1646 John, son of Thomas Root was born in Hartford, Connecticut. [1]
1694 Thomas Roote died on June 17 in Northampton, Massachusettts. "Deaths in 1694 … 17 June Thomas Root sen." [2]
Research Notes:
The Memorial History of Hartford states, [3]
Thomas Root. Salem, 1637. was an origiinal proprietor at Hartford in 1639, when his home-lot was on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture (North main St.). He was a weaver; served in the Pequot War; removed, may 1654, to Northampton, where he was one of the founders of the church; he d. there, July 17, 1694, at a great age.
[1] Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, Hartford 1635-1855 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 271, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton Book Records of Mariages Births And Deaths, 1654-1801, 140, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] J. Hammond Trumbull, ed., The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Vol. 1 (Boston: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), 256-257, [HathiTrust].