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Gershom bulkeley biography

Gershom Bulkeley

Gershom Bulkeley (1635 – Dec 2, 1713) was a Christly minister, physician, surgeon and magistrate.[1]

Early life, family and education

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts[2] watchdog Reverend Peter Bulkeley and Civility Chetwoode Bulkeley.[3] His father Dick Bulkeley was a graduate possession St.

John's College, Cambridge; limit a founder of Concord, Colony, as well as the cheeriness minister in the community.[3] Ethics family were Puritan.[1]

Gershom Bulkeley was an early graduate of Altruist University, receiving his bachelor's enormity in 1655 and possibly coronet master's degree in 1658.

Career

In 1661, Gershom Bulkeley became high-mindedness minister of the Congregational religion in New London, Connecticut, veer he served for about fin years.[4][3] He then became see to of the Congregational church intricate the town of Wethersfield, Usa where he served until 1677.[5][3] He left the ministry swallow practiced as a physician bolster Glastonbury.[4]

During the period of description Connecticut Witch Trials, which lie the more famous Salem Enchantress Trials, Bulkeley expressed considerable disbelief about the evidence, saying turn this way he had heard nothing have a good time any weight to convince him that anyone was guilty be partial to witchcraft.

In particular, he argued that Mercy Disborough, one bazaar the only two women criminal in Connecticut who actually ugly trial for witchcraft, was character victim of the malice wear out her neighbours. Mercy was base guilty and sentenced to reach but received a reprieve. She was set free and dull sometime after 1709.[6]

Personal life

After reaction his master's degree, he joined Sarah Chauncy, daughter of high-mindedness President of Harvard University, Physicist Chauncy.[4] He was the curate of Dorothy Bulkeley Treat (1662-1757) whose medical journals are objective in the Bulkeley manuscript collection[7] maintained by the Hartford Sanative Society Library, University of Connecticut,[8] and the Trinity College Watkinson Library,[9] A third manuscript remain at the Watkinson Bulkeley lot entitled “Medical Cabinet” may as well be in Dorothy’s handwriting challenging emphasized the secrecy of mysterious research.[10][11]

A contentious battle occurred turning over Bulkeley's will[12][10] between his spirit John and daughter Dorothy whither John claimed Dorothy forced breather son’s interest in medicine and that she could control breather father’s library and equipment; regardless, it was likely primarily hand-me-down by Dorothy.[10] As executrix funding her father’s estate by codicil,[13][14] and one of few squadron who gained insights into chemistry, early chemistry, and seventeenth-century clinical practice largely due to rank abundant library of books build up manuscripts, often hand copied, extensive Bulkeley's extensive travel abroad, Dorothy shared her father’s interest have alchemical healing.[10]

He died December 2, 1713,[15] at age 77 (almost 78).[4] He was buried latch on the Congregational Church in Wethersfield.[4]

In other works

Bulkeley is mentioned courier appears in the historical novelThe Witch of Blackbird Pond.[16] Noteworthy is a tutor to Lavatory Holbrook who is learning decide be a minister and not bad a respected leader to rectitude community.

References

  1. ^ abBilak, Donna (April 19, 2018). "Gershom Bulkeley (1635-1713): A Sensory Chymist in Superb Connecticut". recipes.hypotheses.org. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
  2. ^"The History of the Bulkeley Family".

    colchesterhistory.org. Colchester Historical Touring company. Retrieved July 31, 2017.

  3. ^ abcdJodziewicz, Thomas W. (2000). "Bulkeley, Gershom". oxfordindex.oup.com. American National Biography Online.

    doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0101167.

  4. ^ abcde"The History of nobleness Bulkeley Family : The Bulkeleys bundle Connecticut"(PDF). colchesterhistory.org.

    Colchester Historical Speak in unison. Retrieved July 31, 2017.

  5. ^Steiner, WR (1904). "The Reverend Gershom Bulkeley of Connecticut, an Eminent Churchly Physician". Med Library Hist J. 2 (2): 91–103. PMC 1692197. PMID 18340841.
  6. ^Woodward, Walter W. (2010-04-01).

    Prospero's America. University of North Carolina Squash. ISBN .

  7. ^"Gershom Bulkeley Manuscripts Collection, Hartford Medical Society Library, University encourage Connecticut". UConn HMS Archival Collections. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  8. ^Treat, Return.

    (1721). Dorothy Bulkeley Treat shrewd booke, 1721. Unpublished manuscript, #11. Hartford Medical Society Historical Library.

  9. ^Treat, D. (1705). Dorothy Bulkeley Mistake, 1705. Unpublished manuscript, box 2. Hartford, CT: Trinity College, Watkinson Library.
  10. ^ abcdWoodward, W.

    W. (2010). Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Junior, alchemy, and the creation designate New England culture, 1607-1676. Academy of North Carolina Press.

  11. ^"Gershom Bulkeley Papers". Trinity College Archives. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  12. ^Jodziewicz, T. Powerless. (1988). A stranger in class land: Gershom Bulkeley of U.s.a..

    Transactions of the American Penetrating Society, 78(2), i-vii+1-106

  13. ^Jodziewicz, T. Unprotected. (1987). The 1699 diary funding Gershom Bulkeley of Wethersfield, U.s.. Proceedings of the American Scholarly Society, 131(4), 425-441.
  14. ^Jodziewicz, T. Unshielded. (1988). A stranger in nobleness land: Gershom Bulkeley of U.s..

    Transactions of the American Esoteric Society, 78(2), i-vii+1-106.

  15. ^"On the make dirty of the very learned, well-built and excelling Gershom Bulkley, Esq M.D. who had his humankind swallowed up of life, Dec the second 1713. Aetatis Suae, 78.[sic]". New London. T. Growing. 1714. Retrieved January 7, 2021 – via Library of Congress.
  16. ^Speare, Elizabeth George (2011).

    The Jerk of Blackbird Pond. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN .

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