Thanks, Jane. Regarding e-copies of Clark data, certainly I would be most grateful to get whatever I can. Thanks again. Aloha. "Devlin, Jane" wrote: > > > Jane - I have no information you seek, but you may have information that > > would be helpful to me. I have two FULLER lines. The one I am most > > Hi, Michael.. I don't have a lot of Fuller data - basically just the direct > line from Laura Fuller who married Lyman Beach in 1812 on back > to Matthew Fuller, the son of Edward Fuller who didn't come on the > Mayflower. Have you tried posting to the Fuller list? That's where I > got the help that let me connect Laura to her family - someone > looked her up in W.H. Fuller's "Genealogy of Some Descendants of > Capt. Matthew Fuller, John Fuller, of Newton, John Fuller of Lynn, > John FULLER of Ipswich, and Robert Fuller of Docrhester and > Dedham" (1914). I haven't been able to find the book anywhere > around here, but someone wrote that it was available on microfilm > through the LDS history centers. Wish I could help more. I've > been transcribing some of the Clark data that Nancy, Elaine and > Beverly have sent, so let me know if you want electronic copies. > > Jane > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Become a RootsWeb Sponsor > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > Where else can you get so much value for so little? -- Michael C. Owens Solutions Enterprises, Inc. http://www.mcowens.com/

> Jane - I have no information you seek, but you may have information that > would be helpful to me. I have two FULLER lines. The one I am most Hi, Michael.. I don't have a lot of Fuller data - basically just the direct line from Laura Fuller who married Lyman Beach in 1812 on back to Matthew Fuller, the son of Edward Fuller who didn't come on the Mayflower. Have you tried posting to the Fuller list? That's where I got the help that let me connect Laura to her family - someone looked her up in W.H. Fuller's "Genealogy of Some Descendants of Capt. Matthew Fuller, John Fuller, of Newton, John Fuller of Lynn, John FULLER of Ipswich, and Robert Fuller of Docrhester and Dedham" (1914). I haven't been able to find the book anywhere around here, but someone wrote that it was available on microfilm through the LDS history centers. Wish I could help more. I've been transcribing some of the Clark data that Nancy, Elaine and Beverly have sent, so let me know if you want electronic copies. Jane

Jane - I have no information you seek, but you may have information that would be helpful to me. I have two FULLER lines. The one I am most interested in is the ancestry of Benjamin W. FULLER, b. 16 Dec 1834, m. 17 Nov 1859 to Matilda BABCOCK, b. 11 Dec 1842, she d. 03 Jul 1861, he d. 09 Jan 1872. Their daughter, Zelinda Rebecca "Linda" FULLER, b. 23 Aug 1860, d. 03 Jun 1932, m. 13 Sep 1885 to John Morris OWENS, my G.Grandfather, b. 15 Sep 1863, d. 11 Mar 1948. The second FULLER line goes Holland FULLER, b. 10 Feb 1798, d. 28 Feb 1873 (m. 28 May 1820 Betsey Elizabeth DRIGGS), who was the son of James FULLER, b. 1770, d. 23 Oct 1863, who was the son of Nathaniel FULLER (no data). Would appreciate any additional information. Thanks. -- Michael C. Owens Solutions Enterprises, Inc. http://www.mcowens.com/sol/

Where is your Jonathan Parker from? Mine was from N. River NY and moved to NB Barbara Torelli btorelli@fmis.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <TCT222@aol.com> To: <CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 6:43 PM Subject: Re: Another Martha Bushnell > > Hi Martha > > > Martha Bushnell b 12 Aug 1718 at Saybrook, > > daughter of Ephriam Bushnell & Anne Hill. > > > I descend from her sister Sarah who married Jonathan Parker. > > >Martha's father, Ephriam Bushnell, b 15 Feb 1648, is said to be the son of > >William (Jr.) of Saybrook and Rebecca Stratton > > Feb. 15, 1648 is the birth date of William, not Ephraim. Ephraim was born > Feb. 14, 1675. > > >My cousin's notes also list two generations of Francis Bushnell -- perhaps > >that's the problem? > >Francis b circa 1580 at Thatcham Co. Berks, England d 1646 in Guilford > >married Ferris Quenell 13 May 1605 at Horsham England. > >Came to Fair Haven Conn July 1639 on ship St. John, > > This is correct. Francis Sr. was one of the founders of Guilford. > > >Yet in her other notes it says Lt William Bushnell Sr. emmigrated on the > >"Planter" with brothers Richard and Francis Jr. to Salem, Mass. He was in > >Guilford in 1639, in Saybrook in 1648 as a carpenter. > > I don't have the ship William came in on, but Francis Jr. did come on the > Planter in 1635. I don't have the exact date he came to Guilford, but it was > prob. around 1639 to meet his father. > I have more biographical info if you want it. > > >Also, she does not have parents for Rebecca Chapman, who married Lt William > >Bushnell at Saybrook about 1643. Her notes have Rebecca born at Hull, > England > >and died at Saybrook, but no dates. > > I have: > > CHAPMAN, Robert b: 1591 in , , England d: January 11, 1619/20 in Kingstown, > Yorkshire, Eng > +Rebecca b: 1592 in Of, Hull, Yorks, England d: > Abt. 1673 > > I hope this helps some. > > Tracy (Thompson) Tomaselli > Guilford, CT > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Become a RootsWeb Sponsor > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > Where else can you get so much value for so little? > >

In a message dated 5/20/99 7:11:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, btorelli@fmis.net writes: > Where is your Jonathan Parker from? Hi Barbara: Here is info on my Jonathan Parker: Descendants of Jonathan* PARKER 1 PARKER, Jonathan* b: January 21, 1709/10 in Saybrook, CT d: February 07, 1756 in Saybrook, CT +BUSHNELL, Sarah* b: July 26, 1713 in Saybrook, CT d: Bef. 1763 m: April 18, 1732 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Tracy

Hi Martha > Martha Bushnell b 12 Aug 1718 at Saybrook, > daughter of Ephriam Bushnell & Anne Hill. I descend from her sister Sarah who married Jonathan Parker. >Martha's father, Ephriam Bushnell, b 15 Feb 1648, is said to be the son of >William (Jr.) of Saybrook and Rebecca Stratton Feb. 15, 1648 is the birth date of William, not Ephraim. Ephraim was born Feb. 14, 1675. >My cousin's notes also list two generations of Francis Bushnell -- perhaps >that's the problem? >Francis b circa 1580 at Thatcham Co. Berks, England d 1646 in Guilford >married Ferris Quenell 13 May 1605 at Horsham England. >Came to Fair Haven Conn July 1639 on ship St. John, This is correct. Francis Sr. was one of the founders of Guilford. >Yet in her other notes it says Lt William Bushnell Sr. emmigrated on the >"Planter" with brothers Richard and Francis Jr. to Salem, Mass. He was in >Guilford in 1639, in Saybrook in 1648 as a carpenter. I don't have the ship William came in on, but Francis Jr. did come on the Planter in 1635. I don't have the exact date he came to Guilford, but it was prob. around 1639 to meet his father. I have more biographical info if you want it. >Also, she does not have parents for Rebecca Chapman, who married Lt William >Bushnell at Saybrook about 1643. Her notes have Rebecca born at Hull, England >and died at Saybrook, but no dates. I have: CHAPMAN, Robert b: 1591 in , , England d: January 11, 1619/20 in Kingstown, Yorkshire, Eng +Rebecca b: 1592 in Of, Hull, Yorks, England d: Abt. 1673 I hope this helps some. Tracy (Thompson) Tomaselli Guilford, CT

