John BIDWELL

Birth:
1 Sep 1679
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
30 Sep 1751
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Marriage:
Abt 1703
Notes:
                   SOURCES: 
     1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion  Grace Jewell Nicholls of Gilbert, Arizona.
     2. FHL Film #1035617 - Item 5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 14)
     3. Book  - American Ancestry  - Vol 9 (pages 6-7,8- 9)
     4. FHL- Book #929.273/W643c - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 7)
    5. Bidwell Family History
    
   

NOTES:
    1. John Bidwell and his brother Thomas Bidwell were administrators of their father will and mother estate.
    2. John Bidwell's occupation was Miller, he built a Saw and Grist Mill in East Hartford on the Hockamun River. These Mills were twice burned down by the Indians and the third time he rebuilt he took a man by the name of Pitkin who owned 1/3 of the mills.  He left these Mills to his son John Bidwell (information obtained by his great grandson Zebulon - he remembered his grandfather telling him the above)
    3. John Bidwell died at the age of 73 years, his wife Hannah died at the age of 69 years.
Hannah PITKIN
Birth:
30 May 1684
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
14 Jan 1751
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
Ruth BIDWELL
Birth:
12 Aug 1704
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
27 Feb 1755
Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Henry LOOMIS 
Marr:
13 Apr 1727
 
2
John BIDWELL
Birth:
17 Feb 1707
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
14 Jun 1765
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
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 (pages 14,22)
    3. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 8) 
    4. Bidwell Family History
    5. IGI - CT - Batch #8430510 (page 6)
    6. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 6-7) - Orlando, FL Public Library.
    7. 2000 Ordinance Index - information added

NOTES:
    1. John Bidwell cleared up a swamp of poison alders on the south side of his house and set fire to them with the wind from the north. After the fire got started the wind shifted to the south, he ran to his house shut it as close as he could, but the smell of slders posioned him so that he died about 24 hours after and his wife was so affected by the poison that she was a cripple the rest of her life.
    2. On 26 August 1750, John became Guardian of Stephen Bidwell (son of Zebulon and Mary Gilman Bidwell) Stephen was 20 years old at the time and very close to his Uncle.
3
Zebulon BIDWELL
Birth:
16 Feb 1708
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
28 Mar 1731
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 - (pages 22-23)
    3. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 8)
    4. Bidwell Family History

NOTES;
    1. Zebulon Bidwell - lived at Hartford, CT - he died at the age of 23 years, naming his brother John Bidwell as guardian of his 18 month old appointed 26 August 1750.
4
Joseph BIDWELL
Birth:
3 Oct 1709
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
3 Oct 1798
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
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 23)
    3. FHL Book #929.273/W643c - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 8)
    4. Bidwell Family History
    5. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol #9 (page 8) - found at Orlando, Fl Public Library.

   NOTES:
    1. Joseph Bidwell Deacon, Physician died at the age of 89 years
    2. Wife Hannah Rockwell Bidwell died at the age of 89 years.
5
Sarah BIDWELL
Birth:
Abt 1712
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
9 Apr 1756
 
Marr:
 
6
Roger BIDWELL
Birth:
1714
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
28 Dec 1782
East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
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 (pages 23)
    3. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 8)
    4. Book #929.1AM - american Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 8-9)
    7. Town Records of East Hartford, CT 1760 -1780
    6. 1999 Ordinance Index - Information added.

NOTES:
    1. Roger Bidwell lived in East Hartford, CT
7
Hannah BIDWELL
Birth:
6 May 1716
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
Richard SMITH 
Marr:
2 May 1754
 
8
Jerusha BIDWELL
Birth:
Abt 1718
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
 
Marr:
 
9
Susannah BIDWELL
Birth:
19 Jan 1723/24
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
 
Marr:
 
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John Bidwell - Hannah Pitkin

John Bidwell was born at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 1 Sep 1679. His parents were John Bidwell and Sarah Welles.

He married Hannah Pitkin Abt 1703 . Hannah Pitkin was born at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 30 May 1684 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
Ruth Bidwell born 12 Aug 1704.
John Bidwell born 17 Feb 1707.
Zebulon Bidwell born 16 Feb 1708.
Joseph Bidwell born 3 Oct 1709.
Sarah Bidwell born Abt 1712.
Roger Bidwell born 1714.
Hannah Bidwell born 6 May 1716.
Jerusha Bidwell born Abt 1718.
Susannah Bidwell born 19 Jan 1723/24.

John Bidwell died 30 Sep 1751 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .

Hannah Pitkin died 14 Jan 1751 at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .