Born in Old Saybrook, Hartford, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Adgate
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Hannah (Adgate) Lathrop, Abigail (Adgate) Tracy [half], Sarah (Adgate) Huntington [half], Rebecca (Adgate) Huntington [half] and Thomas Adgate II [half]
Wife of
Richard Bushnell II
— married
about 7 Dec 1672 in Norwich, Connecticut [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Died
at about age 69
in Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Apr 2009
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Biography
Daughter of Deacon Thomas and Unknown Adgate - Elizabeth was born on 10 Oct 1651 at Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, then moved to Norwich about 1660.
She married her step-brother Capt. Richard Bushnell on 7 Dec 1672 in New London, Connecticut
She is buried at Old Norwich Town Cemetery, Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Sources
- Perkins, Mary. Old Houses of the Antient Town of Norwich, 1660-1800 (Bulletin Co., Norwich, Conn., 1895)
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 534
- Nash, Sylvester. Records of Saybrook, CT., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1850) Vol. 4, Page 19
- Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 9
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Granberry Family and Allied Families (E.F. Waterman, Hartford, Conn., 1945) Page 145
- Connecticut Town Births, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
- "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F77D-2JR : 7 January 2020), Elizabeth Adgate, 1651.
- Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
- "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQ7-3JM9 : Sun Mar 10 00:44:58 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Bushnell and Elisabeth Adgate, 7 December 1672.
- Connecticut Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index
- "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQ7-3JM9 : Sun Mar 10 00:44:58 UTC 2024), Entry for Richard Bushnell and Elisabeth Adgate, 7 December 1672.
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