William Bushnell

Bef 1611 - 1683  (> 72 years)

• Name	William Bushnell
  Birth	Bef 3 Feb 1611  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	3 Feb 1611	Horsham, Sussex, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Nov 1683	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I27589	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Francis Bushnell,   b. Abt 1580, Thatcham, Berkshire, England d. Bef 13 Oct 1646, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Ferris Quenell,   b. Bef 17 Apr 1587   d. Bef 10 Mar 1628 (Age < 40 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1605	Horsham, Sussex, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
  Family ID	F16484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca   d. Bef 1683, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Marriage	Abt 1643	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1, 4, 7, 8]
  Children	+ 1. William Bushnell,   b. 15 Feb 1648, Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut d. 9 Dec 1711, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F16471	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  First at Guilford. In Saybrook by 1660. In 1661 he was sergeant of the Saybrook train band under Lieutenant William Pratt, and in May 1679 he was lieutenant of the body himself. He was a representative to the general court in 1670. By the will of the native Uncas, 1675-76, he received 2000 acres of land.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3900] Orion J. Wilcox and Emma Janette Fellows: Their Ancestors and Descendants by Fred D. Clark. Privately published, 2004. [S4061] The Ancestry of Daniel Bushnell by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston, 1918. [S4062] Herbert F. Seversmith, "Pre-American Ancestries: Francis Bushnell of Horsham, Sussex, and Guilford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 16:45, 1939. [S4063] Bushnell Family Genealogy: Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut by George Eleazar Bushnell. Nashville, Tennessee; dated 1945, but clearly, from internal evidence, published no earlier than 1948. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S4061] The Ancestry of Daniel Bushnell by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston, 1918., year only. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931., year only.