Allen 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 28,59) 3. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - vol.#9 (pages 3-4) - found at Orlando, FL Public LIbrary. NOTES: 1. Allen Bidwell of Langdon, NY - he enlisted the 21 April 1779 for service on the ship "Oliver Cromwell". He later applied for a pension (#W-18600) for his service durning the Revolutionary War. In 1808 he and his wife moved to Charlestown, New Hampshire - later moved to Langdon, Sullivan, New Hampshisre and died there. He fell from a load of grain and broke his back, and Anna Wood Bidwell became totally blind for a number of years before her death.
He married Anna Wood 25 Aug 1781 at Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut . Anna Wood was born at Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut 1759 .
They were the parents of 10
children:
Joseph Bidwell
born 1779.
Clarissa Bidwell
born 1786.
Erastus Bidwell
born 20 May 1791.
Mary Bidwell
born Jul 1794.
Harriet Bidwell
born 2 Jul 1797.
Grove Bidwell
born 6 Mar 1801.
Fanny Bidwell
born 16 Jul 1803.
Paul Bigford Bidwell
born 1804.
Neoma Bidwell
born 12 Jan 1805.
Martha Bidwell
born 1808.
Allen Bidwell died 2 Aug 1822 at Langdon, Sullivan, New Hampshire .
Anna Wood died 10 Jul 1840 .