Family of Edward * BUMPAS and Hannah *

Husband:	Edward * BUMPAS (1605-1693)
Wife:	Hannah * (1623-1693)
Children:	Sarah BUMPAS (1631- )
	Elizabeth * BUMPAS (1634-1710)
	John BUMPAS (1636- )
	Edward BUMPAS (1638- )
	Joseph BUMPAS (1640- )
	Isaac BUMPAS (1642- )
	Jacob BUMPAS (1644- )
	Hannah BUMPAS (1646- )
	Philip BUMPAS (1648- )
	Thomas BUMPAS (1650- )
	Mary BUMPAS (1652- )
	Samuel BUMPAS (1654- )
Marriage	1628	Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US1

Husband: Edward * BUMPAS

Wife: Hannah *

Child 1: Sarah BUMPAS

Name:	Sarah BUMPAS
Sex:	Female
Birth	9 Mar 1631

Child 2: Elizabeth * BUMPAS

Name:	Elizabeth * BUMPAS
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	William * CANEDY (1630-1657)
Baptism	6 Mar 1632 (age -3)	Warwickshire, England6
Baptism	6 Mar 1632 (age -3)	Warwickshire, England6
Birth	9 Mar 1634	England6
Death	29 Jan 1710 (age 75)	Marshfield, Plymouth, MA, US

Child 3: John BUMPAS

Name:	John BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	2 Jun 1636

Child 4: Edward BUMPAS

Name:	Edward BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	15 Apr 1638

Child 5: Joseph BUMPAS

Name:	Joseph BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	15 Feb 1640

Child 6: Isaac BUMPAS

Name:	Isaac BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	31 Mar 1642

Child 7: Jacob BUMPAS

Name:	Jacob BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	25 Mar 1644

Child 8: Hannah BUMPAS

Name:	Hannah BUMPAS
Sex:	Female
Birth	3 Apr 1646

Child 9: Philip BUMPAS

Name:	Philip BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	1648

Child 10: Thomas BUMPAS

Name:	Thomas BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	1650

Child 11: Mary BUMPAS

Name:	Mary BUMPAS
Sex:	Female
Birth	1652

Child 12: Samuel BUMPAS

Name:	Samuel BUMPAS
Sex:	Male
Birth	1654

Note on Husband: Edward * BUMPAS

EDWARD BUMPAS

ORIGIN: Unknown

MIGRATION: 1621 in Fortune

FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

REMOVES: Duxbury, Marshfield by 1643

FREEMAN: Oath of fidelity, Duxbury, 1639 [ PCR 8:182].

EDUCATION: Made his mark to report of coroner's jury, 14 February 1654/5 [PCR 3:70].

OFFICES: Coroner's jury, 14 February 1654/5 [PCR 3:70].

In Marshfield section of 1643 Plymouth list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:196].

ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division "Edward Bompass" received one acre as a passenger on the Fortune [PCR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Edward Bumpasse" was the twelfth person in the second company [PCR 12:9].

Edward Bumpas was in the list of Purchasers [PCR 2:177], and on 3 June 1662 he was one of those permitted to "look out accommodations of land, as being the first born children of this government" [PCR 4:19].

On 26 March 1628 "Edward Bompass and Moses Simonson sold each of them an acre of ground, to Robart Hicks lying on the north side of the town" [PCR 12:7]. (This was the acre granted to each of these men in 1623.)

Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:11, 28].

On 1 July 1633 Myles Standish was to "mow the ends of the grounds belonging to Edward Bumpasse & Will[iam] Latham" [PCR 1:14]. In early 1635 Edward Bumpas sold to John Washburn "his house & palisado, standing [on] his late lot of ground which he had by William Palm~er's, beyond the creek called the Eagles-Nest, which lot he gave up to the company, for a lot of ground allowed him in another place by the Governor then being; and the said lot ([on] which this house standeth) was, by the consent of the Governor & Assistants given to the said John Washborne" [PCR 1:33].

On 16 September 1645 Morris Truant and Solomon Lenner of Duxbury exchanged land, Truant receiving "the house, upland and meadows" which Solomon Lenner "lately bought of Edward Bumpas" [PCR 12:113].

