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John Roundy
Born Aug 23, 1726 Windham CT
Died 1789/98 Rockingham VT

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SPOUSE	CHILDREN
Deborah Johnson m. Dec 9, 1747 b. 1729?	John Jr. b. Oct 28, 1748 Norwich CT d. Apr 23, 1805 Rockingham VT	Deborah b. Nov 27, 1751
Mary Bass m. Windham CT b. Jun 20, 1729 Windham CT d. Feb 15, 1770 Windham CT	Almond	Elmeriah	Uriah b. Oct 27, 1756 d. May 1, 1813
Sarah Harwood Knight div. Simeon Knight b. 1729? d. Jun 12, 1813
John and his sons were some of the first settlers of Rockingham VT. Settlement had been essayed in 1753 by three men from Northfield MA, including Simeon Knight, who married Sarah Harwood. Fear of Indians delayed settlement until 1760/61. The first census of Rockingham was in 1771 and it counted 225 townspeople, including 50 heads of families and 66 adult white Males. Eight years later, son John bought land there.
On March 3, 1778, John and his family took an oath agreeable to the Constitution of Vermont, adopted in July 1777. This constitution was the first to provide manhood suffrage.
John's son Almond served six days in 1780 in New York as a private in Capt. Jesse Safford's Vermont company of Rangers in the Revolutionary War. Son Elmeriah also served in the same company.
Between the years 1780 and 1790, John was moderator for four yearly town meetings, selectman two years, and representative of Rockingham to the Vermont legislature five consecutive years.
In June 1789, John was among the main body of 16 men who formed the First Baptist Church of Rockingham.
Post Card of Bellows Falls VT which is a village located in the town of Rockingham.
John's wife, Sarah Harwood Knight, is buried in the cemetery of the Rockingham Meeting House, next to her stepson, Capt. John Roundy Jr. Her tombstone reads: "In Memory of the Widow Sarah Roundy formerly the wife of Simeon Knight, who died on the 12th day of June, 1813 in the 84th year of her age." Photo of Tombstones.
Sources: Collins, Capt. George K., Genealogy of the Roundy Family, typewritten ms. at the Local History Department, Public Library, Syracuse NY, 1915, p. 16. Preface of this manuscript. Norwich, Conn., Vital Records, 1659-1848, pt. 1, pp. 313-34, Hartford CT, 1913. Hall, Benjamin H., History of Eastern Vermont, Appleton, New York, 1858, p. 745. Roundy, Everett Ellsworth Sr., comp., The Roundy Family in America from the Sixteen-Hundreds, Norwood MA, printed and publ. by the author at Dedham MA, c.1942; at the Library of the Vermont Hist. Soc., Montpelier VT. Tombstone of Sarah Harwood Knight, Rockingham Meeting House graveyard, Rockingham VT.