Person:John Bursley (2)

John Bursley was part of the company of Robert Gorges that arrived in New England in the fall of 1623 and settled at what became Weymouth.^[1]

Constable 1645, the inv. (inventory) of his estate rendered August 21, 1660 by John Smith and John Chipman.

From Pioneers of MA. Page 82

Marriage also given as 28 May, 1639, Cape Code MA.

Freeman 19 Oct 1630

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Bursley, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   Origin: Unknown
   Birth: by about 1600 based on appearance at Weymouth in 1623.
   Death: Barnstable bef 21 Aug 1660 (date of inventory)
   Marriage: Sandwich abt 28 Nov 1639 "Mr. Hull's daughter" (Joanna Hull, daughter of Reverend Joseph Hull) [NEHGR 9:286]

2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:312.

   BURSLEY, BURSLEM, or BURSLIN, JOHN, an early sett. at Weymouth reckon. some 3 or 4 yrs. among "old planters," and was soon after at Dorchester, req. adm. as freem. 19 Oct. 1630, and was sw. 18 May foll. When first nam. he is call. Mr. and was rep. 1636, m. at Sandwich, 28 Nov. 1639, Joanna, d. of Rev. Joseph Hull of Barnstable, had fix. at Barnstable, and there was his d. Mary bapt. 30 July 1643; John, 22 Sept. 1644, d. in few wks. Joanna, 1 Mar. 1646; Elizabeth 25 Mar. 1649; and John, again, 11 Apr. 1652; beside the first ch. wh. d. sudden. 25 Jan. 1641, very young; prob. Temperance, wh. m. Dec. 1677, Joseph Crocker of B.; and Joanna, wh. m. Shubael Dimmock, as sec. w. He was at Exeter 1643 and 5, short time at Hampton, but of Kittery 1647-53, went back to the neighb. of Barnstable, there d. prob. 1660. His wid. bec. sec. or third w. of the first Dolor Davis. Mary m. 25 Apr. 1663, John Crocker; and Elizabeth m. Nov. 1666, Nathaniel Goodspeed, and, next, Oct. 1675, Increase Clap.

3.   Otis, Amos, and Charles Francis Swift. Genealogical notes of Barnstable families: being a reprint of the Amos Otis papers originally published in the Barnstable Patriot. (Barnstable)
   p. 127-133.
4. ↑ Source:Mayflower Descendant, p. 17: 159, in Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories: "The goods of Mr John Bursley late Deceased apprised by John Smith and John Chipman", dated 21 Aug 1660, so death before this.