Jonathan Bosworth, Jr.

Alternate Data, omitted during merge of 12/3/09:

Death Date(s): c. 1687

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Birth: 1636 - Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Death: 1717

Birth and death dates are approximate.

Son of Jonathan Bosworth and Elizabeth ____ Bosworth.

He married Hannah Howland on Jul 6,1661 at Swansea,MA.

Children:

• 1. Mercy Bosworth,
• 2. Hannah Bosworth Jencks,
• 3. Elizabeth Bosworth,
• 4. Jonathan Bosworth,
• 5. David Bosworth(whose first wife was Mercy Sturtevant Bosworth),
• 6. John Bosworth,
• 7. Jabez Bosworth,
• 8. Ichabod Bosworth, an infant son, and
• 9. Jonathan Bosworth III.

Family links:

Parents:

• Jonathan Bosworth (1613 - 1688)
• Elizabeth Bosworth (1614 - 1705)

Children:

• Hannah Bosworth Jencks (1663 - 1722)*
• Ichabod Bosworth (1676 - ____)*

Spouse:

• Hannah Howland Bosworth (1637 - ____)

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Kevin Avery Record added: Apr 15, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 51164833

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Birth source Source image: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Author: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.Original data - Godfrey M

Marriage: 06 Jul 1661 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Source image: Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - With some noted

Death: 1715 Swansea, Bristol, MA

Source image: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.h

	1636  	Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2]  Gender  	Male  Died  	10 Jun 1717  	Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2]  Age  	81 years  Person ID  	I172782  	Sprague Project Last Modified  	19 Jun 2013 

Father Jonathan Bosworth, b. 1613, England Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 3 Jan 1687, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location – Age: 74 years Mother Elizabeth Bellamy, b. 1615, England Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 15 Jun 1705, Swansea, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location – Age: 90 years Married 1635 Swansea, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Family ID F85018 Family Group Sheet

Family / Spouse Hannah Howland, b. Bef Feb 1640, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 1687, Swansea, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location – Age: ~ 46 years Married 6 Jul 1661 prob. Swansea, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location [1, 2, 3] Children + 1. Hannah Bosworth, b. 5 Nov 1663, d. 1723 – Age: 59 years + 2. Jonathan Bosworth, b. 22 Sep 1680, Swansea, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 17 Feb 1759, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location – Age: 78 years Family ID F63198 Family Group Sheet

   Sources  	

       [S121] Book: Jenks Family Genealogy, Browne, William B., (Concord, NH, Rumford Press, 1952), page 21.

[S97] Correspondent: Cole, Dorothy Elizabeth Sprague, note of November 2nd, 2005.
[S32] Mayflower Ancestral Index, Beaman, Terry and Woodward, editors, (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1981), page 329..

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Note: The Family of John Howland, Mayflower Passenger Five Generations; Mrs. Curtis W. Hunter; 1970; p.122-3. Married 3 Jan 1700 Sarah Stacy who d. 5 Feb. 1710. M.2nd Mary ____. Children: Joseph (b. @@ 1719, Halifax, NS; d. 1 Aug 1769; m.1) Ruth Fuller, 1 child; m.2) Sarah Cobb; 10 children) Ichabod, b. 4 Sept. 1708, Cumberland RI; d. 31 Dec. 1753; m. Joanna Chushman; 3 children. Jonathan; b. 2 Jan 1714, Mendon, MA; d. 27 Dec. 1801; m. 9 May 1744 to Susanna Chilson, dau. of Walsingham & Susannah; d. Royalston, MA; 7 children. Henry; b. @@ 1710 Rehoboth, MA; m. 25 April 1732 at Smithfield RI, Deborah Darling, dau. of John Dennis & 3rd wife Elizabeth Morse; 5 children. Hannah; b. 19 Oct. 1701, Rehoboth; d. 17 Jan 1702/3. Jonathan; b. 2 Dec. 1702; d. 20 Mar. 1703. Sarah; b. 27 July 1704; d. 7 April 1705. Mary; b. 6 August 1706 Sarah; b. 17 Oct. 1712, Bristol MA. Benjamin; d. 16 Nov. 1790; m. Ann Collins.

'Jonathan Bosworth, Jr., eldest son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Bosworth, was born about 1635 or 1636, but whether in Cambridge or Hingham, is not known, as neither record of birth nor baptism, have been found. He probably passed his boyhood in the latter place and removed with his father to Rehoboth, Mass., sometime between 1650 and 1658. He was later known as a 'Plowright.'

