When Jacob Bushnell was born about 1786, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, his father, Richard Bushell, was 37 and his mother, Mary Milward, was 27. He married Lucy Collins on 18 December 1815, in Alverstone by Wootton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Portsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died on 29 March 1849, at the age of 64, and was buried in Portsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
English: habitational name from Bushnells Green in Bucklebury (Berkshire), early recorded as Bushenell or Busshendhill.
History: Francis Bushnell came to New Haven, CT, in 1639, and was a founder of Guilford, CT.
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