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Polly Packard

Female 1787 - 1862  (75 years)

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  • Name Polly Packard  [1]
    Birth 14 Jan 1787  Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Female
    Census 21 Sep 1850  McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Death 11 Aug 1862  East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    • Polly d. "ae 75 yrs." Burial East Pharsalia, N. Y.
    Burial East Pharsalia Cemetery, East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Cemetery record: "Bisbee, Polly b.14 Jan 1787, ae75, d.11 Aug 1862, w/o James; b. Plainfield Mass"
    Polly Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photos    		 Polly Bisbee Memorial with Gravestone Photos
    Find A Grave memorial created by Jim Livermore
    and maintained by Marchelle Nielson
    Person ID I2571  Bisbee
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2009

    Father Noah Packard,   b. 1752, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1830, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Mother Mary Hamlin,   b. 1754, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1829, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F1311  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James B. Bisbee,   b. 11 Aug 1783, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1861, East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Marriage 28 Jan 1807  Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    • Letter written to Tryphena Bisbee Crandall, Utah Territory by Polly Packard Bisbee:
      "McDonough, N.Y. May 30th, 1841 Dear and affectionate child, we received your letter dated May 8th and was sorry to hear that you had not heard from us. We sent you a letter last July and also another in March and we wrote to you both times that we had not received any papers and I desire to know what the reason is that we do not receive them. I want you to write to Stephen and try to find out the cause of all this trouble. There hasn't been elders in this place since you went away. We know nothing about the church only what we hear in the newspapers and they speak quite well of them. Hiram stops fighting for me. Our health is much as yousial and I hope these few broken lines will find you injoying the same blessing. I am sorry to hear you was sik last summer but if you lov God it will work fore your good. You wrote that you had married a poor man I care not how poore hee is if hee is rich in faith and will keep all the commands of God with an I single to the glory of the same. then I think you can take comfort together. I want you to come and make us a long visit, both of you if you have faith anofe to come by water. Your father wrote to you if you would send word how much monny it would take to bare your expense he would send you same but I think it wouldnt bee safe to send monny in a letter as you dont get them. This is the third time that I have wrote to you less than a yeare and have been looking for a letter ever sens last fall from you. I began to think that you was all dead but when I heard from you I felt to thank the lord that hee had spared youre life and my prayer to God is that hee would prepare a way for us to see each other onse more this side of the grave. Note-(There is no signature after this abrupt ending, but the handwriting is that of Tryphena's mother, Polly Bisbee. The letter was folded and apparently sealed with wax, no envelope, but with this inscription: East Pharsalia, N.Y. June 10th Mr. Myron Crandal, Quincy, Adams Co. Ill.) July the 23-1843." -- Our Pioneer Heritage [5]
    Children 
    +1. Arza Bisbee,   b. 15 Dec 1807, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1869 (Age 61 years)
     2. Ira Bisbee,   b. 18 Nov 1809, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +3. Isabella Bisbee,   b. 26 May 1812, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Iram Packard Bisbee,   b. 1 Dec 1816, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1878, Richmond Township, Ray, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    +5. Tryphena Bisbee,   b. 4 Apr 1819, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Oct 1863, Springville, Utah, Utah, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)
    +6. James B. Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 1 Mar 1821, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1856 (Age 35 years)
     7. Hiram S. Bisbee,   b. 3 Feb 1823, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1856, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    +8. Bolivar Bisbee,   b. 5 Sep 1826, McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Dec 1895, Ames, Story, Iowa, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    Family ID F675  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 14 Jan 1787 - Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 Jan 1807 - Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 21 Sep 1850 - McDonough, Chenango, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Aug 1862 - East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - East Pharsalia Cemetery, East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Eleazar Packard and his son Ira operated a flax dressing mill in Plainfield in 1810. [6]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 101.

    2. [S2104] East Pharsalia Cemetery Online, (Pharsalia, Chenango, New York. The data is extracted from that gathered by the G-Won-Go Chapter of the D. A. R. of Greene, New York. The data was taken about 1931 and published in 1933, hence burials after that time are not recorded below. The principle personnel involved were Mrs. C. O. Brown, Mrs. Robert Steere, Helen Hill Read Tuttle, Miss Lucy Wade, and Mrs. Winifred Weaver.).
      "Bisbee, Polly b.14 Jan 1787, ae75, d.11 Aug 1862, w/o James; b. Plainfield Mass"

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 28.

    4. [S1285] Bisbee, James B. (I1178): 1850 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M432, roll 487; page 122, line 30, dwelling 1929, family 1971; image downloaded 8/14/2008.), 1850.NY.Chenango.McDonough.28.jpg.

    5. [S2121] Our Pioneer Heritage, (Internation Society, Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Our Pioneer Heritage, (28). Salt Lake City: Infobases, Inc., 1996. Published under license. All Rights Reserved. This database tells the story of Utah pioneers and their accomplishments. Many of the bibliographic entries include such information as names of spouse and children, place of birth and death, place of residence, professions, and church duties, as well as other specific details of every day life. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers have given great service in searching out, clarifying and preserving the pioneer history, which is essential to perpetuate the great ideal of the pioneer heritage.), Historic Letters, [P.342] Letters From Home, Company E.
      "Tryphena Crandall"

    6. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 102.