Richard BUSHNELL

Male 1652 - 1727  (74 years)


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  • Name Richard BUSHNELL  [1
    • "Hyde Genealogy": This Richard Bushnell was one of the early magistrates of Norwich. He was b. at Saybrook in Sept. 1652, m. 7 Dec. 1672, at Norwich, his step sister Elizabeth Adgate, b. at Saybrook 10 Oct 1651. He died at Norwich 27 August 1727. His mother was Mary Marvin, b. in England in 1629, the second daughter of Matthew Marvin, one of the first settlers of hartford; who came there from England, in 1635, and afterwards settled and died at Norwalk (see hall's Hist. Rec. of Norwalk, 181). She m. 11 Oct 1648, Richard Bushnell of Saybrook, and had by him two sons, and two daughters. 1. Joseph, b. in May 1651, m. mary Leffingwell of Norwich. 2. Richard, before named. 3 Mary, b. in Jan. 1655, m. Thomas Leffingwell the second of Norwich. And 4. Maria, b. in March, 1657, who died unmarried in march, 1748. After the d. of her first husband, Mrs. mary (Marvin) Bushnell, m. in 1659 at Saybook, Deacon Thomas Adgate, a widower with two daughters, Elizabeth, who m. her step-brother Richard Bushnell; and Hannah, b. at Saybrook, 6 October, 1653; who m. in November, 1675, Samuel Lathrop the second of Norwich.....

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    Birth Sep 1652  Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Aug 1727  Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I09437  Main Tree
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2018 

    Father Richard BUSHNELL,   b. abt. 1620, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1658, Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
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    Mother Marie MARVIN,   b. 1628, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Mar 1713 (Age 85 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 11 Oct 1648  Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Family ID F22503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth ADGATE,   b. 10 Oct 1651, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1713, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage 07 Dec 1672  Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
    +1. Anne BUSHNELL,   b. 04 Dec 1674, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Jul 1745, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Birth]
    +2. Dr. Caleb BUSHNELL,   b. 26 May 1679, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1724 (Age 44 years)  [Birth]
    +3. Benajah BUSHNELL,   b. 04 May 1681, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jan 1762, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +4. Elizabeth BUSHNELL,   b. 31 Jan 1685, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Aug 1768, Franklin, New London County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F16200  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2021 

  • Sources 
    1. [S5004] Reuben Hyde Walworth, "Hyde Genealogy, or, The Descendants, in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde, of Norwich" Vols. I & II, (Albany: J. Munsell, 78 State Street - 1864).

    2. [S00090] Albert Leffingwell, MD & Charles Wesley Leffingwell DD, "The Leffingwell Record" 1637-1897 A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell, (Name: Name: Leffingwell Publishing Co - Aurora, New York 1897;;).

    3. [S5154] George Franklin Marvin of New York, and William T.R. Marvin of Boston, "Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin" of Hartford, CT., 1638 and 1635; Sons of Edward Marvin, of Great Bentley, England, (T.R. Marvin & Sons, Publishers - 1904).

    4. [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.

    5. [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.