Roger Kinnicut

Came to America circa 1650

Roger Kennicutt (1) (in the first deed, 1680, spelled Ke nnecut) came from Devonshire, England, about the middle of the seventeen the century, and settled in Malden, Massachusetts. He married, 1661, Johanna Shepardson, born March 13, 1642, the third daughter of Daniel and Johanna Shepardson. Daniel Shepardson came to America from England in 1632, and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he died July 26, 1644. January 30, 1679, Roger Kennicutt sold his estate in Malden, consisting of a house, land in the limits of Charlestown, known as Molton Island, south and southwest, to Lieutenant J. Smith. He moved with his family to Swansea, Rhode Island, and bought, May 19, 1680, of John and James Brown, a tract of land bounded on one side by Kikemut Creek. He died abo ut 1696. Roger and Johanna Kennicutt had three children: Johanna, born January, 1664; Lydia, born January, 1667; John, born October, 1669.

The Kennicutt and Parker families, together with the families into which they married and intermarried, have been of much importance and associated with many of the historic events during the period covered by the last two centuries.

For History of Worcester County Massachusetts, Worcester Society of Antiquity Published 1907 by The Lewis Publishing Company p. 232

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