Captain-Lieutenant David Bushnell

1740 - 1824  (83 years)

• Name	David Bushnell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Title	Captain-Lieutenant
  Birth	30 Aug 1740	Westbrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2, 3, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Education	1775	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  	Yale University
  Occupation	1775  [10, 11]
  	Inventor: "Turtle" - America's first submarine.
  		Ship American Turtle
  _MILT	1778	Connecticut, USA   [5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11]
  	American Army - Revolutionary War: First commander of George Washington's "Corps of Sappers and Miners"
  Census	1800	Connecticut, USA   [4]
  	Revolutionary War Pension Apllication
  DAR/SAR	Sons of the American Revolution: P-334662  [12]
  		Seal-SAR
  Name	Bush
  Death	1824	Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA   [2]
  		Cemetery-Warrenton (GA)
  		Grave-BUSHNELL David
  Person ID	I24376	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Nehemiah Bushnell,   b. 1710, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA d. Abt 1761, Connecticut, USA (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Sara Ingham,   b. 10 Mar 1716, Connecticut, USA d. 13 Mar 1817, Windham County, Connecticut, USA (Age 101 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	28 Nov 1739	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA   [13]
  Family ID	F4862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 30 Aug 1740 - Westbrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Education - Yale University - 1775 - New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA _MILT - American Army - Revolutionary War: First commander of George Washington's "Corps of Sappers and Miners" - 1778 - Connecticut, USA Census - Revolutionary War Pension Apllication - 1800 - Connecticut, USA Death - 1824 - Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA Burial - - Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Sources

  [S2420] Ancestry.com, Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography; Volume: Vol. I. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 [S34] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39963761/david-bushnell_(bush) [S253] Ancestry.com, Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [S1216] Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [S1354] Ancestry.com, U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858 [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 [S535] Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;). [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). [S2454] Wikipedia: Connecticut State Navy, (Name: Wikipedia;), Connecticut State Navy - Turtle. In February 1776, after a presentation by inventor David Bushnell, authorized the payment of £60 so that he could complete the construction of what became the Turtle, a small one-man submarine designed to attach a mine to another ship. She was used in an attempted attack on HMS Eagle in New York harbor in 1776; the attack failed. The Turtle was sunk in 1777, but was supposedly recovered later by Bushnell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_State_Navy [S2455] Wikipedia: Turtle (Submersible), (Name: Wikipedia;), American Turtle. Turtle (also called American Turtle) was the world's first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor, for use against Royal Navy vessels occupying American harbors during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended the invention to George Washington, who provided funds and support for the development and testing of the machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submersible) Ship Turtle (Submarine) [S2450] SAR: David Bushnell, David BUSHNELL Ancestor #P-334662. Birth 30 Aug 1740 Death 1824 Type of Service: Captain Cemetery: Warrenton Cemetery Ancestor #P-334662 Seal-SAR [S401] Ancestry.com, Early Connecticut Marriages, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Early Connecticut Marriages