Person:Benjamin Bullard (5)

-Benjamin was very young when his father, Robert, died. He was then taken care of by his uncle John in Dedham, MA until he was of age. -In 1658 Benjamin was the 8th of 10 original signers of Boggestowe Farms which became part of Medway, MA.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
   192.

   BULLARD, Benjamin, [died] Sept. 27, 1689.

2.   Bullard, in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
   1:205, 1996.

   ROBERT, born circa 1599 (calculated from age at death); buried Watertown, MA 29 4mo 1639 "the husband of Anne Bullard...40 years ould" (WVR 1:7); married as her first husband before 1626 ANNE MARTIN, baptized Euston, co. Suffolk 8 May 1597, deceased by 15 October 1660 (Middlesex Deed 10:307), daughter of John and Agnes ( ) Martin. Widow Anne (Martin) Bullard married as her second husband 1639 Henry Thorp, of Watertown. Children, surname Bullard:...
   
   1) William, baptized Barnham St Martin 15 August 1626
   2) Thomas, baptized Barnham 20 November 1636
   3) Benjamin
   4) Anna
   5) Maudlin

3.   Clifford L. Stott and Hyde, Myrtle Stevens English Bullard Family Revisited and Their Bignett Connection, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   154:172-188@178-79, 2000.

   link Robert Bullard, b. ca. 1598; d. at Watertown, Mass, 24 June 1639, aged 40 [citing Watertown Records, 1 pt. 3: 7], m. Ann Martin [citing John Plummer, "The Martyn Wives of Robert and John Bullard", NEHGR, 146(1992):279-80].' See Plummer below

4.   John Plummer, "The Martyn Wives of Robert and John Bullard", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   146:279-80, 1992.

   link
   Ann Martyn b. say 1604 d. before 15 Oct 1660 (Edgard J Bullard, Other Bullards [Ports Austin Mich., 1928] 7) m. probably ca. 1625, Robert Bullard, b. probably in Barnham ca. 1600; d. at Watertown, Mass., 24 April 1639, aged 40, son of William and Grace (Bignette) Ballard (Bullard and Allied Families 12-13). Anne (Martyn) Bullard married (2) Before 25 Nov 1639 Henry Thorpe. Children surname Bullard:
   
   1) William bp. at Barnham "son of Robert & Ann" 19 Aug 1626; bur. there 17 Oct 1626 (ibid, 12)
   
   2) Anne, b. say 1627, m ca. 1648 Richard Dana (Elizabeth Ellery Dana, The Dana Family in America [Cambridge, MA, 1956] 39)
   
   3) Maudlin (a form of Magdalen) b. say 1630.
   
   4) Benjamin b. ca. 1634

5.   Benjamin Bullard, in Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
   Case # 3436, 3437, 1690-1691.

   link Administration to Amos Fisher son-in-law and Richard Ellis (both signed their own name); Inventory 29 Nov 1689 (including books)

6.   John Coolidge, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   2:193.

   'In an instrument acknowledged on 15 October 1668, Benjamin Bullard [Henry's step-son] stated that "whereas Henry Thorp of Watertowne deceased ... know ye that I Benjamin Bullard do ... forever acquit ... all claim ... to the said parcel of land by any gift ... from my mother Ann Thorp" [MLR 10:307].'