Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Edward Bosworth
Abt 1586 - 1634 (~ 48 years)-
Name Edward Bosworth Born Abt 1586 [1] Gender Male Died 1634 Boston Harbor, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
[1] Buried Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [2] Person ID I25875 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 28 Jul 2019
Family Mary, d. 18 May 1648, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Married Bef 1611 [1] Children + 1. Deacon Nathaniel Bosworth, b. Abt 1619, d. 31 Aug 1690, Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island (Age ~ 71 years)Last Modified 28 Jul 2019 Family ID F15494 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Based on his known associations, he may have been from Coventry, Warwickshire or thereabouts. He emigrated in 1634 with his wife and children on the Elizabeth Dorcas, but took sick and died in Boston harbor before disembarking.
From the diary of Samuel Sewall: "Edward Bosworth [...] being ready to dye, ask'd to be carried upon the Deck, that he might see Canaan. When he had seen the Land he resigned his soul and dyed: was carried ashoar and buried at Boston."
- Based on his known associations, he may have been from Coventry, Warwickshire or thereabouts. He emigrated in 1634 with his wife and children on the Elizabeth Dorcas, but took sick and died in Boston harbor before disembarking.
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Sources - [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S3289] Bosworth Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth Who Arrived in America in the Year 1634, Parts I, II, and III, by Mary Bosworth Clarke. San Francisco, 1928.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.