'The first mention of Jonathan, Jr. in the old records, was at Rehoboth, Apr. 30, 1659, when he, with his cousin, Benjamin Buckland and another young man, were appointed 'troopers' for the town for three years. At this time Jonathan, Jr. was about 23 or 24 years of age, and Benjamin Buckland about 19 or 20.

'On July 6, 1661, Jonathan, Jr. was married at Swansea, Mass. (then a part of the township of Rehoboth), to Hannah Howland, daughter or John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland....

'Hannah received legacies from both her parents, as will be seen by the following extracts from their wills.... 'Very soon after the marriage of Jonathan and Hannah, they must have gone to live at a place called Colchester, in the township of Plymouth, near her father, for on 'Sept. 16, 1663, 'Att the Towne meeting held at the meeting house att Plymouth ... seaven acres of upland was granted att this meeting unto Jonathan Bosworth lying att the southeast end of Mr. Howland's land lying att a place called Colchester soe it prejudice not a highway there; the said seaven acres of upland with all and singulare the appurtenances to him and his heires for ever.'

And on Dec. 27, 1665, 'gorge Bonum being appointed by the Towne of Plymouth to lay out such lands as was given out; as to the Elder Cushman fifty acrees lying upon the brooke by Jonathan Bosworthes about halfe a mile down th ebrooke or there-abouts; did with the Elder and his son and Jonathan Bosworth lay out the same begining att a smalle spruce upon the aforesaid brooke it being the corner bounds and so Runes Northwest six score pole unto a smale oake bush from thence Northeast unto a small Rocke neare a spruce swamp side; it being the next Corner bound and from thence eastward to a great spruce tree.' (Rec. Town of Plym. Vol.1, pps. 54 and 81)

'Jonathan, Jr. had probably gone to live at Colchester, when he was about 26 or 27 years old, but not long after Dec. 27, 1665, when he helped to lay out land there, he must have sold his land to his father-in-law, John Howland, for a record dated, New Plymouth, June 13, 1668, says: 'Measured unto Mr. John Howland and Joseph Howland ten acrees of land graunted by the Towne unto Jonathan Bosworth att the southeast end of sixty acrees hee then lived on att a place comonly Called Colchester the said ten acrees is bounded on the Northwest syde with a white oake tree which is one of the bounds of the aforesaid sixty acrees and with the brooke when it goes into the said sixty acrees on the southeast syde of the said land at the northeast end is bounded with a young white oake and att the southwest end with a great Cleft Rocke haveing a little Rocke standing close to him'

Also on the same date, 'Measured unto Mr. John Howland fifty acrees of upland att a place Comonly Called Colchester and it adjoynes unto the land that the said howland and his son Joseph bought of Jonathan Bosworth being measured and graunted for his Lott belonging to his Winnatuxett Meddow,' etd. [Rec. Town of Plym., Vol.1, p.104]

'On June 16, 1668, on the Plymouth Town Records a list of 98 names is given 'of such as have voated in Towne meeting in the Towne of Plymouth,: among them Jonathan Bosworth, but marked as having removed from the town. 'Previous to this time Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. and wife Hannah must have returned to his old home, for he was one of the first signers to proposition to form a new town of Swansea, or 'New Swansea' as it was then called. Associated with Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. in the organization of Swansea, was John Brown, whose second wife, lydia Buckland, was a cousin of Jonathan; and among those who organized the church, was James Brown, brother of John, both eminent men of Swansea. James Brown's wife was Lydia Howland, a sister of Hannah...

'The town of Swansea was incorporated March 5, 1668, and in Plymouth Colony Records, [vol.5, p.18] under Court Orders, dated June 1, 1669, we find 'Constables of the several Townes', 'Swansey'...........Jonathan Bosworth.'

'Feb. 9, 1670. The inhabitants of Swansea were divided into three ranks for the assigning of lots. 1st rank to have 3 acres; 2nd rank to have 2 acres; 3rd rank to have 1 acre. Among the names of the 2nd rank, Jonathan Bosworth's name appears. 'Feb. 22, 1670. Jonathan Bosworth's name found in a list of the inhabitants of the town of Swansea, signed to an agreement, dated, 'on the two and twentieth day of the twelfth month, commonly called, February, in the year of our Lord, 1669,' made between 'the church of Christ now meeting here in Swansey, and Capt. Thos. Willet, and his associates...concerning the present and future settlement of this township.'

