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Gideon Bisbee, Jr.

Male 1755 - 1825  (70 years)

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  • Name Gideon Bisbee  [1, 2, 3]
    Suffix Jr.
    Birth 27 Jul 1755  Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Christening 31 Aug 1755  Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Second Church of Christ.
    Gender Male
    Death 23 Sep 1825  Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    • Died age 93 yrs.
    Person ID I1005  Bisbee
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2009

    Father Gideon Bisbee,   b. 23 May 1719, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Sep 1760 (Age 41 years)
    Mother Rebecca Turner   d. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 7 Sep 1742  Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Family ID F486  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Bryant,   b. 2 Jun 1759, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1852, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
    Marriage 30 Apr 1781  Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    • Family settled on the Mount in the western part of town. Gideon Bisbee served in the Revolutionary War. [3]
    Children 
     1. Susanna Bisbee,   b. 28 Apr 1783, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Zeruah Bisbee,   b. 1 Apr 1784, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. John Bisbee,   b. 12 Jan 1786, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Lydia Bisbee,   b. 7 Oct 1787, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +5. Eli Bisbee,   b. 15 Nov 1788, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1864, Westfield, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    +6. Gideon Bisbee, III,   b. 20 Apr 1791, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1868, Milan, Monroe, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     7. Aaron Bisbee,   b. 22 May 1795, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1803 (Age 8 years)
     8. Elizabeth Bisbee,   b. 17 Jun 1798, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F561  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Jul 1755 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 31 Aug 1755 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 30 Apr 1781 - Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 23 Sep 1825 - Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Gideon died age 93 years.

      The 1790 US Census for Mass. lists, "Gideon Bisbee, Chesterfield, Hampshire Co., 3 m. 5 fem."

      Records of Revolutionary War soldiers and sailors from Mass. lists, "Gideon Bisbee of Chesterfield, list of deserters, July 22 1776, Capt. Israel Chapin's Co., Col. Elisha Porter's Reg't. Age 21 yeras, stature 6' 1", complexion light, residence Chesterfield. Deserted June 8, 1776; returned July 17, 1776; reported pardoned.

      Gideon's father died in the French and Indian War. Chesterfield Church records shos "Admitted to Church 19 Sept. 1789, Betty wife to Gideon Bisbee, baptized Aug. 1790"

      Gideon Bisbee Junior's will was dated 4 Sept. 1825 and was probated 6 Dec. 1825. His son Eli was named executor; he bequeathed to his daughters, Termial Dumbledon, Lydia Cowing, Betsey Dumbledon and to his sons Eli and Gideon and to his wife Betty.

      Gideon Jr. granted deeds to Eli in 1810; warranty deeds to Gideon 3d in 1820; Eli gave a warranty deed to Gideon Jr. in 1825. The 1810 US Census lists Gideon Jr. at Chesterfield, 5 m. and 6 fem. The 1820 census shows him to have been at Goshen, Mass. and lists 5 m. and 3 fem. [3, 4]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990), p.268.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 41.

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 4.

    4. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 69.

    5. [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990).