David Bosworth, Sr

Bosworth genealogy; a history of the descendants ... Parts 1-2 1926-28. Clarke, Mary (Bosworth) p.10

I began my studies in the old Lenox Library, on Fifth Avenue, New York, and by the kindness of the librarian in charge—Mr. Henry C. Strippel, now chief of the Genealogy and Local History Division of the New York Public Library —I was able to go through all the Family Genealogies on hand at that time, searching for and copying Bosworth inter- marriages; also through many Town Histories, which in- cluded genealogy. It was here one day, when looking over "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," that I came upon the names of the three Bosworth brothers that had been given me by my mother, as brothers of my great-grandfather, and I knew I was on the track of my line. Seeing that they were from Lebanon, Conn., I asked for a history of that town and was given a small one by Rev. Orlo D. Hine, published in 1880, and soon discovered among the genealogies of the town people the records of the family of David Bosworth, giving the dates of birth of his children, and found they included four sons—the three whose names my mother had given me, and my great-grandfather, Jabin Bosworth, of whom my father had told me when he was living. I saw that David Bosworth's wife was Mary Strong, a daughter of Stephen Strong of Lebanon. Now I knew where my grandfather's name came from, he being Stephen Strong Bosworth. How I did long for my father that day, that I might tell him of my discovery, as he had once said to me that he did wish he knew where his father's name came from, as it sounded like a family name.

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