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Charles Bisbee

Male 1726 - 1807  (81 years)

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  • Name Charles Bisbee  [1]
    Charles Bisbee Biography    		 Charles Bisbee Biography
    posted at Find A Grave by Larry Overmire
    Birth 1726  East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Christening 21 Apr 1726  East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • First Church.
    Gender Male
    Gravestone "Mr. Charles Bisbee Died July 3D 1807 In His 81St Year."  [4] 
    Death 3 Jul 1807  Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Burial Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Charles Bisbee Gravestone    		 Charles Bisbee Gravestone
    photo by Cooper,G.I. at Find A Grave
    Person ID I901  Bisbee
    Last Modified 7 Jan 2019

    Father Moses Bisbee,   b. 20 Oct 1695, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Mother Mary Reed,   b. Abt 1697, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 5 Jul 1716  [3] 
    • Mary Reed was from Bridgwater. They were married by Rev. Daniel Lewis. [3]
    Family ID F460  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Beulah Howland,   b. 1737, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Sep 1813, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Marriage 16 Sep 1756  Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Family Moved to Pembroke. (Nahum Mitchell)
    Children 
    +1. Elisha Bisbee,   b. 4 Mar 1757, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Dec 1826, Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    +2. Charles Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 27 Jul 1758, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jun 1833, Aurora, Dearborn, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    +3. Mary Bisbee,   b. 28 Apr 1760, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Celia Bisbee,   b. 17 Oct 1763, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +5. Moses Bisbee,   b. 2 Feb 1765, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jun 1852, Waterford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    +6. John Bisbee,   b. 21 Feb 1767, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1839, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    +7. Solomon Bisbee,   b. 3 Sep 1769, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Apr 1845 (Age 75 years)
    +8. Calvin Bisbee,   b. 14 Oct 1771, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Nov 1857, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    +9. Rouse Bisbee,   b. 17 Oct 1775, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 May 1852, Woodstock Town, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F502  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 21 Apr 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Sep 1756 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 3 Jul 1807 - Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • The 1790 US Census for Maine lists "Charles Bisby, Butterfield Plantation, Cumberland County 5 males, 1 female."

      Revolutionary War records of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors mentions: "Charles Bisbe, Pembroke, Private, Capt. Freedon Chamerlain's Company, Col. Bailey's Reg't. which marched on alarm of April 19th, 1775; service 14 das." Also, "Capt. Chamberlain's Co. Gen. Thomas' Reg't. Muster Roll dated 8-1-1775; enlisted 5-3-1775; service 3 mos., 6 das." Also, ""Co's. return dated Roxbury Oct. 6, 1775." Also, "Capt. Jhohn Turner's Co. col. Theophilus Cotton's Reg't;; marched Sept. 28, 1777 service 1 mo. 3 days at Rhode Island."

      After the Revolutionary War there was a large movement of settlers from Mass. "to the Eastward" into Maine. One reason was that soldiers had been paid in script which was of small value in trade, but was taken at face value for purchase of land from the government.

      Charles Bisbee bought land in the Township of Sharon, now Sumner, Maine, of Benjamin Darling of Hanover, Mass. and visited Sumner in 1783.

      Buckfield had been settled seven years and Sumner, Maine was a wilderness. Charles put up a cabin and returned to Pembroke, Mass., where he had lived after the war. The next spring he took his family to Provincetown and from thence to Yarmouth, Maine by packet and then on horseback to what is now Sumner, Maine, arriving there on the 5 of June 1784.

      Carefully selecting the land and utilizing the help of his large family, he soon cleared up a good farm and saw his sons and daughters settled on farms nearby.

      Charles died on the twenty-third anniversary of his arrival in Sumner. [4]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1257] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840), p.117.

    2. [S1257] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840).

    3. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 33.

    4. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 49.