SOME DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD BULLOCK
OF REHOBOTH, MA

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GENERATIONS 2 - 3

Samuel Bullock (1648 - 1718) & Samuel Bullock (1683 - 1746)

 

 

2. Samuel Bullock was the son of Richard and Elizabeth ((Ingraham) Bullock. He was born in Rehoboth, MA on 19 August 1648. He was married first to Mary Thurber of Swansea, Mass. On 12 November 1673. Mary died in childbirth on 5 October 1674. Samuel was married again on 26 May 1675 to Thankful Rouse . Since her name is not clear in Rehoboth records, it has sometimes been read as Renoff and Rounds. Carl Boyer in Ancestral Lines Revised has an excellent discussion of her possible ancestry. She survived Samuel but her death date is not known.

The earliest tax list of Rehoboth in 1671 shows Samuel as a taxpayer. His tax was 3 shillings and that of a Widow Bullock, his stepmother, was 11 pence. In 1674, he was the only Bullock named on the list of taxpayers in that town. He and his brother, John, were named in the list of freeholders of Rehoboth in Major William Bradford’s Quit Claim Deeds of 26 December 1689. On 10 June 1706, Samuel Bullock of Rehoboth and John Bullock of Providence sold land in Rehoboth – “Aits being ye home lott of our father, Richard Bulluk, deceased”.  Samuel and Thankful mortgaged land on Palmer’s River on 13 February 1716. The mortgage was recorded as paid 17 June 1732 but not signed.

In 1675, Samuel was a contributor to the expenses of King Phillip’s War. He was made a freeman in 1680 and was admitted in 1682. In 1696, he was chosen as a representative to the General Court of Massachusetts but declined to serve. He was a Deacon in the 1st Baptist church of Swansea, Mass. As well as being a large landholder in Rehoboth, Samuel was one of the first purchasers in Swansea, MA.

After 1667, men of Rehoboth set up Swansea as a Baptist township and continued to be proprietors and landholders of both Rehoboth and Swansea. Many people from Rehoboth who did not agree with the doctrine of the Congregationalist Church of Christ in Rehoboth continued to live in Rehoboth but became proprietors of Swansea and attended the services at the Baptist Church there. Samuel attended the ordination of the Rev. William Peckham as pastor of the First Baptist Church at Newport, Rhode Island on 15 November 1711 with his pastor, Rev. Samuel Luther who served the Swansea church from 1685 to 1716,

He died at age 69 in Rehoboth on 10 March 1718 and left a will that was dated 25 December 1716 and probated 7 April 1718. In the will, he names his wife, Thankful, sons, Ebenezer, Samuel, Seth, Daniel and daughter Thankful. The inventory taken in 1718 showed assets of 1,282 Pounds, 16 Shillings, and 11 Pence. It included apparel, money, furniture, brass, pewter, ironware and table linen - items that represented a pleasant lifestyle for those times. The homestead was valued at 800 Pounds. The inventory included 40 Pounds due from Richard Bullock, son, and 70 Pounds for the farm that Ebenezer Bullock lived on and 30 Pounds for land given to Ebenezer Bullock.

Children of Samuel and Mary (Thurber) Bullock:

  1. Mary Bullock, b. 5 Oct 1674. Died as an infant.

Children of Samuel and Thankful (Rouse) Bullock:

  1. Ebenezer Bullock, b. 22 Feb 1676. Marr. 28 mar 1698, Sarah Moulton. Died after 1728.


  2. Thankful Bullock, b. 27 Jun 1681. Marr. 6 Dec 1699, Ephraim Martin. Died 22 Jul 1762.


  3. Samuel Bullock Jr.,  b. 7 Nov 1683, Marr. 2 June 1711, Anna Salisbury. Died Apr 1746.


  4. Daniel Bullock, b. 7 Jan 1684. Marr. #1, 24 Mar 1710, Mary Salisbury; #2, Feb 17, 1724/25 Leah Beverley. Died aft. 1735.


  5. Isreal Bullock, b. 9 Mar 1687. Died at sea as a young man.


  6. Richard Bullock, b. 1 Jul 1692. Marr. 4 Nov 1718, Mary Wheaton. Possibly died in Dutchess Co. NY.


  7. Seth Bullock, b. 26 Sep 1693. Marr. 18 Jan 1718, Experience Salisbury.


 

 

3. Samuel Bullock, Jr. was born on 7 November 1683 at Rehoboth, MA. He was the son of Samuel and Thankful (Rouse) Bullock. He was married on 21 June 1711 to Anna Salisbury of Swansea, MA. She was the daughter of William and Anna (Cole) Salisbury,

Samuel was a farmer but he also was involved in many enterprises. He kept a store with his brothers, Seth and Richard and traded by boat with parties at Bristol and Newport, Rhode Island. He also had a saw and gristmill. An old memorandum book belonging to Samuel and owned later by Jonathan Russell Bullock shows that in 1711-1712, Samuel was the Superintendent in building the Second Congregational Church that was erected on the first hill just north of the Shad or Orleans factory.

Samuel died in April 1746 at age 62. His son, William was administrator of his estate. He is buried in the old cemetery in Rehoboth where his father, Samuel, and his only son, William and many others of the Bullock family are buried.

Children of Samuel and Anna (Salisbury) Bullock):

  1. Alethea Bullock, b. 14 Apr 1712. Marr. #1, 4 Sep 1730, Josiah Kent; #2, Edward Bosworth.

  2. William Bullock,  b. 29 Apr 1716. Marr. 8 Jan 1737, Susanna Kent. Died 10 Dec 1810.


  3. Anna Bullock, b. 20 Feb 1722. Marr. 4 Sep 1738, Joseph Martin of Plymouth, MA.



Generation 1 - Richard Bullock