Moses Bush (1714 - 1803)

Born 8 Dec 1714 in Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Johnson) Bush — married 13 May 1741 in Middletown

Descendants

Died 23 Sep 1803 at age 88 in Chatham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Children: Moses (1741), Stephen (1743), Jonathan (1745), Elisha (1747), Elisha (1749), Luther (1751), Calvin (1753), George (1756), Joseph (1756), Mary (1756).

Moses Bush was a private in the group of Minutemen marching from Enfield to assist in the fighting in Concord in April, 1775, along with at least one son (Jonathan). On the journey the news reached them that the redcoats had retreated; Moses was one of those turning back home. He served 6 days altogether.

Sources

• Middletown Vital Records transcribed by Barbour, found at http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/middletown_barbour_b2.htm (marriage & children's birth records)

Find a Grave, including information & picture of tombstone at Trinity Church Cemetery in Portland, CT, at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bush&GSfn=Moses&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=in&GSst=8&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=63055157&df=all& (tombstone has death date at age 90 inscribed on it)

Moses Bush in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 Name: Moses Bush Age: 89 Birth Date: abt 1714 Death Date: 23 Sep 1803 Burial Place: Portland, Connecticut, USA Cemetery: Old Cemetery Rank: Captain Source Citation Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut; The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

• Caulfield, Ernest. Connecticut Triplets, The American Genealogist (New Haven, Conn., 1949) Vol. 25, Page 57: He and Susannah had triplets born June 11, 1756 in Middletown.