John Bissell, Sr., of Windsor

Parentage

No reliable sources have been found to show that John Bissell was the son of Richard Bissell and Ann Margaret (Unknown) Bissell (1570-aft.1593).

Birth and Baptism

John Bissell, purportedly born or baptized on 30 October 1591 in England.[citation needed] His gravestone indirectly says he was born after 3 October 1591, and it is based on his age 86 at his death on 3 October 1677. He died testate at Windsor, Connetcticut on 3 October 1677 (g.s., at age 86).

Marriage

John was married at least twice, likely three times. His wives are unknown. He first married in 1625/30 in England.[1] They had three children before coming to America, Mary, Thomas, and John, all born before 1630. They had Sam(uel) in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1635, and Nathaniel and Joyce were born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1640 and 1641. (Given that they named their first child Mary, John’s wife’s name may have been Mary... but she was not Elizabeth Thompson.) The name of each wife remains unknown.

Children

The children of John Bissell, Sr. and his unnamed first wife, the order uncertain, are as follows:

• i. Mary Bissell, b. circa 1631 in England, d. testate Sept. 11, 1689 at Windsor, Conn.; m. Apr. 12, 1649 at Windsor, Sgt. Jacob Drake, s. of John Drake & Elizabeth Rogers, b. circa 1624 in England. He d. testate at Windsor, Conn. Aug. 6, 1689. They had no known children.
• ii. Lieut., also referred to as Cornet, John Bissell, Jr., b. circa 1633 in England, d. intestate before Oct. 15, 1688 at an undefined place in the Province of New York while in the King's service; m. June 17, 1658 at Windsor, Israel Mason of Saybrook, Conn., dau. of Maj. John Mason and his unnamed first wife, b. circa 1637-38, prob. at Windsor. She d. after Mar. 15, 1693/4. Nine children of the family.
• iii. Quartermaster Thomas Bissell, b. circa 1635 in England, d. testate at Windsor July 31, 1689; m. Oct. 11, 1655 at Windsor, Abigail Moore, dau. of Dea. John and Abigail Moore, b. June 16, 1639, at Windsor. She d. at Windsor purportedly July 31, 1728. Twelve children of the family, three dying in infancy.
• iv. Samuel Bissell, b. circa 1637 in England, d. testate at Windsor Dec. 3, 1700; m. 1) June 11, 1658 at Windsor, Abigail Holcomb, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Holcomb, bapt. Jan. 6, 1638/9 at Windsor, Conn. She d. at Windsor Aug. 17, 1688. Nine children of the family. Samuel m. 2) after Aug. 1688, Mary Buell, dau. of William Buell and Mary Post, and widow of Simon Mills, latter who d. intestate at Simsbury, Conn. July 6, 1683. There were no children by this marriage, Mary having ten children by her first husband. She d. testate at Windsor, Conn. June 24, 1718.
• v. Joyce Bissell, b. circa 1639 in England, d. after Sept. 8, 1689 when named in her sister Mary's will on the latter date; m. Nov. 17, 1665 at Windsor, Samuel Pinney, s. of Humphrey Pinney and Mary Hull, b. Mar. 30, 1635 at Dorchester, Mass. He d. after Dec. 13, 1689, when he was appointed one of four administrators of his sister-in-law Mary (Bissell) Drake's estate. Three children of the family.
• vi. Nathaniel Bissell, b. Sept. 24 (bapt. Sept. 27), 1640 at Windsor, Conn, d. testate at Windsor Mar. 12, 1713/4; m. 1) Mindwell Moore, dau. of Dea. John and Abigail Moore, and sister of his brother Thomas Bissell's wife Abigail, b. July 10, 1643, at Windsor. She d. at Windsor Nov. 24, 1682. Nine children of the family. Nathaniel m. 2) July 4, 1683 at Windsor, Dorothy Fitch, who d. at Windsor June 28, 1691, by whom he had two recorded children. He m. 3) on an unknown date after June 1691, Deliverance Haines, formerly the wife of 1) John Rockwell of Windsor and 2) John Warner of Middletown, Conn. She d. intestate June 12, 1718, in Middletown, Conn. There were no children by this marriage. Deliverance had seven children by her first two husbands.

John Bissell's first wife (Unknown) died on 21 May 1641 in her 45th year at Windsor, Connecticut. Their children were aged 14, 13, 11, 6, 1, and a newborn.[2]

John was married a second time before 18 January 1660 when he was listed as paying for a man and his wife for a church pew. His second wife (Unknown) died on 29 March 1665.[2]

Immigration

Henry Reed Stiles' The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut says in his following words on page 540:

"Tradition asserts that this John, with a brother Thomas, came from Somersetshire, England, to Plymouth, in 1628. The latter died at Plymouth, or returned to England."

