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NICHOLAS BUSBY

BRIDGET COCKE

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Nicholas Busby died on 28 August 1657 in Boston. [WSC0][NENS0] He married Bridget Cocke. [NENS0]

Bridget Cocke died in July 1660. [WSC0]

Nicholas and Bridget came to New England with the Nickersons on the Rose of Yarmouth, landing at Salem. [NENS0]

Nicholas first settled in Newbury, then Watertown. [NENS0] On 22 August 1646 he bought a dwelling house and garden in Boston. [NENS0]

Nicholas made a bequest to his daughter Anne Nickerson. He appointed his three sons in New England—Abraham Busby, William Nickerson and John Grout—to gather up debts owned him and pay the proceeds to his wife. [WSC0]

Power of administration on the estate of Bridget Busby was granted to her son Abraham on 5 July 1660. [NENS0]

Children of Nicholas Busby:

i. Anne Busby married William Nickerson.

ii. Abraham Busby

iii. Unknown daughter married John Grout.

 

References:

WSC0. William C. Smith, A History of Chatham, Massachusetts (Hyannis: F.B. & F.P. Goss, 1909), 55–77.

NENS0. "New Englanders in Nova Scotia," database with images, American Ancestors, 65–66.

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14-Jul-2020