THE BULKELEY FAlVIILY; on TUE DESCENDANTS OF REV. PETER BULKELEY, WHO lSHTTLEl> AT CONCORD, MASS., IN 1636. CoJUpiled at the request ot· JOSEPH E. BULKELEY. BY REV. F. w. CHAPMAN, AUTHOR OF THE "CHAPMAN," "PRATT,'' "TROWBRIDGE,'' "BUCKINGHAM," AND "con" ~"AMILIES; MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE BUFFALO HISTORI· CAL SOCIETY, --••- HARTFORD: THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD CO., PRINTERS. 187 5. BARO::J-HILL, in me lsle of .AJ."\/GLEFEY, the Seat ofLordViscount BULKELEY. (Let all read this Preface before examining the work.] PREFACE. AnouT four years since, Mr. Joseph E. Bulkeley, of New York, who has a country seat in Rocky Hill, engaged the publisher to prepare a full and complete genealogy of the Bulkeley family in America, descended from the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, Mass., who arrived in New England in 1634 or l 635. Most of the four intervening years have been faithfully devoted to this work. No pains hf1,ve been spared to make out a correct list of all the descendants. The usual difficulties attending such an enter­ prise have been fully experienced. More than one thousand letters have been written to different members of the family. Two differ­ ent circulars have also been sent to all whose residence has been known. The writer has.also visited the offices of town clerks and clerks of probate, and examined church and parish records, searched burial-grounds, visited numerous families, and made as thorough investigation as practicable to include all of the race in the country. In order to gain all of historical interest that could be gathered, many days have been spent in the largest libraries of New York, Boston, New Haven, Hartford, and Worcester, the superintendents of which have afforded every facility in their power. The task of collecting materials for this memorial has of course been laborious beyond what any one can realize who has not been engaged in similar labors. In multitudes of instances, no response has been given to letters repeatedly sent to individuals requesting dates and other important facts, which could be gathered from no other source. In some cases we have been obliged to address letters to professional men in the vicinity of the delinquents and offer them a compensation for gathering the needed information for us. The chirography of PREFACE. those who have returned answers, in cases not infrequent, has been such as was impossible to decipher, obliging us to write a second time, requesting an explanation. Many families have kept no record, but have forwarded lists from memory, and different mem­ bers of the same family have often disagreed in the dates fur­ nished. The history of the earlier generations has been made as complete as could be by a diligent search of public records, which are the principal sources of information respecting the earlier families; but all the facts sought were not recorrled. Records in some instances have been lost; in others the desired items of infor­ mation are omitted, and such records often disagree. In all such cases the writer has selected such names and dates as seemed sanctioned by the highest authority. The later generations have been collected mainly by examining family records and by cor­ respondence with members of the various families now living. Great perplexity has been. experienced from the fact that, until quite recently, there has been during the last hundred years un­ warrantable neglect to register on public records the births, mar­ riages, and deaths which have occurred in the various towns and parishes. These explanations are given, that those persons who do not find the account of their families as perfect as they expected, may understand that all reasonable effort has been expended to secure completeness and accuracy. The compiler has carefully examined all. the records within his reach and the various manu­ scripts furnished him, and has diligently sought information from all available sources. It has been his constant aim to furnish a reliable record and history of the family in its numerous branches. For the errors of recorders and correspondents he cannot be held responsible. Manifest errors in the spelling of names have been corrected according to his best judgment, while some peculiarities in the earlier· generations have been purposely retained. It is hardly possible in a work of this kind to avoid mistakes in deci­ phering and transcribing so many thousand names and dates, many of which are found in records and manuscripts scarcely legible. It is exceedingly difficult to avoid all errors in printing a volume containing so many dates and figures, even where the copy is com­ plete. Although the sheets, as they have come from the press, have heen carefully read before the last impression by some half dozen different individuals, some errors have escaped the