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Anne Burnham died in her old age; her will dated Aug. 23, 1764. She gave to the North or First Church in Hartford, her large silver tankard, for the use and benefit of said church forever .- ( Where is it ?- sold or not.) She gave her kinsman, Joseph Church, of Hartford, a large share of her personal estate; manumitted all her servants after her decease, Cato, Paul, Prime, Ziporah and Nunny. She gave Cato a lot in the commons, of nine or ten acres, for his life, and the remainder to Prime in fee. She gave to Paul, her lot east of the Great River, (at five mile,) of eight or nine acres, and to Ziporah and Nunny, she gave £10 each. All her other estate she gave, 1st, to her kinswomen, Anne Gooss and Elizabeth Sleet, who lived near Boston, two shares there- of; to her kinswoman Elizabeth Lemon, one share; to the children of her kinswoman, Sarah Jackson, deceased, she gave one share-lived in or near Boston; to her kins- woman, Abigail Church, of Hartford, one share; to her kinsman, Joseph Church, one share; to Mary Caldwell, one share forever. Joseph Church, Esq., Executor. Her will proved July 25, 1765.
Anne Burnham, (the former wife of Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Hartford,) as the widow of her second husband-to carry out the intentions of her only son, Joseph Buckingham, Esq., of said Hartford, then deceased-on the 7th day of July, 1762, gave by deed to the South Congregational Church or Society in Hartford, the house and homestead where she then dwelt in Hartford, containing about four acres and a half, more or less; bounded east and north on the highway, west on land of Aaron Bull, and south on Daniel Sheldon's land. The said Joseph Buckingham, while making his last will to the above purpose, and before he had fully finished the same, was suddenly removed by death, and said estate fell to his mother Burnham as next of kin to said Joseph; she desiring that her son's intentions and purposes should be carried out, and for the consideration of her love and regard, which she had for said church and society, deeded said property to the South Church or Society, and to their successors forever, as a good, sure and absolute estate in fee simple, without condition; signed and ac- knowledged by her, July 7, A. D. 1762. (See Hartford Town Record, Book 11, p. 233;) recorded Sept. 17, 1764.
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every branch of the family of Rev. Thomas Buckingham, Hart- ford, has named one of its public streets, Buckingham Street.
Five of this name have graduated at Harvard, nine at Yale Coll., and one at Brown University.
Gideon Buckingham and Lewis Mallett, Jun., of Milford, were members to approve and ratify the Constitution of the U. S. in 1788 ; both voted for it.
Bucham has one coat of arms ; Buckingham has five ; Bukenham, 1; Bukinham, one, Priory, (Co. Norfolk ;) Bukenham or Boken- ham, (Norfolk,) one; Bockingham, 3.
BUCKLAND, THOMAS, made free in Mass. in 1635; "way warden," 1655; was an early and highly respectable settler at Windsor; Juror in 1644 ; Collector in 1649. He died there May 28, 1662. He was at Windsor as early as 1638 ; wife Temperance was his widow. Children, Timothy, b. March 10, 1638; Eliz'th, b. Feb. 21, 1640 ; Temperance, b. Nov. 27, 1642 ; Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1644, d. 1657 ; Nicholas, b. Sept. 21, 1646, m. Abigail Vore ; Sara, b. March 24, 1648; Tho's, Jun., b. Feb. 9 or 2, 1650, d. early ; Hanna, b. Sept. 18, 1654, di .; John, b. Jan. 26, 1660. Inventory of his estate, June 21, 1676, presented in court Sept. 11, 1676. Dis- tribution made Dec. 6, 1676. His widow, enciente at his decease. Timothy was married before the decease of his father, as was Eliz'h. (Widow Temperance, " old widow Buckland," d. July 26, 1681. Inventory, Aug. 19, 1681-£99, 13s. 4d.)
