Grace (Chetwood) Bulkeley (abt. 1602 - 1669)

Born about 1602 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Bulkeley — married before Apr 1635 in England

Descendants

Died 21 Apr 1669 at about age 67 in New London, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Grace Chetwode, daughter of Richard Chetwode, Knt., and his second wife, Dorothy Needham,^[1] was born about 1602 (aged 33 in 1635).^[2] Richardson bases her birth year on her deposition in which she said she was 33 in 1635. Her father held lands in several counties and her birth location is not determined.^[3]

Grace was a legatee in 1616 in the will of her aunt, Elizabeth Needham.^[2]

Grace married Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, Massachusetts and Odell, Bedfordshire,^[1] as his second wife, about April 1635.^[2] Peter, born in Odell, Bedfordshire in 1583, was the son of Dr. Edward Bulkeley and Olive Irby.^[2] Grace and Peter had one daughter and three sons:^[4]

• Dorothy^[2][3]
• [Rev.] Gershom^[2][3]
• Eleazer,^[2][3] named in the will of Grace's sister Abigail as Abigail's nephew^[5]
• [Dr.] Peter^[2][3]

Richardson states that they "immigrated to New England in the Susan & Ellen in 1635, where they settled initially at Cambridge, Massachusetts."^[2] However, Hotten shows that Grace sailed aboard the Elizabeth & Ann on 8 May 1635, and her husband Peter sailed the next day, 9 May 1635, aboard the Susan & Ellen.^[6]

A tradition includes that on the voyage from England, Grace appeared to die. Against common practice, but in the absence of decay, her body was not committed to the deep and on the third day, she showed signs of life, and survived over thirty years.^[7]

Peter Bulkeley died at Concord, Massachusetts on 9 March 1658/9. Grace moved to New London, Connecticut, where she died on 21 April 1669.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), vol. I, page 443 CHETWODE 16.i.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), vol. I, page 348 BULKELEY 15.vi., entry for Grace Chetwode.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), vol. II, page 10, BULKELEY 20.vi.; pages 159-160, CHETWODE 16.
4. ↑ Cotton Mather. Magnalia Christi Americana. (London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three crowns in Cheapside, 1702). Online at Archive.org, Book III, page 98
5. ↑ "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858", The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 278, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 5111 #956555 (accessed 8 May 2023): will of Abigall Chetwood, granted probate on 1 Jul 1658
6. ↑ John Camden Hotten. The Original Lists of Persons ... who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. (London: Hotten, 1874). Online at Archive.org, pages 76-77.
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration, Volume 1, A-B, p 464, citing "Bulkeley Ancestry", 103 and "Wethersfield History", 149.

See also:

• McArthur, Selim Walker. McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines, (Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1964). Online at Archive.org, pages 198-199.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. "Ancestry of Grace (Chetwood) Bulkeley, Second Wife of Rev. Peter Bulkeley," in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-). Online at Archive,org, Oct 1922, 76:307-311.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (for the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 113.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp. The Bulkeley Genealogy - Rev. Peter Bulkeley. (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1933). Online at Google Books, pages 53-89.
• Tomlinson, Richard G., The Reverend Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, Connecticut’s Exasperating Genius, in the Connecticut Nutmegger, (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, CT, June 2009) Vol. 42, No. 1, Page 32.
• Bradstreet, Simon. Bradstreet's Journal, 1664-83, in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Vol. 9. Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1855, p. 45. Google Books: "1669, April 21. Mrs Grace Bulkley ye widow of Mr Peter Bulkley sometime Pastour of ye chh of Concord, deceased. She was a woman of great piety and wisdome & dyed in good old Age. Her sicknes was long and very afflictiue. She was sick neer 3 months before she dyed. She had not the vse of her vnderstanding but by fitts, the greatest pt of her sicknesse. April 25. 69. (being Sabbath day) she was interred, her soul 3 dayes before was entered vpon an everlasting Sabbath of rest. She dyed and was buried at N. London."

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 17:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC).

Grace (Chetwood) Bulkeley is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a Richardson-documented trail, through her father, to Magna Carta Surety Baron William Malet (vol. I, pages 437-443 CHETWODE). This trail was developed by the Magna Carta Project and approved in 29 January 2016 and was re-reviewed in March 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails on her father's profile to view the profiles on this trail.

She is also in a trail, through her mother, to surety baron Robert FitzWalter. This trail was badged in January 2023. See the Magna Carta Trails on her mother's profile to view the profiles on this trail.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".