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Personal data Nicholas Busby 

• He was born about 1587 in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
• He died about August 28, 1657 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay.
• A child of Nicholas Busby and Margaret Unknown

Household of Nicholas Busby

He is married to Bridget Cocke.

They got married on June 24, 1605 at St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk, England.

Child(ren):

1. Anne Busby  < 1608-1686 
2. Richard Busby  ± 1605-< 1608
3. Thomas Busby  ± 1606-1636
4. Nicholas Busby  1610-< 1657
5. John Busby  < 1612-< 1614
6. Susan Busby  1613-< 1637
7. Catherine Busby  ± 1615-1657
8. Abraham Busby  ± 1618-1687
9. Sarah Busby  ± 1619-1699
10. Amie Busby  < 1628-< 1636
11. Livewell Busby  < 1628-< 1629

Notes about Nicholas Busby

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==Biography==

=== Birth ===: Nicholas Busby was of Norwich, Norfolk, England, born about 1582.''Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822'' He was the son Nicholas Busby of Claxton, Norfolk, England by his first wife Margaret.The American Genealogist, volume 85 (2011): [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/55165/242/1424570678 pages 242-253]. ''The English Ancestry of William¹ and Anne (Busby) Nickerson of Chatham, Massachusetts, and of Nicholas¹and Bridget (Cocke) Busby of Boston'', by Richard L. Bush. The will of his father names him as "Nycholas my youngest son." His mother was almost certainly the Margaret Busby "of Claxton" who was buried at nearby Salhouse, Norfolk, England on 7 June 1595. His immigration record states he was aged 50 in 1637. However, Anna Kingsbury's ''Sketch of Nicholas Busby'' argues this is likely an error either in the original record, in the transcription, or an incorrect estimation given to the clerk at the time of his examination to immigrate.Kingsbury, Anna C. ''A Historical Sketch of Nicholas Busby, the Emigrant.'' (1924): [https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00king_1/page/5 Page 5]. A birth date of 1587 would have made him only 18 years at the time of his marriage, which would be very unusual for a male in this time period.

=== Immigration ===: Nicholas Busby prepared to immigrate by selling his tenement in Norwich, England, to another weaver. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 51 He also sold his house lot in Norwich, but he brought his looms and the tools of his trade with him to Massachusetts. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 52
: Nicholas Busby brought his family with him to New England, including his daughter Anne and her husband William Nickerson and their four children, except for his married daughter Catherine, who remained in England. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 14 They traveled together from Norwich to the port of Great Yarmouth, where they embarked on the ship ''Rose''. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 14
: In his landmark book ''Planters of the Commonwealth, 1620 - 1640'', Charles Edward Banks states on page 184 that passengers on the ''Rose'' of Yarmouth, William Andrews, Jr., Master, and the ''John and Dorothy'' of Ipswich, William Andrews, Master, ''both sailed from Ipswich'' and that their is no way to separate which ship held which passengers.''The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640'', by Charles Edward Banks (1930), pages 184, 187 Note that the master of the ''Rose'' is the son of the master of the ''John and Dorothy'', and that ''both ships arrived together'' on June 8 at Boston [citing Gov. Winthrop's journal, vol I, page 222].
: Nicholas Busby immigrated to New England where he first settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, a newly formed town, where he received a certificate of admission on 16 Nov 1637. ''Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20'', page 618 He next is recorded in Watertown, Massachusetts, purchasing land by 9 April 1638. ''Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20'', page 345:: No record for Edmond Sherman is found in New England after '''1637,the same year that Nicholas Busby arrived.''' Busby received a grant in the Town plot on 9 April 1638... Examination of the Composite Inventory shows us that he had in fact purchased, in late 1637 or early 1638, the share earlier held by Ward and Sherman. ''Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20'', page 345
:: In the 1644 Watertown Inventory of Possessions and Composite Inventory, Nicholas Busby held the homestall that had been granted to Andrew Ward, and the Great Dividend, Beaverbrook Plowland and Remote Meadows lots that had been granted to Edmond Sherman... Edmond Sherman purchased the homestall of Andrew Ward ... in 1635... after which Sherman received further grants of land... and that Nicholas Busby purchased all these parcels of land from Sherman. This latter '''purchase must have taken place by 9 April 1638,''' when Busby was granted six acres at the Town Plot, again based on the proprietary share attached to the homestall that had come from Ward by way of Sherman. ''Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S''

