Rev Peter BULKELEY

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• Education Degree: 1604/5, A.B., St. John's Coll., Cambridge
• Fact 1: 1610-1635, Rector of Odell, succeeding his father
• Fact: Apr 1637, Ord. Cambridge, Mass. (for Concord); First minister of Concord, Massachuseets

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Rev. Peter Bulkeley was the son of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D., Rector of All Saints Church at Odell (Woodhill) in Bedfordshire, and the twelfth in descent from the first Baron of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester. Odell, where Peter Bulkeley was born, January 31, 1583, is situated in the midst of a rich and fertile country in a bend of the Ouse, a river so tortuous in its course, that fuller describes it as "more meandrous than the Meander." He was carefully educated under the direction of his father, and when about the age of sixteen was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was afterwards chosen Fellow and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He remained at the university until 1608 when he returned to Odell. upon the death of his father, "a good benefice befell him, added unto the estate of a gentleman left him by his father, whom he succeeded in the ministry at the place of his nativity," which, says Cotton Mather, "one would imagine temptations enough to keep him out of a wilderness." About the year 1613, he married Jan Allen, daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen, of Goldington, whose nephew, Sir Thomas Allen was Lord Mayo of London. By this marriage he had ten sons and two daughters. For twenty years he continued Rector at Odell, being a moderate non-conformist, but unmolested because protected by his Diocesan, the famous Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, as was his father before him. "Towards the latter end of this time, his ministry had a notable success in the conversion of many unto God; and this was one occasion for a latter end for this time," for it led to complaints against him for non-conformity, and Bishop Williams having lost the favor of Laud and been sent to the Tower, these complaints were not long kept from the ears of the Archbishop, and the long-time Rector of Odell was silenced by Laud's Vicar General, Sir Nathaniel Brent. Like Cotton, Hooker, Mather, Eliot, Chauncy and others of his compeers, he was now compelled to look to America for that liberty of conscience which ecclesiastical tyranny did not permit him to enjoy at home. About this time, having been a widower for nearly eight years, he married Grace Chetwode, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwode of London, a lady of noble birth and seventeen years his junior.

Peter married Jane ALLEN on 12 Apr 1613 in Goldington, co. Bedford. Jane was christened on 13 Jn 1587/8 in Goldington, co. Bedford England; was buried on 8 Dec 1626 in Odell, co. Bedford, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Grace CHETWODE in Apr 1635. Grace (daughter of Sir Richard CHETWODE and Dorothy NEEDHAM) was born about 1602; died on 22 Apr 1669 in New London, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He matriculated pensioner from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, Easter, 1629. He emigrated to New England in advance of the rest of the family, and was admitted a member of the First Church in Boston, 22 Mar. 1634/5. He was dismissed to Concord, 15 Aug. 1641. Having acquired a professional education, under instruction of his father, he was licensed to preach the Gospel and ordained at Marshfield, Mass., in 1642/3. On the death of his father in 165, he was dismissed and installed over the Church in Concord as his successor at L80 a year. He preached the Election Sermon in 1680. He died in the 53rd year of his ministry, at Chelmsford, and was buried in Concord, aged 82. He is represented by tradition as being lame and of a feeble constitution, and was greatly reputed for his talents, acquirements, irreproachable character, and piety.

On 5 Mar. 1694, the town of concord voted, "Whereas the Rev. Pastor, Mr. Edward Bulkeley, is under such infirmities of body by reason of great age, that he is not capable of attending the work of the ministry as in time past, being also sensible of the obligations the town is under to afford him a comfortable maintenance during the term of his natural life, that thereby the people may testifie their gratitude for his former services in the Gospel, they do hereby oblige the town to pay Mr. Bulkeley yearly, during his natural life, the sum of L30 in lieu of his former salary." He accepted this provided he could preach or not as he felt inclined.

The wife of Rev. Edward Bulkely was a widow named Lucian, who apparently was from Plymouth Colony. She had, by her former husband, a daughter Lucy who married Mr. John Lake.

