Person Page - 3044

     Samuel Bushrod was born before 9 October 1615 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He was baptized on 9 October 1616 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.² He married Martha Allambridge, daughter of John Allambridge and Euroth Wilson, on 1 September 1640 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.^1,2

Samuel Bushrod died on 31 July 1646 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.^1,2,3

His estate was probated on 1 June 1647 at Dorsetshire, England.²

     He was a mentioned with Anne Bushrod and Rev. Samuel Whitfield;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Anne BUSHROD - Baptised 21 April 1608 Holy Trinity Dorchester, She married Rev. Samuel WHITFEILD [WHITFELDE] the rector of All Saints church in Dorchester in her own parish church of Holy Trinity on 24 Apr 1628. Unfortunately Samuel became ill and died on the 5th July 1628. They had a posthumous daughter named Mary Whitfield baptised at Holy Trinity on 15th March 1628/9 and she was living in 1646 when she is mentioned as a potential beneficiary under the will of Samuel Bushrod (para 6 below) . Ann now a widow is said to have remarried on 21 May 1631 to a Mr Marshall and Ann is the 'sister Marshall' also referred to in Samuel's Will."

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647." Samuel Bushrod was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.² Samuel Bushrod was listed as a beneficiary in Richard I Bushrod's will on 3 January 1628/29 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Richard BUSHROD Haberdasher of Dorchester - Dated 10th June 1626 - Codicil dated 28 June 1628 - Died 1 July 1628 - Will proved 3rd Jan 1628. Ref PROB 11/155
     "In the name of God Amen: I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Haberdasher being in perfect health and memory do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
     "First: I bequeath my soul into the hands of my most merciful God and loving father that gave it me and redeemed it by the blood of his dear son my only Saviour whose merits I assure myself of that glorious inheritance that the Lord hath of his free mercie granted to all the faithful As to my body I do appoint to be buried according to the discretion of my executors for my estate that God hath blessed me withall I appoint to be divided and bestowed as followeth
     "Unto: my Executors Mr John WHITE Clerk, Mr William WHITEWAY the elder merchant, Mr William DERBY Gentleman of Dorchester, Mr Henry MANIFORD of Long Suton Town? and my brother John WATTS the haberdasher the sum of Forty shillings servant money during their natural lives and after the decease of them or any of them forever unto such persons as by them or the greatest part of them shall be successively named or chosen forty shillings per annum to be paid to them or to their assigns yearly out of my lands in Glandfield & Wooten als Wooten Glandfield at the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary [Note: 25th March] and St Michael the Archangel [Note 29th September] by several portions which rent charge or annuity I will and appoint to be employed by them or the greater part of them or their assigns to such charitable uses as shall be then the most convenient.
     "And: if the said sum of forty shillings be behind and unpaid by the space of forty days after such forty days as it ought to be paid Then the owner of the said lands shall forfeit for such default twenty shillings by distress or other means.
     "Item: I give and devise to my said executors and their heirs and assigns forever one annuity or yearly rent charge of forty shillings by the year to be issuing and growing and to be pertained and taken at the Feast of St Michael the Archangel yearly and out of my messuage & tenements lands and grounds and appurtenances situate at Wooton Glandfield als Glandfield Wooten within the County of Dorset for and towards the better and more comfortable maintenance of the Schoolmaster of the 'Free School' in Dorchester aforesaid the said annuity to commence and begin at such Feast of St Michael the Archangel and shall next happen after there shall be as many Capital Burgesses of the Borough of Dorchester in the County of Dorset as there be others dwelling out of the said Borough that shall be Ffeoffee of the Schoolhouse and lands belonging thereto and not before
     "Item: I give to the poor of each Parish in Dorchester Forty shillings to be distributed by the Overseers of each Parish in Clothes for them.
     "Item: I give unto my son John BUSHROD the sum of five hundred pounds I do give to my daughter Anne BUSHROD three hundred and fifty pounds to be paid in some living for her and her children if the Lord do bless her with any I do give unto my son Samuel Three hundred pounds I do give to my son Richard two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Elizabeth two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Dorothie two hundred and fifty pounds and all these sums to be paid unto them in manner and form following All my sons portions on the day of marriage or the age of twenty four years All my daughters at the day of marriage or the age of one and twenty years which shall first happen and in the meantime the monies shall be employed? for their better maintenance and training? of them up in learning?
     "Item: I give to my brother Robert BUSHROD his son William BUSHROD the sum of twenty pounds more than the legacy given him by my uncle Henry BUSHROD late deceased of Craford [i.e. Tarrant Crawford] my will is that my executors shall give good security? for the performance? of this will and legacies therein before he shall be possessed of this my estate and be admitted hereunto unto my Overseers
     "Item: I do give all my lands household stuff goods moveable and unmovable unto my son Thomas BUSHROD whom I make my whole and sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament
     "The 10th day of June Anno Domini 1626
     "The 28th day of June Anno Domini 1628 I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset haberdasher being sick and weak of body but good and perfect memory I praise my God and having already made my Last Will and Testament do now further declare in my will which I appoint to be added to my Last will as a codicil in manner and form following
     "Vizt: that whereas I have already ordained and appointed my son Thomas to be executor of my said will, I do now will and ordaine that my said son before he does my said will, shall enter into bonds to my loving friends whom I have already nominated and appointed to be overseers of my said will, in the sum of two thousand pounds well and truly to perform my said will and to pay in unto them or to the survivor or survivors of them within six months next: after they or the survivor or survivors of them shall require on demand the same such and to raise of the legacies in or by my said will given or bequeathed to the ( benefit??) of my children as my said friends or ye survivor or survivors of them shall appoint to be by them employed or disposed for the use and benefit of this to them I give by my said will given or bequeathed the same lagacies which my said son shall so pay in
     "Also: I give to the town of Shafton in the county of Dorset the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of England towards the building of a schoolhouse there to be paid within three months next after the foundation of the same school shall be paid
     "Also: I give and bequeath over and above the money which I have given to good uses by my said will fifty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to my said overseers within 12 months after my death and to be then employed and bestowed to such good use as overseers and they the survivors of them or the majority of them shall think fit.
     "Also: I do appoint for the maintenance of all my said children except my executor to whom I have by my said will given, any legacy shall be had and raised out of the benefit of their said legacies until the same legacies shall be paid
     "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above said in the presence of Richard BUSHROD signed and published in the presence of :-
     "John WHITE; Simon WHETCOMBE; John HUMFREY; George WAY; William DERBIE [DERBY]
     "Probate: of this written testament with a codicil was granted at London before William James doctor at law surrogate of Henry Martin doctor of law of the prerogative court of Canterbury on the third day of the month of January Anno domini one thousand six hundred twenty eight.² "

Samuel Bushrod left a will on 13 April 1646;
From "Early Colonial Settlers...":
     "VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, pp 375
     "SAMUEL BUSHROD in the countie of Dorset, clothier. Will 13 April 1647; proved 1 June 1647.
     "I give unto the ministers herafter named viz; to Mr. William Bon £5, Mr. John White the elder £3, Mr. Hugh Thompson 40s., Mr. Peter Ince 40s, Mr. Gundry, clerke 40s, and Mr. John Barnard 40s. Also I give unto Mr. Frederick Losse £3, and to Mr. John Forward 40s. To my daughter Martha £200 to be employed for her education and maintenance, and to be paid over to her together with the increase and benefit thereof, at her age of 21 or marriage. If she die before I give £100 thereof to my wife Martha, £20 to the children of my brother John Bushrod living at the tyme of my decease, £5 to my sister Mary Allambridge, £10 to my cousen Mary Whitfield and the residue to the children of my sister Marshall living at the time of my decease Also I give to the three children of my cosin John Gilbert which are now living, and to the five children of my cosen Henry Bushrod now living, 20s. apiece. To Ann Squib 20s. To the poor of Trinity parish in Dorchester 40s. To the poor of St. Peters and All Saints there 20s. severally.
     "To my brother John Bushrod to be re covered at his cost, all the debt due to me by Thomas Whitle, merchant, and the moiety of of all the judgements recovered by my father Mr. John Allambridge deceased, against the said Thomas Whitle given me under the last will of the said John Allambridge. To my brother Thomas Bushrod halfe the summes of money that he oweth me, the other halfe I give to my brother Richard Bushrod, for the recovery whereof the said Richard is to bear the cost and charge, To my brother Marshall's children equally among them, all debts due unto me from Joseph Cole and Nathaniel White, merchants, save only £20 thereof, which I give unto my cousin Mary Whitfield. To my three cosens John, Elizabeth, and Joseph Scovile, the money owing unto me by John Stansby, mariner, who was heretofore master of the barque called the George of Weymouth, whereof Mr. George Churchey was owner or part owner, which money is for the proceed and provenue of three serges, costing £12. 15s. delivered by me upon adventure unto the said John Stans bye. All the rest of my goods I give to my wife Martha, whom I make my executrix, and I desire my kinsman John Bushrod clothier, my friend George Cole, marchaunt and my brother Scovile to be overseers of this my will, and to take security of my executrix in behalf of my daughter. And as ao testimony of love and thankfulness to my overseers I bequeath unto them 20s. apeece to be bestowed in rings. Witnesses: Ri : Scovile, Richard Rapson of Dorcester, clothier, Mary Coke of Dorchester spinster. Proved by the executrix. Fines, 120.
     "This will at least gives a clue to the English ancestry of the Virginia Bushrods and very probably is that of a brother of the emigrants. These emigrants were two brothers Thomas and Richard. Thomas came first to Mass. and afterwards to Virginia. He was long a prominent man in York County and was Burgess for the county 1658 60. His frequent clashes with the parish clergy' and the direction in his will that there should be no "common prayer" at his burial would indicate that he was a Puritan. The numerous legacies made by Samuel Bushrod to ministers would indicate that he was of the same faith. Thomas Bushrod married twice but left no children. His will was probated in York Co. in 1677. Richard Bushrod, his brother, lived in Gloucester County, and according to a[ deposition was born in 1626. He married Apphia-, and was ancestor of the Virginia family of the name. See Wm. & Mary Quarterly, XIV, 177.
George Scovel, born "infra the Isle of Purbeek, Dorset" about 1601, was a merchant in Virginia 1640."