=== Occupation ===: Nicholas Busby was a "worsted weaver", known for his skill among a city of weavers in Norwich, England. (see his will below). ''Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L'' From being a city dweller supported by his craft in Norwich, Nicholas went to owning land in a small town, his time taken up with farming, and weaving only part time. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 138 He purchased a house and garden on about half an acre in Boston from Edmund Jacklin on 22 August 1646. ''Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L'', page 10 In Boston "he opened a dry-goods shop and continued to weave part-time. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 138 At the time of his death he had six pounds worth of ''Cloth in the Looms''." ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 138

=== Offices ===: Nicholas Busby served as "jurat" for the city of Norwich, England. A "jurat" examined Norwich produced cloth, ensuring that the civic standards of manufacture for a the city famed for its weaving were maintained. ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century'', page 14
: On 13 March 1647, Nicholas Busby was a Constable of Boston, Massachusetts. ''Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822''

=== Marriage ===: Nicholas Busbye married Bridgett Cocke at St Mary Caslany, Norwich, Norfolk, England, June 24, 1605, (Phillimore's Norfolk Mar. vol 3, page 5)''New Englanders in Nova Scotia Manuscript''

===Will of Nicholas Busby===
: From office of Suffolk Registry of Probate, Boston, the will of Nicholas Busby dated 25 Jul 1657, presented, 10 Sep 1657 and recorded 14 Oct 1657:
:: "In the name of God amen I Nicholas Busby being sicke in body but in pfect memory, Blessed be ye Lord therefor doe make this my Last Testament as hereafter followeth first of all I will and bequeath my soule into the mercyfull hands of Almightie God trusting & unfainedly beleeving to be saved by ye active & passive obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ & my Body to the earth to be buryed therein at the charge of my Executrix heereafter named. I doe appointe my three sonns that are here in New England, that is to say, my Sonne Abraham Busby, my sonne William Nickerson & my Sonne John Grout to gather vp all my debts mentioned in my debt bookes & to make there of a true accott, & to deliuer it as they shall receiue it vuto my Executrix heereafter named....Impris I doe make my Loving wife my whole Executrix of all my Estate, & to possesse this my dwelling house wherein I liue, dureing her life, and all my household Stuffe plate & money; & for my farme if she will consent therto that it be sold & she to receiue the price thereof & to add to it my stocke & to discharge the seurall Legacies.....the Remainder.....to be for her maintenance dureing her life.....Vnto John Busby, my Eldest Sonne, seaventy pounds more then that I sent him the Last yeare, wch was thirtie pounds, & this Seaventy pounds to be payd in such goods as are gathered in by the Brethren above said, within Seaven monthes after my decease.....Vnto Abraham Busby, my Sonne, sixtie pounds.....And after his Mothers decease, this my now dwelling house, with the garden & fruite trees scittuated & being in Boston.....Vuto Anne Nickerson, my daughter, the sume of fiftie pounds; (more then that I sent her the Last yeare).....Vnto Sarah Grout, my youngest daughter, the some of Sixtie & five pounds; vnto my grand Child Joseph Busby, Sonne of my Sonne Nicholas Busby, deceased, the sume of Twenty pounds; vnto Sarah Grout, my grand child, tenn pounds; vnto my two Sonns John Busby & Abraham Busby, my printed bookes, in manner following; to John Busby, all my Phisicke bookes, as Glendall practice, Barrowes method, Dutch Phisicke & garden of health, Mr. Coggans treatis, and the Dialogue of Phisicke Surgery, with Plinnys Naturall Hystory. Vnto Abraham Busby, my bookes of Divinitie, vizt. Mr. Perkins, Mr Willet sinops and Comentary on the Romains, & mr Hieroms two bookes; as for the rest of my bookes of divinitie, or Hystory, my desire is that they may Loveingly & Brotherly devide them betweene except the three Bibles; first, the thicke Bible, I giue vnto Anne Nickerson. The Best Bible, to Sarah Grout, and the bible in my Hamper, to Katherin Savory. As for my Apparell, I giue vnto John Busby, my Sonne, my blacke Stuffe Cloake, & the remainder of my apparell I Leave to my wife to dispose of. '''As for my weaving tooles, as the two Loomes, the one, I giue to John Busby in case he come over to New England, or else to William Nickerson the same.''' And the other Loome & warpins & bobings & wheels & shetells & other Implemts thereto belonging I give vnto my Sonne Abraham Busby; And as for my household stuffe, plate & money, I leaue vnto my deare wife....I haue heereunto set my hand & seale, this five and Twentieth day of July, One thousand Sixe Hundred fifty and Seauen...." [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~busby/wills.htm The Busbee Busby and Variations Database - Will Records] All Rights Reserved Copyright 2002 - Busbee Busby Administrators, added 2013 Nov 24 by [[Bairfield-1|Michelle]]

