Jonathon BOSWORTH

Abt 1635 - 1717  (73 years)

• Birth	Abt 1635	MA   [1, 2]
  Religion	30 Dec 1680  [1]
  	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."
  Death	Between 1708 and 1717	Rehoboth, Bristol, MA   [1]
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  Father	Jonathon BOSWORTH,   b. 1613, ENGLAND d. 3 Jan 1687/88, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth UNKNOWN,   b. 1614, Lancaster, ENGLAND d. 15 Jun 1705, Swansea, Bristol, MA (Age 91 years)
  Family ID	F698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah HOWLAND,   b. Abt 1637, ME d. 6 Jul 1681, Swansea, Bristol, MA (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1661	Swansea, Bristol, MA   [1, 2, 3]
  Children	1. Mercy BOSWORTH,   b. 30 May 1662, Swansea, Bristol, MA   2. Hannah BOSWORTH,   b. 5 Nov 1663, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 1720, Providence, Providence, RI (Age 56 years)   3. Elizabeth BOSWORTH,   b. 6 Jun 1665, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 31 Jul 1676, Swansea, Bristol, MA (Age 11 years)   4. Jonathon BOSWORTH,   b. 24 Dec 1666, Swansea, Bristol, MA bur. 16 Jul 1676, Swansea, Bristol, MA (Age ~ 9 years)   5. David BOSWORTH,   b. 15 Sep 1669, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 12 Jun 1747, Halifax, Plymouth, MA (Age 77 years)   6. John BOSWORTH,   b. 7 Apr 1671, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 20 Sep 1719 (Age 48 years)   7. Jabez BOSWORTH,   b. 14 Feb 1673, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 21 Sep 1747 (Age 74 years)   8. Ichabod BOSWORTH,   b. 18 Mar 1676, Swansea, Bristol, MA   9. Son BOSWORTH,   b. 22 Jun 1678, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 22 Jun 1678, Swansea, Bristol, MA (Age 0 years)   10. Jonathon BOSWORTH,   b. 22 Sep 1680, Swansea, Bristol, MA d. 1759 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F699	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1635 - MA Marriage - 6 Jul 1661 - Swansea, Bristol, MA Death - Between 1708 and 1717 - Rehoboth, Bristol, MA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S173] Bosworth Genealogy, (Cossitype, San Francisco, CA, 1928), 173. [S534] James Bosworth Genealogy, (Unknown Publisher, Hartford, CT, 1928), 534. [S238] Mayflower History, 238.