From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Samuel BUSHROD, Clothier of [Dorchester in], Dorset
[Note:-Samuel BUSHROD was the son of Richard BUSHROD 1576-1628 Habadasher & Merchant Adventurer of Dorchester and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester on 31st July 1646
     "Dated 13 Apr 1646, Buried 31 July 1646, Proved 01 June 1647 admin granted to Martha Bushrod relict
     "PROB 11/200
     "Bequests:- Unto Rev John White the elder £3; Rev William Ben £5; Mr Hugh Thomson £10; Mr Peter Juce £10; Mr Gundrey Clerk £10; Mr John Barnard £10; Frederick Hoppe £3; Mr John FForward £10; My daughter Martha £200 for her education & maintenance & paid at 21 or marriage, if she die 1st £100 to wife Martha £20 to children of brother John Bushrod; £5 to sister Mary Allambridge; £10 to cosin Mary Whitfield; rest to children of his sister Marshall - My will is that 2 months after decease wife to be bound to his overseers in the sum of £400 to pay legacies to daughter - to 3 children of Cosen John Gilbert 20 shillings each; 5 children of my cosen Henry Bushrod 20 shillings each; To Anne Squibb 20 shillings; To poor of Trinity Parish Dorchester £10; To Poor of St Peters Parish £20 To poor of All Saints Parish £20; To brother John Bushrod to be recorded at his cost and charges all that debt owing to me by Thomas Whitli merchant and also the moietie [from?] Mr John Allambridge deceased given to him by his will; To brother Thomas Bushrod half of other debts owing to him To brother Richard Bushrod the other half of the debt ; To brother Marshalls children debts owing by Joseph Cole & Nathaniel White Merchant with £20 of this debt to Cosen Mary Whitfield; To 3 cosens John, Elizabeth and Joseph Scoville the debt owing to him from John Stansby Mariner the master of the barque called the George of Weymouth whereof Mr George Churchey was owner : Rest to wife Martha sole executrix Overseers Kinsman John Bushrod ; friend George Cole merchant and brother Scovile Witnesses Richard Scovile Richard Rapson of Dorchester Clotheir the mark of Mary Cole of Dorchester spinster.^1,3

     John Bushrod married Margery Feltons on 7 October 1571 at Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹

John Bushrod died before 26 March 1590 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹
John Bushrod was buried on 26 March 1590 at Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹

His estate was probated on 5 May 1590 at London, City of London, Greater London, England.¹

     Reference:
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     1. His Parents
His father was John BUSHROD (d.1590) Senior a husbandman who operated a smallholding at Sherborne where he lived with his family. We know from his Will that they were reasonably comfortable by standards of the day as they had at least 8 acres of ground on which they grew their own wheat, maize, barley and a crop called dredge which was a mixture of different types of corn like wheat and barley but often included oats. They had an old wayne or cart and had at least one heifer, 24 sheep and some ewes which were probably grazed on the village common.
     He also had an uncle, his fathers brother Henry BUSHROD (d.1614) a yeoman who lived at Tarrent Crawford in Dorset who died in 1614. He left a will (PROB 11/124) dated 10th Sep 1612 which was proved on 12th July 1614 in which he asked to be buried in the churchyard at Tarrent Crawford and left bequests to the children of Robert Bushrod (1580-1610) and to Margeri Bushrod (b1582/3) the children of his deceased brother John (see 5 & 6 immediately below) .
     His father had married his mother Margery nee FELTONS in Sherborne Abbey on 7th Oct 1571 (2) when the ceremony was in all probability carried out by the resident vicar Revd. George Holman (d.1580) . At least six children were born from the marriage, the four survivors being named in John's will which was proved in 1590. They were all baptised in Sherborne Abbey:-
(1) John Bushroodes [Bushrod] (b.1572) bap 16th August 1572; son and heir who inherited the smallholding from his father in 1590. His children appear to be a beneficiaries under his Uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 where he is referred to as John Bushrode late of Sherborne and they are left £5 each when they are 21.
      (2) Richardus Bushrod (1575-1575/6) bap 22 May 1575 and buried at Sherborne 29 Feb 1575/6
      (3) Richardus Bushrodd (1576/7-1628) bap 3rd Feb 1576/7. He is the main beneficiary and executor of his uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 when he is referred to as Richard Bushrode of Dorchester. . (subject of biography see Section 3 below)
      (4) William Bushrod (1578-1578) bap 10th Aug 1578 and buried at Sherborne 17th same month
      (5) Robert Bushrot [Bushrod] (1580-1610) bap 15th May 1580; he was left £5, ten sheep and a silver spoon in his fathers will in 1590. He lived in Castleton, a parish which surrounds most of Sherborne, where he worked as a cordwainer and died at the young age of 30 in 1610. There is a grant of administration concerning his estate at the Wiltshire Archives with an inventory of his goods which we need to obtain but their website is currently (Aug 2015) being revised and copies of wills are not likely to be available until next year. Robert obviously married and had at least 3 children. They are referred to in two wills. His uncle Henry Bushrod's will in 1614 leaves £30 to 'Henry Bushrode the son of Robert Bushrode of Sherborne lately deceased to be paid at the age of one and twenty years, '. A second bequest leaves £20 to each of Robert's other two sons but they are not named. Henry receiving the larger amount probably meant he was the eldest and possibly named after his uncle. We do know the name of one of the other sons as Richard Bushrod (1576/7-1628)'s will in 1628 states "I give to my brother Robert BUSHROD his son William BUSHROD the sum of twenty pounds more than the legacy given him by my uncle Henry BUSHROD late deceased of Craford [i.e. Tarrant Crawford] "
      (6) Margeri [Margery] Bushrod (b.1582/3) bap 16th March 1582/3 she was left £6. 13s 4d in her fathers will in 1590 and married aged 15 to Robert Rapsey in Sherborne on 13th June 1597. She is a beneficiary under her uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 when she is described as being of Taunton when she received £20 to be paid seven years after his decease but the interest in the meantime employed for her benefit.
     John BUSHROD Senior was buried at Sherborne Abbey on 26th March 1590 and Richard's elder brother John BUSHROD Junior was to inherit most of their fathers estate (see transcription of will in the next section below). Richard and his brother Robert receiving five pounds of lawful English money, ten sheep and a silver spoon each. Second and third sons of families like this were often apprenticed into suitable trades and they had to be between the ages of 10 and 18. Richard was 13 when his father died and if not already apprenticed Margery would have arranged for his indentures as we know he became a haberdasher by trade operating in Dorchester. His younger brother Robert was only just 10 when his father died and he appears to have become a cordwainer operating in Castleton a parish which virtually surrounds Sherborne. His sister Margery then only 7 years old had a higher cash sum of six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence but no other bequests and as can be seen above was married at the young age of 15. John's widow Margerie died just before the turn of the century being buried at Sherborne on 1st Nov 1599.¹ " GAV-11.

John Bushrod left a will on 17 March 1589/90 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROT [BUSHROD] Senior's Will, Dated 17th March 1589/90 - buried at Sherborne Abbey on 26 Mar 1590 - Probate 5th May 1590. Ref: PROB 11/75
     In the name of God Amen the seventeenth day of March in the two and thirtieth year (3) of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, I Johannis [John] BUSHROT [BUSHROD] of Sherborne in the County of Dorset Husbandman being sick in body but perfect of remembrance thanks be given unto Almighty God do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say
     First: I do bequeath into ye hands of the Almighty my soul which he of his fatherlie goodness gave unto me when as he fashioned me in my mothers womb
     And as to my body I commend it to the earth from whence it came knowing that in the last day I shall receive yet again perfect and immortal life to the glorious body of Jesus Christ
     Impremis: I give unto my son John two acres of wheat; two acres of mescaine?; two acres of Barley; two acres of dredge; my old wayne with furniture to the same; a little heifer; a featherbed which was my fathers; ten sheep, two platters; two pottingers; two saucers; a cauldron that was my fathers; a Silver spoon and all my wearing apparel saving my best cloak to be delivered unto him within three years next after my decease. But if my wife Margerye, whom I will make my executrix, shall happen to contract herself in marriage within the said three years that then the said portion to be taken from my said executrix by my overseers and they to keep it to the use of my said son until the three years be full ended and then to deliver it unto my said son (4).
     Item: I do give unto my son Richard five pounds of lawful English money; ten sheep and a Silver spoon to be delivered at his day of marriage or at the age of twenty one years.
     Item: I do give unto my son Robert five pounds of lawful English money; ten sheep and a Silver spoon to be delivered in such sort as last before rehearsed
     Item: I give unto my daughter Margery six pounds and thirteen shillings and four pence of Lawful English money to be delivered as is aforesaid.
     Item: I do give unto Charles WHIFFEN two sheep
     Item: I do give unto my godson John WAYE two sheep
     Item: I do give unto Luce DOWLE two children the ewes
     Item: I do give John YETMAN three shillings four pence
     Item: I do give unto the Parish Church of Sherborne two shillings
     Item: My will is that if Margery my wife shall happen to marry or contract herself in marriage within three years next after my decease that then such portion or portions as I have given unto Richard, Robert and Margery my children then my overseers shall take all such portions into their hands and use it to the preferment of my said children until the time of their marriages or one and twenty years of age as is aforesaid.
     And: if any of my said children do decease before the time of receiving their said legacy that then such portion or portions shall remain unto those of my children that then shall be living to be equally divided among them.
     All: the rest of my goods not before given nor bequeathed as well moveable and unmovable I do give unto Margery my wife whom I do make whole [sole] executrix of this My Last Will and Testament.
     And: I do appoint John CUPPER, John WYNNYFFE, William MORRIS and Henry BUSHROT [BUSHROD] my brother to be overseers of this my Last Will and Testament and for their pains I do give them four pence a piece. Witnessed to this same John YETMAN; Anthonye INNHAM; Henry BUSHROT [BUSHROD]
     Proved in London 5th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and ninety before Thomas LOVELL public notary by Margerie relict and executrix of the deceased."

     Margery Feltons married John Bushrod, son of (?) Bushrod, on 7 October 1571 at Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹

     GAV-11.

Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     1. His Parents
His father was John BUSHROD (d.1590) Senior a husbandman who operated a smallholding at Sherborne where he lived with his family. We know from his Will that they were reasonably comfortable by standards of the day as they had at least 8 acres of ground on which they grew their own wheat, maize, barley and a crop called dredge which was a mixture of different types of corn like wheat and barley but often included oats. They had an old wayne or cart and had at least one heifer, 24 sheep and some ewes which were probably grazed on the village common.
     He also had an uncle, his fathers brother Henry BUSHROD (d.1614) a yeoman who lived at Tarrent Crawford in Dorset who died in 1614. He left a will (PROB 11/124) dated 10th Sep 1612 which was proved on 12th July 1614 in which he asked to be buried in the churchyard at Tarrent Crawford and left bequests to the children of Robert Bushrod (1580-1610) and to Margeri Bushrod (b1582/3) the children of his deceased brother John (see 5 & 6 immediately below) .
     His father had married his mother Margery nee FELTONS in Sherborne Abbey on 7th Oct 1571 (2) when the ceremony was in all probability carried out by the resident vicar Revd. George Holman (d.1580) . At least six children were born from the marriage, the four survivors being named in John's will which was proved in 1590. They were all baptised in Sherborne Abbey:-
(1) John Bushroodes [Bushrod] (b.1572) bap 16th August 1572; son and heir who inherited the smallholding from his father in 1590. His children appear to be a beneficiaries under his Uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 where he is referred to as John Bushrode late of Sherborne and they are left £5 each when they are 21.
      (2) Richardus Bushrod (1575-1575/6) bap 22 May 1575 and buried at Sherborne 29 Feb 1575/6
      (3) Richardus Bushrodd (1576/7-1628) bap 3rd Feb 1576/7. He is the main beneficiary and executor of his uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 when he is referred to as Richard Bushrode of Dorchester. . (subject of biography see Section 3 below)
      (4) William Bushrod (1578-1578) bap 10th Aug 1578 and buried at Sherborne 17th same month
      (5) Robert Bushrot [Bushrod] (1580-1610) bap 15th May 1580; he was left £5, ten sheep and a silver spoon in his fathers will in 1590. He lived in Castleton, a parish which surrounds most of Sherborne, where he worked as a cordwainer and died at the young age of 30 in 1610. There is a grant of administration concerning his estate at the Wiltshire Archives with an inventory of his goods which we need to obtain but their website is currently (Aug 2015) being revised and copies of wills are not likely to be available until next year. Robert obviously married and had at least 3 children. They are referred to in two wills. His uncle Henry Bushrod's will in 1614 leaves £30 to 'Henry Bushrode the son of Robert Bushrode of Sherborne lately deceased to be paid at the age of one and twenty years, '. A second bequest leaves £20 to each of Robert's other two sons but they are not named. Henry receiving the larger amount probably meant he was the eldest and possibly named after his uncle. We do know the name of one of the other sons as Richard Bushrod (1576/7-1628)'s will in 1628 states "I give to my brother Robert BUSHROD his son William BUSHROD the sum of twenty pounds more than the legacy given him by my uncle Henry BUSHROD late deceased of Craford [i.e. Tarrant Crawford] "
      (6) Margeri [Margery] Bushrod (b.1582/3) bap 16th March 1582/3 she was left £6. 13s 4d in her fathers will in 1590 and married aged 15 to Robert Rapsey in Sherborne on 13th June 1597. She is a beneficiary under her uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 when she is described as being of Taunton when she received £20 to be paid seven years after his decease but the interest in the meantime employed for her benefit.
     John BUSHROD Senior was buried at Sherborne Abbey on 26th March 1590 and Richard's elder brother John BUSHROD Junior was to inherit most of their fathers estate (see transcription of will in the next section below). Richard and his brother Robert receiving five pounds of lawful English money, ten sheep and a silver spoon each. Second and third sons of families like this were often apprenticed into suitable trades and they had to be between the ages of 10 and 18. Richard was 13 when his father died and if not already apprenticed Margery would have arranged for his indentures as we know he became a haberdasher by trade operating in Dorchester. His younger brother Robert was only just 10 when his father died and he appears to have become a cordwainer operating in Castleton a parish which virtually surrounds Sherborne. His sister Margery then only 7 years old had a higher cash sum of six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence but no other bequests and as can be seen above was married at the young age of 15. John's widow Margerie died just before the turn of the century being buried at Sherborne on 1st Nov 1599.¹ "
In John Bushrod's will dated 17 March 1589/90 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England, Margery Feltons was named as executor;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROT [BUSHROD] Senior's Will, Dated 17th March 1589/90 - buried at Sherborne Abbey on 26 Mar 1590 - Probate 5th May 1590. Ref: PROB 11/75
     In the name of God Amen the seventeenth day of March in the two and thirtieth year (3) of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, I Johannis [John] BUSHROT [BUSHROD] of Sherborne in the County of Dorset Husbandman being sick in body but perfect of remembrance thanks be given unto Almighty God do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say
     First: I do bequeath into ye hands of the Almighty my soul which he of his fatherlie goodness gave unto me when as he fashioned me in my mothers womb
     And as to my body I commend it to the earth from whence it came knowing that in the last day I shall receive yet again perfect and immortal life to the glorious body of Jesus Christ
     Impremis: I give unto my son John two acres of wheat; two acres of mescaine?; two acres of Barley; two acres of dredge; my old wayne with furniture to the same; a little heifer; a featherbed which was my fathers; ten sheep, two platters; two pottingers; two saucers; a cauldron that was my fathers; a Silver spoon and all my wearing apparel saving my best cloak to be delivered unto him within three years next after my decease. But if my wife Margerye, whom I will make my executrix, shall happen to contract herself in marriage within the said three years that then the said portion to be taken from my said executrix by my overseers and they to keep it to the use of my said son until the three years be full ended and then to deliver it unto my said son (4).
     Item: I do give unto my son Richard five pounds of lawful English money; ten sheep and a Silver spoon to be delivered at his day of marriage or at the age of twenty one years.
     Item: I do give unto my son Robert five pounds of lawful English money; ten sheep and a Silver spoon to be delivered in such sort as last before rehearsed
     Item: I give unto my daughter Margery six pounds and thirteen shillings and four pence of Lawful English money to be delivered as is aforesaid.
     Item: I do give unto Charles WHIFFEN two sheep
     Item: I do give unto my godson John WAYE two sheep
     Item: I do give unto Luce DOWLE two children the ewes
     Item: I do give John YETMAN three shillings four pence
     Item: I do give unto the Parish Church of Sherborne two shillings
     Item: My will is that if Margery my wife shall happen to marry or contract herself in marriage within three years next after my decease that then such portion or portions as I have given unto Richard, Robert and Margery my children then my overseers shall take all such portions into their hands and use it to the preferment of my said children until the time of their marriages or one and twenty years of age as is aforesaid.
     And: if any of my said children do decease before the time of receiving their said legacy that then such portion or portions shall remain unto those of my children that then shall be living to be equally divided among them.
     All: the rest of my goods not before given nor bequeathed as well moveable and unmovable I do give unto Margery my wife whom I do make whole [sole] executrix of this My Last Will and Testament.
     And: I do appoint John CUPPER, John WYNNYFFE, William MORRIS and Henry BUSHROT [BUSHROD] my brother to be overseers of this my Last Will and Testament and for their pains I do give them four pence a piece. Witnessed to this same John YETMAN; Anthonye INNHAM; Henry BUSHROT [BUSHROD]
     Proved in London 5th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand five hundred and ninety before Thomas LOVELL public notary by Margerie relict and executrix of the deceased."

     Robert Bushrod was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹ Robert Bushrod was listed as a beneficiary in Richard I Bushrod's will on 3 January 1628/29 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Richard BUSHROD Haberdasher of Dorchester - Dated 10th June 1626 - Codicil dated 28 June 1628 - Died 1 July 1628 - Will proved 3rd Jan 1628. Ref PROB 11/155
     "In the name of God Amen: I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Haberdasher being in perfect health and memory do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
     "First: I bequeath my soul into the hands of my most merciful God and loving father that gave it me and redeemed it by the blood of his dear son my only Saviour whose merits I assure myself of that glorious inheritance that the Lord hath of his free mercie granted to all the faithful As to my body I do appoint to be buried according to the discretion of my executors for my estate that God hath blessed me withall I appoint to be divided and bestowed as followeth
     "Unto: my Executors Mr John WHITE Clerk, Mr William WHITEWAY the elder merchant, Mr William DERBY Gentleman of Dorchester, Mr Henry MANIFORD of Long Suton Town? and my brother John WATTS the haberdasher the sum of Forty shillings servant money during their natural lives and after the decease of them or any of them forever unto such persons as by them or the greatest part of them shall be successively named or chosen forty shillings per annum to be paid to them or to their assigns yearly out of my lands in Glandfield & Wooten als Wooten Glandfield at the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary [Note: 25th March] and St Michael the Archangel [Note 29th September] by several portions which rent charge or annuity I will and appoint to be employed by them or the greater part of them or their assigns to such charitable uses as shall be then the most convenient.
     "And: if the said sum of forty shillings be behind and unpaid by the space of forty days after such forty days as it ought to be paid Then the owner of the said lands shall forfeit for such default twenty shillings by distress or other means.
     "Item: I give and devise to my said executors and their heirs and assigns forever one annuity or yearly rent charge of forty shillings by the year to be issuing and growing and to be pertained and taken at the Feast of St Michael the Archangel yearly and out of my messuage & tenements lands and grounds and appurtenances situate at Wooton Glandfield als Glandfield Wooten within the County of Dorset for and towards the better and more comfortable maintenance of the Schoolmaster of the 'Free School' in Dorchester aforesaid the said annuity to commence and begin at such Feast of St Michael the Archangel and shall next happen after there shall be as many Capital Burgesses of the Borough of Dorchester in the County of Dorset as there be others dwelling out of the said Borough that shall be Ffeoffee of the Schoolhouse and lands belonging thereto and not before
     "Item: I give to the poor of each Parish in Dorchester Forty shillings to be distributed by the Overseers of each Parish in Clothes for them.
     "Item: I give unto my son John BUSHROD the sum of five hundred pounds I do give to my daughter Anne BUSHROD three hundred and fifty pounds to be paid in some living for her and her children if the Lord do bless her with any I do give unto my son Samuel Three hundred pounds I do give to my son Richard two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Elizabeth two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Dorothie two hundred and fifty pounds and all these sums to be paid unto them in manner and form following All my sons portions on the day of marriage or the age of twenty four years All my daughters at the day of marriage or the age of one and twenty years which shall first happen and in the meantime the monies shall be employed? for their better maintenance and training? of them up in learning?
     "Item: I give to my brother Robert BUSHROD his son William BUSHROD the sum of twenty pounds more than the legacy given him by my uncle Henry BUSHROD late deceased of Craford [i.e. Tarrant Crawford] my will is that my executors shall give good security? for the performance? of this will and legacies therein before he shall be possessed of this my estate and be admitted hereunto unto my Overseers
     "Item: I do give all my lands household stuff goods moveable and unmovable unto my son Thomas BUSHROD whom I make my whole and sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament
     "The 10th day of June Anno Domini 1626
     "The 28th day of June Anno Domini 1628 I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset haberdasher being sick and weak of body but good and perfect memory I praise my God and having already made my Last Will and Testament do now further declare in my will which I appoint to be added to my Last will as a codicil in manner and form following
     "Vizt: that whereas I have already ordained and appointed my son Thomas to be executor of my said will, I do now will and ordaine that my said son before he does my said will, shall enter into bonds to my loving friends whom I have already nominated and appointed to be overseers of my said will, in the sum of two thousand pounds well and truly to perform my said will and to pay in unto them or to the survivor or survivors of them within six months next: after they or the survivor or survivors of them shall require on demand the same such and to raise of the legacies in or by my said will given or bequeathed to the ( benefit??) of my children as my said friends or ye survivor or survivors of them shall appoint to be by them employed or disposed for the use and benefit of this to them I give by my said will given or bequeathed the same lagacies which my said son shall so pay in
     "Also: I give to the town of Shafton in the county of Dorset the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of England towards the building of a schoolhouse there to be paid within three months next after the foundation of the same school shall be paid
     "Also: I give and bequeath over and above the money which I have given to good uses by my said will fifty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to my said overseers within 12 months after my death and to be then employed and bestowed to such good use as overseers and they the survivors of them or the majority of them shall think fit.
     "Also: I do appoint for the maintenance of all my said children except my executor to whom I have by my said will given, any legacy shall be had and raised out of the benefit of their said legacies until the same legacies shall be paid
     "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above said in the presence of Richard BUSHROD signed and published in the presence of :-
     "John WHITE; Simon WHETCOMBE; John HUMFREY; George WAY; William DERBIE [DERBY]
     "Probate: of this written testament with a codicil was granted at London before William James doctor at law surrogate of Henry Martin doctor of law of the prerogative court of Canterbury on the third day of the month of January Anno domini one thousand six hundred twenty eight.¹ "

     John Bushrod was born in 1572 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He was baptized on 16 August 1572 at Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹
John Bushrod died before 1614.¹
     He was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks: "John Bushroodes [Bushrod] (b.1572) bap 16th August 1572; son and heir who inherited the smallholding from his father in 1590. His children appear to be a beneficiaries under his Uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 where he is referred to as John Bushrode late of Sherborne and they are left £5 each when they are 21."

     Richard Bushrod was born in 1575.¹
Richard Bushrod died before 29 February 1576.¹
Richard Bushrod was buried between 29 February 1576 and 1576 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     He was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks: "Richardus Bushrod (1575-1575/6) bap 22 May 1575 and buried at Sherborne 29 Feb 1575/6.¹

     William Bushrod was born in 1578.¹
William Bushrod died in 1578.¹
William Bushrod was buried on 17 August 1578 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     He was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks: "William Bushrod (1578-1578) bap 10th Aug 1578 and buried at Sherborne 17th same month."¹

     Margery Bushrod was born between 1582 and 1583 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She married Robert Rapsey on 13 June 1597 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹

     Margery Bushrod was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks: "Margeri [Margery] Bushrod (b.1582/3) bap 16th March 1582/3 she was left £6. 13s 4d in her fathers will in 1590 and married aged 15 to Robert Rapsey in Sherborne on 13th June 1597. She is a beneficiary under her uncle Henry Bushrode's will in 1614 when she is described as being of Taunton when she received £20 to be paid seven years after his decease but the interest in the meantime employed for her benefit."¹

     Robert Rapsey married Margery Bushrod, daughter of John Bushrod and Margery Feltons, on 13 June 1597 at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, England.¹