Dear Bushnell researchers: I have a separate Martha Bushnell about the same time period as the one we've been discussing in my data: Martha Bushnell b 12 Aug 1718 at Saybrook, daughter of Ephriam Bushnell & Anne Hill. This Martha supposedly married Elijah Stannard, Sr. b 12 July 1715, a Rev. War Vet, who died 20 May 1790. I don't have their marriage or her death info. (Her info is per my DAR-seeking cousin's notes, supposedly from vital records) Martha's father, Ephriam Bushnell, b 15 Feb 1648, is said to be the son of William (Jr.) of Saybrook and Rebecca Stratton; and Ephriam is supposedly grandson of William (Lt.) (the immigrant) and Rebecca Chapman. My cousin's notes also list two generations of Francis Bushnell -- perhaps that's the problem? Francis b circa 1580 at Thatcham Co. Berks, England d 1646 in Guilford married Ferris Quenell 13 May 1605 at Horsham England. Came to Fair Haven Conn July 1639 on ship St. John, with daughters Sarah and Rebecca. That same year he was listed in Guilford as a painter and decorator (sic) Yet in her other notes it says Lt William Bushnell Sr. emmigrated on the "Planter" with brothers Richard and Francis Jr. to Salem, Mass. He was in Guilford in 1639, in Saybrook in 1648 as a carpenter. Also, she does not have parents for Rebecca Chapman, who married Lt William Bushnell at Saybrook about 1643. Her notes have Rebecca born at Hull, England and died at Saybrook, but no dates. She shows Lt. William as baptised 3 Feb 1610/11 at Horsham Susses England and found in Boston in 1635 and Guilford in 1646 and Saybrook in 1648. Can you confirm or correct any of this? Thanks! Martha Byrnes HomeByrnes@aol.com

I have just found a connection to Martha BUSHNELL and Jonathan SMITH - and I remember folks on this list discussing same. I have Savage's information - is it correct or has other information been found? I would be very appreciative of names, dates, places. I am making a research trip to CT,MA and VT June 5th and would be willing to do any on-site look-ups if at all possible. Thanks for sharing. By the way, Savage's Dictionary of First Families is on line and accessible at http://genweb.net/~books/savage Once there you can access each volume. The Vol 3 & 4 are big files so take awhile to load. Karen Grubaugh Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, Florida Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm

This is a correction. I must of typed wrong date. Phebe Haight b. 29 Mar 1822 and sister Hannah Haight b, 18 Mar 1820 both married William Doolittle. I would like to know the parents of the sisters. I believe them to be Benjamin and Beverly Haight of Medusa, Rensselaerville,Albany Co,NY. I appriciate any help on identifing parents. Bill

---------- > From: florenceh1 <florenceh1@prodigy.net> > To: CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Martha BUSHNELL > Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:47 PM > > Hope it's acceptable to all concerned, I am jumping in on the BUSHNELL line > too. My HUNTINGTON line descends from Frances Bushnell b. abt 1601 m. > Thomas HOSMER; their dau Hester m. Thomas BUCKINGHAM; their son Thomas m. > Margaret GRISWOLD; their dau Mary m. Solomon HUNTINGTON. Another BUSHNELL > connection: Marie Mary MARVIN d/o Mathew Martin and Elizabeth Gregory who > was married #1 to Richard BUSHNELL. It is from her #2 marriage to Thomas > Adgate that connects back to BUCKINGHAM/HUNTINGTON lines. I am just > beginning my BUSHNELL research. I know nothing about the early BUSHNELLS- > Frances' parentage, etc. I find the current info exchange very interesting. > Any help is welcome since I have found some confusion in my BUSHNELL > search so far. Thank you. Florence Allen Hunstein > > ---------- > > From: Susan Taylor <SGTAYLOR1@worldnet.att.net> > > To: CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: Martha BUSHNELL > > Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 5:48 AM > > > > Dexter, > > > > PMFJI <Pardon me for jumping in> > > > > At 11:24 AM 5/10/99 -0700, Dexter Edge wrote: > > >Ia n Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:15:33 -0600 message to CTMIDDLE-L Jane Devlin > > wrote: > > > > > >> Jonathan SMITH b. 1635 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, d. after > > >> 1711; m Martha BUSHNELL (daug. of Francis BUSHNELL & Marie > > >> Mary GROMBRIDGE). He was the son of: > > >> > > > > > >Hmmmm-- From p. 31-32 of "Bushnell Genealogy" by G.E, Bushnell, I have > > >entered into my database Francis BUSHNELL (ca.1609 ENG-1649 CT), and > his > > >wife Mary GROMBRIDGE (ca.1609 ENG-after 1649 CT) , also the names of > their > > >seven children and their spouses. But in that source I see NO Martha > > >BUSHNELL who ma. Jonathan SMITH. Can you cite your source? (As Mr. > Leakey > > >would say! (:-) > > > > Go one page further, page 33 in the BUSHNELL Genealogy. Page 32 only > lists > > their 1st 2 children. The rest of their children are listed on p. 33. > Their > > 3rd child, #20, was Martha who married Jonathan SMITH. Here is what it > says > > about her: > > > > George Eleazer Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and > Posterity > > of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, > > Connecticut, Including Genealogical Notes of other Bushnell Families, > whose > > connections with this branch of the family tree have not been determined > > (Nashville, TN: George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945), p. 33. > > > > "20. iii. Martha, b. Salem (?), Mass. abt. 1637, m. Saybrook, Conn. 1 > Jan. > > 1663, Jonathan Smith, of Wethersfield, Conn. (R-12). Savage says they > moved > > to Middletown, Conn. (R-9); but they were in Wethersfield on 14 Jan. > 1689.: > > Children, 3: > > 20. 1. Mary Smith, > > 20. 11. Samuel Smith, > > 20. iii. Martha Smith, > > probably others." > > > > Also as Jane has replied Savage has her as the daughter of Francis. > > > > Martha and Jonathan's marriage can also be found in > > > > 1.Torrey, p. 685: > > > > "SMITH, Jonathan (?1635-1711+) & 2/wf Martha BUSHNELL (ca 1644-1705+); 1 > > Jan 1663, 1663/4; Saybrook, CT" > > > > 2. Rev. Sylvester Nash, comp., "Records of Saybrook, Ct" in The New > > England Historical and Genealogical Register, IV (1850) (CD-ROM; Boston: > > NEHGS & Broderbund Software, Inc., 1996), p. 141. > > > > I descend from Jonathan and Martha (BUSHNELL) SMITH through their > daughter > > Martha who married Joseph LONG. > > > > --- Susan > > SGTAYLOR1@att.net > > > > My Genealogy Website - sgt > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ > > ----------------------------------------------- > > USGenWeb Mansfield, CT > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html > > USGenWeb New London, CT > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html > > USGenWeb Norwich, CT > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html > > USGenWeb Windham, CT > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html > > USGenWeb Plymouth, MA > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ > > -------- > > New England Genealogy Collections Outside of New England > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/NECollections.html > > WWW Genealogy Resource Links > > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/webresources.html > > ********************************************************* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Dexter Edge Jr. > > >Olympia, WA > > > > > > > > >==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > > >Visit the Middlesex County GenWeb site > > >http://www.flash.net/~hmwalden/midlsxco.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > > Become a RootsWeb Sponsor > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > Where else can you get so much value for so little? > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the Middlesex County, CT Mailing List > List Owner - Jane Devlin JaneDevlin@netquest.com