BUCKLAND, TIMOTHY, son of Thomas, of Windsor, m. Abi- gail More, March 27, 1662. Children, Timothy, Jun., b. April 20, 1664, d. in '64 ; Thomas, b. June 23, 1665 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 11, 1667; Mary, b. Nov. 7, 1670 ; Sara, b. April 10, 1673; Hannah, b. June 28, 1676 ; Eliz'th, b. Feb. 26, 1678, and Esther, b. Feb. 12, 1682, six years old at her father's death. He d. May 31, 1689 ; Inventory, £167, 8s. 8d. Timothy, Jun., wife Abigail, and distri- bution to his children, May 10, 1725, to Thomas, Hannah Gillet, Abigail Hosford, Mary and Elizabeth Buckland, and widow Abigail Buckland.
BUCKLAND, THOMAS, son of Thomas, Sen., d. June 21, 1676 ; and his wife enciente at his death.
BUCKLAND, NICHOLAS, son of Thomas, Sen., m. Martha Wakefield, Oct. 21, 1668. Children, John, b. March 13, 1672, d .; Hannah, b. Sept. 1, 1674 ; second John, b. Dec. 7, and d. Dec. 20, 1675 ; Martha, b. March, 1678 ; third John, b. July, 1681; Nich. olas, b. Jan. 8, 1687 ; Eliz'th, b. July 19, 1692. Nicholas, the
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father, d. Aug. 24, 1728, aged 82 years. Nicholas Buckland tend- ered himself to obtain baptism for his children, March 16, 1670. Nicholas Buckland m. Elizabeth Drake, March 3, 1685-6. His widow Martha-daughter Martha m. Samuel Strong; Elizabeth m. Robert Hoskins ; Hannah m. Samuel Mather.
BUCKLAND, THOMAS, son of Timothy, d. Jan. 30, 1742, aged 77 ; his widow Abigail d. April 1, 1746, aged 82.
BUCKLAND, TEMPERANCE, of Windsor, daughter of Tho's, Sen. ; her will proved 1681, and brother Nicholas, admin'r. Chil- dren, Nicholas and Hannah Willys, wife of Joshua Willys. Estate about £100.
BUCKLAND, WILLIAM, d. May 13, 1691, at Windsor ; left a widow and died insolvent-no children found. He probably had a son William, and perhaps others. A Wm. Buckland was of Hing- ham, Mass., 1635. Wm. Beuland, 19, embarked in the America for Virginia, Wm. Barker, master, June 23, 1635.
BUCKLAND, WILLIAM, was the first of the name at E. Hart- ford, from Windsor; wife, Eliz'th Hills. His children were,
William and Charles.
William, son of William, m. a daughter of John Hills, and had issue.
William.
John.
Jonathan.
Mehitable Cole.
Prudence, m. Timothy Easton, and died aged 98, 1797.
Elizabeth.
Anna. The father, Wm., removed to East Hartford as early as 1687. He died Dec. 12, 1725, aged 75.
BUCKLAND, CHARLES, son of Wm., Sen., of E. Hartford ; wife, Ester. Had an only son Charles, b. 1721. His inventory, 1731.
BUCKLAND, MEHITABEL, daughter of Wm., 2d, and Eliz'h, m. Jonathan Cole.
PRUDENCE, her sister, m. Timothy Easton ; she died Oct. 15, 1797, aged 98 years, the mother of Silas Easton.
ANNA, another sister, m. James Ferbes or Forbes, Jun., and the widow Elizabeth, her mother, m. for her second husband, James Ferbes, Sen., the father of the husband of Anna.
BUCKLAND, WM., of Hartford, held a large quantity of land at Five Miles, (east of Conn. River.) His estate distributed to his fam- ily in 1760. Left children, William, Peter, Sarah, Spencer, Elisha,
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Eliz'th Easton, Amy Drake, Stephen, David, John, Aaron and Gco. Wm. d. about 1758, aged 57.
BUCKLAND, TIMOTHY and NICHOLAS, were in the list of freemen, at Windsor, in 1669. Wm. Bucland embarked for Vir- ginia in 1635, in the America, Wm. Barker, master. Buckland, Charles, of Hartford, m. Hannah Shepard, May 22, 1712. Mary Buckland d. 1657. Timothy, son of Timothy, d. in 1664. " Old widow Buckland d. July 26, 1681." Buckland, Samuel, of N. L., 1674, m. the widow of Matth. Beckwith, Sen., deceased. Buckland, Stephen's wife Mary, d. July 8, 1825, aged 80. Buckland, Capt. Stephen, d. in N. Y. May, 1782, aged 39.
Buckland has eleven coats of arms : Buckland, (Langly, Co. Bucks,) one; Bucklan, (Devonshire,) one ; Buckland or Buckle, (Somersetshire, one ;) also Buckland, (Somersetshire,) one, and seven others .*
Bucknall or Buckland, Samuel, of N. L. 1674. He m. widow of Matthew Beckwith, Sen .; second, m. widow of Philip Bill, Sen. (Caul. N. L.)
Timothy and Nicholas Buckland, were in the list of freemen in Windsor, Oct., 1669.
BUGBEE, JOSEPH, was one of the original Company of Propri- etors of New Roxbury, (Woodstock,) and drew a home-lot, No. 30, in the first division. He had a fifteen acre home-lot, with fifteen acre rights, which was located on the West Hill. He was one of the Roxbury Company to Woodstock.
BUGBEE, JOHN, was also from Roxbury, and one of the same original company of proprietors, and drew lot No. 33, in the first di- vision of home-lots in Woodstock. He tock a home-lot of fifteen acres, with fifteen acre rights, situated on West Hill. In 1687, Nov. 3, the planters, at a full meeting, increased Joseph Bugbee's home- lot of fifteen acres, to twenty acres, with twenty acre rights. Jo- seph Bugbee was appointed one of a committee of seven important men of Woodstock, to lay out roads in the town, March 12, 1688. They laid out seventeen highways in the town, and reported them March 18, 1688, with assessment of damages to individuals.
* The General Court of Connecticut, Oct. 12, 1671, made grants of land to each of the following Pequott soldiers: Thomas Hollybut, Sen., 120 acres; to Nicholas Clark; to the heirs of Wm. Hayden, instead of the father; to the heirs of Tho's Buckland; heirs of Tho's Gridley; to Tho's Barnes; John Warner; John Hills; Tho's Standish; Na- than Gillett; Mr. James Rogers; Peter Blachford's heirs; John Johnson, each fifty acres, provided they should take it where it would not injure any former grant to any plantation or particular person. (See Col. Rec. 1671.)
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Thomas and Joseph Bacon, brothers, from Roxbury, also had lot No. 1, in the first division of home-lots, in 1686, in partnership. Thomas remained there.
Bugbee, Joseph, Sen., and John, were signers with other inhabit- ants of Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 7, 1683, to settle Woodstock, (now of Conn.) This name was early at Ashford.
Two by this name graduated at Harvard Coll. in 1838 and 1847 ; and one at Yale College.
BULAR, RICHARD, of Hartford, was a juror in June, 1643, at Hartford, and juror seven sessions after ; and fifteen sessions a mem- ber of the General Court before 1666.
This name was early at Saybrook.
BULKELEY, ROBERTUS, of Bulkeley, in Chester County, England. Robertus Dus De Bulkeley, had issue, a son, WM. BULKELEY, who had issue, Robert Bulkeley. The last ROB. ERT had two sons, born in England, viz., WM., who continued in England ; he m. a sister of Sir John Davenport. They had issue, Wm. Robert had the manor of Cylan. ROGER had the manor of Norbury, and called himself Norbury, after his house. RICHARD had the manor of Presland, and called himself Presland. THO'S, the fifth son of Wm., had the manor of Alsman, and all had issue. HELEN, a daughter of Robert, second son of Wm., m. Sir Edward Wert, Knight. THOMAS, third son of Roger, had Jenken D. Nor- bury, Treasurer of England. HELEN, daughter of Thomas, the fifth son of Wm., m. Sir Thomas Harden, Knight. She had a son
WOODSTOCK.