'June 5, 1671, Jonathan Bosworth again appointed a constable for 'Swansey.' 'At a Town meeting Lawfully warned on ye 21 May 1672 Jonathan Bozworth with Nathl. Chafy & Hezekiah Luther, appointed Surveyors of highways.' This was recorded at Plymouth, June 5, 1672. 'It appears that some time previous to this, 'Jonathan Bosworth of Swansey', had sold '70 or 80 acres of land at a place called Colchester', to 'John Howland (now deceased)' but never having given a deed, he now executes one, which was acknowledged 'this 7th of the first 72 before me Constant Southworth.' [Plym. Col. Rec. Vol. 3, p.288]

'During the years that Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. and wife Hannah were living in Swansea and rearing their family, King Philip's War occurred (1675-76), which was a time of great distress for the inhabitants of that town. In the absence of any personal account of what this family experienced at that time, we can only surmise from the history, and can imagine them among the number who fled for refuge to the fortified house of their pastor, Rev. John Myles, at Barneyville.

'Jan. 14, 1680, Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. was assigned a lot at 'Rumstick', or Little Neck, now in Barrington, TI. 'In 1649, Obadiah Holmes and others, of that part of Rehoboth, now a part of Swansea, having embraced the Baptist faith, withdrew from the Congregational church and set upa separate meeting of their own. The attempt to break them up, and the persecutions they received increased the number of Baptists. It appears that sometime about 1662, the Rev. John Myles of Swansea, Wales, driven out by the 'Act of Conformity' of Charles II, had come to America with a large number of his Welch church, and in 1663, at the home of John Butterworth, in Rehoboth, (now East Providence), he organized the first Baptist church in Massachusetts, the fourth formed in America. 'These and subsequent proceedings were deemed such an evil by the rest of the inhabitants of the town, and of the colony generally, that the court of Plymouth was called on to interfere. Each member of this new church was fined five pounds, prohibited from worship for the space of one month, and they were advised to remove from Rehoboth to some place where they might not prejudice any existing church. They accordingly removed to (what is now) Barrington, RI.'

'Jonathan Bosworth, Jr. early became a member of this church, and was, as we have seen, one of those who assisted in the organization of the new town of Swansea, named from the old home of the pastor and some of his flock, in Wales. 'The fact of Jonathan's joining this church was very displeasing to his parents and on '30th day 10th mo. 1680,' they executed an instrument, virtually disowning him and giving all their property to his younger brother.

'Benedict's History of the Baptists, (Vol.1, p.425, pub. 1813) says: 'Besides the constituent members of this church, there were families by the name of Luther, Cole, Bowen, Wheaton, Martin, Barnes, Thurber, Boswroth, Mason, Child, etc. among the early planters of Swansea, whose posterity is still numberous in the surrounding country.' Several of Jonathan Bosworth, Jr's chilkdren and grandchildren married into some of these families. 'Mr. Myles continued pastor of the church until his death in 1683. He lived near the bridge which bears his name.

In 1905, a boulder was set up over his grave at Tyler's Point cemetery (now in Barrington), and dedicated on June 17th with appropriate ceremonies. The boulder 'was contributed and drawn to the spot by Alfred J. Kent, Esq., of East Providence.' (He is a descendant of Jonathan Bosworth Jr., through his son Jabez.) 'The boulder came from near the spot where the John Myles church was organized in ancient Rehoboth.' That Jonathan Bosworth, Sen. relented somewhat in his treatment of his elder son - having executed an instrument on Dec. 30, 1680 and acknowledged by him March 13, 1681, in which he said 'he shall have nothing to do with anything I have', is shown by the fact that on March 26, 1681, he deeded him land in the northern part of the townehsip of Rehoboth. This land was mortgaged by Jonathan, Jr. on Sept. 21, 1685. In this mortgate [recorded at Taunton, Bk.2, p.191], he says: 'To all people before whome this Instrument shall come Jonathan Bosworth of Swansye in the Colloney of New Plymouth in New England Sendeth greeting knowe ye that I Jonathan Bozworth the younger of the Towne of Swansye in the colloney of New Plymouth in New England for and in consideration of a valuable sume of money in hand allredy well and truelly paid unto me by Nathaniel Waterman Inhabitant of the Town of Providence in the Colloney of Rhode Island and providence plantations In New England the Recept of which I doe now owne and accknowledte and doe hereby ... confirme unto the said Nathaniel Wattemran his heires and assignes for ever all my wholle share of Lande and Medowes Lyeing and being on the North side of the Township of Rehoboth in the jurisdiction of New Plymouth aforesaid ... which said Lands and Meadowes I the said Jonathan Bozworth was possessed of by my father Jonathan Bozworth as by a deed beareing date the six and twentieth day of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty and one signed and sealed by My said ffather appeareth,' etc. 'In witness where of I doo hereunto set my hand and seale the one and twentieth day of September in the yeare one thousand six hundred eighty and five....' 'Feb. 2, 1698/9, 'Jonathan Bozworth of Swanzey, Plowright,' deeds to Thomas Earle, 'of Swanzey, Letherdresser,' for L3, twenty acres of land in the Ten Mile Purchase, Bounded on the North by Capt. Brook's land, on the East by the Shawomet line, on th eSourth by Thos. Earles House lot and Samuel Chases land and on the West the Highway.....'[1]