Family/Spouse: Lucian ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The inventory of the estate of Thomas was dated 4 June 1658. Mention made of widow, two sons and daughters; children under age. Overseers, Mr. Hill and Mr. Hull.

Sarah Jones was listed as aged 15 when she sailed on the "Defence" in 1635 with her father. Rev. John Jones, and his family. Her father was associated with mr. Peter Bulkeley in the ministry at Concord, and became the first minister at Fairfield. His will, dated 17 Jan 1664/5, named his daughter, the widow Sarah Wilson.

Family/Spouse: Sarah JONES. Sarah was born about 1620 in England; died in 1682 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was graduated from Harvard College in the first graduating class, 1642; returned to England, where he became minister at Fordham, co. Essex. he was ejected in 1662, following the Restoration; removed to Wapping in the suburbs of London and practiced as a physician until his death.

"He was a learned and eminently Pious Man. He whole life was a continual Sermon. Tho' he was not often in the Pulpit, yet he might truly be said to Preach every Day in the Week. And seldom did he visit his Patients, without reading a Lecture of Divinity to them, and praying with them."

"That which gave at Lustre to all his other Vertues, as his great Humility, the constant Sweetness of his Temper, Integrity of his Mind, and Charitableness of his Nature, which appear'd in every part of his life."

Mr. Bulkeley, by deed dated 20 Dec. 1645, gave to Harvard College his portion of a garden containing over an acre in Cambridge, on Harvard Street, which became the College yard.

John married Anne TRY on 19 Mar 1650 in Odell, co. Bedford, England. Anne died before 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth ? on 6 Sep 1667 in Harrow-on-the-Hill, co. Middlesex, England. Elizabeth was born in of East Smithfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Avis ?. Avis was buried on 7 Feb 1695/6 in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He joined his brother Tomas in Fairfield, where he had a grant of six acres, which he willed to Thomas Bulkeley. The last-named sold it to Robert Woolly, who resold to Thomas Dunn, and Dunn had the land recorded 5 mar. 1649/50.

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• Fact: Practioner in Physick

Gershom married Sarah CHAUNCY on 6 Oct 1659 in Concord, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Attended Harvard College

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A member of the class of 1658 at Harvard College, but did not graduate; named in father's will 1658, and d. prob. not long after, unmarried.

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• Education: Attended Harvard College, physician

Family/Spouse: Margaret ?. Margaret died before 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was graduated from Harvard College, 1660. His father's half-brother, Dr. Peter Bulkeley, younger than himself, was a member of the class of 1662, and has sometimes been confused with him.

Peter married Rebecca WHEELER on 16 Apr 1667 in Concord, Massachusetts. Rebecca was born on 6 Sep 1645 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 20 Feb 1717/8 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a member of the Committee or Agents for Wethersfield, May 1711; Deputy for Wethersfield to the conn.General Assembly, Oct, 1714, May and Oct 1715, Oct. 1716, May 1721, and Oct. 1724. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, Oct 1714, May 1715, and from 1744 until his death in 1748. He was commissioned Capt. of the Company at Stepney parish, May 1727.

Edward married Dorothy PRESCOTT on 14 Jul 1702 in Concord, Massachusetts. Dorothy was born on 31 May 1681 in Concord, Massachusetts; died on 30 Nov 1760 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was graduated from Harvard College in 1699, studied divinity and was ordained as minister of the church at Colchester, Conn., December 20, 1703.

He took very high rank among the clergymen of New England. He wrote the preface to Wolcott's "Meditations." He published: election sermon (1713) entitled, "the Necessity of Religion in Societies"; "Inquiry Into the right of the Aboriginal Natives to the Land in America" (1724); "An Impartial Account of a Late Debate at Lyme upon the Following Points; Whether it be the Will of God that the Infants of Visable Believers should be Baptized; whether sprinkling be lawful and sufficient; and whether the Present Way of Supporting Ministers by a public Rate or Tax be Lawful."

