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Benjamin Bullard I (b. Abt. 1634, d. September 27, 1689)
Benjamin Bullard I (son of Robert Bullard and Ann Anne Martyn)3 was born Abt. 1634 in Probably England3, and died September 27, 1689 in Sherborne, MA3. He married (1) Sarah Unknown. He married (2) Martha Pidge on April 05, 1659 in Dedham, MA3, daughter of Thomas Pidge and Mary Unknown. He married (3) Elizabeth Thorp Thorpe on 16773, daughter of Henry Thorp Thorpe and Unknown.
Notes for Benjamin Bullard I:
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Initial Source: Ancestry's Family Trees
Betsey Heath Howes
Howes115@mtdata.net
Add'l Source: "New England Families, Vol II, Genealogies and Memorials," pgs 930 & 931.
Excerpt from above-referenced source:
"(II) Benjamin, son of Robert Bullard, was born probably in England in 1634. He was about five years old when his father died and he was taken by one of his uncles at Dedham, where his name appears on the records about the time he came of age and where he seemed to have formed such connections as usually preceded a long acquaintance. He was admitted a townsman in Dedham, January 1, 1655, implying previous residence on probation. He shortly afterwards settled at Boggestow or Bogistow, later Sherborn, some twenty miles from Dedham. He joined with George Fairbanks, son of the immigrant, Jonathan, and bought the southern half or third of a tract of land belonging to the heirs of Robert Kayne, of Boston, to whom had been granted in 1649 one thousand and seventy-four acres at Pawsett Hill, now partly in Sherborn, partly in Millis. Captain Kayne died March 23, 1655-56, Hill and Breck, two brothers-in-law, purchased at the same time another part and these four constituted the second company who settled west of the Charles river. They must have settled there before February 2, 1657, when the first child was born in Sherborn. Fairbanks and Bullard divided their lands so as to give each other scattered lots and secure sites for building near each other. Bullard took the north and southwest parts and located his dwelling on the north side of Bogistow pond, near a copious and still valuable spring. Rev. Abner Morse writes: 'His was a frontier location, cut off by the river and marsh, and a distance of four miles from the nearest settlement at Medfield. His prospects and life were in danger. He found Wood, Leland and Holbrook settled from one to two miles north and was joined by Rockwood and Daniels within one mile south, making with Hill and Breck, one-third of a mile north, and Fairbanks hard by on the southwest, a settlement of nine families to be defended by themselves. They selected for the site of their garrison the north bank of Bogistow pond, having long wet prairies on the east and northwest, and they prepared to live in a state of warfare the remainder of their lives. They built for their garrison house a spacious and regular fortress, superior to any similar structure on the frontier. In this fort, they were once besieged by a host of King Philip's warriors, who in despair of other means attempted to fire the building and to send it down the declivity by a cart of burning flax. Arrested in its descent by a rock still to be seen, and an Indian who had run down to start it having been killed, a retreat was sounded and the lives of our ancestors were saved.' The walls of the edifice were carefully preserved by the descendants of Benjamin Bullard until 1785, when the proprietor sold out to a man who destroyed them. The site of the fort is but a few rods from the line of the present Bullard farm, part of the original grant, now occupied by Arthur Ware Bullard. That part has never been surveyed or deeded, and the present owner is a direct lineal descendant of the first settler, all of the owners successively having been Bullards in the direct male line. No similar instance is known.
"in 1662 Benjamin Bullard signed the first petition for the incorporation of a town. In 1674 he signed a second petition for the incorporation of Sherborn, which was granted, and he with twenty other petitioners and twenty more who were to be inhabitants constituted a proprietor or lands, now composing Sherborn, Holliston and large districts of Framingham and Ashland. Bullard was active in town and church he was one of the six to constitute the church at its formation. He was tithingman in 1688 and served on the committee to seat the meeting-house. The Indian claim to lands granted at Sherborn before the incorporation had not been destroyed, so Bullard and nine other owners of these grants paid twenty pounds to seven natives as principals for those who had formerly lived on it, and procured quit-claim to four thousand acres, June 12, 1682. This included his farm of one hundred and fifty acres, and in 1686 he was rated with forty proprietors and inhabitants of Sherborn to raise an equal amount to extinguish the Indian claim to the remainder of ten thousand acres included in the township. He was rated among the highest and this rate having been early adopted as the rule whereby the common lands should be apportioned, he and his heirs drew large shares and became the owners of much land. He died intestate, September 7, 1689, and administration was granted to his son Samuel and Sarah Bullard. His personal estate was appraised, November 28, 1689, by John Harding and Joseph Bullard at two hundred and thirty-five pounds, sixteen shillings, and from another inventory he seems to have left a good property in stock and lands. He grave, unamrked, is in the little graveyard near the farm in the centre of which is now a pasture on a knoll overlooking the river. Here the founders of Sherborn were buried."
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Add'l Source: "Ancestral Heads of New England Families, Surnames, A-B," pg 36.
Add'l Source: "Bullard and Allied Families," Edgar Bullard, pgs 10 - 13.
More About Benjamin Bullard I:
Fact 1: Sources: See "Notes.".3
Fact 2: 1639, Was abt 5y when father died & was.3
Fact 3: taken by an uncle, William, at.3
Fact 4: Dedham, MA..3
Fact 5: January 01, 1654/55, Admitted a townsman in Dedham, MA..3
Fact 6: Settled in Boggestow or Bogistow,.3
Fact 7: later Sherborn, some 20 miles from.3
Fact 8: Dedham. See "Notes" for more info..3
Fact 9: Last wife, Elizabeth, was the dau of.3
Fact 10: his step-father, Henry Thorpe..3
More About Benjamin Bullard I and Martha Pidge:
Marriage: April 05, 1659, Dedham, MA.3
Marriage Fact 1: Source: Ancestry's Family Trees..3
Marriage Fact 2: Add'l Source: "NE Families, Vol II.".3
More About Benjamin Bullard I and Elizabeth Thorp Thorpe:
Marriage: 16773
Marriage Fact 1: Source: "NE Families, Vol II," pg 931..3
Children of Benjamin Bullard I and Martha Pidge are:
- Elizabeth Bullard.
- Mary Bullard I, b. September 14, 1663, Sherborne, MA3, d. July 31, 1666, Sherborne, MA3.
- Samuel Bullard, Capt., b. December 26, 1667, Sherborne, MA3, d. December 11, 1727, Sherborne, MA3.
- Mary Bullard II, b. March 29, 1669, Medfield, MA3, d. March 20, 17553.
- +Benjamin Bullard II, b. March 01, 1669/70, Sherborne, MA3, d. Bet. 1760 - 1766, Sherborne, MA3.
- Hannah Bullard, b. August 06, 1672, Sherborne, MA3, d. March 31, 1750, Holliston, MA3.
- Eleazar Bullard, Lt., b. June 27, 1675, Sherborne, MA3, d. August 04, 1753, Medfield, MA3.
Children of Benjamin Bullard I and Elizabeth Thorp Thorpe are:
- John Bullard, b. March 07, 1678/79, Medfield, MA3.
- Elizabeth Bullard, b. January 31, 1680/81, Medfield, MA3.
- Mary Bullard, b. February 20, 1682/83, Sherborne, MA3, d. May 08, 17583.
- Malachi Bullard, b. March 08, 1684/85, Sherborne, MA3, d. November 15, 17263.
- Isaac Bullard, b. July 25, 1688, Sherborne, MA3, d. 1742, Holliston, MA3.

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