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Family: Elisha Bisbee / Chloe Silvester (F642)

m. 15 Sep 1812

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  • Male
    Elisha Bisbee

    Birth  4 Mar 1757  Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1 Dec 1826  Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage  15 Sep 1812  [1 Turner, Androscoggin, Maine, USA  [1Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Mary Pettengill | F641 
    Marriage  22 Sep 1779  Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Charles Bisbee | F502 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Beulah Howland | F502 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Chloe Silvester

    Birth  23 Jul 1765  Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  22 Apr 1850  Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Chaffin Cemetery, Sumner, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Stephen Warren | F983 
    Marriage     
    Father  Elisha Silvester | F984 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Grace Ruggles | F984 Group Sheet 

  • Notes  Married:
    • Married by Rev. John Turner of Turner, Maine.

      NEH&GR Vol 145, p. 47 (Maine Estate Schedules from Rev. War pensions): "251. ELISHA BISBEE, 64, Portland, Lieutenant Eaton's Co., Thosciusko's (sic) Reft. of the Engineers, Mass. Real estate, I have none. Personal estate, 2 cows, 7 sheep, 1 swine, a few ordinary and necessary articles of household stuff. I also have a small wagon and horse for which I gave my note, and which I am now owing. Blacksmith, not able [due to] infirmity and age. Chloe, wife, 59, a feeble woman. Nancy, 14, Eliza 10, not able to support themselves. Stricken, $40.52 29 June 1820."

      also p. 54: "292. ELISHA BISBEE, 65, Portland, Lieutenant Eaton's Co., Kosciusko's Regt., Mass. Real Estate, I have none, nor have I owned for nine years. Personal estate, I have one cow, three sheep and one swine and a few necessary utensils in the house for family use and they are old and worn out. I have no income and am poor indeed -- other articles mentioned in a former schedule have been take to pay several small just debts I was owing. Blacksmith, not able [due to] rupture and other infirmities. Chloe, wife, 60, a feeble woman. Aurelia 19 able to do housework. Nancy, 15, able to contribute to her support in part. Elisa, 11, a weakly child, almost helpless. Continued, $22. 4 January 1821."

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), 91.