Twelfth Generation

202. William ROOT (:) was born on 15 March 1759 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁵⁵ He died on 28 January 1848 at the age of 88 in Chenango Forks, Broome County, NY.⁴

William ROOT (:) and Rhoda FITCH were married about 1785 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^72,73 (The Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, WI, records list a Feronia Root, who died in 1860, and a Jane B. Root, who died in 1858. Either one may have been her.) Rhoda FITCH was born on 12 November 1763 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁴ She died in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁴

William ROOT (:) and Anna MESSENGER were married about 1792 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, MA.⁴ Anna MESSENGER⁴ was born about 1763 in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁴ She died in Claverack Township, Columbia County, NY.⁴

William ROOT (:) and Anna MESSENGER had the following children: