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Reice Bedortha

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Birth	:	unknown
Death	:	18 Mar 1683 Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial	:	Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.1015180, -72.5764990
Plot	:	Willow Avenue 2-97
Description	:	According to Springfield records arrived Springfield 1641, resided Springfield 37 years until drowned at the Falls 1683 Reice, accompanied by his son John, daughter-law Lydia and deceased granddaughter Mercy (died Mar 17) drowned in the Connecticut River when their boat capsized on their way to church crossing from West Side (West Springfield). Attending church was enforced and members could be fined if they did not attend the Congregational Church every Sunday. Reice Bedortha was in Springfield 1641, as that is when it is first documented in the records. The records show his name as Rice, Rece, and... Read More	According to Springfield records arrived Springfield 1641, resided Springfield 37 years until drowned at the Falls 1683 Reice, accompanied by his son John, daughter-law Lydia and deceased granddaughter Mercy (died Mar 17) drowned in the Connecticut River when their boat capsized on their way to church crossing from West Side (West Springfield). Attending church was enforced and members could be fined if they did not attend the Congregational Church every Sunday. Reice Bedortha was in Springfield 1641, as that is when it is first documented in the records. The records show his name as Rice, Rece, and Reice. Note early clerks each spelled it differently. John Pynchon wrote his name in his accounts with him either Reice or Rece (most of the settlers had a store account with John Pynchon. A review of a settlers account sometimes leads to conclusions about the family. Reice account was for mainly household articles and clothing. Most traded goods instead of cash. Reice's account shows an example of this "In 1653 he was owing Pynchon £7 6s 9d, and under date of February 24, 1653, appears the following in Pynchon's book: "An agreement betwixt John Pynchon & Reice Bedortha; upon condition ye sd Reice doth bring in to John Pynchon 20 bushels of good wheate towards ye debt above sd within a month, & p'vided he ye sd Reice doth deliver to John Pynchon a certain Calfe (it is now a fortnight old) on thirsday or friday next, well & in good liking: upon condition also that ye said Reice doth deliver to ye aforesd John Pynchon 2 Bullocks (one being by Reice bought of Mr. Holyoke & ye other of John Allyn) well & Sound, & in good liking ye 20th day of May next, then under ye condition aforesaid ye sd John Pynchon doth p'mise to pay for Reice Bedortha to John Allyn ye sum of £7 13s, & also to satisfie Mr. Holyoke £7 for ye Bullock wch Reice bought of him; also it is p'vided & agreed that ye aforesaid John Pynchon having paid ye said sums to Mr. Allyn & Mr. Holyoke that ye sd Reice is hereby bound to deliver ye two Bullocks aforesaid sound & in good liking to John Pynchon ye 20th of May next." Another example of services to work of debt in Riece's account: "By your Cannoe, 8 voyadges downe ye falls at 3s pr voyadge," and similar amounts for that work at a later date; for "fetching hay from Agawam" in his canoe, he received 5s and for "ye use of your oxen bringing up goods 1s." The Bodurtha family in America descended from Reice Bodurtha. Family tradition corroborates the theory of Welsh origin. In 1644 Reice, having satisfied the guardians of public peace of his honesty and good intentions, was granted a lease of land and a house lot, located on the west side of Main Street "extending from ye streete fence to ye great river". Lombard street marking its boundary. Griffith Jones was his neighbor on the north, and Deacon Benjamin Cooley, on the south. To this new home Reice Bodurtha took his bride, Blanche Lewis and there were born four sons, John, Joseph, Samuel & Joel. Additional grants or land were made to him in 1651, 1654, 1660, and 1661. House lots were granted to him and his neighbors, Miles Morgan & Francis Pepper, on the west side of "ye river in ye little plain" on the side of Chickabee plain, on condition that they would dwell there or sell to those who would settle there. Source Biological Record of Tolland County, p.12 Reice Bedortha Born Died 1683 Mar 18 Drowned in River with family Age Marriage 1646 Spouse Blanch LEWIS Children Son b. Mar 14, 1646. John b. Mar 13, 1647 d. Mar 30, 1648 Joseph b. Jan 15, 1649, Died m. first 1672 Jan 30 Mary DUMBLETON Died 1675 Feb 3 Childbirth Springfield, MA Children with Mary 1. John Born 1675 Feb 3 Died 1684 Nov 24 second marriage 1678 Oct 2 Lydia DUMBLETON Born Died 1683 Mar 18 Children with Lydia 1. Mary Born 1679 Sep Died 1684 2. Sarah Born 1681 Oct 18 W. Springfield, MA Died 1766 May 8 W. Springfield, MA Married 1704 Dec 7 Samuel Ely Born Died 1732 Aug 23 Father Samuel Ely, Mother Mary Day Children Sarah, Nathaniel, Joseph, Tryphena, Levi, Mary Burial Old Meadow Cemetery, West Springfield, FAG 139915550 third marriage 1683 Hannah MARSHFIELD. Samuel, b. Dec 1, 1651 d m. first Mercy DUMBLETON, Mercy drowned 1683 Mar 18 second, Widow Mary LEONARD John, b. June 12, 1654 drowned 1683 Mar 18 Reice Bedortha, John (his son), Lydia (Joseph's wife )and his granddaughter Mercy,(his son, Samuel's daughter), were drowned while crossing the Connecticut, March 18, 1683. Reice's grandaughter, Mercy was only a week old and one possible conclusion for taking a 1 week old baby out of the home is that they were attending/returning her christening. SOURCES Reice Bedortha in the U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Name: Reice Bedortha [Reese Bedortha] Gender: Male Marriage Place: New England, USA Death Year: 1683 Spouse: Blanch Bedortha Reice Bodurtha in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name: Reice Bodurtha Event Type: Death Death Date: 18 Mar 1682 Death Place: Springfield, Massachusetts Reice Bodurtha in the Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 Name: Reice Bodurtha State: MA County: Hampden County Township: Springfield Year: 1661 Page: 083 Database: MA Early Census Index Reese Bedorda in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name: Reese Bedorda Event Type: Marriage Marriage Date: 1646 Marriage Place: Springfield, Massachusetts Spouse Name: Blanch Lewis Birth of Children Samuell Bedortha in the Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name: Samuell Bedortha Event Type: Birth Birth Date: 1 Dec 1651 Birth Place: Springfield, Massachusetts Father Name: Reese Bedortha

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When did Reice Bedortha death?
Reice Bedortha death on 18 Mar 1683 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
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Latitude: 42.1015180
Longitude: -72.5764990

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Spouse

Blanche Lewis Bedortha

(unknow - 1683)

Children

(unknow - 1644)

(1647 - 1648)

(1649 - unknow)

(1651 - 1728)

(1654 - 1683)

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