Benjamin Bullard (1670 - abt. 1760)

Born 1 Mar 1670 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Tabitha (Edwards) Bullard — married about 1700 in Massachusetts Bay Province

Descendants

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Biography

Benjamin Bullard, first son of Benjamin, was born in 1670, in what was then Medfield, Massachusetts but would become Sherborn.^[1]

He married Tabitha, possibly the widowed Tabitha Edwards Pond, between 1690 and 1701.^[2]

Benjamin and Tabitha had children in Sherborn: ^[3]

• Benjamin (b. Mar 4, 1702-3),
• Jonathan (b. Oct 24, 1706),
• Seth (b. Feb 17, 1708-9),

and reportedly another son, name unknown, and perhaps a daughter or two, no birth records yet found.

Benjamin died at 96 years of age, it is said. No death record yet found.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Medfield through 1850, p. 25, 'Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Martha, May 1, 1670'
2. ↑ no vital record of their wedding yet found.
3. ↑ [http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sherborn/Images/Sherborn_B019.gif Middlesex, Massachusetts, "Vital Records of Sherborn,", pp. 19-21, Mother recorded as Tabitha, Tabatha, & Tabatha

• "Other Bullards." See also History of Worcester County, Masachusetts.
• Vital records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, page 20.
• Other Bullards, a genealogy : supplementary to Bullard and allied families; page 9
• Morse, Rev. Abner. A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans. (H.W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1857-1864).; Vol. 1, p. 13

Research Notes

More sources needed for marriage date, wife's surname, and their deaths.