Editing David Bushnell (inventor) (section)

==Early life==
David Bushnell was born in a secluded part of [[Saybrook, Connecticut]] on 30 August 1740 and baptized in 1753 into a farming family in what is now Westbrook, Connecticut where his parents Nehemiah Bushnell and Sarah (Susan) Ingham Bushnell owned a farm.<ref>George Eleazer Bushnell. ''Bushnell Family Genealogy, Ancestry and Posterity of Francis Bushnell (1580–1646)'' Nashville: [NP], 1945. pp. 112–113, 189–190.</ref> He was the first of five children born. Following the death of his father circa 1769, he sold his half interest in the family Westbrook farm to his brother Ezra and entered [[Yale University|Yale College]] in 1771 at the relatively old age of 31.<ref>Bushnell, ''Bushnell Family Genealogy, 1''89.</ref>