" Whereas the General Court of the Mass. Col., upon the Petition of the Town of Roxbury, for a tract of land, to make a village of, granted 7 miles square, or the con- tents of it, the 7th of Nov. 1683. The Town of Roxbury made a proposition to their several inhabitants, that if there would appear thirty or thirty-five families, to go in season to save the Court's grant, they should have one-half the grant upon a square where they shall choose, or the contents of it, and to assist them with £100, money : 20 pounds annually, as doth appear by the Town of Roxbury Book of Records. Upon which proposition we, whose names are underwritten, and the encouragement there- unto, did take up and set to our names, Wm. Lyon, Sen., Benjamin Sabin, Henry Bowen, Jonathan Davis, John Frissel, Joseph Frissel, Thomas Bacon, Jun., John Marcy, Nathaniel Sanger, Ebenezer Morris, Nathaniel Gay or Gary, John Chandler, Sen., Na- thaniel Wilson, John Maye, Sen., Wm. Lyon, Jun., Benj'n Griggs, (dis. 1724,) Peter Aspinwall, George Griggs, Jonathan Peake, Jun., Jonathan Smeathers, James Corbin, Samuel Craft, John Leavins, John Butcher, Samuel Scarborough, John Hubbard, John Ruggles, Sen , Joseph Bugbee, Sen., John Bowen, Arthur Humphrey, Samuel Peacock, Thomas Lyon, Samuel May, Nathaniel Johnson, John Bugbe, Joseph Peake, James Barnet, Edward Morris, Sen., and John. Chandler, Jun."
Samuel Dexter was from Woodstock. He was born May 4, 1726, and died at Men- don, Mass., in his 85th year, June 10, 1810.
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John Harden, Knight, who had a daughter m. Sir John Stanley, of, Elford. Helen, also, had a daughter, m. Sir Robert Lee, Knight. Wm's descendants were connected with many of the most eminent families in England.
BULKELEY, PETER, son of Robert, (and a brother of William, who m. the sister of Sir John Davenport, m. Brydd, of Haughton, and had a son JOHN, who m. Claudine, daughter of John Cottley, and had issue, (died 1450.) HUGH BULKELEY, who m. Hellen, daughter of Thomas Wilbraham, of Woodlay, had one son and three daughters, viz., Humphrey Bulkeley, Margery, d. without issue, Margaret and Ellinor. HUMPHREY, m. Cyle, daughter of John Mutton, and had issue, two sons and two daughters, viz., Hum- phrey, Jun., died without issue ; Hellen, m. Edward Whyntonage ; Margery m. Smynton, and WILLIAM, the only son that survived, m. Beatrice, daughter and heir of Wm., of Bulausaule, and had issue, THOMAS BULKELEY, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Ron- dell Grosvenour, of Bell Report, and had issue, Rowland and Ed- ward Bulkeley. ROWLAND m., and had issue, Wm., of Bun- lingsdale ; this Wm. had a son Richard, of Woodhill.
BULKELY, EDWARD, son of Thomas, and brother of Rowland, was a Doctor of Divinity of Odel ; m. Alarc Irlby, of the Irlby's of Lincolnshire, and had issue, three sons ; Nathaniel, who was a mer- chant, and died without issue ; Rev. Peter, and David Bulkley died a fellow of college.
This REV. PETER BULKELEY, B. D., second son of Edward, was the first minister at Odel, in Bedfordshire, and the first of this important family in England, who came to New England in 1635, He was educated in England, where he was ordained, and came to Concord, Mass., where he preached as early as 1635-6. He left children by Jane, daughter of Tho's Allen, of Goldington, nine sons and two daughters. He also m. Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Chitwood, in England, and had by Grace Chitwood, his second wife, John, Gershom and Peter, and a daughter. Com.