John married Patience PRENTICE in 1701 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. Gershom Bulckley of Glastenbury

Dorothy married Lieut. Thomas TREAT, Esq. on 5 Jul 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Thomas (son of Richard TREAT, Jr. and Sarah COLEMAN) was born on 12 Dec 1668 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 19 Jan 1712/13 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a grantee of Narragansett Township for his father Peter Bulkeley.

Joseph married Rebecca JONES on 19 Mar 1696. Rebecca was born on 8 Mar 1662/3; died on 17 Jul 1712 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Silence KEEN on 25 May 1713. Silence was christened on 24 Dec 1699 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died about 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Mary SAGE on 28 May 1724 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was born about 1699; died on 5 Dec 1756 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Joseph TRUMBULL, Jr. on 20 Nov 1727 in Lebanon, Connecticut. Joseph was born on 27 Mar 1705 in Lebanon, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 28 Dec 1731 in At Sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John WELLS on 29 Jun 1738 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA. John (son of Noah WELLS and Mary Crow WHITE) was born in 1694 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Mar 1789 in Colchester, New London Co., Conn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was Deputy for colchester to the Conn. General Court at twenty-eight sessions, from May 1729 to May 1743 inclusive (except May 1739 session), being Clerk of the House, Oct. 1734 and May 1736. He served on many important committees, including the committee to revise the laws in 1742. He served as Assistant for eleven terms, from 1743 until his death in 1753. He was often Agent for the Colony between 1738 and 1743, particularly in the Mohegan Indian Controversy, and was Colonial Agent to Great Britain in Oct. 1745, and a Commissioner on the Mass. boundary, May 1747. He was commissioned Capt. of the 1st Company, Colchester, May 1732; Capt. of the 2d Troop, Hartford Count, May 1736; and Col. of the 12th Regt., Oct. 1739. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County from 1731 to 1742 inclusive; Judge of Probate, District of East Haddam, from 1741 to 1753 inclusive, and Judge of the Superior Court for eight terms, from 1745 to 1752 inclusive.

In the religious dissensions which resulted in Conn. from the Great Revival, Mr. Bulkeley was a staunch supporter of the stringent measures of government; and to this attitude he is said by the historian Backus to have owed his elevation to the Council, in 1743, in the stead of a sympathizer with the revivalists. A career of wide usefulness was interrupted by his death, from an apoplectic fit, at the age of 48.

John married Mary ADAMS on 29 Oct 1738. Mary was born on 15 Mar 1713/4 in New London, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 24 Jan 1749/50 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Abigail MARSH on 16 Apr 1751 in Colchester, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Sergt John MARSH and Hannah BARNARD) was born about 1718; died on 24 Jun 1786 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev John Bulkeley

Patience married Ichabod LORD on 14 Dec 1743 in Colchester, Connecticut. Ichabod (son of Richard LORD, III and Abigail WARREN) was born on 16 Mar 1712 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut; died on 18 Dec 1761 in Colcheter, New London County,Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patience married Rev Edward EELLS, Sr. on 19 May 1772. Edward (son of Rev Nathaniel EELLS and Hannah NORTH) was born on 3 Jan 1712/3 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 12 Oct 1776 in Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. John Bulkeley

Lucy married Epaphras LORD on 25 Nov 1742 in Colchester, Connecticut. Epaphras (son of Richard LORD, III and Abigail WARREN) was born on 26 Dec 1709 in Hartford, Hartford County,Connecticut; died on 25 Nov 1799 in Marlborough, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Thomas and Dorothy (Bulkeley) Treat of Glastonbury.

Richard married Susanna WOODBRIDGE on 07 Aug 1728 in First Church, Hartford, Connecticut. Susanna (daughter of Rev Timothy WOODBRIDGE and Susannah HOWELL) was born in 1702/3 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was christened on 6 Feb 1703/4 in First Church, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]