On 15 July 1653 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" exchanged land with Edward Bumpas of Marshfield, Chandler relinquishing all his rights to lands or meadows in "Duxburrow New Plantation commonly called and known by the Indian names of Satuckquett and Nunckatatesett and places adjacent" in return for the rights of Bumpas as "one of the thirty-four purchasers who are to have their proportions of land at the places commonly called and known by the Indian names of Cushenett and Coaksett and places adjacent" [ MD 2:245-46, citing PCLR 2:1:53]. On 30 March 1655 Edward Bumpas of Marshfield (with the consent of Hannah his wife) sold to "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow ... all his land lying at Ducke Hill lying between the lands of John Rouse and the lands of the said Edmond Chandeler" [MD 10:73, citing PCLR 2:1:169].

BIRTH: By about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage.

DEATH: Marshfield between 4 July 1679 and 5 March 1683/4 [ TAG 43:66, citing PCR 6:20 and PPR 1:112].

MARRIAGE: By 1631 Hannah ____; she died at Marshfield 12 February 1693 [ MarVR 19; MD 5:233].

CHILDREN (first eight recorded Marshfield [MarVR 2; MD 2:4-5]):

i SARAH, b. 9 March 1631[/2]; m. Marshfield 31 March 1659 Thomas Durram [MarVR 5; MD 2:110; TAG 43:67].

ii ELIZABETH, b. 9 March 1633[/4]; m. Marshfield 6 June 1653 ("first Monday in June") Joseph Rose [MarVR 1; MD 2:4; TAG 67:155].

iii JOHN, b. 2 June 1636; m. by 1671 Sarah _____ (eldest child bp. Scituate 20 August 1671).

iv EDWARD, b. 15 April 1638; d. Marshfield 3 April 1693, unmarried [MD 3:187; MarVR 16; TAG 43:67-68; PCR 6:20].

v JOSEPH, b. 15 February 1639[/40]; m. by 1669 Wybra Glass (eldest child b. Plymouth 2 August 1669 [ PVR 667; MD 8:33, 34]), daughter of James and Mary (Pontus) Glass. (This identity for the wife of Joseph Bumpas seems to be based solely on the rarity of the given name of the bride.)

vi ISAAC, b. 31 March 1642; no further record.

vii JACOB, b. Marshfield 25 March 1644; m. Scituate 24 January 1676/7 Elizabeth (Banks) Whitmer, daughter of Richard Banks and widow of William Whitmer [TAG 43:72-73; GDMNH 75; PCR 6:39-40].

viii HANNAH, b. Marshfield 3 April 1646; d. after 4 March 1672/3, when she was described as "a distracted person" [PCR 7:175]; apparently unmarried [TAG 43:68-69; PCR 4:22].

ix PHILIP, b. Marshfield say 1648; m. by 1686 Sarah Eaton [TAG 43:150-51, citing PLR 1:287; MF 1:7-9, 5:52-53].

x THOMAS, b. Marshfield say 1650; m. Barnstable in November 1679 Phebe Lovel [MD 3:72].

xi MARY, b. Marshfield say 1652; m. Marshfield 2 January 1682 Daniel Crocker [MarVR 16; MD 3:42].

xii SAMUEL, b. Marshfield say 1654; served in King Philip's War and slain at Pawtucket 26 March 1676 [TAG 60:237; Bodge 349].

ASSOCIATIONS: In the land division of 1623, and in the tax lists of 1633 and 1634, EDWARD BUMPAS is adjacent to PHILIP DELANO. The two men at a later date held adjacent land [PCR 1:59, 66, 67]. The last three sons of Bumpas were Philip, Thomas and Samuel, names also used by Delano. These items suggest that Edward Bumpas came from Leiden with Delano in 1621, and that the two may have had some association there before that date.

COMMENTS: Of the twelve children of Edward Bumpas, the births of the first eight were recorded together in Marshfield, and the births of the last four were not recorded. Since Bumpas lived first in Plymouth, then in Duxbury, and by 1643 in Marshfield, we cannot tell in which town any of the first six were born, but the last six are here assumed to be born at Marshfield.

On 7 March 1642/3 Plymouth court decreed the "northerly bounds of Marshfield," which included the proviso that the line "take in Edward Bumpass lands" [PCR 2:54]. It may be that Bumpas did not move from Duxbury to Marshfield, but merely had the town line redrawn around his property. When the line was drawn again on 23 February 1683, part of the description of the boundary was that it ran "on a straight line to the southwest side of Edward Bumpp's land, so called, where he formerly lived, at Duck Hill, taking in the said land sometimes the said Edward Bumppase's to the township of Marshfield" [PCR 6:155].

