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From: "Donald HUGHES" <>
Subject: John Low of Marshfield MA
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:49:03 -0700


Hello Charles & all,

This question of John Low being Native American is of particular interest to me as my Rose ancestor Joseph Rose of Marshfield may well have been of Indian blood. This Joseph Rose was put under bond of June 3 1676 for too much familiarly with the wife of John Low/Loe. Then after John was killed 26 March 1676 in Rehoboth, two sons were born to Elizabeth Howland Low.. I don't have the date for Job Low's birth but it must have been within the time of 9 months of John's death as I have not seen record of Elizabeth being in court about his birth, but she had a child before June 9, 1678 as she was brought to court to be whipped. This son is probably Daniel who died May 11, 1723 when he was killed by Indians, Merryland, Wells York County, ME . Court records show that Elizabeth named a Phillips Leonard as father of this child but Davis assumes that Joseph Rose was Daniel's father due to a Joseph Rose witnessing a land document in ME in 1699 for either Job Or Daniel Low. I have n!
ot found this item. I have not looked at Phillip Leonard but I do know that Joseph Rose lived close to a Phillips family in Marshfield.

Now to the Native American blood. The DNA of 7 Rose descendants show Native American in the male Rose line. If all our paper work is correct, Edward, son of Joseph Rose of Marshfield is the common ancestor of those with Native American DNA. That could mean that father Joseph Rose was Indian. There has been question in Bumpus line of Native American blood. Some wonder if wife of Edward Bumpus, Hannah, was Indian. Joseph Rose married Elizabeth Bumpus 1653, she was their daughter. When one reads the Marshfield records there is no reason based on our ideas of the how things were to think that any of these persons were Indian but now we Roses know that what we thought is not the way it was.

Joseph was paid for sweeping the church, he was mentioned in the town records that he was residing where the new church was to be built, he served on juries, paid for taking down the fences put up in a dispute involving Rev Arnold. His & Elizabeth's children were listed in town records, he had written instructions on how his oldest son was to divide the land after his & Elizabeth's death. For some reason both the Bumpus and Rose families were very poor and under town care for many years. Son, Edward Rose moved to Rochester then to Bolton CT where he was granted 100 acres homelot as original settler. He married Rebecca Burge whose family had good standing in Plymouth Colony.

Were Native Americans taken in and raised as the settlers own children, were many Indian women taken as wives, too many Native American stories and now the DNA.

Any and all ideas on this subject would be very much welcomed. Miriam Rose Hughes

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