This was posted a while back to another list and may be of some help to those trying to "translate" Savage's rather terse prose. Set Number: 0-8063-0795 Made in the United States of America Preface SOME explanatory introduction to so copious a work, as the following, will naturally be required; but it may be short. In 1829 was published, by John Farmer, a Genealogical Register of the first settlers of New England. Beside the five classes of persons prominent, as Governors, Deputy-Governors, Assistants, ministers in all the Colonies, and representatives in that of Massachusetts, down to 1692, it embraced graduates of Harvard College to 1662, members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, as also freemen admitted in Massachusetts, alone, to this latter date, with many early inhabitants of other parts of New England and Long Island from 1620 to 1675. Extensive as was the plan of that volume., the author had in contemplation, as explained in his preface, calling it "an introduction to a biographical and genealogical dictionary, "a more ambitious work, that should comprehend sketches of individuals known in the annals of New England, and "a continuation of eminent persons to the present time." Much too vast a project that appeared to me; and the fixing of an absolute limit, like 1692 (the era of arrival of the new charter), for admission of any family stocks, seemed more judicious. I suppose nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642. My scope is wider than that of Farmer, of course, as it includes every settler, without regard to his rank, or wealth, since we often find, in the second or third generation, descendants of the most humble (thank God we are all equal before the law) filling honorable stations and performing important services. But far more narrow is my plan than his projected dictionary, because, in a grandson of the first settler, it excludes every other incident after his birth. Space for another than is here given, would have demanded six volumes, while ten volumes would have been needed for a fifth generation; and since we now count eight, nine, or even ten generations of offspring from not a few of the earlier planters on our shores, fifty volumes, each as ponderous as the present, might be filled with details, whereof one tenth would seem ridiculous, one quarter worthless, and one half wholly uninteresting. That New England was first occupied by a civilized people in so short a period before the great civil war broke out in our mother country, though half a century and more after its elementary principles began to ferment, especially in Parliament, and almost in every parish of the kingdom, was a very fortunate event, if it may not be thought a providential arrangement for the happiness of mankind. Even if our views be restricted to the lineal origin of those people here, when the long protracted impolicy of Great Britain drove our fathers into open hostility and forced them to become a nation in 1776, in that century and a half from its colonization, a purer Anglo Saxon race would be seen on this side of the ocean than on the other. Within forty years a vast influx of Irish, with not a few thousand Scotch and Germans has spread over this new country, but certainly more than four fifths of our people still count their progenitors among the ante-revolutionary colonists. >From long and careful research I have judged the proportion of the whole number living here in 1775, that deduce their origin from the kingdom of England, i.e. the Southern part of Great Britain, excluding also the principality of Wales, to exceed ninety-eight in a hundred. Every county, from Northcumberland to Cornwall, Kent to Cumberland, sent its contribution of emigrants, and the sparse population of the narrow shire of Rutland had more than one offshoot in New England. But, during that interval, great was the diversity of circumstances between the old and the new country so far as the increase of their respective numbers by incoming of strangers was affected. In 1660 the restoration of Charles II.--in 1685 the expulsion of the two modern labors of distinguished antiquaries furnish us almost in full their early records; and more than nine tenths of the names in these separate communities, I think, must have been acquired for this work. But even in my native city of Boston three or four in a thousand may have escaped me, yet probably in the second or third ages from its foundation. For the time of births, marriages, or deaths in each family I have labored assiduously to be correct, in hundreds of cases finding wrong dates given, and commonly without hesitation supplying the true. Where baptism is fixed, by a decent record, weeks, and even months before the date of birth, no fear of injuring the town clerk's credit can restrain belief in his mistake. But the copious source of vexation is the variety growing out of the Old and New Styles. In many thousand instances, I have turned to the perpetual almanac, to be sure that the day of baptism was truly, or not, recorded for Sunday, since the rite could, in the first century of New England, be performed only on that day. By this many printed errors may be corrected. As children are often seen to be baptized in January or February of the same year, by the ancient legal reckoning, that gives the parents' marriage in April or May, several weeks before, in our modern reckoning of the months, instead of so many months after, it is easy enough to put that right by calling those winter months not the eleventh and twelfth of the old year, as the statute absurdity required. Uniformly my chronology begins the year with 1 January; but to produce harmony between dates for the month of March is sometimes very difficult. A few town officers began to change the numerals for the year with the opening of the month, daring to ask, why the first month of 1679 should allow 24 of its 31 days to be drilled under old 1678, while the perverse will of the rulers in fatherland postponed the new-year's day until the 25th; and some records may be found, where the year ended in December; but this monstrous innovation did not begin before 1700, and the startling truth made irregular progress up to 1752, when Lord Macclesfield enlightened the legislature, and Chesterfield charmed it into consistency. No apology would be necessary for filling room with enumeration of contributions from many friends other than such as are nance and aid of His Excellency, E. Everett, then our minister at London, no trace could be found, except in his signature to the rules on taking his degrees at the University, when he is titled of Middlesex. Perhaps out of such research sprang my resolution to prosecute the genealogical pursuits of John Farmer. In fulfillment of this great undertaking more than fifteen years are already bestowed, and near two years longer may be necessary. Yet the rule imposed, of admitting upon these pages only the dates of birth and marriage, and names of children, of a child born on our side of the ocean to a settler whose tent was pitched here before May 1692, is severely adhered to, with the exception only of so distinguished a man as Cotton Mather; and even this variety may seem forced upon me by Farmer, who had received him to the copious honors of marriage and family. Yet, in many cases, will be named great grandchildren of first comers, and even in a very few, another generation, making a fifth. Explanation of this apparent deviation from my own law is easy. When Gov. Bradford and Gov. Winthrop came here, each brought a son, or sons, and the same is seen of Gov. Dudley and numberless others. Now each child must be rated as an emigrant no less than its father, so that John Brad. ford, John and Adam Winthrop, and Samuel Dudley are equally entitled as their parents to have their grandchildren entered in these pages; but William and Joseph Bradford, and Jaseph Dudley, sons of the Govs. born on our side of the water, shall not have grandchildren in their respective lines. My apparatus for this work will sometimes be found incomplete, yet to a great extent, the public records of Colonies, Counties, and towns, where accessible, have been examined by myself or friends. Of the first ten folio volumes of our Suffolk registry of deeds I had an abstract always lying near me, and these embraced near one third of all the names of New England and more than half those in Massachusetts Colony; indeed for very many years, after the emigration from Europe ceased, only two other counties, Essex and Middlesex had been constituted. lt will be recollected, that large parts of Plymouth, New Hampshire, and Maine were occupied by those who removed from Massachusetts, as was almost the whole of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies. But open to all in printed volumes; but much of what is now within every one's reach had been furnished in MS. to me, and still more is from the same hands, in many cases, given first to the light on my pages. Our town histories are crowding forward, and sometimes in less compact space than might be wished. Windsor, though its History is large, has not equalled ancient Woodbury in bulk, yet seems to contain all, with three-fold of the interest, that might have contented us in the other. The point of research may occupy long time, and be expressed at last in brief phrase, so that no comparison can be made between the result in different parts of the same field of battle from taking only the numbers engaged in each. One initial letter in this dictionary required a year and a quarter for its complete preparation, more than three months were given to each of several names, like Hall or Williams, and the progress of a page has often