Individual Details
Elisha (Besbey) Bisbee
( - 12 Nov 1695)
Notes
1 REFN11588
Events during his lifetime:
-King Philip's War endedin 1676
-The commercial fishing industry began in New York.
-Boston adoptedthe 1st fire code. The fire code in required all houses to be built of stone or
brick and covered with slate or tile roofs
-Massachusetts passed laws to control fashions and to require that
church doors be locked during services to prevent early departure.
-New Hampshire & Pennsylvania were formed.
-England changed many colony boundaries , governors and laws during
this time period, promoting discontent with English rule.
-Epidemics of malaria, measles, influenza and smallpox hit the
colonies.
-Public schools began in Philadelphia.
-Paper money was issued in Massa Massachusetts.
Although the name of Elisha Bisbee is not on the 1635 passenger list of the Hercules, on which his father came to America, G. T. Little, in The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine refers to
"Elisha, only known son of Thomas Bisbee, immigrant." The Genealogy of the Bisbee Family by Frank J. Bisbee lists Elisha as the first born of Thomas and, in early records, Elisha is referred to as Elisha Besbeach, which would indicate his connection to Thomas, who spelled his name Besbeech.
Elisha was a cooper by trade and operated, in 1644, a ferry in Scituate, MA, where the Union Bridge now stands. His house was nearby on the west side ofthe North River and he kept a tavern there for travelers
between Plymouth and points north.
Elisha and his wife, Joanna Bisbee, had six children, all baptized in
the Second Parish Church, Scituate, Massachusetts, now the First Unitarian Church of Norwell, Massachusetts. In all of these records, the mother's name was not given:
Sources:
The Bisbee Family Bibliography
Bisbee, Frank J.,Genealogy of the Bisbee Family.
Deane, History of Scituate (MA), PM. 221.
Duxbury, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Little, George Thomas, Genealogical and Family Histories of the State of Maine, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1909, PG. 1344.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 67, PG. 33-36.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 75, PG. 224.
Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony, its History and People, 1620-1691,Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Col, PG. 244.
1 REFN11588
Events during his lifetime:
-King Philip's War endedin 1676
-The commercial fishing industry began in New York.
-Boston adoptedthe 1st fire code. The fire code in required all houses to be built of stone or
brick and covered with slate or tile roofs
-Massachusetts passed laws to control fashions and to require that
church doors be locked during services to prevent early departure.
-New Hampshire & Pennsylvania were formed.
-England changed many colony boundaries , governors and laws during
this time period, promoting discontent with English rule.
-Epidemics of malaria, measles, influenza and smallpox hit the
colonies.
-Public schools began in Philadelphia.
-Paper money was issued in Massa Massachusetts.
Although the name of Elisha Bisbee is not on the 1635 passenger list of the Hercules, on which his father came to America, G. T. Little, in The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine refers to
"Elisha, only known son of Thomas Bisbee, immigrant." The Genealogy of the Bisbee Family by Frank J. Bisbee lists Elisha as the first born of Thomas and, in early records, Elisha is referred to as Elisha Besbeach, which would indicate his connection to Thomas, who spelled his name Besbeech.
Elisha was a cooper by trade and operated, in 1644, a ferry in Scituate, MA, where the Union Bridge now stands. His house was nearby on the west side ofthe North River and he kept a tavern there for travelers
between Plymouth and points north.
Elisha and his wife, Joanna Bisbee, had six children, all baptized in
the Second Parish Church, Scituate, Massachusetts, now the First Unitarian Church of Norwell, Massachusetts. In all of these records, the mother's name was not given:
Sources:
The Bisbee Family Bibliography
Bisbee, Frank J.,Genealogy of the Bisbee Family.
Deane, History of Scituate (MA), PM. 221.
Duxbury, Massachusetts Vital Records.
Little, George Thomas, Genealogical and Family Histories of the State of Maine, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1909, PG. 1344.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 67, PG. 33-36.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 75, PG. 224.
Stratton, Eugene Aubrey, Plymouth Colony, its History and People, 1620-1691,Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Col, PG. 244.
Events
| Marriage | Abt 1644 | Scituate, Plymouth Colony, MA - Joanna |  | ||
| Will | 4 Jun 1690 | Prove at the court held at Plimouth June 4 1690: was exhibited before Nathaniel Thomas Judge of Probate | | ||
| Death | 12 Nov 1695 | Duxbury, Pylmouth, MA | | ||
| Birth | Headcorn, Kent, England | |
Families
| Spouse | Joanna (1616 - ) |
| Child | Hopestill Bisbee (1645 - 1695) |
| Child | John Bisbee ( - ) |
| Child | Mary Bisbee (1648 - 1716) |
| Child | Martha Bisbee (1651 - 1686) |
| Child | Elisha Bisbee (1654 - 1715) |
| Child | Hannah Bisbee (1655 - 1741) |
| Father | Thomas Henry Bisbee (1588 - 1673) |
| Mother | Anne Baseden (1598 - 1634) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bisbee (1621 - 1670) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bisbee (1622 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Bisbee ( - 1676) |
| Sibling | Alice Bisbee (1624 - 1686) |
Endnotes
1. GEDCOM file submitted by Shelia OToole, shelia@pathwaynet.com. Imported on 20 January 2012..
2. GEDCOM file submitted by Shelia OToole, shelia@pathwaynet.com. Imported on 20 January 2012..
3. GEDCOM file submitted by Shelia OToole, shelia@pathwaynet.com. Imported on 20 January 2012..
4. GEDCOM file submitted by Shelia OToole, shelia@pathwaynet.com. Imported on 20 January 2012..