George Bisbee

1748 - 1839  (90 years)

• Name	George Bisbee  [1]
  Birth	28 Aug 1748	Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Mar 1839	Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3]
  	Place is tentative.
  Person ID	I1084	Bisbee
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Elijah Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 30 Mar 1720, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Sep 1804, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Deborah Sampson,   b. 14 Mar 1723/24   d. 25 Oct 1815, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1744  [1]
  Family ID	F498	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Grace Ripley,   b. 26 Oct 1753   d. 3 Feb 1850, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1773	Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3]
  Children	1. George Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 1 Mar 1774, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Daniel Bisbee,   b. 19 Jan 1776, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Apr 1852, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 76 years) + 3. Capt. Zebulon Bisbee,   b. 9 Feb 1778, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Sep 1842, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 64 years) + 4. Grace Bisbee,   b. 14 Jun 1780, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Aug 1818 (Age 38 years)   5. Gideon Bisbee,   b. 1 Nov 1782, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown   6. Asaph Bisbee,   b. 5 Dec 1784, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 8 Aug 1847, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years)   7. John Bisbee,   b. 12 Feb 1787, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 21 Dec 1871, Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years) + 8. Deborah Bisbee,   b. 7 Dec 1789, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown   9. Lydia Murinville Bisbee,   b. 23 Feb 1792, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 8 Jul 1869, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years)   10. Isaac Bisbee,   b. 20 Jul 1794, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 Sep 1820, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Age 26 years)   11. Dolly Bisbee,   b. 6 Dec 1798, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 28 Aug 1748 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 8 Apr 1773 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death - 2 Mar 1839 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The 1790 U. S. Census for Massachusetts lists, "George Bisby, Plympton, Plymouth Co., 4 m., 3 fem." Records of soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts lists, "George Bisby, Plympton, Corporal, Capt. Bradford's Co. Col. Cotton's Reg't. 1775; service 3 mos., 7 das." Also, "Private Capt. Bradford's Co., Col. Cotton's Reg't. which marched on alarm April 19, 1775 to Marshfield; service 12 das; reported enlisted in the army." Also, "Corporal, Co's. returned dated Oct. 7, 1775." Also, "Order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Roxbury, Nov. 9, 1775. 1777 George Bisbee and others under Capt. Thomas Sampson was sent to Bristol, RI. NEH&GR, Vol. 122, p. 60: "By a deposition, dated 27 April 1836, in behalf of a Revolutionary pension for the widow Sarah Ellis, GEORGE BISBEE of Kingston, Mass, aet 88 years, swore that he "was a soldier...in 1775...at Roxbury...in Capt. John Bradford's Co....[and that] I well recollect Freeman Ellis of Plympton being in said Company the same term of 8 months a Sergeant in sd Bradford's Company. A number of years after the war the sd. Ellis Freeman moved to what is now the state of maine and is not living now, but his widow, I understand, is still living." (Pension claim W-24114) George d. "Aged 90 yrs. 5 mos. 23 das." "Old Age." Examined vital records, Plymouth County, Mass. and found no record of George Bisbee's will. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 45. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 78. [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990).