Person:John Bishop (31)

John Bishop

b.Bef 1616 England

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m. 3 Oct 1647

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]^[3]	John Bishop
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1616	EnglandOwned lands in Newbury, 1637.
Emigration^[1]	1637
Residence^[1]^[2]	1637	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	3 Oct 1647	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Kent
Residence^[1]^[2]	Est 1664	Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Residence^[1]^[2]^[3]	1667	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Will^[2]	19 Sep 1684
Death^[2]^[3]	Bet 19 Sep 1684 and 27 Nov 1684	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States (probably)
Probate^[2]	27 Nov 1684	Will proved.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 John Bishop, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
31.

"Bishop, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Newbury, Nantucket, Woodbridge [NJ] [NeTR 8; EPR 1:23; NEHGR 20:144; TAG 75:184-85; NYGBR 47:112; The Genealogical Register 1 (1913): 107-17; Nantucket Land 62-63]."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Mervine, William M. The Genealogical Register. (Philadelphia, Pa.: The Author, 1913)
107-08.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 John Bishop, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:184.

"John (Bishop), Newbury, a carpenter, m. Oct. 1647, Rebecca, wid. of Samuel Scullard, wh. may have d. in Eng. and d. of Richard Kent of N. had John, b. 19 Sept. 1648; Rebecca, 15 May 1650; Joanna, 24 Apr. 1652; Hannah, 10 Dec. 1653; Eliz. 31 Aug. 1655, d. next yr.; Jonathan, 11 Jan. 1657; Noah, 20 June 1658; and David, 26 Aug. 1660; rem. first to Nantucket, thence, with other neighb. 1667, to found the town of Woodbridge, N. J. from wh. he was the first rep. in the Assemb. 1668, under Gov. Carteret a counsel. 1672, and d. 1684. His s. John, of Rahway, was of Gov. Hamilton's counc. 1693. See Whitehead's E. Jersey, 42, 52, 77, and 134."