Edward BUNCE

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Edward married Katherine about 1564 in Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana. Katherine (daughter of Richard REIMERT and Katherine BARNES) was born about 1549 in Kent, England; died in 1609 in Horsmonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married Dorothie MOSS about 1584 in Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana. Dorothie was born about 1567 in Kent, England; died in in Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: James (John) D BUNCE*
• Name: Peter James BUNCE
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James married Elizabeth RAYNOR about 1604 in Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana. Elizabeth (daughter of Matthew RAYNOR and Mary Margaret RAYNER) was born on 1 Nov 1589 in Kent, England; died on 11 Aug 1638 in Goudhurst, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Katherine married CLARK on 16 Oct 1650 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note: Thomas' wife is mistakenly referred to by researchers as Sarah Bull from published accounts of a "Prob" probable marriage mentioned in A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage, a confusion with their son Thomas. However, age differences cannot be ignored and the lineage of Sarah Bull and her children are proved in Thomas Bull's will. Sarah, wife of THIS Thomas will remain unkown as to her maiden name, and Thomas' son Thomas b: 1648 will remain as the proven husband of Sarah Bull.

As one of an army of about 90 men raised from Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, he served as an ensign in the Pequot Indian war of May, 1637...Thomas Bunce was granted 60 acres in 1671 and an additional 50 acres in 1672 by the General Court "for his Good service therein." His land was located near the present site of the state Capitol.

From The Connecticut Nutmegger, September 1991, page 238:
Thomas, the original immigrant who came from England around 1635, probably marched with Hooker from Cambridge to Hartford in 1636. He was there early enough to be considered a "founder", and his name is on the proprietor's list of 1639. He and his wife were members of the Second or South Church.
Thomas accepted civic responsibilities. He was a constable in 1648,
juror in 1649, townsman (selectman) in 1655, 61, and 65, rate setter and list maker
1668-71 and 1672-73. He served as an ensign in the Pequot War, and "for
his Good service therein" was later granted 110 acres of land. His home was
near the site of the present Capitol. He was evidently involved with
construction work, since records show he helped build a new mill, and he worked to repair the bridge across Little River in 1648.
His descendants were many in Connecticut, as evidenced by their numbers in
Barbour's 'Families of Early Hartford'.
Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America, Henry Whittemore,
1967:
He had Thomas, John, Sarah, Mary 1645, Elizabeth.
References - Hinman's Conn. Settlers, 403; Tuttle Gen. 658; Savage's Gen.
Dict. vol. 1, 298.
Boston Transcript, July 2, 1930, #9800: The list of names on the Hartford
Monument is copied from the account of the Hartford, Ct., old burying
ground, by the Ruth Wyllys Chapter, D. A. R.
"In the center of the cemetery is a venerable monument erected in 1835 in
1835 to the memory of 'The Founders of Hartford.' One hundred and two names
including Thomas Bunce.
Boston Transcript, 22 July 1908, #9961: The inventory of Thomas Bunce was
taken August 3, 1683. Will not dated. To his son John Bunce he gave "my Lott
Lyeing over against Mr. Webster," etc. The two last parcels of land John Bunce
was "to possess immediately after the decease of me & my wife Sarah Bunce."
Founders of Early American Families, Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657,
1975:
Documentation of Son Thomas - attributed to father:
Bunce, Thomas. Hartford (Mass.) 1636 d there 1683. Ensign. Member of committee
of safety. Stiles, Wethersfield; Savage.
!A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage,
1965: Bunce, Thomas, Hartford 1636, serv. next yr. in the Pequot war,
had, prob. by a d. of capt. Thomas Bull, under wh. he had act. in that was, ch.
Thomas; John; Sarah, wh. m. John White of Hatfield, and, next Nicholas
Worthington; Mary, b 17 sept. 1645, wh. m. Thomas Meakins of Hatfield,
and, next, John Downing; and Eliz. wh. m. Jacob White of Hartford, br. of John
bef. nam.

SOURCES: Austin's Gen. Dict. Vol. 1 pg. 294
Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass.
Conn. Gen. Vol. 1 pg. 535
Abridged Comp. of American Gen. Vol. 1

Thomas, the original immigrant who came from England around 1635, probably marched with Hooker from Cambridge to Hartford in 1636. He was there early enough to be considered a "founder", and his name is on the proprietor's list of 1639. He and his wife were members of the Second or South Church.

Thomas accepted civic responsibilities. He was a constable in 1648, juror in 1649, townsman (selectman) in 1655, 61, and 65, rate setter and list maker 1668-71 and 1672-73. He served as an ensign in the Pequot War, and "for his Good service therein" was later granted 110 acres of land. His home was near the site of the present Capitol. He was evidently involved with construction work, since records show he helped build a new mill, and he worked to repair the bridge across Little River in 1648.

His descendants were many in Connecticut, as evidenced by their numbers in
Barbour's 'Families of Early Hartford'.

The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, p. 535, and other sources state that Thomas Bunce was born in 1612 in England, said to have been from "Saybrooke, England," of English or Scottish ancestry. He was a "sturdy Puritan, who was at Hartford in 1639, a landed proprietor."
He was considered a wealthy man, as he owned land in Hartford and Wethersfield at the time of his death. His wife survived him by ten years, dying in January, 1693/94, leaving a will dated 1689, which mentioned their grandchildren, Sarah, Thomas and Mehitabel Meekins, and the two oldest children of her son, John Bunce, leaving the remainder of her property to her sons John and Thomas Bunce, executors of her will. A copy of her will also appears in A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, in Vol. 1, p. 283,

Thomas married Sarah in 1633 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Sarah was born about 1612 in Connecticut; died in Jan 1693 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mrs Thomas UNKNOWN about 1640 in Hartford County, Connecticut. Mrs and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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