Jonathan probably came with his parents to Rehoboth between 1650 and 1658. Later he was known as a "Plowright." It is recorded that on April 30, 1659, he and his cousin, Benjamin Buckland, were appointed "troopers" for the town for three years. Jonathan was about 23 years old at that time. July 6 1661: Jonathan Jr. married Hannah Howland, daughter of John Howland, Mayflower passenger. they were married at Swansea then a part of Rehoboth township; and Swansea is where they lived and reared their children. June 5 1671: He again was appointed town constable. June 5 1672: The next year Jonathan, Nathaniel Chafy, and Hezekiah Luther were appointed Surveyors of Highways. 1675-1676: King Philip's war, which lasted for about two years, must have caused the town folk great fear and distress. It is documented that eleven Swansea people fell slain by the Indians. It was during those years that Jonathan and Hannah were living in Swansea and rearing their children. They must have been among the number who fled to the fortifird home of their pastor, the Rev. John Myles. NOTE: In a book on King Philip's War, by Ellis and Morris, is the following: "The combined force of two hundred and fifty fighting men ... reached Swansea early in the eveing of the 28th (June 1675), and pitched their camp alongside of Major Cudworth, and the Plymouth men near the fortified house of the Rev. Mr. Miles, a Baptist clergyman which stood a short distance from the bridge leading toward Mount Hope. This is what is now the village of Barneyville, about three miles northerly from the village Warren, R.I., and Miles' bridge crossed the Warren river at the place. The garrison house, or rather what is so considered by some, is still standing, though other antiquarians think this is of a later date than that occupied by Rev. Mr. Miles in 1675." On a tablet of bronze, set into a granite boulder, located at the west end of Myles Bridge, near the rehoboth line is a memorial which reads: "Myles Garrison House Site. Near this spot shottd the John Myles Garrison House, the place of meeting of the troops of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colonies, Commanded by Thomas Savage and James Cudworth who marched to the relief of Swansea at the opening of King Philip's War, A.D. 1675. Eleven fell slain by the Indians." Very soon after the marriage of Jonathan and Hannah, when Jonathan was 26 or 27, they must have gone to live for a short time at a place called Colchester in the township of Plymouth, near her father, for on: Sept. 16, 1663, "Att the Towne meeting held at the meeting house att Plymouth . . . seaven acres of upland was granted att this meeting unto Jonathan Bosworth lying att the southeast end of Mr. Howland's land lying att a place called Colchester soe it prejudice not a highway there; the said seaven acres of upland with all and singulare the appurtenances to him and his heires for ever." And on Dec. 27, 1665, "Gorge Bonum being appointed by the Towne of Plymouth to lay out such lands as was given out; as to the Elder Cushman fifty acrees lying upon the brooke by Jonathan Bosworthes about halfe a mile down the brooke or there abouts; did with the Elder and his son and Jonathan Bosworth lay out the same begining att a smalle spruce upon the aforesaid brooke it being the corner bounds and so Runes Northwest six score pole unto a smale oake bush from thence Northeast unto a small Rocke neare a spruce swamp side; it being the next Corner bound and from thence eastward to a great spruce tree." (Rec. Town of Plym. Vol. 1, pps. 54 & 81)

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