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John Bisbee

Male 1755 - 1842  (86 years)

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  • Name John Bisbee  [1]
    Birth 15 Sep 1755  Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Death 24 Jun 1842  Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Burial Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    John Bisbee    		 John Bisbee
    Photograph by Find A Grave contributor Joan Pulis
    Person ID I1086  Bisbee
    Last Modified 16 May 2010

    Father Elijah Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 30 Mar 1720, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1804, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Mother Deborah Sampson,   b. 14 Mar 1723/24   d. 25 Oct 1815, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
    Marriage 26 Apr 1744  [1] 
    Family ID F498  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lydia Soule,   b. 13 Nov 1760   d. 13 Oct 1826 (Age 65 years)
    Marriage 13 Nov 1791  [2] 
    • Married by Rev. Sampson.
    Children 
     1. Infant Bisbee,   b. 30 Dec 1792, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Zenas Bisbee,   b. 10 Feb 1796, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1817, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 20 years)
    +3. Rev. John Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 12 May 1794, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Mar 1829, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)
     4. Lydia Soule Bisbee,   b. 18 Apr 1799, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1825, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)
    +5. Rebeckah Bisbee,   b. 28 Mar 1803, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     6. Jane Bisbee,   b. Abt 1804, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F604  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 May 2010

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Sep 1755 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Jun 1842 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • "John Bisbee, aged 77 yrs. certified in 1832 to service with Lieut. Daniel Soule in Capt. harlow's Co. of Roxbury an in N. Y. with Capt. Sturtevant's Co. of Rhode Island."

      Records of soldiers and sailors from Mass. in the Revolutionary War lists, "John Bisbey, Plympton, Private Capt. Thos. Loring's marced on alarm April 19, 1775 to Marshfield; service 1 day."

      Also, "Capt. John Bridgeman's Co., Col. Cotton's Reg't. Muster Roll dated 8-1-1775, enlisted May 4, 1775, service 3 mos. 5 das."

      Again, "John Bisbey, list of men mustered in Plymouth Co. by James S. Hatch, Muster Master Capt. James Harlow's Co. Col. Gate's Reg't. Residence Plympton. Enlisted for the town of Plympton, enlistment 9 mos. to expire 1-1-1779."

      And Again, "Capt. Calvin Curtiss' Co. Col. John Jacob's Reg't., enlisted 6-27-1778; roll made up to Jan. 1, 1779, service 6 mos. 7 das. at Rhode Island."

      Also, "Private Capt. Bridgham's Co., Col. Cotton's Reg't.; return dated Oct. 7, 1775, reported discharged June 15th 1775."

      Also, "Private Capt. John Harlow's Co. Col. Simeon Cary's Reg't., enlisted 2-1-1776. Roll made up for 6 das., service time marching, and sworn to in Plymouth Co."

      Again, "Order for wages for 3 mos. service at Bristol, R. I. payable to Capt. Nathan Alden dated Bristol 3-7-1777. Service in Col. Jeremiah Hall's Reg't."

      Also, "Sergeant in Capt. Nathan Alden's Co., Major Eliphant Cary's Reg't. Marched to Rhode Island on alarm 7-30-1780; discharged 8-9-1780, service 11 days."

      Seth Sampson lived many years in Plympton on the road leading westward from the Plympton burying ground. His house was the first one eastward of the bridge over Colchester Brook and stook on the north side of said road on the spot where John Bisbee lived in 1832.

      Per History of Plymouth County, D. Hamilton Hurd, Compiler, J.W. Lewis & Co, Phila, 1884: 1778 John Bisbee from Capt. Shaw's CO was among those selected to march to Providence for six months.

      Grave record from old burying ground at Plympton: "Erected to commorize (sic) John Bisbee, who dec'd June 24, 1842, aged 86 years, 9 months & 9 days."

      "Was a Revolutionary War Pensioner." [5]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 45.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 79.

    3. [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990), p.267.

    4. [S3052] Gravestone, Old Burying Ground, Plympton, Massachusetts, "Erected / to commemorize /John Bisbee / who deceased June 24, /1842, aged 86 years, 9 mo's & 9 days.".

    5. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 80.