ALEXANDER6BUSHNELL ( William5, William4, John Jr.3, John2, Francis1) born Lyme, CT 02 DEC 1739, died Hartford, OH 18 MAR 1818, Married Lyme 12 FEB 1761, Chloe Waite, born Lyme 20 JUN 1738, died Hartford, OH 28 ICT 1832, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lewis) Waite. At the time of her death her descendants numbered 322, four being her great grand children.
Alexander, [Is there a question of Alexander's parentage?] born lyme, CT became a carpenter and two months after his 21st birthday, married Chloe Waite of Lyme (a Descendant of Thomas Waite, Member of Parliment, who had signed the death warrent of King Charles I and, after the Restoration had been obliged to flee the country).
Before their removal to Hartland, CT, they resided in Lyme, at least until after the birth of their 2nd child, Daniel, in 1763, although it is said that he built a house in Hartland in 1762, but they probably settled in Hartland before 1770 as on 22 JAN 1770 he received title to a tract of land there, and on 2nd of the next DEC took a letter from the church at Lyme to the church at Hartland where on 30 OCT 1778, he and his wife were still members.
From 1777 to 1780 he was a Selectman, during which time he also served in the Rev. War, first as a Sargent under General Gates at Saratoga, NY where he took part in the capture of General Burgoyne's Army in 1777, and in 1780 as Ensign in Captain Mill's Company Colonel Beebe's Regiment of Minute Men, which rank he had previously held in the 11th Company of Train Band.
During this time he was also on important commissions, such as providing tents, raising moneys on the town credit, etc.
In 1781 he was a Lt. in the 3rd Company 26th Regiment and later was promoted to Captain in the same unit, it is said. He traded his house in Hartland, built by his son Daniel in 1798, and which, before it was destrroyed by fire in 1925, had stood for 127 years, for land in Vernon, OH and shortly after, at the age of 65, he with 8 or 10 other families, among whom were his son Thomas, grand son Andrew, Asahel Newell, Elam Jones, and others, set out in ox teams and wagons for their new homes in the Connecticut Reserve in northeastern OH, making the journey in six weeks.
He settled in Hartford, OH, Trumbull County and died there in 1818, in his 79th year. His wife died there in 1832, age 94, and for nearly 30 years she was the oldest person in the county. Both were buried in Center Cemetary in Hartford, where their monument is still standing.
Children, 10:
1. Thomas, born 12 JAN 1762,
2. Daniel, born 18 DEC 1763,
3. William, born 18 MAY 1766,
4. Chloe, born 22 JUL 1768, died Gustavis, OH 27 JUL 1838,
5. Alexander, born 03 FEB 1771,
6. Sterling Graves, born 14 DEC 1772,
7. Mary, born 18 OCT 1775, died 28 JUN 1831,
8. Hannah, born 08 JUN 1778, died 24 APR 1849,
9. Lucy, born 01 MAY 1780, died Jenks, PA 26 JAN 1860,
10. Phebe, born 02 AUG 1784, died 07 DEC 1875.
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