Rev. John BULKELEY

Male 1620 - 1689  (~ 69 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Rev. John BULKELEY was christened on 6 Feb 1619/20 in Odell, co. Bedford, England (son of Rev Peter BULKELEY and Jane ALLEN); died on 24 May 1689 in London, England.

    Notes:

    Name:
    He was graduated from Harvard College in the first graduating class, 1642; returned to England, where he became minister at Fordham, co. Essex. he was ejected in 1662, following the Restoration; removed to Wapping in the suburbs of London and practiced as a physician until his death.

    "He was a learned and eminently Pious Man. He whole life was a continual Sermon. Tho' he was not often in the Pulpit, yet he might truly be said to Preach every Day in the Week. And seldom did he visit his Patients, without reading a Lecture of Divinity to them, and praying with them."

    "That which gave at Lustre to all his other Vertues, as his great Humility, the constant Sweetness of his Temper, Integrity of his Mind, and Charitableness of his Nature, which appear'd in every part of his life."

    Mr. Bulkeley, by deed dated 20 Dec. 1645, gave to Harvard College his portion of a garden containing over an acre in Cambridge, on Harvard Street, which became the College yard.

    John married Anne TRY on 19 Mar 1650 in Odell, co. Bedford, England. Anne died before 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    John married Elizabeth ? on 6 Sep 1667 in Harrow-on-the-Hill, co. Middlesex, England. Elizabeth was born in of East Smithfield. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: Avis ?. Avis was buried on 7 Feb 1695/6 in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Rev Peter BULKELEY was born on 31 Jan 1582/3 in Odell, co. Bedford (son of Rev Edward BULKELEY, D.D. and Olive IRBY); died on 9 Mar 1659 in Concord, Massachusetts.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Education Degree: 1604/5, A.B., St. John's Coll., Cambridge
    • Fact 1: 1610-1635, Rector of Odell, succeeding his father
    • Fact: Apr 1637, Ord. Cambridge, Mass. (for Concord); First minister of Concord, Massachuseets

    Notes:

    Name:
    Rev. Peter Bulkeley was the son of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D., Rector of All Saints Church at Odell (Woodhill) in Bedfordshire, and the twelfth in descent from the first Baron of Bulkeley in the County Palatine of Chester. Odell, where Peter Bulkeley was born, January 31, 1583, is situated in the midst of a rich and fertile country in a bend of the Ouse, a river so tortuous in its course, that fuller describes it as "more meandrous than the Meander." He was carefully educated under the direction of his father, and when about the age of sixteen was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was afterwards chosen Fellow and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He remained at the university until 1608 when he returned to Odell. upon the death of his father, "a good benefice befell him, added unto the estate of a gentleman left him by his father, whom he succeeded in the ministry at the place of his nativity," which, says Cotton Mather, "one would imagine temptations enough to keep him out of a wilderness." About the year 1613, he married Jan Allen, daughter of Mr. Thomas Allen, of Goldington, whose nephew, Sir Thomas Allen was Lord Mayo of London. By this marriage he had ten sons and two daughters. For twenty years he continued Rector at Odell, being a moderate non-conformist, but unmolested because protected by his Diocesan, the famous Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, as was his father before him. "Towards the latter end of this time, his ministry had a notable success in the conversion of many unto God; and this was one occasion for a latter end for this time," for it led to complaints against him for non-conformity, and Bishop Williams having lost the favor of Laud and been sent to the Tower, these complaints were not long kept from the ears of the Archbishop, and the long-time Rector of Odell was silenced by Laud's Vicar General, Sir Nathaniel Brent. Like Cotton, Hooker, Mather, Eliot, Chauncy and others of his compeers, he was now compelled to look to America for that liberty of conscience which ecclesiastical tyranny did not permit him to enjoy at home. About this time, having been a widower for nearly eight years, he married Grace Chetwode, daughter of Sir Richard Chetwode of London, a lady of noble birth and seventeen years his junior.

    Peter married Jane ALLEN on 12 Apr 1613 in Goldington, co. Bedford. Jane was christened on 13 Jn 1587/8 in Goldington, co. Bedford England; was buried on 8 Dec 1626 in Odell, co. Bedford, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Jane ALLEN was christened on 13 Jn 1587/8 in Goldington, co. Bedford England; was buried on 8 Dec 1626 in Odell, co. Bedford, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Thomas Allen

    Children:
    1. Rev. Edward BULKELEY was christened on 12 Jun 1614 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; died on 2 Jan 1695/6 in Chelmsford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
    2. Mary BULKELEY was christened on 24 Aug 1615 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; was buried on 13 Jan 1615/6.
    3. Thomas BULKELEY was christened on 13 Apr 1617 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; died in 1658 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
    4. Nathaniel BULKELEY was christened on 29 Nov 1618 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; was buried on 11 Feb 1628/9.
    5. 1. Rev. John BULKELEY was christened on 6 Feb 1619/20 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; died on 24 May 1689 in London, England.
    6. Mary BULKELEY was christened on 1 Nov 1621 in Odell, co. Bedford, England.
    7. Joseph BULKELEY was christened on 4 May 1623; died after 1658.
    8. Daniel BULKELEY was christened on 28 Aug 1625 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; died before 1648 in Prob. Fairfield, Connecticut.
    9. Jabez BULKELEY was christened on 24 Dec 1626 in Odell, co. Bedford, England; was buried on 2 Dec 1629.