Notes for George ROSS

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Notes for George ROSS

George Ross was born about 1629 as he gave his age as 35 in 1664. Family
tradition is that he was a Scots soldier captured by Oliver Cromwell's
forces at either the Battle of Dunbar on September 3, 1650 or the Battle
of Worchester on September 3, 1651 and deported to the American
Colonies. There were at least two boatloads of prisoners sent to New
England. His name is not among the legible names on the passenger list
of the ship, John and Sarah, coming in November 1651 although there were
nine other Rosses aboard. The ship Unity came earlier in 1650 but there
is no record of the 150 Scots aboard. He was married by the Governor on
December 7, 1658 to Constance Little or Littel, and in 1670 he moved to
Elizabethtown, New Jersey. (Ref: Gardner Collection and Dornan
Collection, NJ Hist. Soc. & Rutgers U.) He took the oath of Fidelity May
1660 (Records of N. H. Col. 1638-49). He was admitted a freeman in New
Haven in 1658. He was appointed by the General Assembly a Lieutenant of
the ET Foot Malitia with his commission dated December 3, 1683; one of
the Judges of the Court of Small Cases May 1, 1686; he had an allotment
of 120 acres "in Right of himself and wife." (Ref: History of
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, by Rev. Edwin Hatfield, New York, 1868, p.
167) In May 1671 the first jury at ET sat, and Geo. Ross was a member of
it - "all freeholders, and most of them leading men." (Hatfield, pp
135-6) On September 11, 1673 he took the Oath of Allegiance. (p. 159)
He appears in a Survey on March 27, 1676, as owning 120 acres (p. 183).
In 1682 he was one of six assessors for ET (p. 218). In 1694 he was one
of many who subscribed to the support of Rev. John Harrison of the 1st
Presbyterian Church. He is shown as "Deacon Geo. Ross" and he subscribed
one pound, 10 shillings. (p. 284)

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