Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
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Pg 310 Robert Goold Marr: 1666 Elizabeth d/o Benjamin and granddau of Edward Bosworth68495 (Elizabeth or Mehitable Bosworth?)
Bosworth Genealogy: A History of Descendants of Edward Bosworth62726 (her name Mehitable?)
Vol 1 Pg 79: It is supposed that a daughter of Benjamin2 Bosworth Married Captaincies Robert Goold, of Hull, as in the will of the latter, Benjamin Bosworth is called grandfather of his children. On the Goold gravestone at Hull her name is given Elizabeth, b: 18 Nov 1638; but this is, I feel confident, the name and date of baptism of the eldest daughter of Jonathan2. We know that the wife of Jonathan was named Elizabeth, and as it was often custom to name the first son after the father, and the first daughter after the mother, it seems to have been followed in this case. After spending years of study on the Bosworth family, I have come to a conclusion, entirely satisfactory to me, that the Elizabeth baptized 18 Nov 1638 was d/o Jonathan2 Bosworth, who married Peter Brackett of Braintree, MA 7 Aug 1661; a corroboration of this being that every one of the names of her children are found in the family of Jonathan2. Therefore, I have so placed her.
If, as is generally accepted, Robert Gould did marry a d/o Benjamin2 Bosworth, it probably was Mehitable. Two facts add weight to this conclusion: the first being that Elizabeth was 7 yrs older than Robert Gould (she was one year younger than Peter Brackett), while Mehitable was two years younger; and the other that Robert Gould had two granddaughters named Mehitable. Hence, it is pretty safe to conclude that such was the case. Following up the above line of argument we may surmise that Benjamin’s first wife, the mother of his children, was named Mehitable, and this may sometime be brought to light by following this clew.
Bosworth Genealogy: A History of Descendants of Edward Bosworth62726 (her name Mehitable?)
Vol 1 Pg 79: It is supposed that a daughter of Benjamin2 Bosworth Married Captaincies Robert Goold, of Hull, as in the will of the latter, Benjamin Bosworth is called grandfather of his children. On the Goold gravestone at Hull her name is given Elizabeth, b: 18 Nov 1638; but this is, I feel confident, the name and date of baptism of the eldest daughter of Jonathan2. We know that the wife of Jonathan was named Elizabeth, and as it was often custom to name the first son after the father, and the first daughter after the mother, it seems to have been followed in this case. After spending years of study on the Bosworth family, I have come to a conclusion, entirely satisfactory to me, that the Elizabeth baptized 18 Nov 1638 was d/o Jonathan2 Bosworth, who married Peter Brackett of Braintree, MA 7 Aug 1661; a corroboration of this being that every one of the names of her children are found in the family of Jonathan2. Therefore, I have so placed her.
If, as is generally accepted, Robert Gould did marry a d/o Benjamin2 Bosworth, it probably was Mehitable. Two facts add weight to this conclusion: the first being that Elizabeth was 7 yrs older than Robert Gould (she was one year younger than Peter Brackett), while Mehitable was two years younger; and the other that Robert Gould had two granddaughters named Mehitable. Hence, it is pretty safe to conclude that such was the case. Following up the above line of argument we may surmise that Benjamin’s first wife, the mother of his children, was named Mehitable, and this may sometime be brought to light by following this clew.