The family of John Root 1672-1731

 In my last blog post, I completed the line of Root men and their families that is the longest, from John to John to Samuel to Martin to Martin Jr.  Martin Jr.s daughter Ruth married Samuel Falley, and that was the end of the Root name in our family.  But there is one more Root to write about.  

John, then John, and then John again, the brother of Samuel, was ignored while I traced the longer Root line, but he deserves his own post because he also had a family, although a small one.  John was the son of John and Mary Ashley Root, born in 1672 and died in 1731 in Westfield, Massachusetts.  He married Sarah Stebbins, the daughter of Edward and Sarah Graves Stebbins, in 1701 in Westfield.  

They had one child, Sarah, born in 1702, who married Thomas Noble, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Dewey Noble.  Sarah and Thomas's children are Sarah, Thomas, Stephen, Eunice, John, Silas, Elizabeth, Caleb, and Seth.  

John's wife, Sarah, died sometime between the birth of her daughter and 1712, when John married Elizabeth Bissell, the daughter of Samuel and Abigail Holcombe Bissell.  She had first married Samuel Sackett, but was widowed in 1709.  I have seen various death dates for Sarah but have not been able to determine which is correct, so that's still a blank spot in my records.

John and Elizabeth had three or possibly four sons in short succession.  Stephen, an unnamed son, and possibly another unnamed son all died as newborns or infants.  The last son, Moses, born in 1717, did live to adulthood.  He married Sarah Ingersoll, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dewey Ingersoll, and died in 1748.  I have found no record of children for Moses and Sarah.  Sarah Dewey Ingersoll was a niece of Elizabeth Dewey Noble, if I have this figured correctly.  

So we have "daughtered out" again with Sarah Root Noble, and I will start a new family line in my next blog post.