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Thankful Bushnell (Higgins)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Truro, MA
Death: March 16, 1792 (74)
Hartland, CT
Place of Burial: Hartford, Hartford County, CT, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Beriah Higgins and Desire Higgins
Wife of William Bushnell and Daniel Rathbone
Mother of Captain Alexander Alexander Bushnell; Daud Bushnell; Reverend Jedediah Bushnell; William Rathbone; Diademia Mack and 3 others
Sister of Jemima Higgins; Desire Sumner; Deborah Sedgwick; Beriah Higgins, Jr. and Phoebe Higgins

Managed by: Richard Pittaway
Last Updated:

About Thankful Higgins

Descendant of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Thomas Rogers and Joseph Rogers

Born 17 AUG 1717. Truro MA. [1][2][3]

Died 16 MAR 1792. Hartland CT. [4]

Notes

Bushnell Genealogy states that Thankful is thought to have been a gr-gr-dau of Joseph Rogers, a Mayflower passenger.

Mayflower Families five Generations Stephen Hopkins Vol. page 435.

b. 7 Aug. 1717; m. Daniel RAthbone; res. Lyme and Hartland CT; she was mother of Capt. Alexander Bushnell of Hartland.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Higgins-1513

Thankful (Higgins) Rathbone (1717 - 1792)

Thankful Rathbone formerly Higgins

Born 17 Aug 1717 in Truro MA

Daughter of Beriah Higgins and Desire (Cooke) Higgins

Sister of Jemima Higgins, Desire (Higgins) Sumner, Deborah (Higgins) Sedgwick, Beriah Higgins and Phoebe Higgins

Wife of Daniel Rathbone — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Mother of Alexander Bushnell, William Rathbone and Diadema (Rathbone) Mack

Died 16 Mar 1792 in Hartland CT

Profile last modified 22 Sep 2020 | Created 17 Nov 2012

Biography

No more info is currently available.

Sources

↑ Mayflower Families for Five Generations Vol 2 ↑ Bushnell Family Genealogy Ancestry of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham England ↑ Mayflower Families for Five Generations Vol 2 ↑ Bushnell Family Genealogy Ancestry of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham England Bushnell Family Genealogy Ancestry of Francis Bushnell (1580-1646) of Horsham England George Eleazer Bushnell Mayflower Families Five Generations Stephen Hopkins Vol. 6 John D. Austin F.A.S.G. Mayflower Families for Five Generations Vol 2 Robert M. Sherman, F.A.S.G.


Marriage noted as either 1741 or 1742.


ref.: < https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66755794/thankful-bushnell, Ancient burying ground, Hartford, Hartford County, CT.


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Thankful Higgins's Timeline

1717
August 17, 1717
Truro, MA
1739
December 2, 1739
Lyme, New London County, Connecticut
1741
January 1, 1741
Lyme, New London, Connecticut
1748
August 30, 1748
Lyme, New London, Massachusetts, United States
1757
1757
Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1769
November 26, 1769
Saybrook, Connecticut
1792
March 16, 1792
Age 74
Hartland, CT
1792
Age 74
Hartford, Hartford County, CT, United States
????
August 4
Lyme, , CT