My great time 6 grand uncle.
Born: 30 Jan. 1663, Gloucester Co., Virginia, America. 1 2
Parents: RICHARD BUSHROD* AND APPHIA (UNKNOWN)
Married: unknown.
Death: 26 Feb. 1719. 1 2
Will: written 26 Jan. 1719, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, America. 3
Burial: 1719, Bushfield, near the mouth of Nominy Creek, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, America. 2
Probate: 30 March 1720, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, America. 3
Notes:
EPITAPH: "Here lies the body of John Bushrod, Gentleman, son of Richard Bushrod, Gentleman, by Apphia his wife. He was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, the 30th of January, 1663. He took for his wife Hannah, the daughter of William Keene, of Northumberland, and Elizabeth his wife, and by her left two sons and four daughters, and died the 6th of February, 1719, in the 56th year of his age." 1
WILL: Name: John Bushrod 26 Jan 1719 30 Mch 1720
Daughters Apphia Fauntleroy and Eliz. Meriwether ; dau. Hannah Bushrod when 17; dau. Sarah when 17; son Richard ; son John when 19; son Thomas ; wife Hannah extx. 3
Spouse: HANNAH KEENE d. 1738/39, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, America.
CHILDREN OF JOHN BUSHROD AND HANNAH KEENE:
(my first cousins 7 times removed)
APPHIA BUSHROD
ELIZABETH BUSHROD m. William Meriwether. 3 4
HANNAH BUSHROD m(1) (Unknown) Heale 5 m(2) Adam Crump 6 Aug. 1742, Lancaster Co., VA. 6
SARAH BUSHROD m. (Unknown) Berryman. 5
RICHARD BUSHROD
THOMAS BUSHROD b: 25 May 1702.
JOHN BUSHROD b. 25 May 1702 d. 1760, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, America. 2
Sources:
1. Meade, William. Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, Volume II. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1857.
2. Virginia Vital Records, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1984.
3. Westmoreland County Wills Book VI, Crozier, William Armstrong, ed.. Virginia County Records, New Series. Vol. I, Westmoreland County. Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, The Genealogical Association, 1913.
4. "Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I-II," New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.
5. Westmoreland County Wills Book IX, will of Hannah Bushrod-Allerton-Cooper; Crozier, William Armstrong, ed., Virginia County Records, New Series, Volume I, Westmoreland County. Hasbrouck Heights, NJ: The Genealogical Association, 1913.
6. Dodd, Jordan. Virginia Marriages to 1800.
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