     William Bushrod was born before 1628.¹
      ; Mentioned in his uncle Richard's 1628 will.¹ He was listed as a beneficiary in Richard I Bushrod's will on 3 January 1628/29 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Richard BUSHROD Haberdasher of Dorchester - Dated 10th June 1626 - Codicil dated 28 June 1628 - Died 1 July 1628 - Will proved 3rd Jan 1628. Ref PROB 11/155
     "In the name of God Amen: I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Haberdasher being in perfect health and memory do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following
     "First: I bequeath my soul into the hands of my most merciful God and loving father that gave it me and redeemed it by the blood of his dear son my only Saviour whose merits I assure myself of that glorious inheritance that the Lord hath of his free mercie granted to all the faithful As to my body I do appoint to be buried according to the discretion of my executors for my estate that God hath blessed me withall I appoint to be divided and bestowed as followeth
     "Unto: my Executors Mr John WHITE Clerk, Mr William WHITEWAY the elder merchant, Mr William DERBY Gentleman of Dorchester, Mr Henry MANIFORD of Long Suton Town? and my brother John WATTS the haberdasher the sum of Forty shillings servant money during their natural lives and after the decease of them or any of them forever unto such persons as by them or the greatest part of them shall be successively named or chosen forty shillings per annum to be paid to them or to their assigns yearly out of my lands in Glandfield & Wooten als Wooten Glandfield at the feast of Annunciation of the Virgin Mary [Note: 25th March] and St Michael the Archangel [Note 29th September] by several portions which rent charge or annuity I will and appoint to be employed by them or the greater part of them or their assigns to such charitable uses as shall be then the most convenient.
     "And: if the said sum of forty shillings be behind and unpaid by the space of forty days after such forty days as it ought to be paid Then the owner of the said lands shall forfeit for such default twenty shillings by distress or other means.
     "Item: I give and devise to my said executors and their heirs and assigns forever one annuity or yearly rent charge of forty shillings by the year to be issuing and growing and to be pertained and taken at the Feast of St Michael the Archangel yearly and out of my messuage & tenements lands and grounds and appurtenances situate at Wooton Glandfield als Glandfield Wooten within the County of Dorset for and towards the better and more comfortable maintenance of the Schoolmaster of the 'Free School' in Dorchester aforesaid the said annuity to commence and begin at such Feast of St Michael the Archangel and shall next happen after there shall be as many Capital Burgesses of the Borough of Dorchester in the County of Dorset as there be others dwelling out of the said Borough that shall be Ffeoffee of the Schoolhouse and lands belonging thereto and not before
     "Item: I give to the poor of each Parish in Dorchester Forty shillings to be distributed by the Overseers of each Parish in Clothes for them.
     "Item: I give unto my son John BUSHROD the sum of five hundred pounds I do give to my daughter Anne BUSHROD three hundred and fifty pounds to be paid in some living for her and her children if the Lord do bless her with any I do give unto my son Samuel Three hundred pounds I do give to my son Richard two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Elizabeth two hundred and fifty pounds I do give unto my daughter Dorothie two hundred and fifty pounds and all these sums to be paid unto them in manner and form following All my sons portions on the day of marriage or the age of twenty four years All my daughters at the day of marriage or the age of one and twenty years which shall first happen and in the meantime the monies shall be employed? for their better maintenance and training? of them up in learning?
     "Item: I give to my brother Robert BUSHROD his son William BUSHROD the sum of twenty pounds more than the legacy given him by my uncle Henry BUSHROD late deceased of Craford [i.e. Tarrant Crawford] my will is that my executors shall give good security? for the performance? of this will and legacies therein before he shall be possessed of this my estate and be admitted hereunto unto my Overseers
     "Item: I do give all my lands household stuff goods moveable and unmovable unto my son Thomas BUSHROD whom I make my whole and sole executor of this my Last Will and Testament
     "The 10th day of June Anno Domini 1626
     "The 28th day of June Anno Domini 1628 I Richard BUSHROD of Dorchester in the County of Dorset haberdasher being sick and weak of body but good and perfect memory I praise my God and having already made my Last Will and Testament do now further declare in my will which I appoint to be added to my Last will as a codicil in manner and form following
     "Vizt: that whereas I have already ordained and appointed my son Thomas to be executor of my said will, I do now will and ordaine that my said son before he does my said will, shall enter into bonds to my loving friends whom I have already nominated and appointed to be overseers of my said will, in the sum of two thousand pounds well and truly to perform my said will and to pay in unto them or to the survivor or survivors of them within six months next: after they or the survivor or survivors of them shall require on demand the same such and to raise of the legacies in or by my said will given or bequeathed to the ( benefit??) of my children as my said friends or ye survivor or survivors of them shall appoint to be by them employed or disposed for the use and benefit of this to them I give by my said will given or bequeathed the same lagacies which my said son shall so pay in
     "Also: I give to the town of Shafton in the county of Dorset the sum of fifty pounds of lawful money of England towards the building of a schoolhouse there to be paid within three months next after the foundation of the same school shall be paid
     "Also: I give and bequeath over and above the money which I have given to good uses by my said will fifty pounds of lawful money of England to be paid to my said overseers within 12 months after my death and to be then employed and bestowed to such good use as overseers and they the survivors of them or the majority of them shall think fit.
     "Also: I do appoint for the maintenance of all my said children except my executor to whom I have by my said will given, any legacy shall be had and raised out of the benefit of their said legacies until the same legacies shall be paid
     "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above said in the presence of Richard BUSHROD signed and published in the presence of :-
     "John WHITE; Simon WHETCOMBE; John HUMFREY; George WAY; William DERBIE [DERBY]
     "Probate: of this written testament with a codicil was granted at London before William James doctor at law surrogate of Henry Martin doctor of law of the prerogative court of Canterbury on the third day of the month of January Anno domini one thousand six hundred twenty eight.¹ "

     GAV-12.

     Henry Bushrod died in 1614 at Dorsetshire, England.¹

His estate was probated on 12 July 1614.¹

     Henry Bushrod witnessed the will of Henry Bushrod.

Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "[John] also had an uncle, his fathers brother Henry BUSHROD (d.1614) a yeoman who lived at Tarrent Crawford in Dorset who died in 1614. He left a will (PROB 11/124) dated 10th Sep 1612 which was proved on 12th July 1614 in which he asked to be buried in the churchyard at Tarrent Crawford and left bequests to the children of Robert Bushrod (1580-1610) and to Margeri Bushrod (b1582/3) the children of his deceased brother John."

     Wilmot Parkins married Thomas Bushrod, son of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts, on 21 July 1629 at England.¹

Wilmot Parkins died on 21 April 1633 at England.¹
Wilmot Parkins was buried on 23 April 1633 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Thomas BUSHROD [1605-1677] Baptised 12 June 1605 at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married Wilmot PARKINS the sister-in-law of William WHITEWAY the diarist on 21 July 1629, presumably at St Peters where records do not survive, but their marriage is recorded in William Whiteway's diary. Thomas was admitted as a Freeman of Dorchester on 7 Jan 1629/30 by which time he is described as a merchant. Whiteway's diary also states against their marriage that 'he went bankrupt within a year and a half'.They nevertheless had a son John Bushrod baptised at Holy Trinity on the 9th September 1632. He is referred to in William Whiteway's diary as being born on 31 Aug 1632 but he died on 1 April 1633 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church the next day. There may have been complications with the birth because his wife Wilmot died on 21 April 1633 and was buried 2 days later. Thomas emigrated to New England arriving about 1635 and was a beneficiary under his brother Samuel's will in 1647. He married again to a Mary Piersey in York Virginia about 1656 and later to Elizabeth Nowell in 1661. He died there 24 April 1677."

     Elizabeth Nowell married Thomas Bushrod, son of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts, in 1661 at Virginia, USA,
;
His 3rd wife.¹
     Elizabeth Nowell was a mentioned with Wilmot Parkins and Thomas Bushrod;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Thomas BUSHROD [1605-1677] Baptised 12 June 1605 at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married Wilmot PARKINS the sister-in-law of William WHITEWAY the diarist on 21 July 1629, presumably at St Peters where records do not survive, but their marriage is recorded in William Whiteway's diary. Thomas was admitted as a Freeman of Dorchester on 7 Jan 1629/30 by which time he is described as a merchant. Whiteway's diary also states against their marriage that 'he went bankrupt within a year and a half'.They nevertheless had a son John Bushrod baptised at Holy Trinity on the 9th September 1632. He is referred to in William Whiteway's diary as being born on 31 Aug 1632 but he died on 1 April 1633 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church the next day. There may have been complications with the birth because his wife Wilmot died on 21 April 1633 and was buried 2 days later. Thomas emigrated to New England arriving about 1635 and was a beneficiary under his brother Samuel's will in 1647. He married again to a Mary Piersey in York Virginia about 1656 and later to Elizabeth Nowell in 1661. He died there 24 April 1677."

     John (1) Bushrod was buried at St.Pater's Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He was born before 8 January 1607.¹
John (1) Bushrod died before 1612.¹
     He was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

     Rev. Samuel Whitfield married Anne Bushrod, daughter of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts, on 24 April 1628 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹

Rev. Samuel Whitfield died on 5 July 1628.¹
     Reference:
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Anne BUSHROD - Baptised 21 April 1608 Holy Trinity Dorchester, She married Rev. Samuel WHITFEILD [WHITFELDE] the rector of All Saints church in Dorchester in her own parish church of Holy Trinity on 24 Apr 1628. Unfortunately Samuel became ill and died on the 5th July 1628. They had a posthumous daughter named Mary Whitfield baptised at Holy Trinity on 15th March 1628/9 and she was living in 1646 when she is mentioned as a potential beneficiary under the will of Samuel Bushrod (para 6 below) . Ann now a widow is said to have remarried on 21 May 1631 to a Mr Marshall and Ann is the 'sister Marshall' also referred to in Samuel's Will."

; Rector.¹

     Anne Whitfield was born before 15 March 1629; born posthumously.¹
     She was a mentioned with Anne Bushrod and Rev. Samuel Whitfield;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Anne BUSHROD - Baptised 21 April 1608 Holy Trinity Dorchester, She married Rev. Samuel WHITFEILD [WHITFELDE] the rector of All Saints church in Dorchester in her own parish church of Holy Trinity on 24 Apr 1628. Unfortunately Samuel became ill and died on the 5th July 1628. They had a posthumous daughter named Mary Whitfield baptised at Holy Trinity on 15th March 1628/9 and she was living in 1646 when she is mentioned as a potential beneficiary under the will of Samuel Bushrod (para 6 below) . Ann now a widow is said to have remarried on 21 May 1631 to a Mr Marshall and Ann is the 'sister Marshall' also referred to in Samuel's Will."
In Samuel Bushrod's will dated 13 April 1646, Anne Whitfield was named as an heir;
From "Early Colonial Settlers...":
     "VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, pp 375
     "SAMUEL BUSHROD in the countie of Dorset, clothier. Will 13 April 1647; proved 1 June 1647.
     "I give unto the ministers herafter named viz; to Mr. William Bon £5, Mr. John White the elder £3, Mr. Hugh Thompson 40s., Mr. Peter Ince 40s, Mr. Gundry, clerke 40s, and Mr. John Barnard 40s. Also I give unto Mr. Frederick Losse £3, and to Mr. John Forward 40s. To my daughter Martha £200 to be employed for her education and maintenance, and to be paid over to her together with the increase and benefit thereof, at her age of 21 or marriage. If she die before I give £100 thereof to my wife Martha, £20 to the children of my brother John Bushrod living at the tyme of my decease, £5 to my sister Mary Allambridge, £10 to my cousen Mary Whitfield and the residue to the children of my sister Marshall living at the time of my decease Also I give to the three children of my cosin John Gilbert which are now living, and to the five children of my cosen Henry Bushrod now living, 20s. apiece. To Ann Squib 20s. To the poor of Trinity parish in Dorchester 40s. To the poor of St. Peters and All Saints there 20s. severally.
     "To my brother John Bushrod to be re covered at his cost, all the debt due to me by Thomas Whitle, merchant, and the moiety of of all the judgements recovered by my father Mr. John Allambridge deceased, against the said Thomas Whitle given me under the last will of the said John Allambridge. To my brother Thomas Bushrod halfe the summes of money that he oweth me, the other halfe I give to my brother Richard Bushrod, for the recovery whereof the said Richard is to bear the cost and charge, To my brother Marshall's children equally among them, all debts due unto me from Joseph Cole and Nathaniel White, merchants, save only £20 thereof, which I give unto my cousin Mary Whitfield. To my three cosens John, Elizabeth, and Joseph Scovile, the money owing unto me by John Stansby, mariner, who was heretofore master of the barque called the George of Weymouth, whereof Mr. George Churchey was owner or part owner, which money is for the proceed and provenue of three serges, costing £12. 15s. delivered by me upon adventure unto the said John Stans bye. All the rest of my goods I give to my wife Martha, whom I make my executrix, and I desire my kinsman John Bushrod clothier, my friend George Cole, marchaunt and my brother Scovile to be overseers of this my will, and to take security of my executrix in behalf of my daughter. And as ao testimony of love and thankfulness to my overseers I bequeath unto them 20s. apeece to be bestowed in rings. Witnesses: Ri : Scovile, Richard Rapson of Dorcester, clothier, Mary Coke of Dorchester spinster. Proved by the executrix. Fines, 120.
     "This will at least gives a clue to the English ancestry of the Virginia Bushrods and very probably is that of a brother of the emigrants. These emigrants were two brothers Thomas and Richard. Thomas came first to Mass. and afterwards to Virginia. He was long a prominent man in York County and was Burgess for the county 1658 60. His frequent clashes with the parish clergy' and the direction in his will that there should be no "common prayer" at his burial would indicate that he was a Puritan. The numerous legacies made by Samuel Bushrod to ministers would indicate that he was of the same faith. Thomas Bushrod married twice but left no children. His will was probated in York Co. in 1677. Richard Bushrod, his brother, lived in Gloucester County, and according to a[ deposition was born in 1626. He married Apphia-, and was ancestor of the Virginia family of the name. See Wm. & Mary Quarterly, XIV, 177.
George Scovel, born "infra the Isle of Purbeek, Dorset" about 1601, was a merchant in Virginia 1640."

