Martha Smith

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Name  Martha Bushnell  [1] 

• Born  Abt 1640  probably, Guilford, New Haven Co, Connecticut   [2] 
• Gender  Female 
• Father  Francis Bushnell, Deacon,   d. 04 Dec 1681, Saybrook, Middlesex Co, Connecticut  
• Mother  Marie Grombridge,   d. Aft 1649 
• Married  27 Jun 1631  Horsham, Sussex, England   [3, 4] 
• Family  Jonathan Smith,   b. probably, Glastonbury, Hartford Co, Connecticut  
  • Married  01 Jan 1663/64  Saybrook, Middlesex Co, Connecticut   [5, 6] 
  • Jonathan Smith was married to Martha Bushnell this first of January in the year of our lord 1663

Sources:

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• 1) [S177] Saunders, Chapman-Thomson, Dorothy Chapman Saunders, Ph.D., (Author, Stuart, FL, 1983), p.59.
• 2) [S312] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles & George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999), p. 511.
• 3) [S177] Saunders, Chapman-Thomson, Dorothy Chapman Saunders, Ph.D., (Author, Stuart, FL, 1983), p.57.
• 4) [S312] The Great Migration, Anderson, Robert Charles & George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999), p. 510.
• 5) [S233] Saybrook Founders, Descendants, Staplins, Elaine F., Chairman, (The Founders Committee, Saybrook, CT, 1985), Francis Bushnell.
• 6) [S357] Saybrook Vital Records, (CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Hartford, CT).

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===Generation Three===

17 v. Martha3 BUSHNELL (Francis2, Francis1);

• born circa 1640 in Salem?, Essex Co., MA;
• married Jonathan SMITH, son of Richard SMITH, 1 Jan 1663 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT; [201,202,203,204,205]
• died after 1705. [206]
• She and Jonathan SMITH were residing on 14 Jan 1689 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[207]
  • Jonathan Smith was born in 1635?.[208]
  • He was admitted a freeman in 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[209]
  • He married Hannah Adams, daughter of Jeremy Adams, circa 1660?.[210]
  • Land transaction(s):
    • 1. "'James Tappin, Sr. of Middletown, on 13 Mar. 1682/3, sold 9 acres on the east side of "The Great River" to Jonathan Smith, Sr. ... on 15 Jan 1699/1700 Jonathan "asssigned this deed for love" to his son'in-law.
    • 2. "'On 29 Jan 1708, Joshua Gill of Middletown, in consideration of a half mile lot which the grantees purchased from John Clark and his wife of Farmington and also for 4 pounds, sold to John Gill, Sr., George Stocking, William Cornel, Sr., Joseph Warner, Jonathan Smith, Ebenezer Smith, Francis Smith, Joseph Long, Jonathan Stedd, Jonas Wright, Thomas Wright, John Miller, Ephraim Wilcox, James Stanelift, Nathaniel Savage, Samuel Bidwell, Jr., Jacob Cornel, Jr., Thomas Buck, Ebenezer Hurlbutt, Richard Gill, Ebenezer Gill, John Gill, Jr., and the said Joshua Gill, 18 acres on east of Great River 'where all the above purchaser do now inhabit and dwell.'(vol. 2, p. 396.)".[211]
    • Land transaction(s): From Bates' Gen. of Sarai Stow Ellis the Middletown Land Records researched by Donald Lines Jacobus: "...on 15 Jan. 1699/1700 'Jonathan Smith, Sr., of Glossenbury' assigned this deed for love to 'my son in Law Joseph long of middletown'".[212]
  • He was residing in 1699/0 in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., CT.[213]
  • He died after 1711.[214]
• Known children of Martha3 BUSHNELL and Jonathan SMITH were as follows:
  • 25 i. Jonathan4 SMITH; born 20 Nov 1664 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[215]
  • 26 ii. Mary SMITH.[216]
  • 27 iii.Richard SMITH; born 2 Nov 1667 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.
  • 28 iv.Samuel SMITH.[216]
  • 29 v. Joseph SMITH; born 14 Oct 1672 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT;[217]
    • married Sarah HOUSE 2 Jan 1695/96.[218]
  • 30 vi. Martha SMITH; born 14 Nov 1674 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT;[219,220,221]
    • married Joseph LONG, son of Thomas LONG and Sarah WILCOX, before 1699/0
    • (Bates says they were married c1689, Torrey bef 1701, and according to a land deed of 15 Jan 1699/1700 he was already Jonathan Smith, Sr.'s son-in-law; therefore, I'm entering their DOM as before the DOB of their 1st child. <see footnotes>).[222,223]
  • 31 vii. Ebenezer SMITH; born 18 Mar 1676 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT.[224]
  • 32viii. Gershom SMITH; born Nov 1679 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT;[225]
    • married Hannah JUDD before 1701.[226]
  • 33 ix. Deborah SMITH; born 23 Sep 1682 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT.[227]

End Notes & Sources: (Good notes & resources!)

• [201] George Eleazer Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham, England and Guilford, Connecticut, Including Genealogical Notes of other Bushnell Families, whose connections with this branch of the family tree have not been determined (Nashville, TN: George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945), , I:511 [Source: SayVR7].
• [202] Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, p. 33. [Source: Transcript of the Horsham Church Register, by E.G. Rice, Sussex Record Society Pub., vol. 21].
• [203] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985), p. 685.
• [204] NEHGR IV, "Saybrook", p. 141.
• [205] James Savage, 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, Vol. IV (1st Edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862), Repository: The University of Miss. Library, p. 124.
• [206] Torrey, p. 685.
• [207] Bushnell, Bushnell Family Genealogy, p. 33, "Savage says they moved to Middletown, Conn. but they were in Wethersfield on 14 Jan. 1689".
• [208] Torrey, p. 685. 209Savage, Vol. IV, p. 124. 210Torrey, p. 685.
• [211] Mary Wood Bates, comp., Genealogy of Sarai Stow Ellis, A Direct Descendant of John Stowe of Roxbury, Mass (Evanston, IL: s.p., 1935), Repository: NEHGS, pp. 66-70 [Source: Middletown Land Record Vol. 1, p. 124, per Donald Lines Jacobus].
• [212] ibid, p. 65.
• [213] ibid, p. 68.
• [214] Torrey, p. 685.
• [215] Hon. R.R. Hinman, comp., "Records of Wethersfield, Connecticut" in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, XX (1866) (CD; Boston: NEHGS & Broderbund Software, Inc., 1996), p. 125. Hereinafter cited as NEHGR XX, "Wethersfield."
• [216] ibid.
• [217] ibid.
• [218] Torrey, p. 686.
• [219] ibid, p. 471.
• [220] Bates, Genealogy Sarai Stow Ellis, p. 70.
• [221] NEHGR XX, "Wethersfield", p. 125.
• [222] Torrey, p. 471.
• [223] Bates, Genealogy Sarai Stow Ellis, pp. 65, 66; "about 1689" [Source: Middletown Land Recs. researched by Donald Lines Jacobus]; p. 68.
• [224] NEHGR XX, "Wethersfield", p. 125.
• [225] Savage, Vol. IV, p. 124.
• [226] Torrey, p. 681.
• [227] Savage, Vol. IV, p. 124.

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