Edward Bumpas was sued for debt by Joseph Tilden on 4 October 1664 and 3 October 1665, but Tilden did not collect [PCR 7:117, 125]. As he did not have any recorded land transactions after 1655, and his estate was not entered for probate, Edward Bumpas clearly spent the later years of his life on the lower end of the economic scale.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The best treatment of the first few generations of the family of Edward Bumpas is that published by Florence Barclay in 1967 [TAG 43:65-75, 150-55, 211-16]. She abstracts a number of documents which are crucial to the chronology of the immigrant, his wife and children, and the specific pages for those items are often cited above; at these locations more detailed discussion may be found than is possible here.

Bompass, Bumpas, Bump, Bumpus and Allied Families, 1621-1981, revised edition (Baltimore 1985), compiled by Carle Franklin Bumpus, is less successful, but does provide information on later generations (see TAG 60:189).

 

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I traced the Bumpas name back to the land of its origin in Southern France, in Provence, the land of sunny vineyards, of music and song, of poetry and romance; the home of the troubadours. Aix as its capital: sleepy old Aix, as it appeared on a warm mid-summer's day, with its uncommonly lovely fountain, set in a large grove of old trees in the very heart of the city; its fine old cathedral, holding the pure, white marble statutes of its heroes of by-gone days, looking so virile and lifelike.

 

Living years before the time of Martin Luther and John Huss, there were many believers in France, who did not accept the teaching of the Roman church and drew up articles of faith far more drastic and stringent than those subsequently formulated by the sixteenth century reformers. There were two political parties in France, the Protestant and the Catholic. Sometimes one party was in the ascendant and sometimes the other. In those early wars our ancestors adhered to the Protestant cause, and fought on that side. Frequently were they subjected to severe persecution, and when the Catholic party came into power, the more pronounced Protestants were forced by fire and sword to seek refuge in the Netherlands, whence they came to Wales, England, and America.

 

Tradition says that in January, 1240, in the wars of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, a youth was handed a very important dispatch to convey from one commander to another. To deliver this, it became necessary that he pass thru the enemies' line. It was a difficult and delicate errand, demanding not courage alone, but astuteness and tact. When, at length, he dashed into camp and laid the dispatch at the feet of his commander, the General clapped his hands and shouted "Bon pas!" "Bon Pas!" (a brave pass). His comrades caught up the expression, and shouted back "Bon pas!" "Bon pas!". So on that day he received a new name, a title of honor, conferred for valiant services rendered. The name clung to him until he came to be known as Bon Pas, and was father of the race Bon Pas. In French the name is sometimes spelled as pronounced, Bon Par. The name was Anglicized, the two words composing it run into one, and it became Bonpas, Bompas, Bumpas, Bumpus. In New England records of Edward and his family, I find it written Bonpas, Bompas, Bompasse, Bompus, Bumpasse, Bumpus.

 

The name still occurs in its original orthography in lts.native land. Some eight miles from Avignon, on the road to Aix, is a bridge spanning the river Durance, known as the Pont de Bon Pas, and near by a silk factory of the same name. This was formerly a religious house built by the hermit, Silbert, In 1076. In 1320 it became the home of the Knights Hospitaliers. Here also is the magnificent church erected by Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury.

 

There is a reference to this bridge in the "Historic Des Contes De Toulouse" by M. De Saint-You, Vol. IV, page 344; (translation) "They stormed the Pont de Bonpas, and left a corps of troops sufficient to hold it and secure the passage of the river." This was January, 1240, wars of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse.

 

ROBAH P. BUMPAS

 

HISTORY Edward Bumpas and Some of His Descendants From Book "The Story of the Bumpas Family" Compiled by Mootie Clemmons Cherry Could be written by or from research of Rev. Robah P. Bumpas

 

In the History of Duxbury, Winsor puts down Edward Bumpas as one of 27 heads of families who arrived at Plymouth on the "Good ship Fortune" 10 Nov. 1621, and became proprietors. At the division of land in 1623, and of cattle in 1627, he was unmarried. He sold land in Plymouth in 1628, and removed to Duxbury, bought land at Eagle's nest creek, upon which he built a house and "palisado." The palisado is described as a fortified cottage, having "One large room, a bedchamber and kitchen, on the lower floor, with two large and two small chambers above, and sometimes an attic above all." He sold this in 1634. In 1640 he was of Marshfield and in 1684 was living in that town, at Duck Hill, near Gen. Winslow. He seems to have married about the time he moved to Duxbury. The record is: "Hannah, widow of old Edward Bumpas, died 12th of Feb. 1693," and that Edward died nine days earlier.