demanded a week. It seemed my duty to expose every error in our genealogy that has got imbedded in any reputable book; and the suspicion of any such may lead to a long train of inquiries before the refutation can be reached. If my success has been less than my ambition, it has not been owing to lack of industry, or to hurried operation. Printing of the first volume began in Dec. 1858, and was prosecuted without interruption of a day to this time; while for the next volume the careful amanuensis has ready for the compositor two hundred pages, a part of which will be given to the press to-morrow. For the access of new information that reaches us almost every month, a constant watch is kept; and life and health being continued, my contract with the community may be decently discharged in the autumn of 1861. A very extensive catalogue of gentlemen, that might be graced by one of more than half a dozen ladies, could here be supplied, were it useful to mention the smaller as well as the greater contributors to these sheets. To Goodwin, Bond, Harris, father and son, Kingsley, Abbot, Day, Shattuck, Lunt, and Kilbourne, of the respectable file who have passed out of active service, it would not be easy to state the respective proportions of indebtedness; nor could I specify the ratio of benefit derived in my pages from benevolence of the living Babson, Boltwood, Brayton, Budington, Clapp, Day, Edwards, Felt, Field, Herrick, Hoadley, Jackson, Judd, Kelly, King, Kellogg, Lincoln, Locke, Otis, Paige, Patterson, Riker, Sargent, Sewall, Shurtleff, R. D. Smith of Guilford, Staples, Vinton, Wentworth, Whitmore, Willard, Wyman, and twice as many more. Not one of the living or dead could complain of my declaration, that from the distinguished antiquary of Northampton the acquisition exceeds that of any other ten contributors. Early in 1846 I had solicited the benefit of uniting his name with mine in producing these volumes; but while he shrank from the responsibility of such unbroken labor, I can offer several hundred pages of letters to vouch for his sympathy, and encourage my perseverance. 19 APRIL, 1860. Description of Abbreviations BY the number of more or less imperfect words, that can be not much less than three hundred thousand in these volumes, very great saving, of space was expected. Caution was given me, in the Genealog. Reg. XII. 362 against thewoeful disfiguring that would follow, if the specimen, offered by the publishers toattract subscribers, were to be taken for a sample. As most of these curtailments were common however in similar works, I dared to adhere to the plan, which has not,perhaps, repelled a dozen patrons; and even enlarged my list by addition of one that would occur about two thousand limes. The word freeman, or freemen, may be seen, in its new shape, freem. without offence, I hope, to the taste of any subscriber.Familiar to all readers must be the short form given to our names of the months, nine in twelve, only May, June, and July having their whole beauty; and yet of these nine words the recurrence would probably show the mutilations on my pages to be fifteen or twenty thousand. Titles are always permitted even in other books to appear in brief, as Gov. or Esq. and when rep. may stand for representative, most who turn over a dictionary of this sort will approve the economy. It may happen that, by the accident of the printer's type, or my own carelessness, some word may be abbreviated that had better been printed in full, yet I submit, that the page will be seldom disfigured by such liberty, and probably the reader would not change more than once in five hundred examples. Confusion will not be caused so often as that, I hope; but if a pause be necessary, we all feel the same thing in turning to an English dictionary for definition of words only. Nobody reads continuously from page to page, even in the affluent vocabulary of Johnson; and when a sincere desire to verify a genealogy, or ascertain a special relationship, is felt, the time will not be grudgingly reckoned, if a sentence be not printed out in every word, but with one third or more of those words curtailed. In the following list every word thus abbrev. may not be found, because the shortening may by a judicious reader he referred to: class comprising many, as the adverbial terminations, ly, bly, wanting after casi. and honora.; or the perfect tense or parti- ciples of verbs, ed; or in substantives, er and ent.; or in either part of speech, ensu. mak. preced. and tak. without ing or en. For many having, different meanings, as ch. for child, or children, or church; d. for death, died, or daughter; gr. for grand, great, grant, or graduate; mo. for mother or month, the one intended may be trusted to the student's sagacity. But occasions of error in names of men or women I have scrupulously avoided, so that only one surname can be seen in my pages to be abbrev. and but a single name of bapt. Eliz. can hardly be mistaken, nor will the lamentation be loud, when a man's name so distinguished as that of the first Gov. of Mass. is spelled Winth. Geographi- cal designations are forever meeting our eyes in briefer form than the legal one; and he has poor supply of current letters that requires to be told what shires in Eng. are meant by Bucks, Herts, or Notts. VOL. I. B List of Abbreviations THE LIST. a. about. abbrev. abbreviation or ted. acc. according to. acco. account. accu. accurate. adj. adjoining. adm. admission or admitted. Admin. administration or tor. aft. after. alleg. allegance. ano. another. approx. approximately. ar. co. artillery company. ascert. ascertain or ained. b. born or birth. bapt. baptized or sm. bec. because or became. bef. before. bot. bought or bottom. br. brother. bur. buried. capt. captain, captured, or ivity. catal. catalogue. ch. for child, children, or church. clk. clerk. Co. County. Col. Colony or Colonel. Coll. College or Collections. comp. company. confer. conferred. conject. conjecture. cont. continued. contr. contract. corp. corporal. Couns counsellor. cous. cousin. coven. covenant. ct. court. d. died, death, or daughter. Dart. Dartmouth College. deac. deacon. decis. decision. degr. degree. devis. devised. discip. discipline. div. division or divided. docum. document. ds. deaths or daughters. easi easily. educ. education or ted. Eng. 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> Now it's my turn to be red faced! Upon re-examining the copies of pages I > have from G.E. Bushnell's book, I find that on p. 33 there IS listed a > Martha BUSHNELL, dau. of Francis BUSHNELL Jr. and Mary GROMBRIDGE. No need to be red faced - we got quite a discussion going and that's worth a lot.. Plus I obtained several more sources <g> > Fritz, I have a copy of the source you cited: "Genealogies of Connecticut > Families--etc". One disagreement I see between that work and GEB;s book is > that Gene of CT Fam says Francis BUSHNELL ma. Rebecca ___?__, whereas GEB > says he ma. Ferris QUENELL. (Did he marry twice?) Also Gene of CT Fam says > Francis Jr. ma. in ENG to Marie or Mary__?__, whereas GEB also says Mary > but includes her surname as GROMBRIDGE (or GROOMBRIDGE or GRUMBRIDGE). I've noticed the discrepencies in the names of the wives also - from The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus, "Francis Bushnell married, March 13, 1605, at Horsham, Sussex, England, Ferris Quynell or Quenell (bapt. at Horsham April 17, 1587, daughter of Henry and Beatrix (Carter) Quynell). The baptisms of their eleven children are recorded in the Horsham registers. The first child, Edmund, married in England and perhaps remained there. Francis, Junior, with his wife, came to New England on the ship Planter in 1635. William, John, Richard, Rebecca and Sarah also at one time or another came over. Of the rest of the eleven children, Stephen, Thomas and Mary died young, and Elizabeth, baptized on the 5th of March 1627/8, was buried a few days later with her mother on the 10th of March. The mother was then about forty-one years of age. The next year (June 2, 1629) Francis Bushnell, Senior, married (2) Joane Kinward, and two years later her burial is recorded at Horsham, June 21, 1631. No proof has been found that he had a third wife in New England. He died at Guilford in 1646, about eighteen years after the death of his wife Ferris, the mother of his children." But the Abridged Compendium states that  BUSHNELL, Francis (d 1646), from Eng. to   New Haven Colony, 1638; settled at Guilford,   Conn., 1639; m Rebecca Holms(?).   It sounds as though the first two wives were married and died in England and the third, if she existed, was from Connecticut. However, I always have a bit of difficulty in > trying to "translate" Savage's writings. (:-) Somewhere around here I have a list of the abbreviations that Savage used. If I can find it, I'll post it to the list. I have dual lines from Francis & Ferris. The first one is through Lt. William BUSHNELL & Rebecca CHAPMAN > Samuel BUSHNELL & Patience RUDD > Judith BUSHNELL & James WRIGHT > Jude WRIGHT & Elizabeth STONE > Enos WRIGHT & Sarah TILLOTSON > Sibyl WRIGHT & Joseph WILCOX > Joseph Howard WILCOX & Mary Ann BUSH > William H. WILCOX & Laura Althea SMITH > Charles Nelson WILCOX & Clarissa MARR > Eva Laura WILCOX & Orson Clark DUNHAM who were my grandparents. The second line is from Frances & Ferris > Deacon Francis BUSHNELL & Marie Mary GROMBRIDGE > Martha BUSHNELL & Jonathan SMITH > Jonathan SMITH & Alice LEEK > Jonathan SMITH & Dorothy BAILEY > Abia SMITH & Abijah LEE > Mary LEE & Samuel CLARK > Lemuel Lee CLARK & Rosanna RICH > Julia Ann CLARK and Daniel Dorrance DUNHAM > Morton N. DUNHAM & Erminna SMITH > Orson Clark DUNHAM & Eva Laura WILCOX. Small world, huh? Jane

