Francis Bushnell
Charts | Ancestors of Wilford Ervie Billings |
Francis Bushnell, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), was born at Thatcham, Berkshire, England, about 1580.1,2,3,4 He died at Connecticut, before 13 October 1646, when his will was proved.1,2,3,4
Francis married (1) Ferris Quennell, daughter of Henry Quennell and Beatrice Carter, at Horsham, Sussex, England, 13 May 1605;2,3,4,5 he married (2) Joanne Kinward at Horsham, 2 June 1629.2,3,4
Francis Bushnell, "the elder" was one of a group of emigrants who came over from England in 1639 and signed, on "this first day of June," during the passage, a document known as the Guilford Covenant. This was an agreement relative to common welfare and that the company should settle together near the present town of New Haven.1,2,6,4
Francis married (1) Ferris Quennell, daughter of Henry Quennell and Beatrice Carter, at Horsham, Sussex, England, 13 May 1605;2,3,4,5 he married (2) Joanne Kinward at Horsham, 2 June 1629.2,3,4
Francis Bushnell, "the elder" was one of a group of emigrants who came over from England in 1639 and signed, on "this first day of June," during the passage, a document known as the Guilford Covenant. This was an agreement relative to common welfare and that the company should settle together near the present town of New Haven.1,2,6,4
Family 1 | Ferris Quennell b. 17 Apr 1587, d. 9 Mar 1628 |
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Family 2 | Joanne Kinward d. 1631 |
This person was last edited on | 17 Dec 2017 |
Citations
- [S1013] Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes: Volume II: Gates and Allied Families (n. p., 1931), 2:163-172, further cited as Ferris, Dawes-Gates II.
- [S1013] Ferris, Dawes-Gates II, 1:745-746.
- [S116] Herbert F. Seversmith, "Francis Bushnell of Horsham, Sussex, and Guilford," The American Genealogist 16 (Jul 1941): 45-49, further cited as Seversmith, "Francis Bushnell."
- [S25] Herbert F. Seversmith, "Corrections and Additions to the Connections of Francis Bushnell," The American Genealogist 17 (July 1942): 31-32, further cited as Seversmith, "Corrections to Francis Bushnell."
- [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 259, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
- [S116] Seversmith, "Francis Bushnell," 45.