Adonijah BIDWELL

                   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 83,84,43)
    3. IGI - MA - Extracted #C501471 (page 0150), #C500931
   

NOTES:
    1. Lawson Dench Bidwell was a lawyer.
                  

                   SOURCES:
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2.  IGI - MA - Extracted #C501471 (page 0144); Batch #8509308 (page 71)
    3. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 84)
    4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 7, 10) - found at Orlando, FL Public Library.

NOTES:
    1. Barnabas Bidwell - resided in Monterey, MA.
    2. Wife Betsey Curtis - daughter of Amasa Curtis of Tyringham, MA - son of Captain Amasa Curtis of Wallingford, CT.
    3. Both Barnabas Bidwell and Betsey Curtis Bidwell were buried at Old Center Cemetery.
                  

                   SOURCES:
    1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. IGI - NY - Extracted #C501471 (page 0136), #C502791 (page 0391), Batch #8509308 (page 74), #A178082 (page 3649).
    3. FHL - Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 84,85) (these pages have pictures).
    4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 10) - found at the Orlando, FL Public LIbrary.

NOTES:
    1. Alfred Gilbert Bidwell left home to find work - his first job was a clerk in a Hotel in New York City for several and then he went to North Carolina and Georgia to the Gold Mines, returning after seven years.  The moved back to Hillsdale, New York for a few years, then he moved to Greenville, NJ.  He bought his parents farm in Hillsdale, NY also had a small wagon manufacturing business  - The Bidwell farm was a beautiful place on New York Route 23, about half way between the village of Hillsdale and Murray's Corner.  In 1848 they sold the farm and moved to Bergen Hill, Jersey City, New Jersey - where Alfred went into business at 28 Newark Avenue.  
    2. Discrepancy on which town Alfred Gilbert Bidwell was born in Tyringham or Monterey?
    3. Discrepancy on spelling of wife's first given name Harriet or Harriette, also her surname Collin or Collins?
    4. Harriet Ann was 19 years old when her parents died and she went to live with her grandparents in Hillsdale, New York.  She attended Columbia Boarding School in Chatham, New York from 183501836.