Hope it's acceptable to all concerned, I am jumping in on the BUSHNELL line too. My HUNTINGTON line descends from Frances Bushnell b. abt 1601 m. Thomas HOSMER; their dau Hester m. Thomas BUCKINGHAM; their son Thomas m. Margaret GRISWOLD; their dau Mary m. Solomon HUNTINGTON. Another BUSHNELL connection: Marie Mary MARVIN d/o Mathew Martin and Elizabeth Gregory who was married #1 to Richard BUSHNELL. It is from her #2 marriage to Thomas Adgate that connects back to BUCKINGHAM/HUNTINGTON lines. I am just beginning my BUSHNELL research. I know nothing about the early BUSHNELLS- Frances' parentage, etc. I find the current info exchange very interesting. Any help is welcome since I have found some confusion in my BUSHNELL search so far. Thank you. Florence Allen Hunstein ---------- > From: Susan Taylor <SGTAYLOR1@worldnet.att.net> > To: CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Martha BUSHNELL > Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 5:48 AM > > Dexter, > > PMFJI <Pardon me for jumping in> > > At 11:24 AM 5/10/99 -0700, Dexter Edge wrote: > >Ia n Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:15:33 -0600 message to CTMIDDLE-L Jane Devlin > wrote: > > > >> Jonathan SMITH b. 1635 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, d. after > >> 1711; m Martha BUSHNELL (daug. of Francis BUSHNELL & Marie > >> Mary GROMBRIDGE). He was the son of: > >> > > > >Hmmmm-- From p. 31-32 of "Bushnell Genealogy" by G.E, Bushnell, I have > >entered into my database Francis BUSHNELL (ca.1609 ENG-1649 CT), and his > >wife Mary GROMBRIDGE (ca.1609 ENG-after 1649 CT) , also the names of their > >seven children and their spouses. But in that source I see NO Martha > >BUSHNELL who ma. Jonathan SMITH. Can you cite your source? (As Mr. Leakey > >would say! (:-) > > Go one page further, page 33 in the BUSHNELL Genealogy. Page 32 only lists > their 1st 2 children. The rest of their children are listed on p. 33. Their > 3rd child, #20, was Martha who married Jonathan SMITH. Here is what it says > about her: > > George Eleazer Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity > of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, > Connecticut, Including Genealogical Notes of other Bushnell Families, whose > connections with this branch of the family tree have not been determined > (Nashville, TN: George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945), p. 33. > > "20. iii. Martha, b. Salem (?), Mass. abt. 1637, m. Saybrook, Conn. 1 Jan. > 1663, Jonathan Smith, of Wethersfield, Conn. (R-12). Savage says they moved > to Middletown, Conn. (R-9); but they were in Wethersfield on 14 Jan. 1689.: > Children, 3: > 20. 1. Mary Smith, > 20. 11. Samuel Smith, > 20. iii. Martha Smith, > probably others." > > Also as Jane has replied Savage has her as the daughter of Francis. > > Martha and Jonathan's marriage can also be found in > > 1.Torrey, p. 685: > > "SMITH, Jonathan (?1635-1711+) & 2/wf Martha BUSHNELL (ca 1644-1705+); 1 > Jan 1663, 1663/4; Saybrook, CT" > > 2. Rev. Sylvester Nash, comp., "Records of Saybrook, Ct" in The New > England Historical and Genealogical Register, IV (1850) (CD-ROM; Boston: > NEHGS & Broderbund Software, Inc., 1996), p. 141. > > I descend from Jonathan and Martha (BUSHNELL) SMITH through their daughter > Martha who married Joseph LONG. > > --- Susan > SGTAYLOR1@att.net > > My Genealogy Website - sgt > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ > ----------------------------------------------- > USGenWeb Mansfield, CT > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html > USGenWeb New London, CT > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html > USGenWeb Norwich, CT > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html > USGenWeb Windham, CT > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html > USGenWeb Plymouth, MA > http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ > -------- > New England Genealogy Collections Outside of New England > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/NECollections.html > WWW Genealogy Resource Links > http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/webresources.html > ********************************************************* > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Dexter Edge Jr. > >Olympia, WA > > > > > >==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > >Visit the Middlesex County GenWeb site > >http://www.flash.net/~hmwalden/midlsxco.htm > > > > > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Become a RootsWeb Sponsor > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > Where else can you get so much value for so little?

