Adonijah BIDWELL

Birth:
18 Oct 1716
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
2 Jun 1784
Monterey, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Marriage:
16 Oct 1760
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 (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.
Jemima DEVOTION
Birth:
Abt 1727
Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
7 Feb 1771
West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
Adonijah BIDWELL
Birth:
6 Aug 1761
Tyringham, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
14 Feb 1837
Hillsdale, Columbia, New York
Mellicent DENCH 
Marr:
15 Jan 1789
Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachu 
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 (page 25,43,84)
    3. IGI - CT - Extracted #C502791 (page 0387), #C501471 (page 0141)
   

NOTES:
    1. Adonijah Bidwell served in the Revolutionary War and was also a member of Massachusetts Assembly. 
    2. the Adonijah and wife Melicant and family moved from Monterey, Ma to Hillsdale, NY - about 1826 and bought a 36 acre farm.  Son Alfred Gilbert, left home to seek work, he was a hotel clerk in New York city for several years, then went to North Carolina to the Gold Mines. He returned to Hillsdale in 1832 and bought his parents farm, settled down got married and went seriously into farming.
    3. Discrepancy on spelling of wife's first given name Melicent or Mellicent or Millecent?
2
Barnabas BIDWELL
Birth:
23 Aug 1763
Monterey, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
27 Jul 1833
Mary GRAY 
Marr:
21 Feb 1793
Watertown, Suffolk, Massachuse 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2.  IGI - MA - Extracted #C502791 (page 0584), #C509107 (page 83); Batch #8509107 (page 83
    3. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 43,25)
    4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 7) - found at Orlando, FL Public Library.

NOTES:
    1. Barnabas Bidwell of Monterey -lived at Stockbridge,MA - Treasurer - Berkshire - Attorney General of Massachusetts - In Congress - from Massachusetts - Had difficulites with the Bank.
    2. He gradcuated from Yale 1785, Tutor at Yale 1787 to 1790.  In 1792 he was a member of Connecticut Society of promotion of freedom, was a Playwright - studied Law - admitted to the Bar - 1791 - Originally a staunch Federalist - He gradually modified his views and emerged as a strong Jeffersoniap Republican.  Be became a target for abuse by opponets. Accused of theft while Treasurer, he went to Canada.  He hoped to build a new reputation - It failed. (His son had same problem)
    3. He died and is buried in Kingston, Plymouth, MA - his wife Mary Gray Bidwell is buried at the Sedgwick Cemetery in Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA
3
Jemima BIDWELL
Birth:
26 Jan 1765
Tyringham, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
28 Jan 1842
William PARTRIDGE 
Marr:
3 Jun 1787
Tyringham, Berkshire, Massachu 
4
Theodosia BIDWELL
Birth:
29 Nov 1766
Tyringham, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Death:
5 Apr 1841
Eliab BREWER 
Marr:
29 Nov 1793
 
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Adonijah Bidwell - Jemima Devotion

Adonijah Bidwell was born at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 18 Oct 1716. His parents were Thomas Bidwell and Prudence Scott.

He married Jemima Devotion 16 Oct 1760 . Jemima Devotion was born at Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Abt 1727 .

They were the parents of 4 children:
Adonijah Bidwell born 6 Aug 1761.
Barnabas Bidwell born 23 Aug 1763.
Jemima Bidwell born 26 Jan 1765.
Theodosia Bidwell born 29 Nov 1766.

Adonijah Bidwell died 2 Jun 1784 at Monterey, Berkshire, Massachusetts .

Jemima Devotion died 7 Feb 1771 at West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .