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Elisha Bisbee

Male 1757 - 1826  (69 years)

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  • Name Elisha Bisbee  [1]
    Lt. Elisha Bisbee Biography    		 Lt. Elisha Bisbee Biography
    posted at Find A Grave by Laurence Overmire
    Birth 4 Mar 1757  Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Death 1 Dec 1826  Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Burial Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4] 
    • Grave record: "Elisha Bisbee died 1 Dec. 1826 Aet. 70 yrs. An officer in the Army of the American Revolution." Burial in cemetery one-half mile north of Buckfield.
    • Find A Grave Memorial 29370886
    Lieut. Elisha Bisbee Gravestones    		 Lieut. Elisha Bisbee Gravestones
    photo by Cooper,G.I. at Find A Grave
    Person ID I1141  Bisbee
    Last Modified 7 Jan 2019

    Father Charles Bisbee,   b. 1726, East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jul 1807, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Mother 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  [1] 
    • Family Moved to Pembroke. (Nahum Mitchell)
    Family ID F502  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Pettengill,   b. 19 Jan 1761, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1811, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Marriage 22 Sep 1779  Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Married at the First Church.
    Children 
    +1. Susan Bisbee,   b. 26 Mar 1780, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1860, Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    +2. Sarah H. Bisbee,   b. 23 Mar 1782, New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1866, Belfast, Waldo, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    +3. Anna Bisbee,   b. Abt 1784   d. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Elisha Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 8 May 1786, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1874, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    +5. Daniel Bisbee,   b. 7 May 1791, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Apr 1824, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
    +6. Mary Bisbee,   b. 4 Jan 1794, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jan 1832, Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    +7. Capt. Hopestill Bisbee,   b. 27 Apr 1796, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Theresa Bisbee,   b. 12 Sep 1798, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1869, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    +9. Horatio Bisbee,   b. 13 Aug 1800, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1881 (Age 81 years)
    +10. Huldah Bisbee,   b. 11 Nov 1803, Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1842, Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    Family ID F641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Dec 2009

    Family 2 Chloe Silvester,   b. 23 Jul 1765, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Apr 1850, Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Marriage 15 Sep 1812  Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Married by Rev. John Turner of Turner, Maine.

      NEH&GR Vol 145, p. 47 (Maine Estate Schedules from Rev. War pensions): "251. ELISHA BISBEE, 64, Portland, Lieutenant Eaton's Co., Thosciusko's (sic) Reft. of the Engineers, Mass. Real estate, I have none. Personal estate, 2 cows, 7 sheep, 1 swine, a few ordinary and necessary articles of household stuff. I also have a small wagon and horse for which I gave my note, and which I am now owing. Blacksmith, not able [due to] infirmity and age. Chloe, wife, 59, a feeble woman. Nancy, 14, Eliza 10, not able to support themselves. Stricken, $40.52 29 June 1820."

      also p. 54: "292. ELISHA BISBEE, 65, Portland, Lieutenant Eaton's Co., Kosciusko's Regt., Mass. Real Estate, I have none, nor have I owned for nine years. Personal estate, I have one cow, three sheep and one swine and a few necessary utensils in the house for family use and they are old and worn out. I have no income and am poor indeed -- other articles mentioned in a former schedule have been take to pay several small just debts I was owing. Blacksmith, not able [due to] rupture and other infirmities. Chloe, wife, 60, a feeble woman. Aurelia 19 able to do housework. Nancy, 15, able to contribute to her support in part. Elisa, 11, a weakly child, almost helpless. Continued, $22. 4 January 1821."
    Family ID F642  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jul 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 4 Mar 1757 - Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 22 Sep 1779 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 15 Sep 1812 - Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Dec 1826 - Buckfield, 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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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • The 1790 US Census for Maine lists, "Elisha Bisbee, Hallowell, Lincoln Co., 3 m., 6 fem."

      Records of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors in the Revolutionary War mention: "Elisha Bisbee in Capt. Amos Turner's Co., Gen. John Thomas' Reg't. Order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Camp Roxbury 12-22-1775."

      Also, "Elisha Bisbee of Bridgewater, list of men mustered, dated 6-8-1778, Capt. Cole's Co., Col. Jacob's Reg't."

      Also, "Private, Capt. Joseph Cole's Co., Col. John Jacob's Reg't., enlisted 1-20-1778, service 11 mos. 14 das. at Rhode Island, enlistment to expire 1-1-1779."

      Also, "Elisha Bisbee, Hanover, Private Amos Turner's Co., Col. John Bailey's Reg't., marched April 19, 1775, service 14 days."

      Again, "Capt. Turner's Co., Gen. John Thomas' Reg't., muster roll dated 8-1-1775, enlised May 3d, 1775, service 3 mos. 6 days."

      Again, "Co's. return." (Probably Oct. 1775)

      And again, "Private Capt. Abram Washburn's Co., Col. John Cushing's Reg't., enlisted 9-20-1776, service 59 1/2 days at Newport, R. I. on alarm dated, Edgewater."

      Also, "Elisha Bisbee, Private in Capt. David Kingham's Co., Col. Edward Mitchell's Reg't. Pay roll for 6 days service in March 1776, on alarm at Squantum."

      Elisha Bisbee moved to Sumner, Maine with his father. All of his children, except for the two eldest, were born in Sumner. He settled on the Elmer Frazier farm; his house, one-half mile north of Buckfield, was built in 1796 and was still occupied in 1915.

      The following letter was written by Elisha Bisbee to William Ford who had married a sister of Beulah Howland, his aunt. The letter has been given to Dr. William B. Lapham by Miss Lydia Ford, daughter of William Ford of Hanson, Mass. The letter is as follows:

      "Dear Uncle

      "I embrace this opportunity to inform you that we are well as common. I have nothing new to write. It is a general time of health here. We have had a very moderate winter and as forward a spring as we have had since I lived here. Bread and meat are plenty and cheap and labor bears a very high price and is not to be had at any rate.

      "I was at the widow Child's lately; all well. The Judge of probate has done very extraordinarily well by the widow; her dower would fetch twelve of fifteen hundred dollars at least, and the doctor's estate is likely to come out much better than was expected.

      "I have not had a line from you this many a day, and have done looking for any, but I am in hopes my scribbling may stir you up so that I may know how you and your relations are in that old worn out country, and pray don't miss any opportunity of writing to me as I shall take it very hard if you do.

      "We have had a very exceeding snow storm here. It began on Friday the fifteenth of this instant (April) early in the morning, and grew hotter and hotter until Sunday about noon when it abated. The snow fell 18 or 20 inches deep and there is some of it to be seen now. It was far the smartest storm we have had for the winter past.

      "Our two eldest girls have got married and each of them has a boy. They married men of property and are in a way to live if no misfortune overtakes them.

      "Remember me to all who may inquire. Joshua Ford's oldest daughter is married and has got a boy.

      (signed) Elisha Bisbee

      "To William Ford, Pembroke, Mass "To be let at Howland's."

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

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 90.

    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. [S2754] www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Internet Website, Find A Grave Memorial 29370886 For Elisha Bisbee.

    5. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), 91.