Eleventh Generation


1168. Edward BOSWORTH412 was born about 1588 in Market Bosworth, Leicester, England. He died on 5 August 1634 at the age of 46 in Sailing into Boston Harbor. He left England in 1634 on the "Elizabeth Ann" with his family. Source: Bristol Rhode Island's Early Settlers, Dorothy Chapman Saunders, Heritage Books, 1992, and Lines of Descent from Nathaniel Bosworth, Sr., of Bristol, RI, by Dorothy Chapman Saunders. Boyer says he died at sea on board the "Elizabeth and Dorcas in the spring of 1634. His children were to repay the passage money borrowed from Henry Sewall in the amount of 20 pounds. The family moved to Hingham in 1635. Jonathan was the first to arrive in America in 1633 from Coventry, Warwickshire. MARY and Edward BOSWORTH were married in 1610 in Market Bosworth, Leicester, England.

1169. MARY was born in 1591 in Market Bosworth, Leicester, England. She died on 18 May 1648 at the age of 57 in Hingham, Norfolk, England.

Children were:

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i.

Nathaniel BOSWORTH.

ii.

Mary BOSWORTH was born about 1611.

iii.

Jonathan BOSWORTH was born about 1613. He died after 24 February 1687 at the age of 74 in Swansea, Bristol Co., MA. He lived initially in Cambridge, then moved to Hingham, then to Hull, finally to Rehoboth in the 1650's. He was one of those signing the documents setting off Swansea from Rehoboth on 22 February 1668/9.

iv.

Benjamin BOSWORTH was born about 1615.