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Elisha Bisbee, III

Male 1690 - 1737  (47 years)

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  • Name Elisha Bisbee  [1]
    Suffix III
    Birth 25 Feb 1689/90  Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • From 1635 to 1803 Hingham, MA was located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Suffolk County. The southerly boundary line between Hingham/Cohasset and Scituate/Norwell and beyond, is called the "patent line" in deeds. It was the early boundary between the two colonies - Mass Bay & Plymouth. Cohasset, formerly part of Hingham, elected to be part of the newly established Norfolk County in 1793. Hingham thought Dedham, the shire town of Norfolk County, was too far away! Norwell was part of old Scituate. -- Betty Meissner.
    Gender Male
    Death 13 Mar 1736/37  Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Place is tentative.
    Burial Center Cemetery, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Information provided by Mark Stratton, NH grandson of Charles R. Harris & Bertha Lura Bisbee via email
    Elisha Bisbee Memorial at Find A Grave    		 Elisha Bisbee Memorial at Find A Grave
    Created by MP at Find a Grave
    Person ID I715  Bisbee
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2012

    Father Ensign Elisha Bisbee, Jr,   b. Abt 1654, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1715/16, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Mother Mary Jacobs,   b. 30 Mar 1656, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1737, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Marriage 25 Mar 1685  [3] 
    • Married by Gov. Bradford. [1]
    Family ID F408  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Burr,   b. 20 Jan 1691/92, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jul 1742, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Marriage 12 Feb 1711/12  [2] 
    Children 
    +1. Sarah Bisbee,   b. 15 Mar 1715/16, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Elisha Bisbee, IV,   b. 19 May 1718, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1723, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 5 years)
    +3. Samuel Bisbee,   b. 9 Jul 1722, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jul 1802, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     4. Benjamin Bisbee,   b. 29 Nov 1729, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1755 (Age 25 years)
    +5. Jairus Bisbee,   b. 24 May 1732, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F407  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 25 Feb 1689/90 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Mar 1736/37 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Center Cemetery, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Elisha Bisbee was known as "Esquire" and as "The Honest Lawyer." He practised in Pembroke; was a member of the General Court from Pembroke for the period 1725 to 1736. He died while still a member of the Court.

      When a member of the General Court, Elisha Bisbee was chairman of the Committee of the House on question of the Governor's salary, then a matter of controversy with the King and his ministers. While attending the Court in Boston in 1736 he was sick but was active enough to secure an appropriation for Province lands for the town of Pembroke "to enable them to keep a grammar school therein."

      Elisha Bisbee was one of the five Justices of Peace in Plymouth, Mass. 3 July 1734. He was said to be one of the best lawyers of his day.

      When a member of the General Court (1725-1736) Elisha Bisbee voted against the acceptance of His Majesty's Royal Explanatory Charter, 1725. There were 41 yeas and 31 nays.

      An abbreviated list of reports of committees on which Elisha Bisbee Served contains the following items: (Bisbee) appointed one of committee to accompany Governor on his trip to Castle, 1731. (Bisbee) empowered to eject unlawful settlers, 1731. (Elisha Bisbee was Excise Collector for Plymouth County, 1732 & 1734. (Elisha Bisbee) reported on act for settlement and distribution of estates and intestates, 1734. (Elisha Bisbee) submitted petition to allow land in center of Town of Pembroke for Indians to be taken over by the Town for benefit and aid of Indians. Ordered that Mr. Timothy Prout be appointed to committees of petition of East and West Precincts in Roxbury respecting a partition line between them; to be held in the room of Elisha Bisbey, Esq., one of said committee, who, through infirmity of body is rendered incapable of attending that service. 24 Nov. 1735.

      The following is from the records of Rehoboth, Mass., pages 212 and 213: "1st May 1719... Elisha Bisbee', all enter the ear marks of their creatures. Elisha Bisbee's ear mark was taken up by Thomas Aline." Also, "2d May 1719... Mathew Cushing enters the ear mark of his creatures. Mathew Cushing hath left fall the above ear mark and taken up Elisha Bisbee's earmark April 17, 1723.

      The record shows that in 1729, Mr. Bisbee was given leave of the General Court to go home for the recovery of health.

      The following letter was written to his wife in 1736: "My dear,

      "These with my love, come to let you know that I hope in about ten days to see you, God willing. As to my health, I can say but little about it, but I am such as I was. When the weather is very hot, I lie by and when the air is thick, I dare not go out, but I am as careful as I can. I have got on a stomach plaster again. I hope it is of some service.

      "I shall, I think, bring you some flax and cotton wool but they are very dear. Flax I cannot have under two shillings and five pence and take a good quantity. As to sheep's wool, don't neglect to go to John Little, Esq; claim his promise and tell him you must what you have occasion for etc.

      "Give my duty to my mother, my love to my children, sister, and all friends which, in haste, is all at present.

      "From your loving husband, (signed) Elisha Bisbee"

      "Boston June ye 4th 1736. "To Sarah Bisbee."

      Grave record, Pembroke Center: "Bisbee, Elisha Esq. d. Mar 13, 1737, 49 years, 12 days." [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 28.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 36.

    3. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 28, 29.