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Ensign Elisha Bisbee, Jr

Male Abt 1654 - 1716  (62 years)

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  • Name Elisha Bisbee  [1]
    Prefix Ensign
    Suffix Jr
    Birth Abt 1654  Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Place is tentative.
    Christening 29 Oct 1654  Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Second Church
    Gender Male
    Death 4 Mar 1715/16  Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I757  Bisbee
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2009

    Father Elisha Besbeech   d. May 1690, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Mother Joanna   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah King,   b. 24 May 1650   d. 20 Oct 1716, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F431  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Family 2 Mary Jacobs,   b. 30 Mar 1656, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1737, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Marriage 25 Mar 1685  [3] 
    • Married by Gov. Bradford. [2]
    Children 
    +1. Joanna Bisbee,   b. 8 Apr 1686, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1720, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years)
    +2. Elisha Bisbee, III,   b. 25 Feb 1689/90, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Mar 1736/37, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
     3. Sarah Bisbee,   b. 25 Feb 1689/90, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Ruth Bisbee,   b. 21 Jan 1691/92, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Mary Bisbee,   b. 7 Nov 1700, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F408  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1654 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 29 Oct 1654 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 4 Mar 1715/16 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Elisha Bisbee Jr. lived in Hingham and was known as "Ensign Bisbee."

      In the will of Thomas King, an item reads: "To my daughter, Sarah Bisbey, the use and improvement of three acres of marsh land, up the river in Marshfield next to the 'Gravely Beach' there and so by upland side, during her natural life and the life of her husband."

      From the records, Marshfield General Court, this item: "Received and admitted as Freemen at ye 1st June 1689 General Court from Marshfield, Elisha Bisbey, Hopestill Bisbey..." Sixty eight others listed.

      Elisha and Mary Bisbey joined 60 others in signing a document pertaining to witchcraft as follows: "Hingham the 7th Feb. 1709-9. Where as we the underwritten have heard that there are scandalous reports of the widow Mahatabel Warren of Plymouth, we, knowing that she was brought up in the place, and in her younger time had been a person of great affliction, before she was married, and hath lived in this towne divers years in her widowhood and we never have had any suspition nor have ever heard that any amongst us have had the least suspition that ever she was guilty of the sin of being a witch or anything that may occation (sic) such suspition of her."

      An item from Plymouth County Records, 16 June, 1692, is as follows: "John Rogers was on a jury to lay out and remove highways in Marshfield, in their return they describe a way which ran near the houses of the three brothers and in the new way which said Rogers lately made, and so on over the Cover Creek by his house and so along by Frenche's tinnament and Henry Perry's house to the upper end of the field before said Perry's door, and then turning southwards along by the Cove Creek, downward as the old way leadeth by the house and so as the new way now lieth near to Joseph Rogers' fence and so on a line of Elisha Bisbee." [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 18.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 28.

    3. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 28, 29.