Zaccheus Bosworth

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This Zaccheus looks like he should be a son of Zaccheus (Nathaniel) Bosworth and Ann Smith Bosworth, but he was born more than nine months after the death of that Zaccheus. Maybe this Zaccheus is a nephew? Further research is warranted.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bosworth-203

Biography

Born about 1612 based on probable marriage date, and gap between admission to church and freemanship.

"Banks claims an origin for Bosworth in Stowe Nine Churches, Northamptonshire, but provides no evidence for this identification."[1]
"Given the presumed date of marriage for Zaccheus Bosworth, and the gap of five years between his admission to church and to freemanship, he was probably not yet twenty-one in 1630, and so may well have been a servant to some older and more affluent member of the Winthrop Fleet."[2]
In 1637, he was disarmed or supporting Rev. John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson in the Antimonian controversy.[3], but he soon reversed his support.[4]

Married by 1638 Anne ______; she m2 in Boston 17 Oct 1656 Thomas Cooper of Rehoboth[5]

In 1643, he was excommunicated from Boston Church for excessive drinking, but he repented a few months later and was readmitted.[6]

1650 Member, Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

Zaccheus d. in Boston 28 Jul 1655[7]

Children, all born and bapt in Boston:

Restored (dau), bp 26 Aug 1638[8]; no further record.
Elizabeth, b 24 Jul 1650[9]; bp 26 Jul 1640[10]; m1 by 1660 John Morse; m2 btw 10 May 1682 and 20 Dec 1688 Samuel Button. (See TAG 24:147-56 for a full treatment of John Morse and the marriages of Elizabeth Bosworth.)
Samuel, b 4 Mar 1641/2 [sic][11]; bp 12 Mar 1642/3 "being 6 days old"[12]; m by 1670 Mercy Bumstead, dau of Thomas Bumstead[13]
Sarah, bp 27 Jul 1645 "being about 3 days old"[14]; d July 1645[15]
See Robert H. Montgomery, "Zacheus Bosworth, of Boston, Husbandman," in The American Genealogist, vol 24, pp 80-87. "Montgomery gives Bosworth two sons Samuel, but, given the errors in the town vital records, there was more likely only one."[16]

Zaccheus Bosworth (abt. 1612 - 1655)

Zaccheus Bosworth

Born about 1612 in England

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling%28s%29 unknown]

Husband of Ann (UNKNOWN) Cooper — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Father of Elizabeth Bosworth and Samuel Bosworth

Died 28 Jul 1655 at about age 43 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Profile last modified 27 Jan 2024 | Created 12 Oct 2011

Zaccheus Bosworth migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 191)

Sources

↑ GMB, p 193, citing "Topo Dict 128".
↑ GMB, p 193
↑ Mass. Bay Colony Records vol 1, p 211
↑ Winthrop Papers, vol 3, p 513
↑ Boston VR, p 57
↑ Boston Church Records, p 39
↑ Boston VR, p 57
↑ Boston Church Records, p 283
↑ Boston Vital Records
↑ Boston Church Records, p 285
↑ Boston Vital Records, p 10
↑ Boston Church Records, p 292
↑ TAG 24:82, 86
↑ Boston Church Records, p 300
↑ Boston Vital Records, p 21
↑ GMB, p 192
Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, vol I-III, (1995) p 191-193.link for subscribers$
Research of John Putnam