Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: 1634

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."

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."

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

1. Mary BOSWORTH was born about 1611 in ENGLAND.
2. Jonathon BOSWORTH was born in 1613 in ENGLAND; died on 3 Jan 1687/88 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.
3. Benjamin BOSWORTH was born in 1615 in ENGLAND.
4. Nathaniel BOSWORTH was born on 4 Sep 1617 in ENGLAND.