Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 2 Sep 1635, Hingham, Plymouth, MA
• Emigration: Abt 1655, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA
• Will: 24 Feb 1686/87, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Emigration:
Jonathon Bosworth took the "oath of fidelitie" in Rehoboth, Mass.

Will:
Be it known unto all men by these presents that I Jonathan Bozworth Senior of the Towne of Rehoboth in the County of Bristoll in his Majestys Teritorey and Dominion of New England: Being weake and aged yet through the goodness of god of a competent measure of understanding and memrye doe for the glory of god and the comfort and peace of my dearewiffe and Children and settelling of that small estate that god hath given me, make this my Last will and Testiment this twenty-fourth day of ffeabuary Anno dom. 1686/7.
It is my desire to Humbly resigne up my Soule unto the Hands of my dear Redemer the Lord Jesus Christ; And it is my will that my bodey be decently buried."
The will mentions his wife, eldest son Jonathan, son Joseph, daughter Rebeka Peck, daughter Bethia Peck, and daughter Bathsheba.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN. Elizabeth was born in 1614 in Lancaster, ENGLAND; died on 15 Jun 1705 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jonathon BOSWORTH was born about 1635 in MA; died between 1708 and 1717 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.
2. Elizabeth BOSWORTH was christened on 18 Nov 1638 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA; died on 30 Nov 1686.
3. Rebekah BOSWORTH was christened in Feb 1641 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA; died on 2 Nov 1704 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.
4. Bethia BOSWORTH was christened in Jan 1644 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA.
5. Mary BOSWORTH was christened on 18 Apr 1647 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA.
6. Deliverance BOSWORTH was christened on 4 Aug 1650 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA.
7. Joseph BOSWORTH was born in Hingham, Plymouth, MA.
8. Bathsheba BOSWORTH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigratn: 1634

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Immigratn:
Edward Bosworth, along with his wife, Mary, left England in the spring of 1634, sailing from the port of Gravesend, near the mouth of the Thames, in the ship Elizabeth Dorcas. They had with them their sons, Benjamin and Nathaniel, possibly a son Edward, a daughter Mary and her husband, William Buckland, and there may have been younger children, but no record has been found. An older son Jonathan, had come to America a year or more before and settled in Cambridge, then called "Newe Towne."

Died:
"The voyage from England was a long and tedious one and many died on the passage and their bodies thrown overboard. In his history of New England (Vol 1, p.161) John Winthrop writes, "..the Elizabeth Dorcas having a long passage and being hurt upon a rock at Scilly and very ill victualled, she lost sixty passengers at sea, and divers came sick on shore, who all recovered (through the mercy of God)." The Diary of Samuel Sewall (Vol. 3, p. 396) has the following: "Edward Bosworth came over to New England in the Elizabeth and Dorcas. Edward Bosworth, the Father, being ready to dye, ask'd to be carried upon the Deck, that he might see Canaan. When he had seen the Land he resigned his Soul and dyed: was carried ashoar and buried at Boston."

Edward married Mary UNKNOWN. Mary was born in ENGLAND; died on 18 May 1648 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Bosworth
• Immigratn: 1634
• Note: 5 Aug 1634, Cambridge, Middlesex, MA

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Immigratn:
Edward Bosworth, along with his wife, Mary, left England in the spring of 1634, sailing from the port of Gravesend, near the mouth of the Thames, in the ship Elizabeth Dorcas. They had with them their sons, Benjamin and Nathaniel, possibly a son Edward, a daughter Mary and her husband, William Buckland, and there may have been younger children, but no record has been found. An older son Jonathan, had come to America a year or more before and settled in Cambridge, then called "Newe Towne."

Note:
"It is evident that Edward having died and his wife being left a widow, she found it impossible having come into a new and strange land to sustain herself and family without assistance, for in Mass. Colony Records (Vol 1, p. 123) we find the following: "At a Court holden at Newe Towne (Cambridge) August 5, 1634, It was ordered that such moneyes as shalbe layde out for the maintenance of Widd. Bosworth and her famyly shalbe payde againe by the Treasurer." It is also noted in the record that Edward Bosworth had been loaned money by Mr. Henry Sewall for the passage of himself and family to America. The sons of Edward, Jonathan, Benjamin and Nathaniel are ordered to pay the debt. The sum amounted to twenty pounds or about $100.00.