Adonijah BIDWELL
Birth:
18 Oct 1716
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
2 Jun 1784
Monterey, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Marriage:
28 Oct 1772
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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 (page 25)
3. IGI - CT - Extracted #C502791 (page 0375), #C501471 (page 0134)
4. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 9)
5. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - vol.#9 (page 10) - found at Orlando, FL Public Library
NOTES:
1. Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, was born the same year his father was Lost at Sea.
2. He graduated from Yale College 1740, taught school 1741-1748; ordained 1744; chaplin 1744-1747; preached at Simsbury 1747-1750; at Kinernook, New York 1749 at Tyringham, Massachusetts in 1750-1784
3. Discrepancy on spelling of 1st wife's surname Colton or Cotton
4. 2nd Wife Jemima Devotion - the Devotion were a Huguenot Family - their is a pedigree of this family which goes directly to Charlemagne through William the Conqueror and a line of English Kings fro several generations. Her mother Naomi Taylor daughter of Reverend Edward Taylor and Ruth Wyllys
5. 3rd wife Ruth Kent married second Reverend Jonathan Judd of Southhampton , as his second wife, he died 1815, at which time she resided with her brother Captain Kent of Suffield.
Ruth KENT
Birth:
28 Dec 1729
Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
Dec 1815
Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
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Adonijah Bidwell - Ruth Kent
Adonijah Bidwell
was born at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 18 Oct 1716.
His parents were Thomas Bidwell and Prudence Scott.
He married Ruth Kent 28 Oct 1772 . Ruth Kent was born at Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 28 Dec 1729 .
Adonijah Bidwell died 2 Jun 1784 at Monterey, Berkshire, Massachusetts .
Ruth Kent died Dec 1815 at Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut .