Jonah Bisbee, Jr.

1744 - 1838  (94 years)

• Name	Jonah Bisbee  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	22 May 1744	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Dec 1838	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I997	Bisbee
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2009

  
  

  Father	Jonah Bisbee,   b. 14 Mar 1716/17, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. Feb 1799, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Ruth Bryant,   b. 15 May 1714   d. 23 Apr 1777, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	24 Aug 1738	Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  	Married by Rev. Geo Hitchcock in Second Church of Christ at Pembroke.
  Family ID	F485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Ruth Sherman,   b. 22 Jan 1749/50, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 5 Sep 1826, Hanson, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	28 Dec 1769	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 4]
  	Intentions published 21 Sept. 1768. Pembroke vital records reads in error, "Josiah Bisbee M Ruth Sherman." [4]
  Children	1. Hannah Bisbee,   b. 30 Dec 1772, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA bur. Centre Cemetery, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA + 2. Elizabeth Bisbee,   b. 20 Apr 1775, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA bur. Centre Cemetery, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA + 3. John Bisbee,   b. 4 Jun 1783, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Jul 1805, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA (Age 22 years)
  Family ID	F554	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 22 May 1744 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 28 Dec 1769 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Death - 6 Dec 1838 - Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Jonah Bisbee was Precinct Janitor at Carver in 1798. 1790 US Census for Mass. lists, "Jonah Bisbee, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., 2 m. 2 fem. 1 m. over 16, 1 m. under 16. Records of soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War from Mass. reads, "Jonah Bisbee, Private Capt. Freedon Chamberlain's Co. Col. Cary's Reg't. Return of men dated Cortlands Manor Nov. 22, 1776." Also, "Private Capt. Turner's Co. Col. Eleazer Brook's Reg't. of Guards enlisted Nov. 6, 1777. Rolls made up to April 3, 1778. 4 mos. 27 days at Cambridge, Mass." A conveyance reads, "We, Nathaniel Sherman, John Sherman and Jonah Bisbee of Carver and Asa Sherman of Plymouth and Elizabeth Finney of Plymouth, all heirs to the estate of John Sherman, late of Carver, dec'd. convey to Rufus Sherman of Carver.... 30 march, 1801." (Ruth Bisbee signs with the others.) Jonah Bisbee, Jr. was named executor of his father's estate. He d. [Aged 96 yrs.] [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1218] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985). [S1165] Abstracted by Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, (The National Historical Publishing Co., Waynesboro, TN, 1990), p.268. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 40. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 66.