Bethiah Bumstead

Children of Richard Wharton and Sarah Higginson, born at Boston, were:

2. Bethia, born September 18, 1672.  Living in 1705, unmarried.

Married

1. Alexander Sherrar
2. Jeremiah Bumstead 2. Feb. 1726; his 2nd wife

Jeremiah Bumstead is said to have married on 18 March 1729 to Sarah Howard. But she was living in 1731, (York Deeds), and named as Bethiah Bumstead.

notes

From "Road to Failure" Chapter One of The Road to the Revolutionary War: — Difficult Beginnings by John Taylor (copyright 2011)

“ … your sister Wharton’s two daughters … are like to continue as ancient maids … Sarah being 25 or 26 years old.”

Early settlers were a diverse group. Nowhere is this better shown than with the Wharton family. The father incredibly rich, the daughters old maids. Sarah and Bethia were daughters of Richard Wharton, a man who was determined to find fame and fortune in the New World. But the English colonial system was fickle and problematic. He tried several devices to advance his case including Massachusetts courts and the London elite. When one of the London power elite changed sides, he went back to garner support from another corner. His efforts wore him out. He died in 1689. Sarah and Bethia were able to support themselves with a small shop in Boston. Not all immigrants were as unlucky as Richard Wharton, or as lucky as Sarah and Bethia. ....
 

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Sarah and her sister Bethiah were provided for by their mother's father, Rev. John Higginson, after 1689 and until their marriages. See "Higginson Letters," page 205

Sarah Cotta and her sister Bethiah Bumstead were awarded 400 acres (200 each) of the Pejescot patent in 1731 (how could Bethiah be deceased?) page 358 of York Deeds, Volume 15 By York County (Me.). Register of Deeds

• Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths 1630-1699 City Document No. 130 Rockwelll & Churchill, City Printers : Boston, 1883.link Bethiah of Richard & Sarah Wharton born Sept. 18. [1672]
• Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson, Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem, 1910 page 10-11
• A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. By James Savage. page 494 Richard Wharton, Boston 1661, a very active gent. largely concern. in purch. of lds. as in 1683, the Pegypscot, of 500,000 acres, at the E. and engag. in public good, m. a. 1659, Bethia, d. of William Tyng, and next, 1672, Sarah, d. of Rev. John Higginson of Salem, and had two ds. Sarah and Bethia. Felt, in Geneal. Reg. IX. 339, calls him a lawyer, but perhaps he was only atty. for partic. individ. not a mem. of the profess. Under appointm. as one of the Counc. of Sir Edmund Andros, he thwart. some of his oppress. designs, and went home with others in July 1687 to complain against his measures, and d. in London a. 1690. He left much embarrass. est. and his ds. kept a small shop in Boston. Sarah m. John Cotta, in B. See Higginson Letters in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 198—
• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 22 2016, 19:50:44 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 24 2016, 21:34:13 UTC
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2014-10/...
• From NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. Vol. XV. JULY, 1861. No. 3. DIARY OF JEREMIAH BUMSTEAD OF BOSTON, 1722-1727. page 93 
  • 23. Old Mr. Cotta buryed.
• Diary of Jeremiah Bumstead 1722-1727
• History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient ... By Oliver Ayer Roberts page 121
  • Thomas Bumstead (1647), the emigrant, died in 1697. He had a son, Jeremiah, born Oct. 14, 1678, who married, (1) June 16, 1700, Sarah Abraham, and, (2) March 8, 1704, Elizabeth Bridges. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Bridges) Bumstead had Jeremiah, born March 26, 1708, who married, (1) Bethia Sherwin, Feb. 2, 1726, and, (2) Sarah Howard, March 18, 1729. He was a glazier, and died about Nov. 1, 1747.