Charles Bisbee

1726 - 1807  (81 years)

• Name	Charles Bisbee  [1]
  		Charles Bisbee Biography posted at Find A Grave by Larry Overmire
  Birth	1726	East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 3]
  Christening	21 Apr 1726	East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  	First Church.
  Gender	Male
  Gravestone	"Mr. Charles Bisbee Died July 3D 1807 In His 81St Year."  [4]
  Death	3 Jul 1807	Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA   [4]
  Burial	Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA   [4]
  	Gravestone inscription: "Mr. Charles Bisbee Died July 3D 1807 In His 81St Year." Find A Grave Memorial 29371015
  		Charles Bisbee Gravestone photo by Cooper,G.I. at Find A Grave
  Person ID	I901	Bisbee
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Moses Bisbee,   b. 20 Oct 1695, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Mary Reed,   b. Abt 1697, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	5 Jul 1716  [3]
  	Mary Reed was from Bridgwater. They were married by Rev. Daniel Lewis. [3]
  Family ID	F460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Beulah Howland,   b. 1737, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Sep 1813, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	16 Sep 1756	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  	Family Moved to Pembroke. (Nahum Mitchell)
  Children	+ 1. Elisha Bisbee,   b. 4 Mar 1757, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Dec 1826, Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 69 years) + 2. Charles Bisbee, Jr.,   b. 27 Jul 1758, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Jun 1833, Aurora, Dearborn, Indiana, USA (Age 74 years) + 3. Mary Bisbee,   b. 28 Apr 1760, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA + 4. Celia Bisbee,   b. 17 Oct 1763, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown + 5. Moses Bisbee,   b. 2 Feb 1765, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 Jun 1852, Waterford, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 87 years) + 6. John Bisbee,   b. 21 Feb 1767, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Sep 1839, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 72 years) + 7. Solomon Bisbee,   b. 3 Sep 1769, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 2 Apr 1845 (Age 75 years) + 8. Calvin Bisbee,   b. 14 Oct 1771, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Nov 1857, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 86 years) + 9. Rouse Bisbee,   b. 17 Oct 1775, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 May 1852, Woodstock Town, Oxford, Maine, USA (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Christening - 21 Apr 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 16 Sep 1756 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death - 3 Jul 1807 - Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Burial - - Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The 1790 US Census for Maine lists "Charles Bisby, Butterfield Plantation, Cumberland County 5 males, 1 female." Revolutionary War records of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors mentions: "Charles Bisbe, Pembroke, Private, Capt. Freedon Chamerlain's Company, Col. Bailey's Reg't. which marched on alarm of April 19th, 1775; service 14 das." Also, "Capt. Chamberlain's Co. Gen. Thomas' Reg't. Muster Roll dated 8-1-1775; enlisted 5-3-1775; service 3 mos., 6 das." Also, ""Co's. return dated Roxbury Oct. 6, 1775." Also, "Capt. Jhohn Turner's Co. col. Theophilus Cotton's Reg't;; marched Sept. 28, 1777 service 1 mo. 3 days at Rhode Island." After the Revolutionary War there was a large movement of settlers from Mass. "to the Eastward" into Maine. One reason was that soldiers had been paid in script which was of small value in trade, but was taken at face value for purchase of land from the government. Charles Bisbee bought land in the Township of Sharon, now Sumner, Maine, of Benjamin Darling of Hanover, Mass. and visited Sumner in 1783. Buckfield had been settled seven years and Sumner, Maine was a wilderness. Charles put up a cabin and returned to Pembroke, Mass., where he had lived after the war. The next spring he took his family to Provincetown and from thence to Yarmouth, Maine by packet and then on horseback to what is now Sumner, Maine, arriving there on the 5 of June 1784. Carefully selecting the land and utilizing the help of his large family, he soon cleared up a good farm and saw his sons and daughters settled on farms nearby. Charles died on the twenty-third anniversary of his arrival in Sumner. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1257] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840), p.117. [S1257] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater In Plymouth County, Massachusetts, (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840). [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 33. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 49.