Abram BIDWELL

                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. IGI - CT - Batch #8532606
    3. FHL - Film #1035617 - Item #5 "Bidwell Family" - By Joan Bidwell (pages 26, 48)
    4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 5-6) - found at Orlando, FL Public LIbrary.
   
NOTES: 
    1. Abram Bidwell on his tombstone his first given name is Abraham.
    2. He was in the Lumber Business in Montreal, Canada in 1812.
    3. When the 'War of 1812' began, Abram and his son David were drafted into the British Armey, to effect his escape, rescue David, and get back into the State of New York, was a thrilling episode in his life.  His 1st wife died while he was separated from her in Canada.
    4. After his second marriage they lived in Chautauqa County, New York, where his son John was born. Then he moved to Erie, PA and then to Ashtabula County, OH and finally Drake County, OH, He intended when his circumstances would allow him to reunite his family, but he could not do so during his lifetime.  finally he moved to Van Buren,Hancock, Ohio where he died.