John BIDWELL

Birth:
1641
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
3 Jul 1692
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Marriage:
7 Nov 1678
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Notes:
                   NOTES:
       1. Birth may be 1648

SOURCES: 
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. IGI - Extracted #8387003 (page 50)
    3. FHL film #1035617 - item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 8,15)
    4. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 2) 
    5. Book #929.1AM - american Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 3,8,10) - found at Orlando, FL Public LIbrary.

NOTES:
    1. John Bidwell He left an Estate of 1081 Pounds.
    2. Inherited all his father's land and buildings West of the river, had first Saw Mill at Glastonbury, 1667 afterward had 6 other, engineer to deepen channel of river for Hartford, 1686. Left estate of 1081
Sarah WELLES
Birth:
Apr 1659
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
1708
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   NOTES:
      1. Birthplace may be Hartford, Hartford, CT
Children
Marriage
1
Hannah BIDWELL
Birth:
31 Aug 1680
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
8 Apr 1707
Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut
Joseph JUDD 
Marr:
11 Apr 1706
Farmington, Hartford, Connecti 
2
John BIDWELL
Birth:
1 Sep 1679
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
30 Sep 1751
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Hannah PITKIN 
Marr:
Abt 1703
 
Notes:
                   SOURCES: 
     1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion  Grace Jewell Nicholls of Gilbert, Arizona.
     2. FHL Film #1035617 - Item 5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 14)
     3. Book  - American Ancestry  - Vol 9 (pages 6-7,8- 9)
     4. FHL- Book #929.273/W643c - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 7)
    5. Bidwell Family History
    
   

NOTES:
    1. John Bidwell and his brother Thomas Bidwell were administrators of their father will and mother estate.
    2. John Bidwell's occupation was Miller, he built a Saw and Grist Mill in East Hartford on the Hockamun River. These Mills were twice burned down by the Indians and the third time he rebuilt he took a man by the name of Pitkin who owned 1/3 of the mills.  He left these Mills to his son John Bidwell (information obtained by his great grandson Zebulon - he remembered his grandfather telling him the above)
    3. John Bidwell died at the age of 73 years, his wife Hannah died at the age of 69 years.
3
Sarah BIDWELL
Birth:
19 Aug 1681
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
3 Dec 1744
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
 
Marr:
 
4
Thomas BIDWELL
Birth:
27 Dec 1682
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
Prudence SCOTT 
Marr:
23 Mar 1709
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticu 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2.  FHL film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell family - By Joan Bidwell (pages15,16)
    3. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - found at Orlando, FL Public Library.
    4. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (pages 8,9)
    5. IGI - Extracted #8509107, #7323509 (page 73)

NOTES:
    1.  Thomas Bidwell of Hartford, had a store in Hartford, CT, he also  was the owner of Trading Vessels lost at set in 1716, while on voyage to Barbodos for rum and sugar - this is where Thomas lost his life.
5
Jonathan BIDWELL
Birth:
15 Mar 1683/84
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
24 Nov 1712
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Martha BUTLER 
Marr:
25 Dec 1711
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticu 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 Bidwell Faily - By Joan Bidwell (page16)
    3. FHL  Book #929.273/W643C - John wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 9)

NOTES:
    1. Jonathan Bidwell and his brother Thomas Bidwell both had stores in Hartford at the same time.
    2. wife Martha Butler Bidwell was the Executrix of her Husband's Will.  she died at the age of 46.
6
Abigail BIDWELL
Birth:
4 Apr 1686
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
 
Marr:
 
7
David BIDWELL
Birth:
25 Feb 1687
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
24 Jun 1758
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Mehitable WEBSTER 
Marr:
8 Jul 1714
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticu 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:
    1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. FHL - Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 17)
    4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - vol.#9 (pages 5,6) - found at Orlando, FL Public LIbrary.

NOTES:
    1. Discrepancy on spelling of wife's first given name Mehitable or Mehetabell?
8
James BIDWELL
Birth:
1 Dec 1691
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
7 May 1718
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Ruth STANLEY 
Marr:
3 Dec 1713
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticu 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. Book #RG977.263/STR - Early Marriages - Wayne County, IN - By Irene Macy Sstrieby (page 7) - found at Orlando, FL Public Library.
    3. FHL Book #929.273 W643c - John Wilcox by Raeola Ford Cooke ( page 9)
    4. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 -  Bidwell Family, by Joan Bidwell (page 17)
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John Bidwell - Sarah Welles

John Bidwell was born at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 1641. His parents were John Bidwell and Sarah Wilcox.

He married Sarah Welles 7 Nov 1678 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut . Sarah Welles was born at Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Apr 1659 .

They were the parents of 8 children:
Hannah Bidwell born 31 Aug 1680.
John Bidwell born 1 Sep 1679.
Sarah Bidwell born 19 Aug 1681.
Thomas Bidwell born 27 Dec 1682.
Jonathan Bidwell born 15 Mar 1683/84.
Abigail Bidwell born 4 Apr 1686.
David Bidwell born 25 Feb 1687.
James Bidwell born 1 Dec 1691.

John Bidwell died 3 Jul 1692 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .

Sarah Welles died 1708 .