From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Samuel BUSHROD, Clothier of [Dorchester in], Dorset
[Note:-Samuel BUSHROD was the son of Richard BUSHROD 1576-1628 Habadasher & Merchant Adventurer of Dorchester and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester on 31st July 1646
     "Dated 13 Apr 1646, Buried 31 July 1646, Proved 01 June 1647 admin granted to Martha Bushrod relict
     "PROB 11/200
     "Bequests:- Unto Rev John White the elder £3; Rev William Ben £5; Mr Hugh Thomson £10; Mr Peter Juce £10; Mr Gundrey Clerk £10; Mr John Barnard £10; Frederick Hoppe £3; Mr John FForward £10; My daughter Martha £200 for her education & maintenance & paid at 21 or marriage, if she die 1st £100 to wife Martha £20 to children of brother John Bushrod; £5 to sister Mary Allambridge; £10 to cosin Mary Whitfield; rest to children of his sister Marshall - My will is that 2 months after decease wife to be bound to his overseers in the sum of £400 to pay legacies to daughter - to 3 children of Cosen John Gilbert 20 shillings each; 5 children of my cosen Henry Bushrod 20 shillings each; To Anne Squibb 20 shillings; To poor of Trinity Parish Dorchester £10; To Poor of St Peters Parish £20 To poor of All Saints Parish £20; To brother John Bushrod to be recorded at his cost and charges all that debt owing to me by Thomas Whitli merchant and also the moietie [from?] Mr John Allambridge deceased given to him by his will; To brother Thomas Bushrod half of other debts owing to him To brother Richard Bushrod the other half of the debt ; To brother Marshalls children debts owing by Joseph Cole & Nathaniel White Merchant with £20 of this debt to Cosen Mary Whitfield; To 3 cosens John, Elizabeth and Joseph Scoville the debt owing to him from John Stansby Mariner the master of the barque called the George of Weymouth whereof Mr George Churchey was owner : Rest to wife Martha sole executrix Overseers Kinsman John Bushrod ; friend George Cole merchant and brother Scovile Witnesses Richard Scovile Richard Rapson of Dorchester Clotheir the mark of Mary Cole of Dorchester spinster.^2,3

     Martha Allambridge married Samuel Bushrod, son of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts, on 1 September 1640 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.^1,2

      ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647."
In John Allambridge's will dated 31 October 1644 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England, Martha Allambridge was named as an heir;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of John ALLAMBRIDGE, Clothier of Dorchester, Dorset
     "Dated 31st Oct 1644,
Probate 13 June 1645
     "PROB 11/193
     "WILL: 40s to poor of each 3 parishes in Dorchester; £20 to good causes out of which 40s to Mr Gundry; 40s to Mt John Fflower Usher of the school in Dorchester; to my 2 brothers John Chaffy and Richard Chaffy £10 each; to wife Jane and conveinient house room during her widowhood in my dwelling house in Dorchester (parts of house specified) in common with son John + she retains all household stuff she brought to the marriage & son John to inherit dwelling £200 and rest of his household stuff; ; next to and adjoining the Tavern called the George + dwelling in occupation of Isaac Denning ; Give to rest of my children Mary; Sarah; Hannah; Josias; Elizabeth and Samuel £150 each; To 3 grandchildren Elizabeth Scoville; John Scoville and Joseph Scoville £10each; To 1st child which my daughter Martha shall have by her now husband £10: Executors Henry Hartnell Clerk; John BUSHROD Clothier; John Whiteway gent and George Cole merchant
     "Clothier, Capital Burgess and Mayor of Dorchester in 1642, See FFH pages 44, 202,204,205,208: (Abstracts of PCC probates year books edited by John Matthew & George F Matthews BA pub 1906 states probate by John BUSHROD; John WHITEWAY & George COLE Pr Henry HARTWELL Clerk."³
In Samuel Bushrod's will dated 13 April 1646, Martha Allambridge was named as executor;
From "Early Colonial Settlers...":
     "VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, pp 375
     "SAMUEL BUSHROD in the countie of Dorset, clothier. Will 13 April 1647; proved 1 June 1647.
     "I give unto the ministers herafter named viz; to Mr. William Bon £5, Mr. John White the elder £3, Mr. Hugh Thompson 40s., Mr. Peter Ince 40s, Mr. Gundry, clerke 40s, and Mr. John Barnard 40s. Also I give unto Mr. Frederick Losse £3, and to Mr. John Forward 40s. To my daughter Martha £200 to be employed for her education and maintenance, and to be paid over to her together with the increase and benefit thereof, at her age of 21 or marriage. If she die before I give £100 thereof to my wife Martha, £20 to the children of my brother John Bushrod living at the tyme of my decease, £5 to my sister Mary Allambridge, £10 to my cousen Mary Whitfield and the residue to the children of my sister Marshall living at the time of my decease Also I give to the three children of my cosin John Gilbert which are now living, and to the five children of my cosen Henry Bushrod now living, 20s. apiece. To Ann Squib 20s. To the poor of Trinity parish in Dorchester 40s. To the poor of St. Peters and All Saints there 20s. severally.
     "To my brother John Bushrod to be re covered at his cost, all the debt due to me by Thomas Whitle, merchant, and the moiety of of all the judgements recovered by my father Mr. John Allambridge deceased, against the said Thomas Whitle given me under the last will of the said John Allambridge. To my brother Thomas Bushrod halfe the summes of money that he oweth me, the other halfe I give to my brother Richard Bushrod, for the recovery whereof the said Richard is to bear the cost and charge, To my brother Marshall's children equally among them, all debts due unto me from Joseph Cole and Nathaniel White, merchants, save only £20 thereof, which I give unto my cousin Mary Whitfield. To my three cosens John, Elizabeth, and Joseph Scovile, the money owing unto me by John Stansby, mariner, who was heretofore master of the barque called the George of Weymouth, whereof Mr. George Churchey was owner or part owner, which money is for the proceed and provenue of three serges, costing £12. 15s. delivered by me upon adventure unto the said John Stans bye. All the rest of my goods I give to my wife Martha, whom I make my executrix, and I desire my kinsman John Bushrod clothier, my friend George Cole, marchaunt and my brother Scovile to be overseers of this my will, and to take security of my executrix in behalf of my daughter. And as ao testimony of love and thankfulness to my overseers I bequeath unto them 20s. apeece to be bestowed in rings. Witnesses: Ri : Scovile, Richard Rapson of Dorcester, clothier, Mary Coke of Dorchester spinster. Proved by the executrix. Fines, 120.
     "This will at least gives a clue to the English ancestry of the Virginia Bushrods and very probably is that of a brother of the emigrants. These emigrants were two brothers Thomas and Richard. Thomas came first to Mass. and afterwards to Virginia. He was long a prominent man in York County and was Burgess for the county 1658 60. His frequent clashes with the parish clergy' and the direction in his will that there should be no "common prayer" at his burial would indicate that he was a Puritan. The numerous legacies made by Samuel Bushrod to ministers would indicate that he was of the same faith. Thomas Bushrod married twice but left no children. His will was probated in York Co. in 1677. Richard Bushrod, his brother, lived in Gloucester County, and according to a[ deposition was born in 1626. He married Apphia-, and was ancestor of the Virginia family of the name. See Wm. & Mary Quarterly, XIV, 177.
George Scovel, born "infra the Isle of Purbeek, Dorset" about 1601, was a merchant in Virginia 1640."

From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Samuel BUSHROD, Clothier of [Dorchester in], Dorset
[Note:-Samuel BUSHROD was the son of Richard BUSHROD 1576-1628 Habadasher & Merchant Adventurer of Dorchester and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester on 31st July 1646
     "Dated 13 Apr 1646, Buried 31 July 1646, Proved 01 June 1647 admin granted to Martha Bushrod relict
     "PROB 11/200
     "Bequests:- Unto Rev John White the elder £3; Rev William Ben £5; Mr Hugh Thomson £10; Mr Peter Juce £10; Mr Gundrey Clerk £10; Mr John Barnard £10; Frederick Hoppe £3; Mr John FForward £10; My daughter Martha £200 for her education & maintenance & paid at 21 or marriage, if she die 1st £100 to wife Martha £20 to children of brother John Bushrod; £5 to sister Mary Allambridge; £10 to cosin Mary Whitfield; rest to children of his sister Marshall - My will is that 2 months after decease wife to be bound to his overseers in the sum of £400 to pay legacies to daughter - to 3 children of Cosen John Gilbert 20 shillings each; 5 children of my cosen Henry Bushrod 20 shillings each; To Anne Squibb 20 shillings; To poor of Trinity Parish Dorchester £10; To Poor of St Peters Parish £20 To poor of All Saints Parish £20; To brother John Bushrod to be recorded at his cost and charges all that debt owing to me by Thomas Whitli merchant and also the moietie [from?] Mr John Allambridge deceased given to him by his will; To brother Thomas Bushrod half of other debts owing to him To brother Richard Bushrod the other half of the debt ; To brother Marshalls children debts owing by Joseph Cole & Nathaniel White Merchant with £20 of this debt to Cosen Mary Whitfield; To 3 cosens John, Elizabeth and Joseph Scoville the debt owing to him from John Stansby Mariner the master of the barque called the George of Weymouth whereof Mr George Churchey was owner : Rest to wife Martha sole executrix Overseers Kinsman John Bushrod ; friend George Cole merchant and brother Scovile Witnesses Richard Scovile Richard Rapson of Dorchester Clotheir the mark of Mary Cole of Dorchester spinster.^1,4