=== Common Errors to Avoid ===:Nicholas is sometimes made to the son Nicholas Busby's second wife Susan Sherwin. This is incorrect. Susan was previously married to Thomas Plumbe. Her will names her previous husband Thomas Plumbe and "my three sons, Matthew, George and Richard Plumbe." No children by Nicholas Busby were named. The will also names "my brother Robert Sherwin" giving us her LNAB.

==Sources==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=vhQguA9UTj4C&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=A+historical+sketch+of+Nicholas+Busby,+the+emigrant&source=bl&ots=AfncJT7XHN&sig=K1QT477XNYlDMpCnGpxsyq8ZijI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBmoVChMI0KPO4ZH3xwIVzzeICh1deQSl#v=onepage&q=A%20historical%20sketch%20of%20Nicholas%20Busby%2C%20the%20emigrant&f=false ''New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century''], GoogleBooks online, extracted from Author: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993
* ''Miscellaneous Notes'', vol 66, page 87, [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image/?volumeId=11726&pageName=87&rId=241462437 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register]. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.)
* [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FLHG-PlantersCommonwealth&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&_F00032DB=187&MSAV=1&uidh=mv9 ''The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640''], by Charles Edward Banks (1930), which contains data on 3,600 passengers who sailed on 213 ships, extracted from the Custom House records of English ports, database online at Ancestry.com. Busby's family on page 184
* ''Boston, MA: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822'', (Thwing Collection). Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630–1800 and The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630–1822. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/boston-ma-inhabitants-and-estates-of-the-town-of-boston-1630-1822-thwing-collection/image/?volumeId=14226&pageName=4365&rId=260089079 Nicholas Busby]
* ''Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20''. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-newsletter-v1-20/image/?volumeId=21155&pageName=21&rId=426833627 page 345], [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-newsletter-v1-20/image/?volumeId=21165&pageName=4&rId=426839778 page 618]
* ''Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S''. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-vi-r-s/image/?volumeId=12124&pageName=286&rId=147526667 Nicholas Busby], page 286
* ''Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L''. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-immigrants-to-new-england-1634-1635-volume-iv-i-l/image/?volumeId=12108&pageName=10&rId=235144611 Nicholas Busbie] was a worsted weaver.

: See also:*The American Genealogist, volume 85 (2011): [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/55165/242/1424570678 pages 242-253]. ''The English Ancestry of William¹ and Anne (Busby) Nickerson of Chatham, Massachusetts, and of Nicholas¹and Bridget (Cocke) Busby of Boston'', by Richard L. Bush.
*''New Englanders in Nova Scotia Manuscript''. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-englanders-in-nova-scotia/image/?volumeId=12125&pageName=65&rId=137024293 Nicholas Busby and William Nickerson] Use this source with caution, as it contains errors.

* [http://www.earlvillepost.com/stubloom/Fam_busby.pdf Busby Family]
* Kingsbury, Anna C. ''[[Space:A Historical Sketch of Nicholas Busby, the Emigrant|A Historical Sketch of Nicholas Busby, the Emigrant]]'' (privately printed, 1924): [https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00king_1/page/5 Page 5].
* [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~busby/wills.htm ''The Busbee Busby and Variations Database - Will Records''] for Nicholas Busby
* Hotten, John Camden, ''[[Space:The Original Lists Of Persons|The Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality]]'' (John Camden Hotten, 1874) [https://archive.org/stream/originallistsofp00hottuoft#page/303 Page 289]

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