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Edward BOSWORTH

Edward BOSWORTH

Male Abt 1590 - 1634  (44 years)

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  • Name Edward BOSWORTH 
    Birth Abt 1590  ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Immigratn 1634  [1] 
    • 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."
    Death 1634  Aboard the Elizabeth and Dorcas, Boston Harbor, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • "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."
    Person ID I1828  MM
    Last Modified 1 Feb 2021 

    Family Mary UNKNOWN,   b. ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1648, Hingham, Plymouth, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary BOSWORTH,   b. Abt 1611, ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Jonathon BOSWORTH,   b. 1613, ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1687/88, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     3. Benjamin BOSWORTH,   b. 1615, ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Nathaniel BOSWORTH,   b. 4 Sep 1617, ENGLAND Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F792  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1590 - ENGLAND Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1634 - Aboard the Elizabeth and Dorcas, Boston Harbor, Suffolk, MA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S173] Bosworth Genealogy, (Cossitype, San Francisco, CA, 1928), 173.