     Martha Bushrod was born before 9 November 1645 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.² She was baptized on 9 November 1645 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.²
     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647."
In Samuel Bushrod's will dated 13 April 1646, Martha Bushrod was named as an heir;
From "Early Colonial Settlers...":
     "VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, pp 375
     "SAMUEL BUSHROD in the countie of Dorset, clothier. Will 13 April 1647; proved 1 June 1647.
     "I give unto the ministers herafter named viz; to Mr. William Bon £5, Mr. John White the elder £3, Mr. Hugh Thompson 40s., Mr. Peter Ince 40s, Mr. Gundry, clerke 40s, and Mr. John Barnard 40s. Also I give unto Mr. Frederick Losse £3, and to Mr. John Forward 40s. To my daughter Martha £200 to be employed for her education and maintenance, and to be paid over to her together with the increase and benefit thereof, at her age of 21 or marriage. If she die before I give £100 thereof to my wife Martha, £20 to the children of my brother John Bushrod living at the tyme of my decease, £5 to my sister Mary Allambridge, £10 to my cousen Mary Whitfield and the residue to the children of my sister Marshall living at the time of my decease Also I give to the three children of my cosin John Gilbert which are now living, and to the five children of my cosen Henry Bushrod now living, 20s. apiece. To Ann Squib 20s. To the poor of Trinity parish in Dorchester 40s. To the poor of St. Peters and All Saints there 20s. severally.
     "To my brother John Bushrod to be re covered at his cost, all the debt due to me by Thomas Whitle, merchant, and the moiety of of all the judgements recovered by my father Mr. John Allambridge deceased, against the said Thomas Whitle given me under the last will of the said John Allambridge. To my brother Thomas Bushrod halfe the summes of money that he oweth me, the other halfe I give to my brother Richard Bushrod, for the recovery whereof the said Richard is to bear the cost and charge, To my brother Marshall's children equally among them, all debts due unto me from Joseph Cole and Nathaniel White, merchants, save only £20 thereof, which I give unto my cousin Mary Whitfield. To my three cosens John, Elizabeth, and Joseph Scovile, the money owing unto me by John Stansby, mariner, who was heretofore master of the barque called the George of Weymouth, whereof Mr. George Churchey was owner or part owner, which money is for the proceed and provenue of three serges, costing £12. 15s. delivered by me upon adventure unto the said John Stans bye. All the rest of my goods I give to my wife Martha, whom I make my executrix, and I desire my kinsman John Bushrod clothier, my friend George Cole, marchaunt and my brother Scovile to be overseers of this my will, and to take security of my executrix in behalf of my daughter. And as ao testimony of love and thankfulness to my overseers I bequeath unto them 20s. apeece to be bestowed in rings. Witnesses: Ri : Scovile, Richard Rapson of Dorcester, clothier, Mary Coke of Dorchester spinster. Proved by the executrix. Fines, 120.
     "This will at least gives a clue to the English ancestry of the Virginia Bushrods and very probably is that of a brother of the emigrants. These emigrants were two brothers Thomas and Richard. Thomas came first to Mass. and afterwards to Virginia. He was long a prominent man in York County and was Burgess for the county 1658 60. His frequent clashes with the parish clergy' and the direction in his will that there should be no "common prayer" at his burial would indicate that he was a Puritan. The numerous legacies made by Samuel Bushrod to ministers would indicate that he was of the same faith. Thomas Bushrod married twice but left no children. His will was probated in York Co. in 1677. Richard Bushrod, his brother, lived in Gloucester County, and according to a[ deposition was born in 1626. He married Apphia-, and was ancestor of the Virginia family of the name. See Wm. & Mary Quarterly, XIV, 177.
George Scovel, born "infra the Isle of Purbeek, Dorset" about 1601, was a merchant in Virginia 1640."

From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Samuel BUSHROD, Clothier of [Dorchester in], Dorset
[Note:-Samuel BUSHROD was the son of Richard BUSHROD 1576-1628 Habadasher & Merchant Adventurer of Dorchester and was buried at Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester on 31st July 1646
     "Dated 13 Apr 1646, Buried 31 July 1646, Proved 01 June 1647 admin granted to Martha Bushrod relict
     "PROB 11/200
     "Bequests:- Unto Rev John White the elder £3; Rev William Ben £5; Mr Hugh Thomson £10; Mr Peter Juce £10; Mr Gundrey Clerk £10; Mr John Barnard £10; Frederick Hoppe £3; Mr John FForward £10; My daughter Martha £200 for her education & maintenance & paid at 21 or marriage, if she die 1st £100 to wife Martha £20 to children of brother John Bushrod; £5 to sister Mary Allambridge; £10 to cosin Mary Whitfield; rest to children of his sister Marshall - My will is that 2 months after decease wife to be bound to his overseers in the sum of £400 to pay legacies to daughter - to 3 children of Cosen John Gilbert 20 shillings each; 5 children of my cosen Henry Bushrod 20 shillings each; To Anne Squibb 20 shillings; To poor of Trinity Parish Dorchester £10; To Poor of St Peters Parish £20 To poor of All Saints Parish £20; To brother John Bushrod to be recorded at his cost and charges all that debt owing to me by Thomas Whitli merchant and also the moietie [from?] Mr John Allambridge deceased given to him by his will; To brother Thomas Bushrod half of other debts owing to him To brother Richard Bushrod the other half of the debt ; To brother Marshalls children debts owing by Joseph Cole & Nathaniel White Merchant with £20 of this debt to Cosen Mary Whitfield; To 3 cosens John, Elizabeth and Joseph Scoville the debt owing to him from John Stansby Mariner the master of the barque called the George of Weymouth whereof Mr George Churchey was owner : Rest to wife Martha sole executrix Overseers Kinsman John Bushrod ; friend George Cole merchant and brother Scovile Witnesses Richard Scovile Richard Rapson of Dorchester Clotheir the mark of Mary Cole of Dorchester spinster.^1,3

     John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod married Sarah Cornish
;
His 2nd wife; her 2nd husband.¹ John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod was born before 23 April 1612 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He married Mary Tilsed on 4 October 1626 at St.John the Baptists's Church, Bere Regis, Dorsetshire, England.¹

John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod died before 3 January 1683/84 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod was buried on 3 January 1683/84 at All Saints Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     He was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4] The Elder - Baptised 23 April 1612 Holy Trinity Dorchester.
     "It is difficult to know exactly when John was born as we have a large gap between the baptism of his sister Anne in 1608 and his own baptism here in 1612. We do however have a nice steady progression in births from the outset, apart from this gap, and the most likely explanation is that Dorothy lost a pregnancy around the year 1610. On the face of it therefore I have had to assume that John was only about 14 or 15 when he married Mary TILSED in St John the Baptist's church at Bere Regis on 4th day of October 1626 (7).
     "There is a further indication that John Bushrode was very young when he married as 15 days after the wedding on 19th Oct 1626 he is admitted as a full member of the Company of Freemen. His membership entry however unusually has a side note that he was still 'apprenticed to the clothier John DALE '. Normally admission to the Company was reserved until after they had served their apprenticeship which would not have started until he was at least 10 years old and typically lasted for 7 or even 10 years. Some Apprenticeship records for Dorchester survive from 1613 and have been listed in the Municipal Records but it is not clear how complete these are. Two apprentices for John Dale the Clothier are recorded in 1619 and 1622 but not one for John Bushrod? I think his elevation may have been because of ill health in his family as his youngest sibling was born that year and his maternal grandfather John Watt's and his mother Dorothy both died in 1627 followed by his father in 1628 so he was probably having to help run his fathers business with his elder brother Thomas. His brother Thomas ends up emigrating to New England c1635 so he may have been away in 1626 dealing with their business interests in France or New England, leaving John in charge at Dorchester. By 1635 when Thomas emigrated John Bushrod was already well established in the Corporation in Dorchester, and given the triangular trading of Cod and furs from New England to France and continental goods to Dorchester carried out by the family, it makes a great deal of business sense, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
     "After marriage at Bere Regis John brought Mary to Dorchester where they settled initially to live in Holy Trinity Parish. The following year Mary gave birth to a son :-
     "(4.1) John Bushrod (1627-1670/1) the younger who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 16th Dec 1627. It is also difficult to follow his career because of the interruption of the Civil War (1642-1651) and disruption to the church records during the Parliamentary period. He appears to have married a Catherine some time after the end of the war. She may well have been a native of Dorchester as it was traditional to marry in the brides parish and parish records for All Saints and St Peters have not survived prior to 1653 and those for Fordington are missing for the entire period 1640 to 1663. We know of Catherine from her burial at All Saints church in Dorchester on 24th July 1667 when she is recorded as "Cathren the wife of John BUSHROD yunyer" [i.e. the younger] tragically she probably died of the plague as there was great mortality that year. When records for All Saints parish commence in December 1653 we have three children which appear to relate to the family:-
     "(4.1.1) Mary Bushrod luckily recorded as 'Mary the daughter of John Bushrod the younger' was born on 26th Sep 1656 and baptised at All Saints Church on 10th Nov 1656
     "(4.1.2) Elizabeth Bushrod born and baptised at All Saints Parish on 27th Nov 1658 recorded as the daughter of John Bushrod. probably buried All Saints 4th Dec 1671
     "(4.1.3) George Bushrod recorded as the son of John Bushrod he was baptised at All Saints Church during Nov 1662.
     "It was traditional to name your first children after the parents so Mary at paragraph (4.1.1) above might well have been the first girl born to the couple, but I think there was an earlier son named John after his father who died as there is a burial record at All Saints Church for John BUSHROD Junior on 24th Nov 1670.
     "John Bushrod and Mary may well have had other children as when his brother Samuel died in 1646 he left £200 to his daughter Martha but in the event of her death £20 of the £200 was to go to 'ye children of my brother John Bushrod which shall be living at my decease'. The others may be missing because they appear to have moved to live in All Saints parish (where records only survive from 1653) as Mary recorded as the wife of John Bushrod the Elder was buried at All Saints Church on 5th Feb 1654/5.
     "Returning to his career after marriage, John soon became an enthusiastic constable for Dorchester being elected in both 1631 and 1632 and is often referred to in both William Whiteway's diary and 'Fire from Heaven'. He is recorded as a clothier by trade and assistant governor of the Company of Freemen in 1633 and was elected a Capital Burgess on 4 Sep 1639 to replace John Blatchford who had been absent in France for 3 years. He was elected Bailiff of Dorchester in 1640 and took on the Stewardship of the Brewhouse when Benjamin Devenish died in 1643. He was named as one of the executors of the will of John Allambridge, a wealthy clothier of Dorchester when he wrote his will on 31st Oct 1644, which he proved the following year. He was elected Mayor of Dorchester twice in 1644 and 1655, and MP for Dorchester in 1659. From the quarter session records it appears that he lived in a house just west of Dorchester goal.
     "John re-married to Sarah ATKINS nee CORNISH. Her first marriage had been to a Gentleman Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon whom she married on 18th Feb 1635 at Uffculme in Devon (1.15). Peter's long and complicated Will survives dated 5th May 1657 and this is referred to in Sarah's will dated 13 Feb 1669 wherein she is referred to as 'Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkin's of Tiverton in the county of Devon '. I have not found Sarah's marriage to John or her burial. Her will was proved on 5th Jan 1671 when she left all her estate to her kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock a mercer of Tiverton. There are no bequests to any children. She may therefore have been returned to Devon for burial with her 1st husband.
     "John BUSHROD was buried in All Saints church Dorchester 3rd Jan 1683/4 as John Bushrod senior.¹

     Mary Tilsed married John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod, son of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts, on 4 October 1626 at St.John the Baptists's Church, Bere Regis, Dorsetshire, England.¹

