Person:Miriam Gibbs (1)

Name	Miriam Gibbs
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	12 Dec 1681	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	21 Jan 1702/03	Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United Statesto William Hayden
Marriage	10 Dec 1713	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Josiah Bissell
Death^[2]	8 Jul 1747	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ Welles, Edwin Stanley. Births, Marriages and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor and Fairfield: and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut. (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898)
pages 46-47.

'WINDSOR BIRTHS ...
Miriam Gibbs daughter of Samll. Gibbs was born Decemr. 12. 1681'
↑ Stiles, Henry R. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1892): including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks and Ellington, 1635-1891. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892)
2:79.

'Josiah [Bissell] ... m. Miriam (wid. William) Hayden, 10 Dec., 1703, who d. 8 July, 1747, in 66th year.'

The marriage year appears to be out by 10 years - Windsor VRs say that Miriam's first husband died in 1713, and that Josiah married Miriam in 1713.
Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
2:388-89.

'Gibbs, Samuel, Windsor. (Died 8 February, 1719-20. ...) Invt. ... Taken 24 February, 1717-20 [sic: presumably s/b 1719-20] ... Will dated 1st October, 1718.'
The will mentions "my eldest son Samuel", a woodlot "which was my father Dibble's", "my son Benjamin", "my deceased daughter Hepsibah Dickinson", daughters "Patience Denslow", "Elizabeth Hayden", "Joannah Loomis", "Experience Huxley, "and "Miriam Bissell", "my sons, Benjamin Gibbs, Josiah Bissell and Moses Loomis."