- Jonathan, at the age of twenty two was married to Alice Cushman, a girl of eighteen, grand-daughter of the minister of his church and of fine ancestry. But sorrow came to him the following year, when Alice died. This pathetic record is copied from the old chronicles: "Allice Bozworth the wife of Jonathan Bozworth Died in Childbed and was buried August the 13th 1724 with her Infant on her arm in one Coffin and one Grave." And on a tombstone in the Plympton burying ground is the following;" Alice wife of Jonathan Bozworth died 13 August 1724 in her 20th year. ____ child of Jonathan and Alice buried with its mother aged 3 days."
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