Mary Tilsed died before 5 February 1655.¹
Mary Tilsed was buried on 5 February 1655 at All Saints Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
      ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4] The Elder - Baptised 23 April 1612 Holy Trinity Dorchester.
     "It is difficult to know exactly when John was born as we have a large gap between the baptism of his sister Anne in 1608 and his own baptism here in 1612. We do however have a nice steady progression in births from the outset, apart from this gap, and the most likely explanation is that Dorothy lost a pregnancy around the year 1610. On the face of it therefore I have had to assume that John was only about 14 or 15 when he married Mary TILSED in St John the Baptist's church at Bere Regis on 4th day of October 1626 (7).
     "There is a further indication that John Bushrode was very young when he married as 15 days after the wedding on 19th Oct 1626 he is admitted as a full member of the Company of Freemen. His membership entry however unusually has a side note that he was still 'apprenticed to the clothier John DALE '. Normally admission to the Company was reserved until after they had served their apprenticeship which would not have started until he was at least 10 years old and typically lasted for 7 or even 10 years. Some Apprenticeship records for Dorchester survive from 1613 and have been listed in the Municipal Records but it is not clear how complete these are. Two apprentices for John Dale the Clothier are recorded in 1619 and 1622 but not one for John Bushrod? I think his elevation may have been because of ill health in his family as his youngest sibling was born that year and his maternal grandfather John Watt's and his mother Dorothy both died in 1627 followed by his father in 1628 so he was probably having to help run his fathers business with his elder brother Thomas. His brother Thomas ends up emigrating to New England c1635 so he may have been away in 1626 dealing with their business interests in France or New England, leaving John in charge at Dorchester. By 1635 when Thomas emigrated John Bushrod was already well established in the Corporation in Dorchester, and given the triangular trading of Cod and furs from New England to France and continental goods to Dorchester carried out by the family, it makes a great deal of business sense, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
     "After marriage at Bere Regis John brought Mary to Dorchester where they settled initially to live in Holy Trinity Parish. The following year Mary gave birth to a son :-
     "(4.1) John Bushrod (1627-1670/1) the younger who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 16th Dec 1627. It is also difficult to follow his career because of the interruption of the Civil War (1642-1651) and disruption to the church records during the Parliamentary period. He appears to have married a Catherine some time after the end of the war. She may well have been a native of Dorchester as it was traditional to marry in the brides parish and parish records for All Saints and St Peters have not survived prior to 1653 and those for Fordington are missing for the entire period 1640 to 1663. We know of Catherine from her burial at All Saints church in Dorchester on 24th July 1667 when she is recorded as "Cathren the wife of John BUSHROD yunyer" [i.e. the younger] tragically she probably died of the plague as there was great mortality that year. When records for All Saints parish commence in December 1653 we have three children which appear to relate to the family:-
     "(4.1.1) Mary Bushrod luckily recorded as 'Mary the daughter of John Bushrod the younger' was born on 26th Sep 1656 and baptised at All Saints Church on 10th Nov 1656
     "(4.1.2) Elizabeth Bushrod born and baptised at All Saints Parish on 27th Nov 1658 recorded as the daughter of John Bushrod. probably buried All Saints 4th Dec 1671
     "(4.1.3) George Bushrod recorded as the son of John Bushrod he was baptised at All Saints Church during Nov 1662.
     "It was traditional to name your first children after the parents so Mary at paragraph (4.1.1) above might well have been the first girl born to the couple, but I think there was an earlier son named John after his father who died as there is a burial record at All Saints Church for John BUSHROD Junior on 24th Nov 1670.
     "John Bushrod and Mary may well have had other children as when his brother Samuel died in 1646 he left £200 to his daughter Martha but in the event of her death £20 of the £200 was to go to 'ye children of my brother John Bushrod which shall be living at my decease'. The others may be missing because they appear to have moved to live in All Saints parish (where records only survive from 1653) as Mary recorded as the wife of John Bushrod the Elder was buried at All Saints Church on 5th Feb 1654/5.
     "Returning to his career after marriage, John soon became an enthusiastic constable for Dorchester being elected in both 1631 and 1632 and is often referred to in both William Whiteway's diary and 'Fire from Heaven'. He is recorded as a clothier by trade and assistant governor of the Company of Freemen in 1633 and was elected a Capital Burgess on 4 Sep 1639 to replace John Blatchford who had been absent in France for 3 years. He was elected Bailiff of Dorchester in 1640 and took on the Stewardship of the Brewhouse when Benjamin Devenish died in 1643. He was named as one of the executors of the will of John Allambridge, a wealthy clothier of Dorchester when he wrote his will on 31st Oct 1644, which he proved the following year. He was elected Mayor of Dorchester twice in 1644 and 1655, and MP for Dorchester in 1659. From the quarter session records it appears that he lived in a house just west of Dorchester goal.
     "John re-married to Sarah ATKINS nee CORNISH. Her first marriage had been to a Gentleman Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon whom she married on 18th Feb 1635 at Uffculme in Devon (1.15). Peter's long and complicated Will survives dated 5th May 1657 and this is referred to in Sarah's will dated 13 Feb 1669 wherein she is referred to as 'Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkin's of Tiverton in the county of Devon '. I have not found Sarah's marriage to John or her burial. Her will was proved on 5th Jan 1671 when she left all her estate to her kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock a mercer of Tiverton. There are no bequests to any children. She may therefore have been returned to Devon for burial with her 1st husband.
     "John BUSHROD was buried in All Saints church Dorchester 3rd Jan 1683/4 as John Bushrod senior.¹

     Sarah Cornish married John (2) "The Elder" Bushrod, son of Richard I Bushrod and Dorothy Watts,
;
His 2nd wife; her 2nd husband.¹ Sarah Cornish married Gent. Peter Atkins on 18 February 1635 at Uffculme, Devonshire, England,
;
Her 1st husband.¹
Sarah Cornish died before 5 January 1671; Date of probate of will.¹
     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4] The Elder - Baptised 23 April 1612 Holy Trinity Dorchester.
     "It is difficult to know exactly when John was born as we have a large gap between the baptism of his sister Anne in 1608 and his own baptism here in 1612. We do however have a nice steady progression in births from the outset, apart from this gap, and the most likely explanation is that Dorothy lost a pregnancy around the year 1610. On the face of it therefore I have had to assume that John was only about 14 or 15 when he married Mary TILSED in St John the Baptist's church at Bere Regis on 4th day of October 1626 (7).
     "There is a further indication that John Bushrode was very young when he married as 15 days after the wedding on 19th Oct 1626 he is admitted as a full member of the Company of Freemen. His membership entry however unusually has a side note that he was still 'apprenticed to the clothier John DALE '. Normally admission to the Company was reserved until after they had served their apprenticeship which would not have started until he was at least 10 years old and typically lasted for 7 or even 10 years. Some Apprenticeship records for Dorchester survive from 1613 and have been listed in the Municipal Records but it is not clear how complete these are. Two apprentices for John Dale the Clothier are recorded in 1619 and 1622 but not one for John Bushrod? I think his elevation may have been because of ill health in his family as his youngest sibling was born that year and his maternal grandfather John Watt's and his mother Dorothy both died in 1627 followed by his father in 1628 so he was probably having to help run his fathers business with his elder brother Thomas. His brother Thomas ends up emigrating to New England c1635 so he may have been away in 1626 dealing with their business interests in France or New England, leaving John in charge at Dorchester. By 1635 when Thomas emigrated John Bushrod was already well established in the Corporation in Dorchester, and given the triangular trading of Cod and furs from New England to France and continental goods to Dorchester carried out by the family, it makes a great deal of business sense, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
     "After marriage at Bere Regis John brought Mary to Dorchester where they settled initially to live in Holy Trinity Parish. The following year Mary gave birth to a son :-
     "(4.1) John Bushrod (1627-1670/1) the younger who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 16th Dec 1627. It is also difficult to follow his career because of the interruption of the Civil War (1642-1651) and disruption to the church records during the Parliamentary period. He appears to have married a Catherine some time after the end of the war. She may well have been a native of Dorchester as it was traditional to marry in the brides parish and parish records for All Saints and St Peters have not survived prior to 1653 and those for Fordington are missing for the entire period 1640 to 1663. We know of Catherine from her burial at All Saints church in Dorchester on 24th July 1667 when she is recorded as "Cathren the wife of John BUSHROD yunyer" [i.e. the younger] tragically she probably died of the plague as there was great mortality that year. When records for All Saints parish commence in December 1653 we have three children which appear to relate to the family:-
     "(4.1.1) Mary Bushrod luckily recorded as 'Mary the daughter of John Bushrod the younger' was born on 26th Sep 1656 and baptised at All Saints Church on 10th Nov 1656
     "(4.1.2) Elizabeth Bushrod born and baptised at All Saints Parish on 27th Nov 1658 recorded as the daughter of John Bushrod. probably buried All Saints 4th Dec 1671
     "(4.1.3) George Bushrod recorded as the son of John Bushrod he was baptised at All Saints Church during Nov 1662.
     "It was traditional to name your first children after the parents so Mary at paragraph (4.1.1) above might well have been the first girl born to the couple, but I think there was an earlier son named John after his father who died as there is a burial record at All Saints Church for John BUSHROD Junior on 24th Nov 1670.
     "John Bushrod and Mary may well have had other children as when his brother Samuel died in 1646 he left £200 to his daughter Martha but in the event of her death £20 of the £200 was to go to 'ye children of my brother John Bushrod which shall be living at my decease'. The others may be missing because they appear to have moved to live in All Saints parish (where records only survive from 1653) as Mary recorded as the wife of John Bushrod the Elder was buried at All Saints Church on 5th Feb 1654/5.
     "Returning to his career after marriage, John soon became an enthusiastic constable for Dorchester being elected in both 1631 and 1632 and is often referred to in both William Whiteway's diary and 'Fire from Heaven'. He is recorded as a clothier by trade and assistant governor of the Company of Freemen in 1633 and was elected a Capital Burgess on 4 Sep 1639 to replace John Blatchford who had been absent in France for 3 years. He was elected Bailiff of Dorchester in 1640 and took on the Stewardship of the Brewhouse when Benjamin Devenish died in 1643. He was named as one of the executors of the will of John Allambridge, a wealthy clothier of Dorchester when he wrote his will on 31st Oct 1644, which he proved the following year. He was elected Mayor of Dorchester twice in 1644 and 1655, and MP for Dorchester in 1659. From the quarter session records it appears that he lived in a house just west of Dorchester goal.
     "John re-married to Sarah ATKINS nee CORNISH. Her first marriage had been to a Gentleman Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon whom she married on 18th Feb 1635 at Uffculme in Devon (1.15). Peter's long and complicated Will survives dated 5th May 1657 and this is referred to in Sarah's will dated 13 Feb 1669 wherein she is referred to as 'Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkin's of Tiverton in the county of Devon '. I have not found Sarah's marriage to John or her burial. Her will was proved on 5th Jan 1671 when she left all her estate to her kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock a mercer of Tiverton. There are no bequests to any children. She may therefore have been returned to Devon for burial with her 1st husband.
     "John BUSHROD was buried in All Saints church Dorchester 3rd Jan 1683/4 as John Bushrod senior.¹

Sarah Cornish left a will on 13 February 1669/70;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Sarah BUSHROD, of Dorchester, Dorset [Note:- Sarah is the wife of John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4]4th child of Richard BUSHROD (1576 - 1628) Haberdasher of Dorchester & Merchant Adventurer
     "Dated 13 Feb 1669/70, Probate 05 January 1671
     "PROB 11/335
     "WILL: Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkins of Tiverton in the county of Devon. Bequests: kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock of Tiverton Mercer such sums as by the last will of my deceased husband Peter Atkins + rest also her executor witnessed by Joshua Churchill Henry Bushrod and Margaret Bushrod [Note:- Her 1st husband Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon left a very long complicated will dated 5th May 1657 leaving his estate mainly to his wife Sarah Atkins. They do not appear to have children of their own. It was proved 14 Oct 1657]."²

