Rev. Gershom BULKELEY

Male 1636 - 1713  (77 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Rev. Gershom BULKELEY was born in Jan 1635/6 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1713 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Practioner in Physick

    Gershom married Sarah CHAUNCY on 6 Oct 1659 in Concord, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Capt. Edward BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1677 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1748 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
    2. 3. Rev. John BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1679 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 9 Jun 1731 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut.
    3. 4. Dorothy BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1662 in Wethersfield, Connecticut; died before 7 Jun 1757 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Capt. Edward BULKELEY Descendancy chart to this point (1.Gershom1) was born about 1677 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1748 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Name:
    He was a member of the Committee or Agents for Wethersfield, May 1711; Deputy for Wethersfield to the conn.General Assembly, Oct, 1714, May and Oct 1715, Oct. 1716, May 1721, and Oct. 1724. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, Oct 1714, May 1715, and from 1744 until his death in 1748. He was commissioned Capt. of the Company at Stepney parish, May 1727.

    Edward married Dorothy PRESCOTT on 14 Jul 1702 in Concord, Massachusetts. Dorothy was born on 31 May 1681 in Concord, Massachusetts; died on 30 Nov 1760 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Charles BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Mar 1703 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 21 Feb 1758 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut.

  2. 3.  Rev. John BULKELEY Descendancy chart to this point (1.Gershom1) was born in 1679 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 9 Jun 1731 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut.

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    Name:
    He was graduated from Harvard College in 1699, studied divinity and was ordained as minister of the church at Colchester, Conn., December 20, 1703.

    He took very high rank among the clergymen of New England. He wrote the preface to Wolcott's "Meditations." He published: election sermon (1713) entitled, "the Necessity of Religion in Societies"; "Inquiry Into the right of the Aboriginal Natives to the Land in America" (1724); "An Impartial Account of a Late Debate at Lyme upon the Following Points; Whether it be the Will of God that the Infants of Visable Believers should be Baptized; whether sprinkling be lawful and sufficient; and whether the Present Way of Supporting Ministers by a public Rate or Tax be Lawful."

    John married Patience PRENTICE in 1701 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Sarah BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Apr 1702 in Colchester, Connecticut; died in 1798.
    2. 7. Col. John BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Apr 1705 in Colchester, New London Co, Connecticut; died on 21 Jul 1753 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut.
    3. 8. Patience BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Mar 1715 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut; died on 8 Jul 1794 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut.
    4. 9. Lucy BULKELEY  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Jan 1719/20 in Colchester, New London Co, Connecticut; died on 10 May 1800 in Colchester, New London Co., Connecticut.

  3. 4.  Dorothy BULKELEY Descendancy chart to this point (1.Gershom1) was born in 1662 in Wethersfield, Connecticut; died before 7 Jun 1757 in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Fact: Daughter of Rev. Gershom Bulckley of Glastenbury

    Dorothy married Lieut. Thomas TREAT, Esq. on 5 Jul 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Thomas (son of Richard TREAT, Jr. and Sarah COLEMAN) was born on 12 Dec 1668 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 19 Jan 1712/13 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Rev. Richard TREAT  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 May 1694 in Glastonbury, Connecticut; died in 1755 in Sheffield.