Edward Bugbee, of Roxbury

EDWARD BUGBEE, HIS WIFE REBECCA AND DAUGHTER SARAH, SAILED THE LAST PART OF APRIL 1634 FROM IPSWICH ENGLAND, TO NEW ENGLAND ON THE SHIP "FRANCIS". HE SETTLED IN ROXBURY, MA, WHERE A BROTHER, RICHARD LIVED WHO HAD LEFT IPSWICH FOUR YEARS BEFORE WITH HIS WIFE JUDITH. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A SON OF EDWARD, JOHN, HAD COME WITH HIS UNCLE AND WAS IN ROXBURY WHEN HIS PARENTS ARRIVED.

EDWARD WILL BE CONSIDERED AS THE FATHER OF JOHN AND JOSEPH.

THERE APPEARS TO BE NO RECORD OF ANY DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD AND IT IS PROBABLE THAT HIS LINE BECAME EXTINCT AND THAT HE DIED WITHOUT ISSUE. HE WAS EARLY IN THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND UNDOUBTEDLY CAME OVER IN WITHROP'S FLEET. HE REQUESTED ADMISSION AS FREEMAN OCT. 19, 1630, AND WS SWORN MAY 19, 1631. IN 1631, HE AND JUDITH WERE COMMUNICANTS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF ROXBURY. HE MAY HAVE BEEN THE YOUNGER BROTHER AND THE ROXBURY RECORD MAKES NO MENTION OF HIS DEATH, BUT HE MUST HAVE DIED PREVIOUS TO 1636 FOR HIS WIDOW HAD MARRIED ROBERT PARKER OF CAMBRIDGE, AND BORN HIM A SON, BENJAMIN, BORN JUNE 1639, AND THEN SARAH, BORN 1640.

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