Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 30 Dec 1680

Notes:

Religion:
In 1649 Obadiah Holmes and others, of that part of Rehoboth, now a part of Swansea, having embraced the Baptist faith, withdrew from the Congregational church and set up a separate meeting of their own. The attempt to break themup and the persecutions they received increased the number of Baptists. It appears that sometime about 1662, the Rev. John Myles of Swansea, Wales, driven out by the "Act of Conformity" of Charles II, had come to America with a large number of his Welch church, and in 1663, at the home John Butterworth, in Rehoboth, (now East Providence), he organized the first Baptist church in Massachusetts, the fourth organized in America. "These and subsequent proceedings were deemed such an evil by the rest of the inhabitants of the town, and of the colony generally, that the court of Plymouth was called on to interfere. Each member of this new church was fined five pounds, prohibited from worship for the space of one month, and they were advised to remove from Rehoboth to some place where they might not prejudice any existing churh. They accordingly removed to(what is now) Barrington, Rhode Island." Jonathan Bosworth early became a member of this church and was one of those who assisted in the organization of the new town of Swansea, named from the old home of the pastor and some of his flock in Wales. The fact of Jonathans joining this church was very displeasing to his parents and on 30th day 10th mo. 1680 they executed an instrument, virtually disowning him and giving all their property to his younger brother. The instrument reads, in part, " I Jonathan Bozworth with my wife Elizabeth Bozworth have given and doe give unto my son Joseph Bozworth half of my house lott..............but for his Brother Jonathan he shall have nothing to doe with anything I have except he decline from that opinion of ye Anabaptists which he now holds the 30th day of ye 10th month 1680." Jonathan, Senior must have relented because a year later he deeds him land in "the North side of the Towneship of Rehoboth."

Died:
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Jonathon married Hannah HOWLAND on 6 Jul 1661 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. Hannah (daughter of John HOWLAND and Elizabeth TILLEY) was born about 1637 in ME; died on 6 Jul 1681 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mercy BOSWORTH was born on 30 May 1662 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
2. Hannah BOSWORTH was born on 5 Nov 1663 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died in 1720 in Providence, Providence, RI.
3. Elizabeth BOSWORTH was born on 6 Jun 1665 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died on 31 Jul 1676 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
4. Jonathon BOSWORTH was born on 24 Dec 1666 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; was buried on 16 Jul 1676 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
5. David BOSWORTH was born on 15 Sep 1669 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died on 12 Jun 1747 in Halifax, Plymouth, MA; was buried in Sturtevant Cemetery, Halifax, Plymouth, MA.
6. John BOSWORTH was born on 7 Apr 1671 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died on 20 Sep 1719.
7. Jabez BOSWORTH was born on 14 Feb 1673 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died on 21 Sep 1747.
8. Ichabod BOSWORTH was born on 18 Mar 1676 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
9. Son BOSWORTH was born on 22 Jun 1678 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died on 22 Jun 1678 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
10. Jonathon BOSWORTH was born on 22 Sep 1680 in Swansea, Bristol, MA; died in 1759.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 2 Sep 1635, Hingham, Plymouth, MA
• Emigration: Abt 1655, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
• Will: 24 Feb 1686/87, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

Notes:

DNA:
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Emigration:
Jonathon Bosworth took the "oath of fidelitie" in Rehoboth, Mass.

Will:
Be it known unto all men by these presents that I Jonathan Bozworth Senior of the Towne of Rehoboth in the County of Bristoll in his Majestys Teritorey and Dominion of New England: Being weake and aged yet through the goodness of god of a competent measure of understanding and memrye doe for the glory of god and the comfort and peace of my dearewiffe and Children and settelling of that small estate that god hath given me, make this my Last will and Testiment this twenty-fourth day of ffeabuary Anno dom. 1686/7.
It is my desire to Humbly resigne up my Soule unto the Hands of my dear Redemer the Lord Jesus Christ; And it is my will that my bodey be decently buried."
The will mentions his wife, eldest son Jonathan, son Joseph, daughter Rebeka Peck, daughter Bethia Peck, and daughter Bathsheba.

Jonathon married Elizabeth UNKNOWN. Elizabeth was born in 1614 in Lancaster, ENGLAND; died on 15 Jun 1705 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth Bosworth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: 1634

Notes:

DNA:
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Immigratn:
Edward Bosworth, along with his wife, Mary, left England in the spring of 1634, sailing from the port of Gravesend, near the mouth of the Thames, in the ship Elizabeth Dorcas. They had with them their sons, Benjamin and Nathaniel, possibly a son Edward, a daughter Mary and her husband, William Buckland, and there may have been younger children, but no record has been found. An older son Jonathan, had come to America a year or more before and settled in Cambridge, then called "Newe Towne."

Died:
"The voyage from England was a long and tedious one and many died on the passage and their bodies thrown overboard. In his history of New England (Vol 1, p.161) John Winthrop writes, "..the Elizabeth Dorcas having a long passage and being hurt upon a rock at Scilly and very ill victualled, she lost sixty passengers at sea, and divers came sick on shore, who all recovered (through the mercy of God)." The Diary of Samuel Sewall (Vol. 3, p. 396) has the following: "Edward Bosworth came over to New England in the Elizabeth and Dorcas. Edward Bosworth, the Father, being ready to dye, ask'd to be carried upon the Deck, that he might see Canaan. When he had seen the Land he resigned his Soul and dyed: was carried ashoar and buried at Boston."

Edward married Mary UNKNOWN. Mary was born in ENGLAND; died on 18 May 1648 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Bosworth
• Immigratn: 1634
• Note: 5 Aug 1634, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Immigratn:
Edward Bosworth, along with his wife, Mary, left England in the spring of 1634, sailing from the port of Gravesend, near the mouth of the Thames, in the ship Elizabeth Dorcas. They had with them their sons, Benjamin and Nathaniel, possibly a son Edward, a daughter Mary and her husband, William Buckland, and there may have been younger children, but no record has been found. An older son Jonathan, had come to America a year or more before and settled in Cambridge, then called "Newe Towne."

Note:
"It is evident that Edward having died and his wife being left a widow, she found it impossible having come into a new and strange land to sustain herself and family without assistance, for in Mass. Colony Records (Vol 1, p. 123) we find the following: "At a Court holden at Newe Towne (Cambridge) August 5, 1634, It was ordered that such moneyes as shalbe layde out for the maintenance of Widd. Bosworth and her famyly shalbe payde againe by the Treasurer." It is also noted in the record that Edward Bosworth had been loaned money by Mr. Henry Sewall for the passage of himself and family to America. The sons of Edward, Jonathan, Benjamin and Nathaniel are ordered to pay the debt. The sum amounted to twenty pounds or about $100.00.