Thomas 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 (pages 24,41)
    3. Book #929.1AM - american Ancestry - found at Orlando, FL Public Library.
    4. IGI - CT - Batch #8509107
    5. FHL Book #929.273/W643c - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cook (pages 8,15)
NOTES:
    1. Thomas Bidwell and his family moved to Windsor, CT and then West to Simsbury abt 1740.
    2. His will was signed 7 December 1746.
    3. Discrepancy on spelling of wife's first given name Perhannah or Ruhamah or  Ruhamer.
    4. Son Thomas was the administrator of his mother Prudence or Perhannah estate of 65 pounds and 8 shillings - equal shares to Thomas, Abigail, Perhannah and Martha 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. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 9)
    4. Book #929.1Am - American Ancestry - Vol.#9 (page 12) - found at Orlando. FL Public Library.

NOTES:
    1. Jonathan Bidwell and his family lived at Windsor and Wintonbury, CT
    2. Jonathan is buried at the Old Wintonbury Cemetery ( headstone still standing)
                  

                   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 25)
    3. IGI - CT - Extracted #C502791 (page 0375), #C501471 (page 0134)
    4. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox - By Raeola Ford Cooke (page 9)
    5. Book #929.1AM - American Ancestry - vol.#9 (page 10)  - found at Orlando, FL Public Library

NOTES:
    1. Reverend Adonijah Bidwell, was born the same year his father was Lost at Sea.  
    2. He graduated from Yale College 1740, taught school 1741-1748; ordained 1744; chaplin 1744-1747; preached at Simsbury 1747-1750; at Kinernook, New York 1749 at Tyringham, Massachusetts in 1750-1784
    3. Discrepancy on spelling of 1st wife's surname Colton or Cotton
    4. 2nd Wife Jemima Devotion  - the Devotion were a Huguenot Family  - their is a pedigree of this family which goes directly to Charlemagne through William the Conqueror and a line of English Kings fro several generations.  Her mother Naomi Taylor daughter of Reverend Edward Taylor and Ruth Wyllys
    5. 3rd wife Ruth Kent married second Reverend Jonathan Judd of Southhampton , as his second wife, he died 1815, at which time she resided with her brother Captain Kent of Suffield.