BULKELEY, THOMAS, settled at Fairfield. Thomas, of Con- cord, had a daughter Sarah, b. there in 1640. The Bulkleys of Fairfield, in Fairfield County, Conn., are descendants of Thomas Bulkley, above ; an important family.
EDWARD, son of Rev. Peter, of Concord, succeeded his father in the ministry at Concord, Mass. He commenced his education in England, and finished at Harvard College, Mass., before they con- ferred degrees. He settled at Concord, Mass., in 1657, and died
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about 1696. Edward had a son, Peter C., at Concord, in 1640. Com.
BULKELEY, JOHN, son of Rev. Peter, by Grace, graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and returned to England, and settled in the ministry at Fordham, in Essex County, Eng., and was rejected as a non-conformist, in 1662; after which he practiced physic in London, where he died in 1689.
BULKELEY, PETER, son of Rev. Peter, of Concord, was a magistrate in Mass. in 1677; went as agent to England for the Col- ony of Mass., in 1676. He was Speaker of the House of Delegates in 1676, and held other important posts in that Colony ; made free at Concord, 1670. He had issue, Dorothy, b. 1640 ; Peter, b. 1643.
* REV. GERSHOM, son of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, by Grace, his second wife, graduated at Harvard College, in Mass., in 1655. He
* Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, after his dismission at Wethersfield, removed east of Con- necticut River, into Glastenbury, for the purpose of practicing medicine, where he remained during his life; at which place his will is dated in 1712, and the codicil dated there Nov. 24, 1713, a few days before his deatlı; his will presented and proved in court at Hartford, Dec., 1713. He noticed in his will his son Charles' daughter Han- nah Goodrich, then married; also his daughters-in-law, Hannah Avery and Rachell Wolcott, and gave each of them "a golden ducat, or 10s. piece, if he left a couple. He gave his son Edward's wife Dorothy, a "gold guinea," if he left one. He gave to his brother Peter's children, (viz., Gershom, Peter, Gracc, Margaret and Dorothy,) each 10 shillings. His son Edward he gave the clock in his house, his scal ring, great gilt spoon, the least of the two silver porringers, law books, &c. His son, Rev. Jolin, of Colchester, he gave most of his books, silver watch, manuscripts written by his grand- father, and father, &c. He notices his grandson, Richard Treat, son of Thomas, and his daughter, Dorothy Treat. Also notices his granddaughter, Catherine Treat, daugh- ter of his daughter Catherine Treat, by giving her his lesser silver tankard, silver salt-cellar, a small silver dram cup; and gave his daughter Dorothy liberty to redeem any or all of them, at a fair valuation, and to have them at the age of cigliteen, or on her marriage day. His negro maid Hannah he gave to Dorothy. All his children noticed in his will, who were living at his death, were John, Edward and Dorothy. He appointed in his will, Thomas Trcat, his son-in-law, sole cxccutor of his will, but he died before Dr. Gershom, and in a short codicil to his will, made at Glastenbury, he appointed his daughter Dorothy Treat, widow of Thomas, sole executrix of his will.
This Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, was the Bulkly spoken of by Dr. Trumbull, in his History of Connecticut, who united with Gov. Dudley, Lord Cornbury, Hallam, Palmes and others, in their opposition to the chartered rights of Conn., and charged this colony of mal-administration, of piracy, and by direct impeachment of the Colony by charges of high misdemeanors. Cornbury and Dudley were powerful men; the first a relative of Queen Anne, and connected with many noble families in England, who could influence the throne. While Gov. Dudley was a slircwd and intriguing manager, and had managers at Court-not only so, but Connecticut had her influen- tial opposers in the Colony, viz., Nicholas Hallam, Major Palmes, and others who grossly misrepresented facts essentially injuring thic interest and prosperity of the Col- ony. Dudley and Cornbury drew up articles of complaint against the Colony, and
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preached for a time at New London ; (though Dr. Trumbull says, " there seems to have been no church formed in New London, un- till the ordination of Mr. Bradstreet, and that neither Mr. Blynman or Mr. Bulkley were installed or ordained there.")
