WILLIAM 4BUSHNELL (John, Jr.3, John2, Francis1) born Boston, MA about 1691, baptized there 04 JUN 1699, died perhaps at Hartford, CT, married Boston, 01 JUL 1714, Mehitable Buzwell, born 15 JAN 1694/5, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Symonds) Buzwell, of Bradford, MA.
William Bushnell, with his brothers and sister, was baptized in the 2nd Church of Boston, and nothing further is known of him until 1710, when he was one of the 55 men on the transport Caesar in Lt. Col. Ballentine's Company in the expedition against Port Royal, Nova Scotia under Colonel Frederick Nicholson. On 24 SEP 1710 the vessel was wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast and 26 of the soldiers were drowned, 12 reached shore in a boat, while 17, including William Bushnell, reached the beach by swimming.
He returned to Boston and in 1717 removed to Norwich, and in 1725 to Hartford, CT where he was living as late as 1738, when he and his son William witnessed the will of Nathaniel Marsh. He witnessed the will of John Skinner on 19 SEP 1741, codicil 25 FEB 1744/5 who died May 1752.
Note: Isaac Buzwell, born England, 1592, came to America in 1638, and was one of the founders of Salisbury,MA. He was a weaver by trade and died on 8 JUL 1683. He had two wives, each of whom had three children. His son Samuel, born about 1628, married 8 JUL 1656, Sarah Keys, born Watertown, MA 26 MAY 1633, daughter of Robert and Sarah Keys, had son Samuel, born Salisbury, MA 25 MAY 1622, died kingston, NH in 1746, married 1687, Jane Simmons (or Symonds) and had 10 children of whom Mehitable, the 4th child, was born 15 JAN 1694, married William Bushnell.
Children, 11:
1. Mehitable, born Boston, MA 17 FEB, died 12 DEC 1717,
2. William, born Boston, MA 2 DEC 1716,
3. Samuel, born Norwich, CT 1 NOV 1719, died 5 FEB 1722,
4. Benjamin, born Norwich, CT 18 DEC 1722,
5. Mehitable, born Hartford, CT 28 FEB 1726/7, married Hartford, CT 7 OCT 1754, Josiah Shepard, born 12 JAN 1723, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Flowers) Shepard.
6. Anne, born Hartforn, CT about 1725, Mmarried 09 MAY 1754, Ezra Andrews,
7. Sarah, born Hartford, CT 31 JAN 1728/9
8. Mary, born Hartford, CT 27 OCT 1730,
9. Elizabeth, born Hartford, CT 24 FEB 1732/3, married 22 JUL 1751, John Wells,
10. Susannah, born Hartford, CT 12 MAY 1735, twin,
11. Abigail, born Hartford, CT 12 MAY 1735, twin.
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