Amazing Grace

BackGround: Preston Temple, Preston, England.

Ancestry of Hiram GRIFFIN
and
Helen M^cCALL

Up Dated 9 September 2001
Peter BULKLEY² (Peter¹)

Peter BULKLEY Jr.
and
Margaret _______

Peter was born 12 June 1643, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and married about 1670, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Margaret _______. He died 1691/1692, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.

HISTORY of FAIRFIELD
GENEALOGIES
By Elizabeth Hubbell SCHENCK
p. 359.

     Dr. Peter, the youngest son of the Rev. Peter BULKLEY did not settle at Fairfield until some time after his brothers. He probably married Margaret FOXCROFT, of Boston, as in a record in A. of T. D. he sold to the heirs of Francis FOXCROFT all interest he and his wife had in said FOXCROFT's house in Boston, for £90. Francis FOXCROFT is said to be the son of Daniel FOXCROFT, mayor of Leeds, in Co. York, & his second wife was Eliza, daughter of Gov. DANFORD. Dr. Peter BUCKLEY was an apothecary as well as a physician in Fairfield. He left but a small estate. His will is dated 25 March 1691, in which he calls himself "in the 49^th year of his age," mentions son Peter (born 1683) then seven, & a quarter years old, who upon arriving at a suitable age, he willed should be bound to James BENNET Jr. until of age, to be taught "the art of weaving both linen & woolen, to ye best of his capacity." he mentions daughters Grace, Margaret & Hannah SHERMAN. His brother Rev. Dr. Gershom BUCKLEY of Weathersfield, mentions two other children of Dr. Peter BUCKLEY's viz: Gershom & Dorothy.

THE BULKELEY GENEALOGY
Compilied By
Donald Lines JACOBUS, M.A.

(Dr.) Peter BULKELEY (Peter¹), born at Concord, Mass., 12 August 1643, died at Fairfield, Conn., in 1691; married Margaret         , who died before 1691.

He was a member of the class of 1662 at Harvard College, but did not receive a degree.

The will of Peter, dated 25 March 1691, two eldest daughters Grace and Margrit; "that fflock bed yt is at Hanna SHERMANS there let it remain: or if young James BENNIT have it, it shall be only upon Courtisey"; Peter to be apprenticed to James to learn weaving; mentioned a mare now at Daniel SILLIMAN's; brother Gershom BULKLY sole Executor. The Executor refusing, to administration was granted to John and Joseph BULKLEY and Samuel ROBENSON, any two of them.

His inventory, dated 17 July 1691, included "medicne sinple & in Composition" valued at £25 and "Books Inglish and Latin." He was a physician.

On 29 June 1688 Peter BULKLEY of Fairfield, apothecary, and Margaret his wife, mortgaged his dwelling house and land in Fairfield for £90 to Frances FOXCROFT of Boston, merchant; deed witnessed by Thomas HILL and Frances SEDENHAM. On 31 March 1691Mstrs. SEDENHAM of Fairfield as Attorney to Francis FOXCROFT of Boston entered a caveat against Peter BULKLY's house and land in Fairfield, in reverence to a suit in law to be brought before the next Fairfield County Court. Claims which have been made to the effects that Peter's wife was a FOXCROFT are based on nothing more substantial than these two entries in the land records. they prove nothing of the kind; and investigation leads to the negative conclusion that Margaret was not a FOXCROFT.

Peter,s five children are named in the will of his brother, Rev. Gershom, and there is nothing to indicate that there were other surviving children. Statements that he had a daughter Hannah who married Matthew SHERMAN seem to owe their origin to the clause in his will quoted above. A monument erected in 1885 in the Stratfield Cemetery names the wife of Matthew SHERMAN as "Hannah BULKLEY."

CHILDREN of Peter BULKLEY and Margaret his Wife:

 
   2. GRACE    b:    Abt 1672; Concord. Middlesex, Massachusetts.
              md: 20 Sep 1692; , Fairfield, Connecticut.
                               Ebenezer KILBOURN.
   3. MARGARET b:    Abt 1674; Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
 + 4. GERSHOM  b:  4 May 1676; Fairdield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
              md:    Abt 1700; Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut.
                               Eunice HANFORD
              md:    By  1706; , Hartford, Connecticut.
                               Rachel TALCOTT.
   5. PETER    b: 25 Dec 1683; Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
              md:            ; , Fairfield, Connecticut.
                               Hannah BUCKLEY
              md:            ; , Fairfield, Connecticut.
                               Abigail _______
   6. DOROTHY  b:        1687; Fairdield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
 

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