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About Israel Bissell
All the children [of John Bissell, Jr.] were by Israel (not Isabel) Mason, the one and only wife, and she did not die in 1665, but survived her husband. Her administration bond, dated 7 Mar. 1688/9, completely omitted in Manwaring, is in File No. 586 of the Hartford Probate District; in it her name is twice written as Izraell and once Israell. At marriage, the recorder Matthew Grant spelled her name "Izrell." She was admitted to the Windsor Church in 1686 as Israel Bissell. So it cannot be doubted that her name was actually Israel, not Isabel. The name Israel means "warrior of God" and if her birth was expected when Capt. Mason left to fight the Pequots in 1637 (quite likely since she married in 1658), the name may have been chosen before he left and was bestowed even though the child turned out to be a female Isreal Mason of Saybrook, Conn., dau. of Maj. John Mason and his unnamed first wife, b. circa 1637-38, prob. at Windsor, and d. after Mar. 15, 1693/4.
Birth: 1638 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Israel, not Isabel, Mason, dau. of Maj. John Mason and his unnamed first wife, was b. circa 1637-38 prob. at Windsor, Conn. Matthew Grant's records at Windsor state that her mother died at Windsor "before Mar. 10, 1638/9." In that Israel was given a common male name instead of a more recognizable female name, and the letter "j" was often written as an "i" in very early records (e.g., Beniamen, iustice), early writers interpreted her name as Jorel, Judith or stretched it to Isabel. Matthew Grant's transcription of the early family records at Windsor clearly wrote her name as "Izrell."
Alternate first name given as Judith according to:
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 460
References
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. Israel (Mason) Bissell, The American Genealogist (1950) Vol. 26, Page 92-3. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached). For Dorothy Bissell, names only husband Stoughton; children Saml b. 1702 and Abial d. 1712 and notes the record is incomplete.
- Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. NEHGR (1969). Vol. 123, page 114 - 117 . Dorothy, Unidentified Wife Of Edward Kellogg. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)
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Israel Bissell's Timeline
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March 9, 1640
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Windsor, Connecticut Colony
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| 1659 |
February 22, 1659
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Windsor Hartford CT
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November 27, 1659
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Windsor, Harford, Connecticut, United States
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May 4, 1661
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Windsor, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America
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September 27, 1663
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Windsor, Connecticut
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1664
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1665 |
August 10, 1665
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Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1673 |
April 30, 1673
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Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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| 1675 |
April 28, 1675
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Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony
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