DESCENDANT LINE:
Henry ROLFE
Henry ROLFE (1585 - 1643) & Honour ROLFE (1593 - 1650)
John ROLFE (1634 - 1681) & Mary SCULLARD (1642 - 1687)
Rebecca ROLFE (1662 - 1751) & William CUTTER (1650 - 1723)
John CUTTER (1690 - 1776) & Lydia HARRINGTON (1689 - 1755)
Mary CUTTER (1715 - 1805) & Ephriam FROST III (1715 - 1799)
Amos FROST (1762 - 1850) & Lydia BEMIS (1767 - 1855)
Susan FROST (1801 - 1866) & Thomas TEEL (1799 - 1873)
Abner Gardner TEELE Sr. (1837 - <1870) & Ellen SMITH (~1847 - )
Gardner Abner TEELE Jr.* (1868 - ) & Emma A (1868 - <1920)
Louis Gardner TEELE Sr. (1889 - 1982) & Grace BOULTON (1890 - 1943)
Louis Gardner TEELE Jr. (1913 - 2004) & Margaret Catherine SLINE (1943 - )


He was baptized on 5 September 1585 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England.2 He was the son of John Rolfe and Honour (?). Henry Rolfe married Honour Rolfe, daughter of Richard Rolfe and Agnes Rolfe, on 28 May 1621 in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England. Henry Rolfe died on 1 March 1641/42 in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, now Essex County. Henry Rolfe and Honour Rolfe immigrated in 1638. Their children Hannah, Ann and John traveled with them.

In 1642 his name is on the list of proprietors of the lands of Newbury.

He signed a will on 15 Mar 1642 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.181 (Estate of Henry Roffe of Newbury

"The 15th 12th month 1642 I desire to comend my soule into the hands of the lord Jesus Christ, I desire my goods may be equally divided to my wife & all my children, only my sonne John Roffe must have the howse & land more then all the rest of my children and that their porcons shalbe divided when they be 21 yeares of age if they marry not before In case my wife dye or marry then the goods shalbe divided; otherwise not till my eldest childe come to be 21 yeares of age But still to remayne in their mothers hands with the rest till that either of them are 21 yeares of age or marry. If any of my children dye then that porcon shalbe equally divided betweene my wife & the rest of my children I doe give vnto my wife one great brasse pott and one great brasse pann, and a great brasse posnett and a chafing dish and five pewter platters I doe give unto my Kinsman Thomas whittear a swarme of bees. I desire my brother John Roffe and my Cosen John Saunders of Sallisbery and william Mondy of
Newberry to oversee my will & order it to my desire & accordinge to my will."

Henry Roffe
Witness: Thomas Hale, Thomas Cowllman, william Mose.
Proved 28:1:1643
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 2.


Inventory taken 1:1:1642, by John Woodbridg, Henry Short and Richard Knight: howse & land, £30; Six kowes, £30; foure oxen, £24; one bull & one steere, 3 yeare old, £7. 10s.; three beasts, two years old, £8; two beasts, one yeare old, £2. 10s.; three Calves, £1. 4s.; three hoggs, £1. 4s.; Bees, £7. 10s.; haye, £4; Soyle, £1; Cart, Slead & 3 Yoaks, £1. 6s.; within the howse: one fetherbed & flockbed, £3. 10s.; Six fether pillowes, 18s.; 4 Coverleds, £2; 5 blanketts, £1. 10s; 3 paier of Sheets, £1. 8s.; 2li. and a halfe of bee wax, 2s. 6d.; bowlster Case & pillow & napkins, 10s.; porke, £2. 7s.; butter & Cheese, 12s.; barrells & butte[r] Cherne & other lumb., 18s.; Pewter, £1. 7s. 6d.; Brasse, £3. 13s.; a Brasse pott, £1; iron potts, £1. 6s.; A chafing dish & a posnet, 5s.; 12 bushells of indian corne, £2. 2s.; 9 bushells of wheate, £2. 6d.; 2 bushells of pease, 9s.; hogsheads & howes & other lumber, 16s.; in apparrell, stockins & shoes, £3; muskett & fowling peeces & 2 Swords & bandileers, £1. 19s.; working Tooles & lanthorne, 15s.; bookes, £1; spining wheeles, 10s.; a chest & chaiers & other lumb., 16s.; harrow tines, 10s.;
total £153. 8s. 6d.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 3.