Lucy Lake

Lucy Bishop was born ABT 1634. She was the daughter of Unknown Bishop and Lucian Unknown (later the wife of Rev Edward Bulkeley).

She married John Lake AFT 1654 in Boston MA (T). He was born 1605 in England, and died 1677; he was Mary Coy's widower.

The wife of Rev. Edward Bulkeley was a widow named Lucian, who apparently was from Plymouth Colony. She had, by her former husband, a daughter Lucy who married Mr. John Lake. Suffolk County Court Records. It is ordered that the Administrators to the Estate of Mrs Lucy Lake bring in an Accot. of that Estate to the Clerke of the Court and that they pay in the balance that is in their hands unto her mother Mrs Lucy Anna Bulkeley (Mr Edwd. Bulkeley her Husband giving a receipt to the Clerke for the same) to remain in her hands until some other person may make a better claim to it 28 Jan. 1678 [1678/9]. Suffolk Probate Records. Administration on the estate of Mrs. Lucey Lake late of Boston, widow, (relict of Mr John Lake) deceased intestate (formerly granted unto Deacon Henry Alline, Deacon Peter Bracket and Mr John Haywood, overseers, of her Husbands will in right of those to whom it should legally appear to belong) is transferred unto Peter Bulkeley, Her Brother, 10 Mar. 1679/80. Rev. Edward Bulkeley™s receipt, dated 10 Apr 1679, in behalf of his wife Lucey Anna Bulkeley for the sum of sixty pounds, eight shillings, from the estate of Lucy Lake, widow, was witnessed by Thomas Clarke and Jane Bulkeley [his son-in-law and daughter]. [1]

From page 447 of New England Marriages Prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey

John Lake (d 1677) married 1) Mary Coy (1612 to 1654) 2) Lucy [Bishop?] (d 1678) dau of Lucian, wife of Rev Edward Bulkeley, aft 1654; Boston

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Sources

• 153. Donald Lines Jacobus, The Bulkeley Genealogy: Rev. Peter Bulkeley, being an account of his career, his ancestry, the ancestry of his two wives, and his relatives in England and New England, together with a genealogy of his descendants through the seventh American generation, New Haven, Connecticut, 1933.

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