Edward Bumpas, an alleged French Huguenot of about sixteen years of age (*inserted note: It is now believed he was born in England of prob. of French descent.) - sailed from London in "The Good Ship Fortune" first after the Mayflower, July 1st, and arrived in Plymouth, Nov. 10, 1621. There is a possibility that Hannah, who became the wife of Edward, was the daughter of Anthony Annable who arrived in Plymouth on the "Annie" in 1623 (*inserted note: This has since been disproven, Hannah's last name is not known. Anthony Anable's daughter Hanah married Thomas Borman Mar 3, 1645. See the Annable Family in Americam 1623-1967 also Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope. We have only the name Hannah for Edward Bumpas' wife.). Edward Bumpas born in England about 1605, died in Marshfield, Mass., Feb. 3rd, 1693. Having lived in New England 72 years, Hannah, his Wife died 12 days later. In 1627 Edward bought land in, and moved to Duxbury. He built a house and palisado at Eagles Nest Creek, near Miles Standish and Elder Brewster. Later he purchased land in the Northern part of the town near Philip Delano and John Alden. In 1640 his land became a part of the newly founded Town of Marshfield where he was a Freeman in 1643. In that year it is indicated he was one of the twelve who contributed toward the maintenance of a public school, the first in the New England Colonies. Edward and Hannah reared a large family. Their first two children, Faith and Sarah, both born in 1631, are thought to be twins.

The Mayflower came to our shores shortly before Christmas-, 1620. Just before Thanksgiving, the following year came "The Good Ship Fortune," bringing Edward Bumpas. He settled amongst the Mayflower people, and his descendants and theirs intermarried, and soon the name appears in the list of Mayflower descendants. Within the century we find his grandchildren and great-grandchildren domiciled in North Carolina and Virginia. Their children moved out to the West and South, until today they are scattered over the face of the earth.

And who were the descendants of Edward Bumpas?

They were pioneers; they went before and opened the way. They hewed down the primeval forests, built the rude palisado, and tilled the soil. They were familiar with the plow, the hammer, the saw, the anvil and the forge. They were a modest folk, content to toil in obscurity, shunning the glare of the footlights, nor seeking the plaudits of men.

They entered the school room and taught the young. In college they occupied the professor's chair, and sat in the president’s seat. They edited journals, contributed to magazines, published books. They were civil engineers, erecting factories, going into trade and commerce, developing the material resources of the country, adding to its wealth, and becoming captains of industry.

They entered the church; they preached beneath the spreading oak and in the crowded street, filled the rural chapel and occupied the city pulpit; visited regions no white man's foot had ever trod to plant the banner of the cross, and today are in far-away lands pointing the natives to Jesus.

They learned the healing art and became skilled surgeons and physicians. They entered the courts, plead at the bar, and sat upon the bench. They entered legislative halls, and assisted in framing the laws.

They were true patriots. Scan the muster rolls of the Republic, and you will discover when our country called for men, they were found at the front. They fell by the arrow of the red man, and felt the keen edge of his tommyhawk and scalping knife. Scores of them were found in the Revolutionary army. They followed the flag to Mexico and Cuba. They fell upon the battlefields of Virginia. Some of them tramped after McClelland and Grant, and some followed Jackson and Lee, as their forefathers had followed Washington and Lee. Side by side they rest, life's last conflict ended. They sleep beneath the lilies and poppies in France and Flanders.

In France there were many Christians who did not accept the teachings of the Roman Church, and declined to be absorbed by it. Living years before John Huss and Martin Luther, they drew up articles of faith far more drastic and stringent than those subsequently formulated by the sixteenth century reformers. Judge Savery says: "The name (Bumpas) is well and favorably known in the legal annals of the past and present generation in England." Documents reveal the fact that among the descendants of Edward, the name soon appeared in an abbreviated form as Bump, losing something of its euphony.

There are certain physical characteristics found in this family. They are a long-lived race. The Pilgrim was past ninety and numerous descendants of his, not content with the allotted three score and ten, persist in living on to eighty, ninety, nearly approaching the century line. They produce super-men, attaining six feet in height, six two, four, six and above. They are heavyweights, tipping the scales at two hundred, three hundred, three twenty and beyond. While large, they have been alert, active, athletic, possessing powers of strength and endurance. Many of the women have been noted for physical perfection and beauty.

