Jane (Bushnell) English (1662 - aft. 1687)

Born 18 Dec 1662 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Richard English — married about 27 Jan 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Died after 1687 after age 24 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Jane was the daughter of John & Jane (Unknown) Bushnell. She was born in Boston on December 18, 1662.

Jane's mother, also named Jane, had removed with her children from Boston (after the death of her husband John) to Saybrook, Connecticut, where other Bushnell family members resided and where later she remarried John Hill/s. However, daughter Jane and some siblings returned to Boston or Salem and reportedly resided with their brother John.

As described in Torrey's "Third Supplement" (p. 91) to his New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Jane had married Richard English by January 27, 1681/2, probably in Boston. Richard was born in Boston per Anderson's Great Migration (vol 1, p. 513-4), where Anderson also presents Jane's marriage to Richard. In Bushnell's Bushnell Family Genealogy, p. 37, Richard is also described as being "of Boston" and whose occupation was a butcher. At least one child was born to Jane and Richard, this birth recorded in Boston, son Christopher born on January 27, 1687. There is also report of a son named John, who was born earlier in 1684 and who died in 1727, but this information needs to be verified.

On March 6, 1685/6, Jane, subject of this profile, her husband Richard, and her brother John "deeded to Sampson Stoddard of Boston, mariner, the house and land near the dock head" in Dock Square that had been rented and occupied by widow Dorothy Hawkins. This property was located near Bendall's Dock and at today's 3 and 4 Dock Square in sight of Faneuil Hall. Though this property was located in Boston, this sale may have been also recorded in Salem's Land Records (Anderson, section "John Bushnell," p. 513).

Little else is currently known re: Jane's children and date/location of death, which are pending additional research.

Sources

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, Boston, 1635-1744. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, frame #12 of 219). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (birth record, Jane is listed with her brother John, "born of John and Jane his wife," handwritten transcription, on page titled "1659-1665")

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; Boston; Births, 1630-1799; Vol. 2, p. 151. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, frame #82 of 114). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (son Christopher's birth record in Boston, parents are named): https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2495/40400_274679-00549/44587155?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/35507/person/212134971957/facts/citation/722186813623/edit/record#?imageId=40400_274679-00610

• "Third Torrey Supplement," p. 91, to Torrey, Clarence A.'s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. [Repository: Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (database on-line, frame #109 of 399). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012.] (marriage data; Torrey also references the Great Migration, Vol 1, p. 513)

• Anderson, Robert Charles. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, Great Migration, Vol. 1, pp. 512-14 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011). [Repository: Ancestry.com. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 (database on-line, frame #611 of 732). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3; The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-6. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.] (includes parents, children, and other vital data)

• Bushnell, George Eleazer, (comp.). Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut. (Nashville, TN: published, 1945; and again in Santa Monica, CA: 1949, 186 pp.), pp. 37-38. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Bushnell family genealogy : ancestry and posterity of Francis Bushnell, 1580-1646, of Horsham, England and Guilford, CT (database on-line, frame #18 of 186). Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Bushnell, George Eleazer,. Bushnell family genealogy : ancestry and posterity of Francis Bushnell, 1580-1646, of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut, including genealogical notes of other Bushnell families, whose connections with this branch of the family tree have not been determined. Santa Monica, Calif.: unknown, 1949.]: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/10218/dvm_GenMono000038-00010-1/14?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/35507/person/212134962955/facts/citation/722186669551/edit/record#?imageId=dvm_GenMono000038-00010-1