Roger 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 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
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI - CT - Batch #8509107 (page 68) 3. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 23,40,41) 4. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 8-9) - found at Orlando, FL Public LIbrary. NOTES: 1. Ashbel Bidwell - a weaver on a hand loom , served in the Revolutionary War as a Private. 2. He and his family lived at East Hartford, CT.
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ. 2. IGI - CT - Batch #8508505 (page 87), #8421606 (page 63) 3. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (pages 23, 41) 4. Book #929.1AM - "American Ancestry" - Vol.#9 (pages 8-9) - found at Orlando, Fl Public Library. 5. 2000 Ordinance Index - information added. NOTES: 1. Enodias Bidwell served in the Revolutionary War, afterward he owned Cotton's Tavern and Store on the Corner of Tolland Turnpike and Burnside Avenue. He and his brother Ashbel built homes next door to each other - The homes were queer looking with sharp roofs and diamond paned windows and between them sttod a shop. Enodias was something of a mathematician and difficult problems were sent to him from all parts of the State. He lived near fork of road between Middle and Boston Turnpikes. 2. All of his children died of Consumption except for son Martin Bidwell.
He married Rhoda Easton . Rhoda Easton was born at Connecticut 1721 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Tryphena Bidwell
born 5 Nov 1749.
Ashbel Bidwell
born 28 Aug 1751.
Adoniram Bidwell
born Aug 1753.
Enodias Bidwell
born May 1758.
Darda Bidwell
born Nov 1761.
Roger Bidwell died 28 Dec 1782 at East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .
Rhoda Easton died 24 Aug 1782 at East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut .