Rev Peter BULKELEY

Male 1583 - 1659  (76 years)


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  • Name Peter BULKELEY  [1, 2, 3, 4
    • 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. [1]
    Prefix Rev 
    Birth 31 Jan 1582/3  Odell, co. Bedford Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Education Degree 1604/5  A.B., St. John's Coll., Cambridge Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Fact 1 1610-1635  Rector of Odell, succeeding his father Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Fact Apr 1637  Ord. Cambridge, Mass. (for Concord) Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    First minister of Concord, Massachuseets 
    Death 9 Mar 1659  Concord, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Person ID I80623  Main Tree
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Father Rev Edward BULKELEY, D.D.,   b. Abt 1540   bur. 5 Jan 1620/1 (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Olive IRBY,   b. ab 1547   bur. 10 Mar 1614/15 
    Relationship Birth 
    Family ID F32537  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Jane ALLEN,   c. 13 Jn 1587/8, Goldington, co. Bedford England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 8 Dec 1626, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Marriage 12 Apr 1613  Goldington, co. Bedford Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Edward BULKELEY,   c. 12 Jun 1614, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jan 1695/6, Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)  [Birth]
     2. Mary BULKELEY,   c. 24 Aug 1615, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 13 Jan 1615/6 (Age ~ 0 years)  [Birth]
     3. Thomas BULKELEY,   c. 13 Apr 1617, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1658, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 40 years)  [Birth]
     4. Nathaniel BULKELEY,   c. 29 Nov 1618, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 11 Feb 1628/9 (Age ~ 10 years)  [Birth]
     5. Rev. John BULKELEY,   c. 6 Feb 1619/20, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1689, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years)  [Birth]
     6. Mary BULKELEY,   c. 1 Nov 1621, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     7. Joseph BULKELEY,   c. 4 May 1623   d. Aft 1658 (Age ~ 35 years)  [Birth]
     8. Daniel BULKELEY,   c. 28 Aug 1625, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1648, Prob. Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 22 years)  [Birth]
     9. Jabez BULKELEY,   c. 24 Dec 1626, Odell, co. Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 2 Dec 1629 (Age ~ 2 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F32526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Family 2 Grace CHETWODE,   b. Abt 1602   d. 22 Apr 1669, New London, New London Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage Apr 1635  [2, 4
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Gershom BULKELEY,   b. Jan 1635/6, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Dec 1713, Glastonbury, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Birth]
     2. Eleazer BULKELEY,   b. 1638  [Birth]
     3. Dorothy BULKELEY,   b. 2 Aug 1640, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     4. Dr. Peter BULKELEY,   b. 12 Aug 1643, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1691, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F32487  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

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    Link to Google MapsEducation Degree - 1604/5 - A.B., St. John's Coll., Cambridge Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 9 Mar 1659 - Concord, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley.

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.

    3. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).

    4. [S12186] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., The Bulkeley Genealogy - Rev. Peter Bulkeley.