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Jonathan Buncker

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Jonathan Buncker

Birth
Death
2 Jun 1678
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.3763124, Longitude: -71.0676924
Plot
10 K 127
Memorial ID
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Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts (as published 1880), p.47: "1638. 2d mo day 8 Jonathan Buncker the son of George Buncker and of Judith his wife was Babtised." I.e. 8 April 1638 according to Savage (Gen. Dict. Vol. I, p. 299), who says Jonathan "m. 30 Jan 1663, Mary Howard, and d. 2 June 1678, as tells the gr.stone, but rec.says 1677."

Soldiers in King Philips War, by George Madison Bodge (1896), p.81, lists Jonathan Bunker among those who served in the Mt. Hope campaign under Capt. Thomas Prentice in 1675. Also listed in that company, immediately following Jonathan's name, is James Lowden, who married Jonathan's widow Mary after Jonathan's death. Jonathan is listed again, p.84, among the company serving under Lt. Edward Oakes, probably in the winter of 1675/6. Lt. Oakes was a veteran of the Mt. Hope campaign.

Bunker Genealogy, the Charlestown, Mass. and Nantucket, Mass. Branches, by Edward C. Moran, Jr. (1965), p.9, says that Jonathan died of smallpox and is buried in "Phipps St. Burial Ground Charlestown."
Records of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts (as published 1880), p.47: "1638. 2d mo day 8 Jonathan Buncker the son of George Buncker and of Judith his wife was Babtised." I.e. 8 April 1638 according to Savage (Gen. Dict. Vol. I, p. 299), who says Jonathan "m. 30 Jan 1663, Mary Howard, and d. 2 June 1678, as tells the gr.stone, but rec.says 1677."

Soldiers in King Philips War, by George Madison Bodge (1896), p.81, lists Jonathan Bunker among those who served in the Mt. Hope campaign under Capt. Thomas Prentice in 1675. Also listed in that company, immediately following Jonathan's name, is James Lowden, who married Jonathan's widow Mary after Jonathan's death. Jonathan is listed again, p.84, among the company serving under Lt. Edward Oakes, probably in the winter of 1675/6. Lt. Oakes was a veteran of the Mt. Hope campaign.

Bunker Genealogy, the Charlestown, Mass. and Nantucket, Mass. Branches, by Edward C. Moran, Jr. (1965), p.9, says that Jonathan died of smallpox and is buried in "Phipps St. Burial Ground Charlestown."

Inscription

HERE LIES Ye BODY OF IONATHAN
BVNCKER AGED ABOUT 39 YRS
DECEASED JUNE THE 2,
1678



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  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51148498/jonathan-buncker: accessed ), memorial page for Jonathan Buncker (unknown–2 Jun 1678), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51148498, citing Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by BobBoston (contributor 46926159).