When Handley Bushnell was born in 1731, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joshua Bushnell II, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Hanley, was 35. He married Chloe Bishop on 19 February 1752. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 January 1811, in Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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DLESEX COUNTY was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed at the May session, 1785, and at that time consisted of six towns. Of these, Mifldletown, Chatham, Haddam, and East Haddam were taken from the county of Hartford, and Saybrook and Killingworth from New London coun
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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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From "Bushell Family Genealogy", compiled and written vy George Eleazer Bushnell, 1945: Handelt Bushnell and his wife were members of the First Church of Saybrook, she being received as a member …
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