Elijah Bisbee

1692 - 1743  (51 years)

• Name	Elijah Bisbee  [1]
  Birth	29 Jan 1691/92	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Christening	1696	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  AFN	PLHV-8G
  Death	7 Sep 1743	Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Burial	Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  	Gravestone inscription: "Mr. Elijah Bisbee Died Age 50 Years."
  Person ID	I712	Bisbee
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	John Bisbee,   b. Abt 1647, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 4 Sep 1726, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Joanna Brooks,   b. 16 Oct 1659, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 17 Aug 1726, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	13 Sep 1687	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F405	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife 1	Sarah   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Y  [2]
  Family ID	F404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2009

  
  

  Wife 2	Eleanor Pierce,   b. Abt 19 Jul 1699, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 4 Apr 1749, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1719	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Elijah Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 30 Mar 1720, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Sep 1804, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years) + 2. Hanna Bisbee,   b. 18 Dec 1722, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Feb 1799, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 76 years) + 3. Reuben Bisbee,   b. 20 Jul 1725, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 17 Mar 1803, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 77 years) + 4. Joseph Bisbee,   b. 16 Jun 1734, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Aft 5 Jun 1826, , Herkimer, New York, USA (Age 91 years) + 5. Benjamin Bisbee,   b. 9 Aug 1736, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 30 May 1813, Orwell, Addison, Vermont, USA (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 29 Jan 1691/92 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Christening - 1696 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 4 Jun 1719 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death - 7 Sep 1743 - Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Burial - - Hillcrest Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Elijah Bisbee was a highway surveyor and Constable of Pembroke from 1725 to 1730; also one of a committee to select a site for the Congregational Church on Drink River Road, Hanover, Mass.[A] An order passed by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1st session in 1736, states, "Empowering the town of Pembroke to survey and lay out 500 acres of land for a school in answer to a petition by [Elijah Bisby Esq.] in behalf of Pembroke. (Massachusetts House of Rep Records, Great and General Court.) The foregoing petition was presented by Elisha Bisbee 3d.[A] On 21 Dec 1743, Elijah Bisbe Jr., administrator of his father's estate, certifies to a probate judge an inventory of the estate completed the previous day in Plympton. The value of the estate was estimated at more than 506 pounds and included the following items: cash, wearing apparel, books and spectacles; armes, ammunition and razor; alley and homestead with building and fences; wood lot and cedar swamp; negro wench; horses and tackle; cattle and swines; grains and footstuffs; and various furniture, housewares, farm implements and tools.[B] Also on 21 December, 1743, Elijah's minor sons, Joseph and Benjamin, were placed under the guardianship of one Joshua Pearce of Pembroke, probably a relative of their mother.[C] On 27 Feb. 1748/9, older brother Reuben was appointed guardian for Joseph and Benjamin.[D] On 17 Dec. 1754, Reuben certifies that he has settled all accounts with Joshua Pearce, and has collected from him Joseph's and Benjamin's inheritance, amounting to "forty-five pounds seven shillings and six pence in cash, and also one bond from Elijah Bisbee (Jr.) he dated the sixth day of March anno domini 1744/5 conditioned for the payment of 137 pounds 7 shillings & 5 pense in good bills of the old tenner."[E] References: [A] Frank J. Bisbee, GENEALOGY OF THE BISBEE FAMILY, pp. 25 & 32, Otter Brook Press, 1956. [B] Plymouth County Probate Records on Microfilm, vol. 9, p. 172 [C] Plymouth County Probate Records on Microfilm, vol. 9, pp. 172-3 [D] Plymouth County Probate Records on Microfilm, vol. 11, p. 109 [E] Plymouth County Probate Records on Microfilm, vol. 13, p. 370 The above may be found at the Mayflower Society Library, Plymouth, Mass.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 25. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 32. [S2] Grave Marker, Old Plympton Burying Place, Plymouth County, Mass., "Mr. El ijah Bisbee Died Age 50 Years.". [S1456] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS Ancestral File (R) - v4.19, (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2008), AFN PLHV-9M.