notice of the compiler and his assistant proof-readers. It is to be regretted that a few families have been so separated PRKFACE. V from their relatives that no trace of them and their descendants have been found. Still, with few exceptions, we think a full and accurate record has been given. The thanks of the compiler are due to those members of the family who have aitfod him in his researches. Ile is under especial obligations to Mr. ,Joseph E. Bulkeley for records and historical . matter relating to the family, collected by him in this country and in England, previous to his engagement with the author; to Mr. James H. Bulkeley, of Philadelphia, for the family records of de­ scendants in Pennsylvania; to Miss Anna L. North, Cheektowaga, N. Y., for assistance in tracing the descendants of Prescott and Lois Williams Bulkeley; to Mrs. M. S. Converse of Elmira., N. Y., for records of Benjamin, Brownell, and Francis Bulkeley; to Dr. Edward Bulkeley, of New Haven, for valuable statistics relating to the descendants of Edward and Diana Bunce Bulkeley; and es­ pecially to Miss Eliza Ann Bulkeley, of Southport, for aid in col­ Iecti.µg the descendants of Thomas and Peter Bulkeley, sons of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, and without whose assistance their records would unavoidably have been very incomplete; and to numerous other persons not connected with the family for the assistance they have rendered him in his investigations. .As the work will probably fall into the hands of some not ex­ tensively versed in genealogies, the author has endeavored to make it as free from intricacies as possible. The descendants of each child of the first settler who married and had offspring are distinctly traced hy themselves, according to their generations, and are all numbered from the beginning. The marginal numbers give each descendant his place in the order of descent, while the head numbers in the middle of the page, corresponding to those in the margin, give the marriages of such as have entered the family rela­ tion, and as far as possible the names of their partners, with the dates of their marriage and decease. A full index of the baptismal names of those whose surname is Bulkeley is furnished, the number of the individual being opposite to the Christian name on the left and the <late of birth on the right; ·, also an index of the descendants of other names than those of \_Bulkeley, with numbers and dates to correspond; and a list of those who have married into the Bulkeley family, with the number of their respective partners on the left and date of marriage on the rcght. In conclusion, the volume is sent forth in the hope that it will PREFACE, be acceptable to the numerous living members of the family, and that it may stimulate the present and future generations to emulate the piety, the love of civil and religious liberty, and that devotion to the common welfare which characterized the early settlers of New England. - FREDERICK W. CHAPMAN. RocKY HrLL, Conn., December 1st, 1875. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Earlier Notices of the Bulkeley Family, in England, - 9 . Bulkeley Pedigree, . 18 Introductory History of the Family in America, 24 Will of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, • 30 Genealogy of the FamiliH in America, 35 Re-r. Peter Bulkeley, the Puritan Settler, 35 Descendants of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, 38 Will of Joseph Bulkeley, of Littleton, 41 Deaeendants of Thomas Bulkeley, of Fairfield, 44 John Bulkeley and his descendants, - 64 Will of John Bulkeley, _. 64 Will of Everard Faulkner, 61! Will of EliS!\beth Faulkner, • iO Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, and descendants, • 78 Will of Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, of Wethersfield, 81 Rev. John Bulkeley, of Colchester, • 91 Exploits of Capt, Charles Bulkeley, of New London, • 111 · Untimely Death of Walter William Bulkeley, 123 Memoir of Dr. Sylvester Bulkeley, • 127 Notice of Gurdon Bulkeley, - 136 Memoir of Eleazer Bulkeley, - • 201 Index to Christian Names of those bearing the su·mame of Bulkeley, • 255 Index to the Names of other descendants than those bearing the surname of Bulkeley, . • 269 Index to the Names of persons who have married into the Bulkeley family, 278 APPENDL'r.-Life of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, by Rev. Cotton Mather, • 247 "·- t>;i~ f;-: -,;~ ·THE BULKELEY FAMILY. Tms family desccmlcJ from remote antiquity. Its surname is derived from a ridge of mountains in thP County Pa.la.tine of Chei;ter. The name ,,as spoiled in the reign of John-ll!J9 to 12l<i anJ generations s11ccce,ling-Buclough, or larger mountain. In the '..!0th of Henry TV., a.n<l on the visit.at.ions of Echva.rcl IV., its desiµ-nation wa~ Bucclog-h-Lord of Bulclogh in Cheshire; and of tJ1r, manor of Euton, Pr•i8lo.nd and ,\lmon.