• General Notes

  [phelps.FTW]
  
  [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #0988, Date of Import: Oct 22, 1998]
  
  William Ruscoe (1594)
  William Ruscoe came to New England in the spring of 1635 in the ship
  Increase, the passenger list stating that Wm. Rusco, husbandman, aged 41,
  his  wife Rebecca, aged 40, and his four children, Sara, aged 9, Marie,
  aged 7,  Samuel aged 5, and Wm., aged 1, embarked at London 13 Apr. 1635,
  the father  having a certificate from the minister of Billericay, co.
  Essex, that he was  not a subsidy man. (Drake's "Founders of New England,"
  p.22.)     William Ruscoe was evidently an adherent of Rev. Thomas Harker,
  as he first  settled with the latter at Newtowne (now Cambridge), Mass.,
  and then in 1636  followed him to Hartford, Conn.     He marred first, in
  England, about 1620, Rebecca ---, born about 1594, who  came with him to
  New England in the spring of 1635 but died soon thereafter;  and secondly
  at Cambridge, MA, in Feb. or Mar. 1635/6, Hester Musse, a widow.
  Source:
  N.E.H.G.R., Vol.71,p.113-114.FHL 974 B2ne Note: See the Church Record
  Archive sheet on this family for more sources. 

Details of William's family with Rebecca Unknown