Jonathan BIDWELL
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ 2. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 42) 3. Daughter's of American Revolution Lineage Book - vol.#122 (page 117) 4. Book #929.1Am - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 12) - found at Orlando. FL Public Library. NOTES: 1. Jonathan Bidwell Jr. served in the Revolutionary War in August and September 1776 from NY - he was seriously wounded in action recovered. 2. Jonathan and wife Abigail are bothe buried at the Old Wintonbury Cemetery.
SOURCES: 1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ 2. FHL Film #1035617 - Item #5 - Bidwell Family - By Joan Bidwell (page 42) 3. IGI - CT - #8509308 (page 82) 4. Daughter's of American Revolution Lineage Book - Vol.#122 (page 117) 5. Book #929.1AM - American ancestry - Vol.#9 (pages 10,12) - found at Orlando, FL Public Library. NOTES: 1. James Bidwell married 1st wife on Thanksgiving Day 1802.
He married Abigail Eggleston 18 Jul 1771 at New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut . Abigail Eggleston was born at Wintonbury, Hartford, Connecticut 5 Dec 1751 .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Abigail Bidwell
born 7 Feb 1772.
Candace Bidwell
born 21 Nov 1774.
Jonathan Bidwell
born 27 Mar 1777.
James Bidwell
born 5 Mar 1783.
Nathaniel Bidwell
born 23 Jun 1786.
Jonathan Bidwell died 12 May 1811 at Wintonbury, Hartford, Connecticut .
Abigail Eggleston died 25 Feb 1839 at Wintonbury, Hartford, Connecticut .