Resources
These are some of the files I've used. One item that isn't linked is Andrew Bussom's marvelous family history that's no longer available on the web but was a huge inspiration for what you see here.
Family Search - great genealogy site.
Doris Semon's collection of genealogy information on FotoTime
Genealogic books at the Family & Local Histories Project
HeritageQuest Online (most library's have access)
From Google Books
Marriage records: 1665-1800 by William Nelson
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 3
Early America website particularly their explanation about the S's that look like F's and why "Bussom" is sometimes transcribed as "Buffom"
Did the name come from broom makers?
From "A glossary of north country words in use: From an original manuscript, in the library of John George Lambton, with considerable additions" by John Trotter Brockett, 1825
[bʌsm]
Sc. 1714 Household Bk. Lady Grisell Baillie (S.H.S. 1911) 94:
Aug. 18th: For 12 broom bussoms.
Sh. 1926–1928 J.G. Lowrie buys a Ford in Shet. Times:
Een o' yon men wi a . . . lipperin borrow an a bussom apo da tap o' him.
Phr.: bussom-o'-heck, a derogatory name for a woman. Cf. Besom, n., 3, and see Heck, a prostitute.
Lnk. 1902 A. Wardrop Hamely Sketches 81:
This is who [how] the brazen-faced bussom-o'-heck introduced me.
[O.Sc. bussom, a broom, 1538 (D.O.S.T.).]