Notes for: Mary Bodine

Information on this family comes from Doris S. Semon. She has been researching them for a long time, but has yet to find her ancestors.

Doris Semon believes that Mary Bodine and James may have had other children, but she has not been able to document them. In the marriage record, she believes James' name is spelled Busson. In the Will of James, he states that nothing is to go to the children of his first wife (Mary Bodine).

Doris also has an inventory of a Maria Bussom who died in 1832 (no Will found). There is a possibility that this could be Mary. It is the only thing that Doris has seen with the name Maria Bussom on it.

The area they lived in is right in the corner of Burlington, Monmouth and Ocean Counties. The first record of James was probably in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County. Ocean County did not exist until 1850. The farm that James Bussom owned is still there and is one of the three oldest farms in New Jersey to be still operating. It's just outside of the main town of New Egypt. It is still referred to as the Bussom Farm, but has not been in the family for over a hundred years. It was left to his son Charles from his second marriage.