Mr. Bulkley left New London in 1666, and was either ordained or installed at Wethersfield the same year, where he preached about eleven years, when he was dismissed at his own request, (for ill health.) He then relinquished the ministry for a more active life. He had prepared himself for the practice of surgery and medicine, (as most of the clergy did at that day.) He commenced the practice of physic in Glastenbury and Wethersfield, and soon acquired a high reputation in his new profession. He was appointed surgeon, and Rev. James Fitch, chaplain, in the standing army in 1676. He d., aged 77 years and 11 months, Dec. 2, 1713. His wife Sarah, died June 3, 1699. His monument speaks of him as possessed of " rare abilities, extraordinary industry, excellent in learning, master of many languages, exquisite in his skill in divinity, physic and law," &c. Rev. Gershom m. Sarah, daughter of Charles Chauncey, Pres- ident of Harvard College, Mass., and had issue, daughters, Cathe- rine Treat, d. before her father, and left a daughter Catherine ; Dor- othy Treat, wife of Thomas Treat ; Charles, first son, (died at New London, line extinct ; ) second, Peter, (lost at sea ;) Edward, third son, lived at Wethersfield,) and Rev. John, fourth son of Gershom. The last graduated at Harvard College in 1699, and settled in the ministry at Colchester, Dec. 20, 1703. (Dr. Trumbull says) " Dec., 1703, and died June, 1731." Peter Bulkley, a son of Rev. Ger- shom, of Wethersfield, was a mariner, and lost at sea about 1701, aged 37. He had married Rachel Talcott, March 21, 1700, but left
Dr. Trumbull says, (Vol. 1, p. 411,) that " Dudley employed one Bulkley to write against the government." Bulkley drew up a large folio volume, a copy of which has been procured in England, and is now in manuscript, elegantly bound, in the Histor- ical room in Hartford. Its title page is as follows: " Will and Doom, or the Miseries of Connecticut by and under an Usurped and Arbitrary Power, being a Narrative of the first creation and exercise, but especially of the late Changes and Administration of Government in their Magesties Colony of Connecticut in New England in America. Wherein the manner of the late Revolution made therein May 1689, is discovered, and the Warrantableness in som measure discussed, the most material Transactions from that time to this Instant Dec. 1692, are truly declared, and thereby the Innocency of their Maties Good subjects dissenting from those Notions is Cleared."
By. these misrepresentations of Bulkley, supported and confirmed by Cornbury, Dudley, Hallam, Palmes, Daniel Clark, Mason, &c., put the Colony in great distress, and to immense expense, in thwarting the plans of the opposers of the Colony. (See Doct. Trumbull, Vol. 1, pp. 410-11, &c .; also the letters of Sir Henry Ashurst, pub- lished in Hinman's Antiquities of Connecticut.)
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no issue. His widow was bound to secure to the heirs of Mr. Cha's Bulkeley, of N. London, then deceased, her share in Peter's estate.
Rev. and Dr. Gershom died Dec. 2, 1713, being 78 years old, wanting one month.
BULKELEY, EDWARD, son of Rev. Gershom, of Wethers- field, m. Dorothy -, and had issue, Charles, b. March 25, 1703 ; Eliz'th, b. Jan. 24, 1705 ; Sarah, b. Feb. 8, 1707; Rebecca, b. Feb. 22, 1709; Peter, b. March 19, 1711, d. in infancy ; second Peter, b. March 11, 1712; Gershom, b. July 29, 1714 ; Dorothy, b. Sept. 11, 1716. Mr. Bulkeley d. Aug. 27, 1748.