Hi multi Cuz! >Now it's my turn to be red faced! Wellll.... if this is the first time, cheer up you only have about 500+ red faces ahead of you to catch up with the number I've had. <g> > My only excuse for not seeing this earliers, is that the print in >GEB's book is quite small-- I need to use a magnifying glass when reading >it! >Also the organization (numbering of people) in GEB's book seems a bit >strange. You're not just whistling Dixie about these inconveniences and oddities with the BUSHNELL genealogy. Why in the world they compressed 4 pages on to 1 is beyond me. Talk about the "strange" numbering system is an understatement. It took me sometime to figure it out and even to this day when I look up something in it I have to refresh the old grey matter on the absurd numbering. > I >think the genealogy section in the Olympia, WA public library is pretty >good, and they DO have a copy of the work by Savage, from which I have >copied several pages-- but not (yet) the page on Jonathan Smith (who was >not in my direct line.) However, I always have a bit of difficulty in >trying to "translate" Savage's writings. (:-) I suspect you already know but incase not or for any lurkers who don't know, The complete transcription of Savages 4 volumes is on line: Gopher menu for gateway to Electronic Edition of Savage: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/journals/kraftpub/Genealogical Do note you have to have gopher:// and not http://. Click on Savage's Dictionary. It takes you to: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:70/00/journals/kraftpub/Genealogical/Savage%27s% 20Dictionary It is **** very very very slow **** to load but well worth the time. You can actually download the whole file and have it at your fingertips. >BTW, Martha BUSHNELL was not in my direct line, either. My direct BUSHNELL >line daughters out with Mary BUSHNELL, who ma. Elijah BRAINERD. She was the >dau. of Joseph BUSHNELL and Mary LEFFINGWELL, and the grand dau. of Richard >BUSHNELL, Mary MARVIN, Lt. Thomas LEFFINGWELL, and Mary White. I can >provide additional info. on some of these lines if any of you are >interested. Here is where are cousinships are falling all over each other. I have 2 BUSHNELL lines, 2 LEFFINGWELL, and at least 1 TRACY line. All those Norwich related families married and married and married each other. I'm surprised I have 2 legs, 2 arms, one head, 2 eyes and sense enough to come in from the rain! With all that intermarriage, the old gene pool was running mighty low! Here is a cut down skeleton descendancy chart of my 2 BUSHNELL lines. My second one comes down through Mary BUSHNELL, sister of your Joseph BUSHNELL. She married Ens. Tho. LEFFINGWELL, Jr., brother of Mary who married your Joseph! Descendancy Chart of Francis Bushnell Francis1 BUSHNELL, (c1580 Thatcham, Eng-1646 Guilford, CT) +Ferris1 QUENELL, (bap.1587 Horsham, Eng-1628 Horsham, Eng) |-- Francis2 BUSHNELL, (bap. 1608/9 Horsham, Eng-1681 Saybrook, | CT) | +Mary2 GROOMBRIDGE, (1605/6 Horsham, Eng-after 1648/49) | |-- Martha3 BUSHNELL, (c1644 Salem?, MA-after 1705) | | +Jonathan3 SMITH, (1635?-after 1711) | | |-- Martha4 SMITH, (1674 Wethersfield, CT-) | | | +Joseph4 LONG, (1667/68 Hartford, CT-) | +Grace2 WELLS |-- Richard2 BUSHNELL, (bap. 1623 Horsham, Eng-betw 1659-1660 | Saybrook or Norwalk, CT) | +Mary2 MARVIN, (1628 Eng-1713 Norwich, CT) | |-- Joseph3 BUSHNELL, (1651 Saybrook, CT-1746 Norwich, CT) | | +Mary3 LEFFINGWELL, (1654 Saybrook, CT-1745 Norwich, CT) | |-- Mary3 BUSHNELL, (1654/55 Norwalk?, CT-1745 Norwich, CT) | | +Ensign Thomas3 LEFFINGWELL Jr,(1649 Saybrook, CT-1723/24 | | Norwich, CT) | | |-- Mary4 LEFFINGWELL, (1682 Norwich, CT-1770 Norwich, | | | CT) | | | +Simon4 TRACY, (1679 Norwich, CT-1775 Norwich, CT) Printed on: 13 May 1999 Prepared by: Susan Gascoigne Taylor SGTAYLOR1@att.net Thank you Dexter, for the sources you gave! --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ - --------------------------------------------- USGenWeb Mansfield, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGenWeb New London, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGenWeb Norwich, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGenWeb Windham, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGenWeb Plymouth, MA http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ -------- New England Genealogy Collections Outside of New England http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/NECollections.html WWW Genealogy Resource Links http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/webresources.html *********************************************************

