Eleventh Generation

1638. Francis BUSHNELL was born on 1 January 1579 in Thatcham, Berkshire Co., England. He died on 13 October 1646 at the age of 67 in Guilford, New Haven Co., CT.
Francis is the son of Francis Bushnell (b. 1550, d. 1625) and Margary (b. 1554). Direct descent is through his son Francis.
His will was probated 2 Jan 1626.
From The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus:
In 1639 a group of emigrants, headed by the Rev. Henry Whitfield, sailed from England. On shipboard the company signed an agreement binding themselves to settle as one community, to be helpful each to the other in every common work, not to desert or leave each other or the plantation without the consent of the majority. This came to be known as the Guilford Covenant since they purchased a tract of land from the Indians and founded the town of Guilford, lying between Saybrook and New Haven, Conn.
FRANCIS BUSHNELL, SENIOR, was one of the party and he has been identified as the Francis Bushnell who married, March 13, 1605, at Horsham, Sussex, England, Ferris Quynell or Quenell (bapt. at Horsham April 17, 1587, daughter of Henry and Beatrix (Carter) Quynell). The baptisms of their eleven children are recorded in the Horsham registers. The first child, Edmund, married in England and perhaps remained there. Francis, Junior, with his wife, came to New England on the ship Planter in 1635. William, John, Richard, Rebecca and Sarah also at one time or another came over. Of the rest of the eleven children, Stephen, Thomas and Mary died young, and Elizabeth, baptized on the 5th of March 1627/8, was buried a few days later with her mother on the 10th of March. The mother was then about forty-one years of age. The next year (June 2, 1629) Francis Bushnell, Senior, married (2) Joane Kinward, and two years later her burial is recorded at Horsham, June 21, 1631. No proof has been found that he had a third wife in New England. He died at Guilford in 1646, about eighteen years after the death of his wife Ferris, the mother of his children.
From Abridged Compendium: BUSHNELL, Francis (d 1646), from Eng. to New Haven Colony, 1638; settled at Guilford, Conn., 1639; m Rebecca Holms(?).
From Sue's Genealogy:
Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5852, Date of Import: Nov 22, 1996]
References: Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut Compiled and written by George Eleazer Bushnell, Nashville, Tennessee 1945
married (2) at Horsham England, 2 June 1629- Joan Kinward (she died 21 June 1631) [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1068, Date of Import: Nov 10, 1996]
Francis Bushnell, b. Thatcham, Co. Berks, England about 1580 first appears of record at Horsham, Co. Sussex, England on the date of his first marriage and for twenty seven years, he or his children are mentioned in the Church Register. After that time, the name disappears. In 1635, his five living sons left their native shore bound for America, and four years later he followed with his two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, in the company of Rev. Henry Whitfield on the ship St. John. After they had been at sea about ten days, the company formulated a covenant, sometimes called the "Guilford Covenant" or "The Plantation Covenant," upon which his name appears there. The company landed at Fair Haven, CT between the 10th and 15th of July 1639 and two months later the deed was signed for their new settlement at Menunkatuck, purchased of the Quinipiac Indians, which they named Guilforde after the shire town in Surrey from which some of the emigrants came.
THE GUILFORD COVENANT
We whose names are here under-written, intending by God's gracious permission to establish ourselves in New England, if it may be in the south part about Quinapossack, we faithfully promise, each to each, for ourselves and families and all that belongs to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, sit down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation and be helpful each to the other in any common work, according to everyman's ability and as need shall require; and we promise not to depart or leave each other on the plantation but with the consent of the rest, or the greater part of those who have entered into this engagement. As for our gathering ourselves in a church way, and the choice of officers and members to be gathered in that way, we do refer ourselves to such time as it please God to settle us in our plantation. In witness whereof we subscribe our hands this first day of June 1639.Signed by Robert Richell, John Bishop, Francis Bushnell, William Crittenden, William Leete, Thomas Jones, John Jurden, William Stone, John Hoadley, John Stone, William Plane, Richard Sutridge, John Housinger, William Dudley, John Parmelee, John Mepham, Thomas Norton, Abraham Crittenden, Francis Chatfield, William Noble, Thomas Neish, Henry Kingston, Henry Doude, Thomas Cooke, Henry Whitfield.
It would appear that Francis was an artisan, perhaps a painter and decorator. His sons were also artisans: His son Francis was a millwright, William a carpenter, John a glazier and later a barber, while his eldest son Edmond was evidently an artisan as well as a farmer. Ferris QUYNELL and Francis BUSHNELL were married about 1600.

1639. Ferris QUYNELL was born before 17 April 1587 in Horsham, Sussex, England. She died before 10 March 1627/8 at the age of 40 in Horsham, Sussex, England. Francis and Ferris had 11 children. Stephen, Thomas, and Mary died young. Edmund, the first born, stayed in England. Francis Jr., William, John, Richard, Rebecca, Sarah, and Frances all came to America at one time or another. Francis Jr. and his wife were the first to arrive.

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