There is a footnote on page 540 says, "This disagrees with the tradition in the family, which states 1635 as the date of the arrival, but with the statement of Farmer, and with all the known facts."

Thomas Bissell either died at Plymouth Colony or returned to England.

Life in Windsor

John Bissell was a founder of Windsor, Connecticut.[5]

John Bissell and John Drake brought their families from Boston to settle in Windsor in the autumn of 1639. The Bissells lived next door to the Drakes, and they were the first families to settle at “Sequestered Meadow” where the original ferry and the original Bissell Tavern were.

John probably joined the Dorchester congregation in settling Windsor in 1635. He started up a ferry service to get cattle to the other side. Bissell’s Ferry was arguably the first ferry service in the United States before there even was a United States. That ferry connected Windsor and what is now South Windsor, north of Hartford.

For thirty years there was no settlement on the east side of the river, the reason no doubt being, that the passage of the Connecticut was laborious in summer and difficult, or impossible, in winter; that the meadows on that side of the river being lower, were subject to floods and, too, there were the Podunk Indians to be considered, who occupied the land on the east side of the river.

John was admitted to the Windsor Church on 3 May 1640.[6] He served as a juryman at Hartford 1640-1643, 1645 and 1647. He later served as a deputy to the general court and attended 46 sessions of the General and Particular Court before the union of the Connecticut and New Haven colonies.

In 1648, the Bissell family was granted a monopoly of a ferry (for 150 years) across the river between Windsor and the hamlet of East Windsor in the Town of South Windsor. There is a tradition in regard to this grant that is interesting, if not founded upon fact, as Stiles claims. This tradition is, that John Bissell was sent by the Colony to England, in 1636, to purchase and bring back a supply of cattle as the previous winter had been so severe that many of their cattle had died. Mr. Bissell returned with seventeen cows and a bull, and as an equivalent for his services, he was granted the monopoly of the ferry across the Connecticut River.

John was an enlisted trooper of Windsor in 1657-8 and "was confirmed by the General Court, Quarter Master of the County Troop of Hartford County in 1677"s (the first troop of horse in the Colony)

In 1659. John built a house on the east side, which he gave to his son Nathaniel. John moved there in 1662, giving his Windsor home to his son John. The new house was just south of the mouth of the Scantic River on the east side of the Connecticut River. It was garrisoned as the town fort during King Philip's War in 1675.

In 1662, John gave his ferry with the homestead to his son John, and with Nathaniel removed to below the mouth of the Scantic, on the east side, being the first family there.

By 1675, the Bissells had neighbors, and during King Philip's War, their house was fortified and garrisoned.

Death and Burial

John Bissell died on 3 October 1677 in his 86th year at the home of his son Nathaniel.[5] He is buried in Palisado Cemetery at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.[6] The memorial in the Palisado Cemetary reads: “Heare lyeth the body of John Bissell deceased Oct. the 3rd, 1677 in the 86th year of his age.”

Probate

Manwaring's abstract of John Bissell's estate, citing Hartford Probate District vol. III, p. 194:

Will: John Bissell made his will, dated Sept. 25, 1673.

• I John Bissell of Windsor doe make this my last Will & Testament:
• I give to my daughter Mary, the wife of Jacob Drake 10;
• to my daughter Joyce, wife of Samuel Pinney, 30.
• I give to my son John 50.
• The remainder of my estate after my just debts and funeral charges are paid, with 20 shillings apeice to each of my grand children naturally descending from my foure sons and two daughters, I bequeath to my four sons John, Thomas, Samuel, and Nathaniel.
• The remaynder of my estate to be equally divided.
• I appoint my sons John and Thomas Bissell to be executors.
• I desire Deacon John Moore and Daniel Clark to be supervisors......JOHN X BISSELL LS.

Witness: John Moore sen., Daniel Clarke.

Court Record, Page 165-6, December 1677: Will approved.

Inventory: John Bissell of Windsor. "£ 520-16-03. Taken 22 October 1677, by Daniel Clarke, Benjamin Newbery, Return Strong."

Research Notes

Stiles' first version of his "History of Ancient Windsor" (1859) contains a poor outline of the structure of the Bissell family of Windsor, Connecticut. He gave John Bissell only one wife in this version. Savage, Hinman, Cutter, and others also misrepresent the initial Bissell family structure.

