Jerusha (Root) Bulkeley (1749 - 1788)

Born 13 Mar 1749 in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Roger Bulkeley — married 28 May 1772 (to 1788) in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 27 Jul 1788 at age 39 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Jerusha Root was born at Hebron, Connecticut, in March of 1749; she married, as his first wife, Roger Bulkeley of Colchester in late May, 1772. She died at Colchester near the end of July, 1788.

Sources

• Marriage to Roger Bulkeley, 28 May 1772 (NEHGS; image of typewritten transcript): "BULKELEY... Roger, m. Jerusha Root, May 28, 1772" -- Colchester VRs, p. 28; Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13125/28/24762238 (by subscription)

• Birth, marriage, and death: The Bulkeley genealogy; Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation, by Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, Conn. [Tuttle, c1933], p. 294; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89080561269&view=1up&seq=312

• Death (NEHGS; image of typewritten transcript): "BULKELEY... Jerusha, [w. Roger], d. July 27, 1788" -- Colchester VRs, p. 27; Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13125/27/234319221 (by subscription)