The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of ConnecticutBolles, John R. (John Rogers)
History
The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut
Bolles, John R. (John Rogers)
Rogerenes -- History
The above named couple have been lawfully published, and now at
our public meeting in New London, the seventeenth day of the sixth
month, 1764, they both acknowledged and signed this paper, after
they heard it read. Thus they are man and wife, married, according
to the laws of God, in our presence.
JOHN WALTERHOUSE.
JOSEPH BOLLES.
SAMUEL ROGERS.
JOHN ROGERS (3d).
Among the various marriages in this church book are two well-known
New London Rogerenes,—Thomas Turner and Enoch Bolles (son of John).
Both of these are second marriages and the brides of Quakertown
affinity, one of them (bride of Thomas Turner) being widow of John
Waterhouse, 2d. John Waterhouse, 2d, lived in New London at, or
near, Quaker Hill.
Footnote 190:
The original name appears to have been Walterhouse, contracted
first to Waterhouse and then to Watrous.
By 1811, we find the paper to be signed reading as follows:—
GROTON, _August 4, 1811._
These lines certify all people whom they may concern that I,
William Waterous, and I, Clarissa Cushman, both of said Groton,
are joined together in a lawful covenant of marriage, not to be
separated until God who hath joined us together shall separate us
by death, and furthermore it is enjoined on us that we perform the
duty due to each other as the Scripture doth teach.
WILLIAM WATROUS.
CLARISSA WATEROUS.
_In presence of_
AMOS WATERHOUSE.
SAMUEL CHAPMAN.
Copies of these and other records were furnished us by Mr. Jabez
Watrous of Quakertown.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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