Zebulon 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 - Joan Bidwell (page 37) 3. 2000 Ordinance Index - information added NOTES: 1. Captain Zebulon Daniel Bidwell, Captain in Colonal Cook's regiment in the Revolutionary War, serving in VA at surrender of Cornwallis and in Ny where he was killed at the Battle of Saratoga - near Stillwater, Saratoga, NY. 2. Wife Mary Burnham Bidwell was out visiting and staying until evening, a boy was sent to help her home, he went on ahead. Ther was no railing on the bridge that went across the creek. She walked off and was drowned. Footprints in light snow found her body after midnight 3. Son William Bidwell (stillborn) his headstone reads - Perhaps quited life at news - father killed.
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert,AZ 2. IGI - CT - Batch #8430510 (page 12) 3. FHL Film #1035617 - item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 69,75,150,151)
He married Mary Burnham 18 Dec 1766 . Mary Burnham was born at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 12 May 1740 .
They were the parents of 7
children:
Joel Bidwell
born 4 Mar 1768.
Mary Bidwell
born 17 Jun 1769.
Joel Bidwell
born 6 Jun 1771.
Moses Bidwell
born 16 Mar 1773.
Beulah Bidwell
born 1 Apr 1775.
William Bidwell
born 1777.
Zebulon Bidwell
born 1777.
Zebulon Bidwell died 20 Sep 1777 at Saratoga, New York .
Mary Burnham died 13 Jun 1811 at Middlebury, Addison, Vermont .