Richard English (abt. 1660)

Born about 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Jane (Bushnell) English — married about 27 Jan 1682 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Died [date unknown] in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Richard English was born about 1660 likely in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, since records of his events describe him as being "of Boston." His parentage is unknown and pending additional research.

Richard married Jane Bushnell in Boston on January 27, 1681/2. They had at least one child named Christopher born in Boston 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.

Richard was a butcher as described Bushnell's Bushnell Family Genealogy. On March 6, 1685/6, Richard signed a deed along with his wife Jane and Jane's brother John regarding property "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).

Richard's date of death is unknown though it is likely he died in Boston.

Sources

• 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 vital data on Jane and Richard's marriage)

• 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