Bush Surname Research Document

 

        

          

     Bush Research

By Clifton W. Bush

          

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John Bush 1654

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England 1620-1675

 

Aug. 1726; m. Anna Thompson, had 9 children, and d. 14 Dec. 1793, ‘. 67; James, b. 11 March, 1744; removed to Providence, and whose son, Hon. James, LL. D., a grad. of Brown Uuniv. in 1788, and a senator in Congress, died at Washington city in 1820, ‘. 46. Thompson Burrill, esq., son of John, was b. 30 April, 1764, and has been frequently a representative from Lynn. Lewis, MS Hist. Lynn.

BURROUGHS, GEORGE, a minister, who preached at Wells, and other places, grad. at H. C. 1670, was one of the victims at Salem in the witch craft infatuation; and was executed 19 Aug. 1692. JOHN, Salem, 1637, perhaps the ancestor of the preceding. John Dunton, in his journal, mentions a Mr. Burroughs of Boston in 1686.

BURSLEY, *JOHN, or, as it is spelled in the colony records, Burslin, was one of the early, if not one of the first, settlers of Weymouth. He was admitted free in 1631, and chosen representative 25 March, 1636. He may be the same who, with Jeffrey, was assessed œ2 in 1628, for expenses in the campaign against Morton. Savage, i. Winth. N. E. 44. One of this name was of Exeter in 1643 and 1645.

BURT, GEORGE, Lynn 1635, d. 2 Nov. 1661, leaving sons, George, Hugh, and Edward. Lewis. HENRY, Northampton, freeman 1648, one of the early settlers. David Burt, an early settler there, had 15 children. The late Rev. Federal Burt, of Durham, N. H., born at Southampton, Ms., 4 March, 1789, was probably a descendant. HUGH, of Lynn and Salem, brother of George Burt, was born a. 1591 and d. 1650. Lewis.

BURTON, BONIFACE, Lynn, freeman 1635; d. 13 June, 1669, ‘. 113 years. Hutchinson, i. Mass., 246. Lewis. JOHN, Salem 1637; died 1684. Felt, MS letters.

BUSBY, šABRAHAM, freeman 1650, was member of the ar. co. 1647. NICHOLAS, Boston 1646, d. 28 August, 1657.

BUSGAT, PETER, Lynn 1638. Lewis.

BUSH, JOHN, Cambridge 1654. Sons, Joseph, b. 16 Aug. 1654; Daniel, b. 4 April, 1659. Six of the name had grad. at Yale and Dartmouth in 1828. RANDOLPH, Cambridge 1642.

BUSHNELL, GOODMAN, Massachusetts. Winthrop, i. Hist. N. E. 387. There was a widow Bushnell of Boston in 1637, mentioned by

Snow, Hist. Boston, page 60. A John Bushnell was of Boston in 1665. FRANCIS, Guilford, 1650. Rev. Harvey Bushnell of Conn., is probably a descendant. Seven of the names have grad. At Yale and Williams colleges.

BUSS, JOHN, a physician and preacher, was born a. 1640, and commenced preaching at Durham, in N. H.,

in 1678, and was a minister there forty years successively, though not settled. He d. in 1736, ‘. 96. MS petition, dated 1718, to Gov. Shute, and the General Assembly of N. H., Dr. Belknap, and various other authorities relying on him, state his age to be 108, but the petition just cited seems decisive. In it, he states

his age to be 78 in 1718. WILLIAM, Concord, 1640, a lieutenant, d. 31 June, 1698. By his

 

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