Hi Group, Need a little help with this Essex/Saybrook ANDREWS/ANDRUS Family cna anyone help. Fred 3:08 PM 5/13/98 Descendants of Asa M. ANDREWS> Generation No. 1 1. ASA M.1 ANDREWS> was born Abt. 1789 in of Saybrook, CT, and died Aft. 1860. He married (1) POLLY GLADDING 29 May 1819 in Saybrook, Middlesex, CT[1]. He married (2) HANNAH K. DICKINSON> 27 March 1832 in Saybrook, Middlesex, CT[2]. Notes for ASA M. ANDREWS>: 1810 no Andrews listed in Essex area. 1820 "Borough of Essex in Saybrook" Twon of Killingworth 2 Andrews listed: Hannah 26-44; 3 sons under 15 . Asa farmer 16-25 and wife 16-25. 1830 Census Asa Andrus 30-40; 1 female under 5; 1 female 5-10; 1 female 40-50. 1840 Census Asa Andrews 50-60; 1 son 5-10; 1 female under 5; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 15-20; 1 female 30-40. 1850 Census Asa Andrews 59, laborer, b. CT; Hannah 43, b. CT; Benjamin K, 17, b. CT; Sailor; Philena 10, in school; and Thomas V 7 also in school. Living with this family is Tryphena FOSTER 75, b. CT. 1860 Census Asa Andrews 71, b. CT, farmer, as head of household with Hannah E. 52, b. CT; Elizabeth F. 23; and Thomas V. 18, day laborer, b. CT. Children of ASA ANDREWS> and HANNAH DICKINSON> are: i. BENJAMIN K.2 ANDREWS, b. Abt. 1833, Saybrook, Middlesex, CT[3]; d. Aft. 1850. Notes for BENJAMIN K. ANDREWS: 1850 census Asa 59, laborer, b. CT; Hannah 43, b. CT; Benjamin K, 17, b. CT; Sailor; Philena 10, in school; and Thomas V 7 also in school. Living with this family is Tryphena FOSTER 75, b. CT. More About BENJAMIN K. ANDREWS: Age @ 1850 Census: 17[4] Occupation: 1850, sailor[4] ii. ELIZABETH F. ANDREWS, b. Abt. 1837, Saybrook, Middlesex, CT[5]; d. Aft. 1860. Notes for ELIZABETH F. ANDREWS: 1860 Census Asa 71,b.CT, farmer, as head of household with Hannah E. 52, b. CT; Elizabeth F. 23; and Thomas V. 18, day laborer, b. CT. More About ELIZABETH F. ANDREWS: Age @ 1860 Census: 23[6] iii. PHILINA ANDREWS, b. Abt. 1840, Saybrook, Middlesex, CT[7]. Notes for PHILINA ANDREWS: 1850 census Asa 59, laborer, b. CT; Hannah 43, b. CT; Benjamin K, 17, b. CT; Sailor; Philena 10, in school; and Thomas V 7 also in school. Living with this family is Tryphena FOSTER 75, b. CT. More About PHILINA ANDREWS: Age @ 1850 Census: 10[8] iv. THOMAS V. ANDREWS>, b. Abt. 1841, Essex, Middlesex, CT[9]; d. Aft. 1870, prob. CT; m. JENNIE W. REED>, 9 June 1866, New Haven, New Haven, CT[10]. Notes for THOMAS V. ANDREWS>: 1850 Census Asa 59, laborer, b. CT; Hannah 43, b. CT; Benjamin K, 17, b. CT; Sailor; Philena 10, in school; and Thomas V 7 also in school. Living with this family is Tryphena FOSTER 75, b. CT. 1860 Census Asa 71,b.CT, farmer, as head of household with Hannah E. 52, b. CT; Elizabeth F. 23; and Thomas V. 18, day laborer, b. CT. Thomas in New Haven, New Haven 3rd ward in 1870 Census, Census not foriegn born. In 1870 he is a 33 year old, b in CT, Housepainter md to Jennie(?), b. in Mass, with Julia age 8 and Frederick age 3. born in CT More About THOMAS V. ANDREWS>: Age @ 1850 Census: 7[11] Age @ 1860 Census: 18[12] Age @ 1870 Census: 33[13] Age @ marriage: 25[14] Occupation: 1860 day laborer Essex, CT, 1870-1879 house painter New Haven area[15] Notes for JENNIE W. REED>: Frederick Henry is listed on his birth record as Jennie's 8th Child, question is this jennie's second marriage. More About JENNIE W. REED>: Age @ marriage: 30[16] Endnotes 1. Saybrook Colony Church Records, First Ecclesiastical Society, 5:108. 2. Vital Records of Saybrook, CT, 1:91. 3. birth based on age in 1850 Census, birth place CT based on 1850 census. 4. 1850 Census. 5. birth year based on age in 1860 Census, birth place CT in 1860 Census. 6. 1860 Census. 7. Birth year base on age in 1850 Census, brith place CT 1850 census. 8. 1850 Census. 9. Marriage record, [of Essex, CT, birth years based on age at time of marriage]. 10. Marriage record, [married by Rev. C.E. GLOVER, Padtor of St. John's M.E. Church, 400 Humphrey, New Haven, CT 203-562-1487]. 11. 1850 Census. 12. 1860 Census. 13. 1870 New Haven, CT, 3rd Census. 14. Marriage record, [of Essex, CT at time of marriage]. 15. 1860 Census; 1870-1879 City Directores. 16. Marriage record, [of New Haven, CT at time of marriage]. ******* Fred Kunchick GSCS[SW] USN Retired Independent AMSOIL Dealer Pennsauken NJ ICQ# 2000494 kunchick@bellatlantic.net Editor of The Northern KIMBALL On-Line Newsletter Member: NEHGS Camden County (NJ) Historical Society Lo/Lathrop Family Association Kimball Family Association Towne Family Association Home Page: URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/7158/index.htm Coos County, NH USGenWeb CC. URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkunch/coos.htm Hillsboro County, NH USGenWeb CC. 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Subsequent to my recent posting on CTMIDDLE-L re. Martha BUSHNELL, several people have kindly responded with citations to other sources indicating that she ma. Jonathan SMITH. I wrote originally: >Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 11:24:48 -0700 >From: Dexter Edge <dedge@mail.tss.net> >To: CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <3.0.4.32.19990510112448.007d7b40@mail.tss.net> >Subject: Martha BUSHNELL >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Ia n Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:15:33 -0600 message to CTMIDDLE-L Jane Devlin wrote: > >> Jonathan SMITH b. 1635 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, d. after >> 1711; m Martha BUSHNELL (daug. of Francis BUSHNELL & Marie >> Mary GROMBRIDGE). He was the son of: >> > >Hmmmm-- From p. 31-32 of "Bushnell Genealogy" by G.E, Bushnell, I have >entered into my database Francis BUSHNELL (ca.1609 ENG-1649 CT), and his >wife Mary GROMBRIDGE (ca.1609 ENG-after 1649 CT) , also the names of their >seven children and their spouses. But in that source I see NO Martha >BUSHNELL who ma. Jonathan SMITH. Can you cite your source? (As Mr. Leakey >would say! (:-) Now it's my turn to be red faced! Upon re-examining the copies of pages I have from G.E. Bushnell's book, I find that on p. 33 there IS listed a Martha BUSHNELL, dau. of Francis BUSHNELL Jr. and Mary GROMBRIDGE. According to that work, she married Jonathan SMITH in Saybrook, CT on 1 Jan 1663. My only excuse for not seeing this earliers, is that the print in GEB's book is quite small-- I need to use a magnifying glass when reading it! Also the organization (numbering of people) in GEB's book seems a bit strange. In any event, my thanks to Harry, Jane, Fritz, and Susan for pointing me toward other BUSHNELL sources. >According to the Genealogies of CT Families - Bushnell Families (1983) >[selected articles formerly pubmished in the NEHGR], by Gary Boyd Roberts, >F.A.S.G., Vol I, page 266, article by R.D. Smythe, "Martha Bushnell, >probably the eldest daughter of Deacon Francis Bushnell & Mary or Marie >????? [Grombridge], married 1 Nov 1668, Jonathan Smith of Glastonbury, >Hartford Co, CT. The order of birth is quoted as uncertain, however Martha >Bushnell is cited as probably the eldest of seven children. > Fritz, I have a copy of the source you cited: "Genealogies of Connecticut Families--etc". One disagreement I see between that work and GEB;s book is that Gene of CT Fam says Francis BUSHNELL ma. Rebecca ___?__, whereas GEB says he ma. Ferris QUENELL. (Did he marry twice?) Also Gene of CT Fam says Francis Jr. ma. in ENG to Marie or Mary__?__, whereas GEB also says Mary but includes her surname as GROMBRIDGE (or GROOMBRIDGE or GRUMBRIDGE). >Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, Vol IV , p 124 > >"SMITH JONATHAN, Wethersfield, s. of Richard the first of the >same, made freem. 1657, m. 1 Jan. 1664, Martha, d. of Francis >Bushnell, prob. had sev. ch. bef. rem. to Middletown, where he >had Gershom, b. Nov. 1679; and Deborah, 23 Sept. 1682; went >back to W. where, tho. he sold part of his est. he held other lds. on >the E. side of the gr. riv. and join. with his neighb. in obtain. incorpo. >of Glastenbury, liv. 1698." > >If there are problems with this line, please let me know - there >aren't any good genealogical libraries in this area, so I have to do >most of my research on the web. I think that Harold Walden, who >runs the Middlesex County GenWeb page, also has Jonathan's >wife as Martha Bushnell. Jane, sorry you don't have access to a good gene. library in your area. I think the genealogy section in the Olympia, WA public library is pretty good, and they DO have a copy of the work by Savage, from which I have copied several pages-- but not (yet) the page on Jonathan Smith (who was not in my direct line.) However, I always have a bit of difficulty in trying to "translate" Savage's writings. (:-) >I found the information in 2 sources: >1. Robert Chapman-David Thompson Allied Family Lines by Dorothy Chapman Saunders, >Ph.D. >2. The Founders of Saybrook Colony and Some of Their Descendants. > Harry, I don't think (at least I haven't yet found) either of these sources in the pub. library in Olympia, but thanks for pointing them out. >Go one page further, page 33 in the BUSHNELL Genealogy. Page 32 only lists >their 1st 2 children. The rest of their children are listed on p. 33. Their >3rd child, #20, was Martha who married Jonathan SMITH. Here is what it says >about her: > Susan, I had written most of the above, before your message arrived this morning. I had already entered several of the other children of Francis Jr. into my database, but somehow (poor eyesight, I guess) I had missed Martha. Thanks anyway. BTW, Martha BUSHNELL was not in my direct line, either. My direct BUSHNELL line daughters out with Mary BUSHNELL, who ma. Elijah BRAINERD. She was the dau. of Joseph BUSHNELL and Mary LEFFINGWELL, and the grand dau. of Richard BUSHNELL, Mary MARVIN, Lt. Thomas LEFFINGWELL, and Mary White. I can provide additional info. on some of these lines if any of you are interested. Dexter Edge Jr. Olympia, WA