There are strongly marked resemblance’s in personal appearance. This is particularly noticeable in groups which have been long and widely separated. The many pictures I have seen of the late venerable Bishop Bumpas present a man who would look decidedly at home, placed in a group of our Southern tribe. The portraits of some members of the Virginia and North Carolina clans of a century ago are so much alike that they might almost be interchanged.

Their minds are cast in a similar mold. They are persistent, I would not say stubborn, yet not to be lightly deflected from the course they have elected.

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Birth: 1605, England

Death: Apr. 3, 1693

Marshfield

Plymouth County

Massachusetts, USA

 

Place of birth: St. Bartholomew Parish, London, England

 

On 13 Dec 1621 The ship Fortune sails from Plymouth for England. It left London about August of 1621 and was commanded by Master Thomas Barton with a company of "lusty young men". The entire body was to settle the new world. The arrival of the vessel "Fortune" around 19 Nov 1621 should have been a cause for celebration. They were probably blown off course. When the ship arrived they were near what is now Cape Cod or Provincetown. For three weeks the 35 passengers from the Fortune searched for the village of Plymouth. They were ready to steal the sail of the ship when the colony was located. The timing could not have been better for the passengers, as winter was coming. The ship was sent by the English investors who had funded the Mayflower colonists and was supposed to include much needed supplies for the colony. It was the first ship after the Mayflower. But for the Pilgrims in the colony, the Fortune was poorly named. The ship brought 35 new settlers, but none of the expected supplies. The colony was starving. With new mouths to feed, rations were reduced by half so they agreed to go on half-rations to support the new mouths to feed. Worse, the investors demanded that the ship return immediately to England, stocked with trade goods, which the colonists did not have. The Pilgrims tried to comply by loading the Fortune with "good clapboard as full as she could stow" and two hogsheads of beaver and otter skins. The Plymouth settlers struggled under the demands of their English investors for seven years before buying out their shares and earning a measure of freedom.

 

Ths ship's roster of the Fortune which arrived at Plymouth on 9 Nov 1621, just a few weeks after "the First Thanksgiving" -- The passenger list is based on the 1623 Divison of Land compiled by Charles Edward Banks in Planters of the Commonwealth and by the information found in Eugene Abrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony History:

 

Fortune Passenger List:

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Edward Bumpas - married Hannah (unknown maiden name) and removed to Marshfield - they had 8 children - Sailed on ship "Fortune" - arrived at Plymouth 10 Nov 1621 - is the immigrant ancestor of all those who bear the names Bumpas, Bumps, Bump, and other variations. Born in England, though the name is French in originally was Bon Passe, which means "Goodspeed". The Bon Passe family was originally of Perpigan, France, part of southwest France, near the Mediterranian. Edward sailed from London on 1 July 1621 on ship Fortune and arrived at Plymouth 10 Nov 1621. It is probable that Bumpas families were living in London just prior to the sailing of the Fortune and that Edward joined the party as an adventure. There are records of a John Bumpas living in the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great in 1620. Edward was in his teens, when he sailed as is borne out by remarks of Governor Bradford, who in his history of Plymouth Colony speaks as follows: In November about the time twelfe month that them selves came, there came a small ship to them unexpected in which Mr. Cushman had with him 35 persons to remain and live in ye plantation which did not a little rejoice in them. And they when they came a shore and found all well, saw plenty of vitails in every house, were very glad. For most did not know what they would find when the came into the harbors of Cape Cod. So with the division of cattle in 1627, Edward Bompasse was recorded as being a single man. He signed an agreement made July 1627 between New Plymouth and William Bradford, Captain Miles Standish, Isaac Allerton and other parties. He sold land in Plymouth in 1628 and moved to Duxbury and there bought land near John Olden. Edward's third location, Dutch Hill was near Mill Brook, which was near Philip Delano. He moved in 1642 to Marshfield where he formed the boundaries of land which incorporated the town. He married about 9 Mar 1631 to Hannah. He appears as a Freeman and one of the first purchasers of Marshfield and able to bear arms. He was appointed a guard, with others in the Pequot War against the Indians. In 1652 he purchased land around Dartmouth. There is an indication that Edward in 1643 was one of the twelve who contributed toward maintenance of a public school in New England Colonies. There is land which is marked today as Bump's Pond. He was also a proprietor of Middleboro.

Sources

1	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

2	Robert Charles Andeson, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1632" (New England History Genealogical Society, 200).

3	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".

4	"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".

5	"New England Historic and Genealogical Register" (New England Genealogical Society).

6	"Warwickshire, England - Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1535-1812".