweb's Worldconnect have Joseph's date and location of death as 1759 in New London, CT. This needs research to confirm.

Joseph married Mary BOWERMAN Between 1709 and 1711, Bristol, RI. Mary (daughter of Tristram BOWERMAN and Anna HOOPER) was born 2 Jan 1689/90, Bristol, RI; died 10 Jan 1770. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary is mentioned in the division of her father's estate as Mary Monroe, wife of Joseph Monroe.

Notes:

I have roughly estimated the birth years of the 10 children.

The following notes are from the family tree of Barry Beverage at Rootsweb's Worldconnect:

[John was a] Scottish prisoner captured at the Battle of Worcester; transported to the colonies on the "John and Sarah," 1651/2. Arrived in Boston in February, 1652.

All 10 children named in "Articles of Agreement," dated 1 Feb. 1692/3, between Sarah Munro, relict of John Munroe, and her 6 older children. (Information supplied by Roger Joslyn of NEHGS.)

According to "The Scots In Unity" the prisoners on the "John and Sarah" were captured at the Battle of Worcester. There are four Munroes listed as prisoners aboard the "John and Sarah": Robert, John, Hugh; the first name of the fourth is too torn to read, but believed to be William.

John accompanied Constant Southworth on January 28, 1674, as one of the witnesses to the land deed between Southworth and the Indian Squaw Sachem Awashunks for the land at Sakonnet (Little Compton). By 1688/9, John had moved to Bristol, RI which was founded in 1680 on the land (Mt. Hope) which had been King Philip's territory before the war.

The following info is summarized and edited from notes accompanying the family tree of Debbie Allen at Rootsweb's Worldconnect, which cites as the source "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan Guilford:

John is the same as the "John Monrow" who came on the John & Sarah of London 12 May 1652 along with three other "Monrow" passengers listed as Robert, Hugh & "_____." This latter passenger, whose first name was obliterated in the record, has been demonstrated clearly by testimony as being William, who stated that he came in 1652. All were shipped as prisoners of war and consigned to Thomas Kemble to whom they were indentured. They all arrived at Boston and nothing futher was heard of John until he appeared on a record in Rhode Island in Oct of 1669.

John married Sarah Unknown Abt 1663, MA or RI. Sarah was born Abt 1640; died Aft 1 Feb 1692/93. [Group Sheet]

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His name is sometimes shown as Tristan in genealogies. A genealogy at Rootsweb says he is s/o Thomas Burman and Hannah Annabel.

The estate of Tristram Bowerman, of Bristol, Shipwright, dec., division of estate 21 Apr 1714; mentions widow Joan; sons Samuel eldest, John, & Jonathan; daughters Hannah, Mary Monroe (w/o Joseph Monroe), Mehittabel Steward (w/o Daniel Steward), Anne, & Sarah.

Inventory of estate of Tristram Bowerman of Bristol, dtd. 9 March 1712/3 presented by Mrs. Joan Bowerman, his widow, & by Samuel Bowerman, eldest son; Appraisers Peter Reynolds & William Throope [Br 3:120/1/2].

Tristram married Anna HOOPER 28 Jul 1685, Bristol, RI. Anna was born Abt 1663; died Between 1702 and 1713. [Group Sheet]

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HOOPER Ann, and Tristam Bowerman, July 28, 1685. (transcription from http://www.newenglandancestors.org/) I have not yet seen the original.