Dorothy Bulkeley (abt. 1640 - aft. 1659)

Born about 2 Aug 1640 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Died after Feb 1659 after about age 18 in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691)

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Biography

Name

DOROTHY BULKELEY was the only daughter of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and Grace Chetwode. (He had two other daughters with his first wife Jane Allen, both of them were named Mary and who died young.) ^[1]

Birth

Dorothy was born on 2 AUG 1640 at Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[2]

Death

Dorothy died after mid-February 1658/59 when her father made a codicil in which no changes were made to her inheritance ; living unmarried on 14 April 1658 when her father wrote the will.^[3] There is no record of a marriage.

Sources

1. ↑ Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, vol I, page 348
2. ↑ (Dorothy, b Concord 2 Aug 1640 [Concord Vital Recrods p. 1])
3. ↑ Bulkeley Genealogy p. 111-113 : The Bulkley Genealogy. Rev. Peter Bulkley. Being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation, Compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., seen at https://archive.org/details/bulkeleygenealog00jaco_0/page/110/mode/2up

• Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume I, page 348, entry for Grace Chetwode.