I`m searching for familiy origins in Ct. of settlers that moved to Albany Co.NY. Eurana Wright b. Haddam,Ct, Married Capt Thomas Smith b.1745 Haddam,Ct. they had all born in Haddam. Ezekiel,Anna,Vina,Thomas,Zoath,Bela and Mercy. Can anyone provide me with anything on this family? Hannah Wetmore b. 25Dec.1760 married 1779 Frederick Doolittle b. 14Dec 1752 Bethleheim,Ct. Hannah`s brother I believe to be RobertG. Wetmore. I would like to know there parents? Hephzibah Tyler b. 1715 Wallingford,Ct. married 13Feb.1734 Hezekiah Doolittle b. 25 May 1711 Wallingford,Ct. Would like parents of Tyler? Thanks again for any help. Bill

I have a pair of sisters that married the same person, of course after the other sister died. I have Phebe Haight b. 19 Apr.1783 Renselaerville, Albany Co and her sister Hannah b. 18Mar.1820 both Married to William Doolittle and they lived and died in Durham,Greene Co. and are buried in the Medusa cemetery.What I am after is the parents of the sisters. Are they Benjamin and Beverly Haightof Meduse, Rensselaerville, Albany Co? I would be pleased to hear from anyone that can help me with this family. Elizabeth Sutherland b. 19Apr.1783 Rensselaerville Albany Co,NY d. 26June 1850 Medusa,Albany Co. married Daniel Doolittle. I am searching for parents of Elizabeth and believe it to be William Sutherland. Can this be confirmed by anyone? thanks Bill Ft. Walton,Fl.

Mary Crocket Carbine b.31 July 1774 Greene or Westchester Co. NY married in Rye, NY Peter Van Ordin b. 19 Feb. 1761 Leeds,NY. Need parents of Mary? Also, Rhoda Merwin b. 1780 D. 9-22-1862 Cornwallville,Greene Co.NY married about 1806 Cornwallville Bela Smith. Would like information of Rhoda Merwin`s family. I am also searching for Daniel Wetmore b. 1783 lived in Delaware,Albany and Greene Co. Does anyone have anything on where he finially settled or on this family? Thanks, Bill

Dexter, PMFJI <Pardon me for jumping in> At 11:24 AM 5/10/99 -0700, Dexter Edge wrote: >Ia n Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:15:33 -0600 message to CTMIDDLE-L Jane Devlin wrote: > >> Jonathan SMITH b. 1635 Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, d. after >> 1711; m Martha BUSHNELL (daug. of Francis BUSHNELL & Marie >> Mary GROMBRIDGE). He was the son of: >> > >Hmmmm-- From p. 31-32 of "Bushnell Genealogy" by G.E, Bushnell, I have >entered into my database Francis BUSHNELL (ca.1609 ENG-1649 CT), and his >wife Mary GROMBRIDGE (ca.1609 ENG-after 1649 CT) , also the names of their >seven children and their spouses. But in that source I see NO Martha >BUSHNELL who ma. Jonathan SMITH. Can you cite your source? (As Mr. Leakey >would say! (:-) Go one page further, page 33 in the BUSHNELL Genealogy. Page 32 only lists their 1st 2 children. The rest of their children are listed on p. 33. Their 3rd child, #20, was Martha who married Jonathan SMITH. Here is what it says about her: George Eleazer Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut, Including Genealogical Notes of other Bushnell Families, whose connections with this branch of the family tree have not been determined (Nashville, TN: George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945), p. 33. "20. iii. Martha, b. Salem (?), Mass. abt. 1637, m. Saybrook, Conn. 1 Jan. 1663, Jonathan Smith, of Wethersfield, Conn. (R-12). Savage says they moved to Middletown, Conn. (R-9); but they were in Wethersfield on 14 Jan. 1689.: Children, 3: 20. 1. Mary Smith, 20. 11. Samuel Smith, 20. iii. Martha Smith, probably others." Also as Jane has replied Savage has her as the daughter of Francis. Martha and Jonathan's marriage can also be found in 1.Torrey, p. 685: "SMITH, Jonathan (?1635-1711+) & 2/wf Martha BUSHNELL (ca 1644-1705+); 1 Jan 1663, 1663/4; Saybrook, CT" 2. Rev. Sylvester Nash, comp., "Records of Saybrook, Ct" in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, IV (1850) (CD-ROM; Boston: NEHGS & Broderbund Software, Inc., 1996), p. 141. I descend from Jonathan and Martha (BUSHNELL) SMITH through their daughter Martha who married Joseph LONG. --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ - --------------------------------------------- USGenWeb Mansfield, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGenWeb New London, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGenWeb Norwich, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGenWeb Windham, CT http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGenWeb Plymouth, MA http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ -------- New England Genealogy Collections Outside of New England http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/NECollections.html WWW Genealogy Resource Links http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/webresources.html ********************************************************* > >Dexter Edge Jr. >Olympia, WA > > >==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== >Visit the Middlesex County GenWeb site >http://www.flash.net/~hmwalden/midlsxco.htm > >