     Gent. Peter Atkins married Sarah Cornish on 18 February 1635 at Uffculme, Devonshire, England,
;
Her 1st husband.¹
Gent. Peter Atkins died after 5 May 1657; Date of his will.¹
     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4] The Elder - Baptised 23 April 1612 Holy Trinity Dorchester.
     "It is difficult to know exactly when John was born as we have a large gap between the baptism of his sister Anne in 1608 and his own baptism here in 1612. We do however have a nice steady progression in births from the outset, apart from this gap, and the most likely explanation is that Dorothy lost a pregnancy around the year 1610. On the face of it therefore I have had to assume that John was only about 14 or 15 when he married Mary TILSED in St John the Baptist's church at Bere Regis on 4th day of October 1626 (7).
     "There is a further indication that John Bushrode was very young when he married as 15 days after the wedding on 19th Oct 1626 he is admitted as a full member of the Company of Freemen. His membership entry however unusually has a side note that he was still 'apprenticed to the clothier John DALE '. Normally admission to the Company was reserved until after they had served their apprenticeship which would not have started until he was at least 10 years old and typically lasted for 7 or even 10 years. Some Apprenticeship records for Dorchester survive from 1613 and have been listed in the Municipal Records but it is not clear how complete these are. Two apprentices for John Dale the Clothier are recorded in 1619 and 1622 but not one for John Bushrod? I think his elevation may have been because of ill health in his family as his youngest sibling was born that year and his maternal grandfather John Watt's and his mother Dorothy both died in 1627 followed by his father in 1628 so he was probably having to help run his fathers business with his elder brother Thomas. His brother Thomas ends up emigrating to New England c1635 so he may have been away in 1626 dealing with their business interests in France or New England, leaving John in charge at Dorchester. By 1635 when Thomas emigrated John Bushrod was already well established in the Corporation in Dorchester, and given the triangular trading of Cod and furs from New England to France and continental goods to Dorchester carried out by the family, it makes a great deal of business sense, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
     "After marriage at Bere Regis John brought Mary to Dorchester where they settled initially to live in Holy Trinity Parish. The following year Mary gave birth to a son :-
     "(4.1) John Bushrod (1627-1670/1) the younger who was baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 16th Dec 1627. It is also difficult to follow his career because of the interruption of the Civil War (1642-1651) and disruption to the church records during the Parliamentary period. He appears to have married a Catherine some time after the end of the war. She may well have been a native of Dorchester as it was traditional to marry in the brides parish and parish records for All Saints and St Peters have not survived prior to 1653 and those for Fordington are missing for the entire period 1640 to 1663. We know of Catherine from her burial at All Saints church in Dorchester on 24th July 1667 when she is recorded as "Cathren the wife of John BUSHROD yunyer" [i.e. the younger] tragically she probably died of the plague as there was great mortality that year. When records for All Saints parish commence in December 1653 we have three children which appear to relate to the family:-
     "(4.1.1) Mary Bushrod luckily recorded as 'Mary the daughter of John Bushrod the younger' was born on 26th Sep 1656 and baptised at All Saints Church on 10th Nov 1656
     "(4.1.2) Elizabeth Bushrod born and baptised at All Saints Parish on 27th Nov 1658 recorded as the daughter of John Bushrod. probably buried All Saints 4th Dec 1671
     "(4.1.3) George Bushrod recorded as the son of John Bushrod he was baptised at All Saints Church during Nov 1662.
     "It was traditional to name your first children after the parents so Mary at paragraph (4.1.1) above might well have been the first girl born to the couple, but I think there was an earlier son named John after his father who died as there is a burial record at All Saints Church for John BUSHROD Junior on 24th Nov 1670.
     "John Bushrod and Mary may well have had other children as when his brother Samuel died in 1646 he left £200 to his daughter Martha but in the event of her death £20 of the £200 was to go to 'ye children of my brother John Bushrod which shall be living at my decease'. The others may be missing because they appear to have moved to live in All Saints parish (where records only survive from 1653) as Mary recorded as the wife of John Bushrod the Elder was buried at All Saints Church on 5th Feb 1654/5.
     "Returning to his career after marriage, John soon became an enthusiastic constable for Dorchester being elected in both 1631 and 1632 and is often referred to in both William Whiteway's diary and 'Fire from Heaven'. He is recorded as a clothier by trade and assistant governor of the Company of Freemen in 1633 and was elected a Capital Burgess on 4 Sep 1639 to replace John Blatchford who had been absent in France for 3 years. He was elected Bailiff of Dorchester in 1640 and took on the Stewardship of the Brewhouse when Benjamin Devenish died in 1643. He was named as one of the executors of the will of John Allambridge, a wealthy clothier of Dorchester when he wrote his will on 31st Oct 1644, which he proved the following year. He was elected Mayor of Dorchester twice in 1644 and 1655, and MP for Dorchester in 1659. From the quarter session records it appears that he lived in a house just west of Dorchester goal.
     "John re-married to Sarah ATKINS nee CORNISH. Her first marriage had been to a Gentleman Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon whom she married on 18th Feb 1635 at Uffculme in Devon (1.15). Peter's long and complicated Will survives dated 5th May 1657 and this is referred to in Sarah's will dated 13 Feb 1669 wherein she is referred to as 'Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkin's of Tiverton in the county of Devon '. I have not found Sarah's marriage to John or her burial. Her will was proved on 5th Jan 1671 when she left all her estate to her kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock a mercer of Tiverton. There are no bequests to any children. She may therefore have been returned to Devon for burial with her 1st husband.
     "John BUSHROD was buried in All Saints church Dorchester 3rd Jan 1683/4 as John Bushrod senior.¹
Gent. Peter Atkins is mentioned in the will of Sarah Cornish on 13 February 1669/70;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of Sarah BUSHROD, of Dorchester, Dorset [Note:- Sarah is the wife of John BUSHROD [1612-1683/4]4th child of Richard BUSHROD (1576 - 1628) Haberdasher of Dorchester & Merchant Adventurer
     "Dated 13 Feb 1669/70, Probate 05 January 1671
     "PROB 11/335
     "WILL: Sarah now wife of John BUSHROD the elder of Dorchester in the County of Dorset Clothier and formerly the widow relict and executrix of Peter Atkins of Tiverton in the county of Devon. Bequests: kinsman Mr Nicholas Hitchcock of Tiverton Mercer such sums as by the last will of my deceased husband Peter Atkins + rest also her executor witnessed by Joshua Churchill Henry Bushrod and Margaret Bushrod [Note:- Her 1st husband Peter ATKINS of Tiverton in Devon left a very long complicated will dated 5th May 1657 leaving his estate mainly to his wife Sarah Atkins. They do not appear to have children of their own. It was proved 14 Oct 1657]."²

     Elizabeth (1) Bushrod was born before 17 September 1614 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She was baptized on 17 September 1614 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
Elizabeth (1) Bushrod died before 9 August 1618.¹
Elizabeth (1) Bushrod was buried on 9 August 1618 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     She was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Elizabeth BUSHROD [1614-1618] Baptised 17 Sep 1614 Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester & buried there 9 Aug 1618."

     John Allambridge married Euroth Wilson on 28 September 1615 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹

     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647." John Allambridge was Constable of Dorchester in 1628 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He was Capital Burgess of the (Dorchester) in the early 1630's circa 1632 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ He was Mayorof Dorchester in 1642/43 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹

John Allambridge left a will on 31 October 1644 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Will of John ALLAMBRIDGE, Clothier of Dorchester, Dorset
     "Dated 31st Oct 1644,
Probate 13 June 1645
     "PROB 11/193
     "WILL: 40s to poor of each 3 parishes in Dorchester; £20 to good causes out of which 40s to Mr Gundry; 40s to Mt John Fflower Usher of the school in Dorchester; to my 2 brothers John Chaffy and Richard Chaffy £10 each; to wife Jane and conveinient house room during her widowhood in my dwelling house in Dorchester (parts of house specified) in common with son John + she retains all household stuff she brought to the marriage & son John to inherit dwelling £200 and rest of his household stuff; ; next to and adjoining the Tavern called the George + dwelling in occupation of Isaac Denning ; Give to rest of my children Mary; Sarah; Hannah; Josias; Elizabeth and Samuel £150 each; To 3 grandchildren Elizabeth Scoville; John Scoville and Joseph Scoville £10each; To 1st child which my daughter Martha shall have by her now husband £10: Executors Henry Hartnell Clerk; John BUSHROD Clothier; John Whiteway gent and George Cole merchant
     "Clothier, Capital Burgess and Mayor of Dorchester in 1642, See FFH pages 44, 202,204,205,208: (Abstracts of PCC probates year books edited by John Matthew & George F Matthews BA pub 1906 states probate by John BUSHROD; John WHITEWAY & George COLE Pr Henry HARTWELL Clerk."²

     Euroth Wilson married John Allambridge on 28 September 1615 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹

     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647."

     Mary Bushrod was born before 20 November 1642 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She was baptized on 20 November 1642 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     ;
From Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "Samuel BUSHROD [1616-1646] Baptised 9 Oct 1616 in Holy Trinity Church in Dorchester: He married there on 1st September 1640 to Martha the eldest daughter of another wealthy clothier John ALLAMBRIDGE who had married Euroth WILSON at Holy Trinity Church on 28th Sep 1615. John Allambridge was constable of Dorchester in 1628, Capital Burgess of the town in the early 1630's and was to become Mayor in 1642/3. Samuel's brother John was one of the executors of her father's will and Martha was left £10 when he died in 1645. Her siblings received £150 each, Martha having received her dowry at marriage. Samuel & Martha had 2 children; Mary baptised at Holy Trinity on 20 Nov 1642 and Martha on 9th Nov 1645 before at the young age of 30 Samuel died and was buried at Holy Trinity on 31 July 1646. He was shortly followed by his daughter Martha on 17th October the same year. Link to Will dated 13th April 1646 which has numerous bequests. It was not proved until 1st June 1647."

     Deborah Bushrod was born before 20 July 1618 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She was baptized on 20 July 1618 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
Deborah Bushrod died before 5 November 1619 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
Deborah Bushrod was buried on 5 November 1619 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     She was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

     Elizabeth (2) Bushrod was born before 24 September 1620 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She was baptized on 24 September 1620 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     She was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹

     Dorothy Bushrod was born before 22 December 1622 at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹ She was baptized on 22 December 1622 at Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England.¹
     She was a mentioned with John Bushrod;
Genealogical Notes and Sources cited by Richard Bushrod page on Dorset Online Parish Clerks:
     "(1). Sources:
          "1.1 British History On Line website
          "1.2 Dorset Quarter Sessions Order Book 1625- 1638 Volume 14 of Dorset Record Society Published 2006
          "1.3 Dorset Visitation of 1623 page 3;
          "1.4 Fire From Heaven Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown published by Pimlico 1992 (Great Fire Page 1: Bushrod Family: 39, 43, 44, 52, 110, 132, 133, 145, 182, 187, 228 : Family 206 : Watts Family 42; John Watts 5, 141]
          "1.5 John White The Patriarch of Dorchester [Dorset] and Founder of Massachusetts by Frances Rose-Troup published by GP Putnam's Sons in 1930. Additional comments from her in addition to the main biographical listing.
          "1.6 Municipal Records of Dorchester by Charles Herbert Mayo - 1908:
          "1.7 National Archives - Documents on Line - Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions [PROB 11/75 John Bushrot; PROB 11/155 Richard Bushrod : PROB Will Sarah BUSHROD wife of John Bushrod 5 Jan 1671] Taxation Richard Bushrode 1625 E/115/57/115 & 1626 E115/438/144 Certificates of Residence (latter hundreds of Brownshall and Dorchester)
          "1.8 Parish Registers for Holy Trinity & St Peters in Dorchester and Sherborne Abbey:
          "1.9 History of Parliament Website under Members Section
          "1.10 Studies in Dorset History by Maureen Weinstock M.A. F.R.Hist.S. published by Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd 1953 a study of the Weymouth Port & Petty Customs Books and the role of Dorchester Merchants
          "1.11 William Whiteway of Dorchester - His diary 1618-1635 based on notes compiled by Thomas D Murphy Dorset Record Society - factual account by an eye witness
          "1.12 Wiltshire Archives [Robert Bushrod(1610); William (1677)Bushrod]
          "1.13 The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins 3rd Edition published 1868: Parliamentary Representation Pages 356-361: Contribution to Hospital 1616 page 397
          "1.14. Abstract of Wills PCC Somerset House Register Soame 1620 published by the New England Historical society Boston 1904 [Page 39 Will 106 Edward VYNE of Bloxworth a yeoman, Richard Bushrod of Dorchester haberdasher of hattes executor ]
          "1.15. Church of Latter Day Saints Parish Register Film 917548 Name: Sarah Cornish Gender:     Female Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1635 Marriage Place: Uffculme,Devon,England Spouse:     Peter Atkins
          "1.16. He was a beneficiary under the will of John Roper of Dorchester written 8th Feb 1597 PROB 11/91
          "1.17. He was a witness to the Will of Jerome Harris a Tailor of Dorchester dated 26th Dec 1616 PROB 11/129
     "(2). His father Johis [John] BUSHRODE married his mother Margerie FFELTONS at Sherborne on 7th Oct 1571 See :- Sherborne Parish Register:- Mensis Octobris.¹