GERSHOM, son of Edward Bulkley, of Wethersfield, m. Thank- ful Belden, Feb. 17, 1743. Issue, Thankful, b. May 20, 1744 ; Jehiel, b. Oct. 23, 1745 ; Gershom, Jun., b. Dec. 3, 1747 ; Mabel, b. May 2, 1750 ; Ruth, b. May 17, 1752; Wm., b. Sept. 2, 1754.
PETER, son of Edward, of Wethersfield, m. Abigail Curtis, Ap'l 2, 1741. Issue, Joseph, b. Jan. 28, 1742; Abigail, b. April 13, 1743 ; Oliver, b. Dec. 5, 1744 ; Solomon, b. March 21, 1747 ; Dor- othy, b. July 17, 1749, d. an infant ; Justus, b. Dec. 24, 1752. His wife d. Nov. 27, 1762, and Peter. the father, d. April 4, 1776.
DOROTHY TREAT, daughter of Rev. Gershom, of Wethers- field, was executrix of her father Buckley's will ; will dated May 26, 1712. Catherine Treat, daughter of Rev. Gershom, died before her father, and left an only child, Catherine.
Dorothy Treat was the wife of Thomas Treat. Thomas Treat was first executor of Mr. Bulkley's will, but he d. before Mr. Bulk- ley ; he therefore appointed his daughter Dorothy, executrix. Dr. Gershom had but three children living at his decease, viz., Rev. John, of Colchester, Edward and Dorothy.
BULKLEY, REV. JOHN, son of Rev. Gershom, Sen., of Wethers- field, graduated at Harvard College, in 1699 ; settled in the ministry at Colchester, in 1703; married Patience Prentice, of N. London. He had five sons and four daughters, viz., John, Gershom, Charles, Peter and Oliver, Sarah, Lucy, Patience and Dorothy. Sarah m. Jno. Trumbull; Lucy m. Elaphas Lord; Patience m. Ichabod Lord, and Dorothy, his fourth daughter, died single. GERSHOM, second son of Rev. John, had five sons and five daughters; sons John, Daniel, Roger, Joshua and David.
CHARLES, third son of Rev. John Bulkley, m. Ann, daughter of Jona. Latimer, of New London. Issue, 1, John, d. at Lyme in 1832-3; 2, Ann, m. Col. Eliphalet Bulkley, of Colchester; 3, Pa- tience, m. Doct. David II. Jewett, of Montville, father of two sons
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in the Revolutionary Navy ; one acted as commodore in the service in South America. He died a few years since, in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
CAPT. CHARLES, son of Charles, 3d, son of Rev. John, resided in N. London, and d. 1848, aged 95. (He had white brandy at his decease, taken by him under Capt. Hinman, in the Alfred, during the Revolution.) He and several of his sons on board of a privateer in the war of 1812 ; several of his sons died, and only his son Leon- ard survived the father. Leonard is now deceased.
ELIZABETH, daughter of Charles, the third son of Rev. John Bulkley, died at Lyme, unmarried.
BULKELEY, PETER, fourth son of Rev. John, of Colchester, married, and had children, William, Peter, John Wilkes, Charles, Israel, Frederick, Isaac, Lucy and Susan. Charles was a lawyer in Vermont.
OLIVER, fifth son of Rev. John Bulkley, Sen., had children, Jo- seph, Chauncey, Noah and Sarah. Noah was a man of wealth in E. Haddam ; died in Chicago, Illinois.
BULKLEY, JOHN, EsQ., of Colchester, was the first son of Rev. John, the first minister of Colchester, and grandson of Rev. Gershom Bulkley, who preached for a time at N. London, and afterward at Wethersfield. John graduated at Yale Coll., 1726. He became an eminent lawyer ; was for a time Judge of the Superior Court of Conn., and died while Judge, in middle life. He m. Mrs. Mary Gardiner, (maiden name, Adams, ) daughter of Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of N. London. She was the relict of Jonathan Gardiner, (by whom she had a son John,) m. Oct. 29, 1738.
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