Person:Joseph Bidwell (8)

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Joseph Bidwell
b.Est 1650 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.Bet 2 Jun 1692 and 17 Jun 1692 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1647
  1. Mary BidwellEst 1647 - 1725
  2. John BidwellCal 1648 - 1692
  3. Joseph BidwellEst 1650 - 1692
  4. Deacon Samuel BidwellEst 1651 - 1715
  5. Sarah BidwellCal 1653 - Bef 1703/04
  6. Deacon Daniel BidwellAbt 1656 - 1719
  7. Hannah BidwellCal 1658 - 1696
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Joseph BidwellEst 1650 - 1692
  • W.  Mary Colfax1656/57 - Aft 1692
m. 18 May 1675
  1. Amy Bidwell1678 - 1748
  2. Ephraim Bidwell1686 - Bet 1753 & 1754
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Joseph Bidwell
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1650 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Alt Marriage 8 May 1675 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Colfax
Marriage 18 May 1675 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Colfax
Will[1][4] 2 Jun 1692 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2][4] Bet 2 Jun 1692 and 17 Jun 1692 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesBetween date of will and date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1][2][4] 17 Jun 1692 £254-04-00. Taken by Samuel Hall Jr., Joseph Hill, Thomas Fitch.
Probate[3][4] 2 Jul 1692 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 John Bidwell, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    467-70.

    "3. Joseph2 Bidwell (John1), born [say 1650], died at Wethersfield, Conn., June 1692; …"

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Joseph Bidwell, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    58-59.

    "Joseph Bidwell s of John & Sarah (Wilcocks) died 1692 mar May 18, 1675 Mary Colefax born Feb 1657 dau of William Colefax & Alse. Joseph Bidwell, original member 2nd Ch. … Joseph Bidwell, Wethersfield, east side of the river. Had a saw mill in Glastonbury. Estate inv. £1081."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fam. 2. Joseph Bidwell, in Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:100.

    "Fam. 2. Joseph (Bidwell); m. Mary Colefax, 8 May, 1675; sett in that part of Weth. afterwards known as Glast.: was an orig. member 2d Ch. Htfd., 1672; in 1669 had a gr. of timber ld. for a sawmill in Eastbury; his will exhib. 2 July, 1692; he d. at Weth.—Bidwell Geneal., 38, 34."

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Bidwell, Joseph, Wethersfield, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:405.

    "Probate Records. Vol. V, 1687 to 1695. Page 133.

    Bidwell, Joseph, Wethersfield. Invt. £254-04-00. Taken 17 June, 1692, by Samuel Hall Jr., Joseph Hill, Thomas Fitch. The children: Amy 14, 2d Oct., 1692; Joseph 12, Benjamin 9, Ephraim 6, Lydia 3 years of age, Mary 4 months old. Will dated 2 June, 1692.

    I Joseph Bidwell of Wethersfield doe make this my last Will & Testament: My will is that my wife have my entire Estate for her maintanence and the bringing up of my Children. If she marry, then to make an equal division to all my Children of all my Estate which is left at her Marriage, excepting her thirds. My wife to be sole Executrix. I desire Deac. Samuel Butler and my brother Jonathan Colefox to be Overseers.

    JOSEPH X BIDWELL.

    Witness: Sarah House, wife of William House, Elisabeth Arnold, Wife of Henry Arnold.

    Court Record, Page 44—2 July, 1692: Will approved."

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