Francis Bushnell

Abt 1580 - Bef 1646  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Francis Bushnell
  Birth	Abt 1580	Thatcham, Berkshire, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 13 Oct 1646	Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I27615	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Francis Bushnell,   b. of Thatcham, Berkshire, England d. Between 15 Aug 1625 and 15 Mar 1626
  Family ID	F16495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ferris Quenell,   b. Bef 17 Apr 1587   d. Bef 10 Mar 1628 (Age < 40 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1605	Horsham, Sussex, England   [1, 3, 8, 9, 10]
  Children	1. William Bushnell,   b. Bef 3 Feb 1611   d. 12 Nov 1683, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 72 years)
  Family ID	F16484	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was a churchwarden in Horsham, 1626/7, and in 1637 he contributed towards the repair of St. Paul's in London. He emigrated in 1639 on the St. John along with his two daughters and the Rev. Henry Whitfield, his five living sons having preceded him to New England in 1635. His signature is the third one on the Guilford Covenant. "He came with the company which settled Guilford, Conn., and was one of the signers of the 'Guilford Covenant' on 1 June 1639. He did not long survive, and his will was proved at Guilford, 13 Oct. 1646. Like the other wills of New Haven Colony, it is not extant, the first volume of Colony records having disappeared at least 150 years ago." [Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry Ancestry (citation details below)] "It would appear that he was an artisan, perhaps a painter and decorator, for in 1610/11, 'Francis Bushnell' was paid vs (five shilligs) for 'collaring the funt' (of the church or altar); also his sons were artisans, for his son Francis was a millwright, his son William a carpenter, and his son John a glazier and later a barber, while his eldest son Edmund was evidently an artisan as well as a farmer. If, as has been stated, they were Independents in their religious beliefs, they at least subscribed to the Church at Horsham, for by a seating list of this church dated 1625, William, Henry, John, and Mathew Grombridge had the first 'Seats' for which they 'paid vz a peece' and in the 'fift Seats' was John Bushnell 'who hath paid xs'. In the 'sixt Seats' is placed Edmond Bushnell — and William Bushnell who have paid for their 'rooms xjs, - and a Seate under the new gallary stayers for Pharis Bushnell, the wife of Frauncis Bushnell, to belong to him and his heirs for ever.' In 1628/7 he was a church warden, and on 25 Mar. 1636 and 29 Sept 1637, 'Fra Bushnell' made donations for the 'reparation of St. Pauls in London'. It is not probable that this family emigrated because of religious persecutions." [Bushnell Family Genealogy, citation details below] Francis Bushnell = Ferris Quenell Francis Bushnell = Mary Grombridge Sarah Bushnell = Joseph Ingham Joseph Ingham = Mary Ebenezer Ingham = Mary Dorothy Stone Mary Ingham = Jonathan Chapman Jonathan Chapman = Mary Smith Mary Chapman = Ezekiel Van Gilder Thompson Van Gilder = Priscilla Corson Emily Cameron Van Gilder = Jesse S. Godfrey Harold Godfrey = Lizzie S. Godfrey Harold Godfrey = Mabel F. Boardman Bonny Jean Godfrey = Donald Carl Jacobs Jill Tracy (Jacobs) Biden

  
  

• 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., year only. [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., year only. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S3900] Orion J. Wilcox and Emma Janette Fellows: Their Ancestors and Descendants by Fred D. Clark. Privately published, 2004., year and place only. [S4061] The Ancestry of Daniel Bushnell by J. Gardner Bartlett. Boston, 1918. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S4062] Herbert F. Seversmith, "Pre-American Ancestries: Francis Bushnell of Horsham, Sussex, and Guilford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 16:45, 1939.