Stiles' more familiar second version of his "Ancient Windsor," in two volumes (1891 and 1893), does not correct the errors made forty years earlier in 1859. He continued to give the immigrant only one wife in Vol. II (1893 Genealogies). However, in Vol. I (1891 History) he added an obscure reference apparently contained in the 1662 deed to son Nathaniel of his housing at present-day East Windsor that proves the immigrant had two wives.

John Bissell, the immigrant, had six known children, all by his first wife who d. of record at Windsor, Connecticut. on May 21, 1641. According to the Matthew Grant Records, Grant was aware of only one child born to the immigrant at Windsor, and as only John's youngest son is recorded at Windsor prior to the death of his first wife, there were no children by his unnamed second wife.

Some writers give the first wife the name of Mary, and still others claim she was Mary Drake. But neither variation has any proof, and it is quite likely Mary Drake has been confused with the married name of John Bissell's daughter Mary (Bissell) Drake. On this point, in 1969, the eminent genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus wrote:

May I try to set the record straight once again? [The immigrant] John1 Bissell [Sr.] did indeed die in 1677; there is no authority that I know of for calling his wife Mary Drake. A nameless wife, perhaps the mother of his children, died in 1641; he thereafter had another nameless wife, whose death, as wife of John "Sr.", was recorded in 1665...(NEHGS Register, 123:278-279.)

John Bissell's second wife's death was on the record at Windsor on Mar. 29, 1665 ["the wife of John Biffell senor dyed"]. According to Stiles' account, when John Bissell was in excess of 70 years old in 1662, he gave to youngest son Nathaniel his housing at present-day East Windsor, in his following words:

"In part of his portion of his marriage," a part of his land and house "at Scantuck," on the E. side of the Conn. River with provision for the remainder at his father's death... Nathaniel doubtless resided on the river bank, below the Scantic, from the time of his marriage. This home was garrisoned at the time of King Philip's War. John Bissell, Senr, evidently died here, having made provision for his second wife, stipulating that Nathaniel should give "his now present mother-in-law [i.e., stepmother], if she is willing and choose to have the use the parlor for her abode," it should be granted. (History of Ancient Windsor, 1891, Vol. I, p. 152.)

The aforementioned death of the immigrant's second wife has been consistently confused as the date of death of the wife of John Bissell, Jr. This caused Stiles to give John junior an unnamed second wife as the mother of his youngest children. John Bissell, junior's wife, Israel Mason, outlived her husband. This error is more fully outlined in the Israel (Mason) Bissell memorial page.

The earliest in which the immigrant John Bissell appears at Windsor is in the record of youngest son Nathaniel's birth at Windsor, on Sept. 24, 1640. The earliest in which he appears in the Connecticut Public Records is as a juryman in Sept. 1641. He was a juryman for numerous sessions of the Particular Court during the mid-1640s until he was elected a deputy to the Connecitcut Court from Windsor in Sept. 1648. He served as a deputy from Windsor almost continuously until 1656.

While some claim John held the title of Capt., he was relieved of the requirement for military training by the Connecticut Court in April 1645, when he was about 53 years old. Unless one wishes to attach the title of Capt. to a public ferryman, there is no record of any military rank for the immigrant in the Windsor or Connecticut records. Also, none of his sons reached the rank of Capt. during their lifetime.

On Jan. 5, 1641/2, Windsor was provided the right to operate a ferry across the Conn. River. However, not until Jan. 1648/9 was John Bissell, Sr. granted exclusive right to operate the Windsor ferry for the ensuing seven years (Conn. PR, Vol. I, p. 174-5). This right was extended annually beginning in May 1656 until eldest son John Bissell, Jr. was granted exclusive rights to operate the ferry in Mar. 1657/8 for the ensuing 10 years. This was followed in May 1677 by the immigrant's youngest son, Nathaniel, granted the right of operation for the ensuing 7 years.

John Bissell's Origins

Frank Thistlethwaite, in Dorset Pilgrims: The Story of West Country Pilgrims who went to New England in the 17th Century (1989), says that John Bissell, Sr. "is supposed to have come from Somerset" (page 201).

Somerset is a West Country county that borders county Dorset in England. The founders of Dorchester, Massachusetts (1630), went overland to found Windsor, Connecticut in 1635, and completed the settlement by 1641. John Bissell was first found in Windsor records in 1639.

John Bissell's Wives

Who were John Bissell’s Wives?

The three wives in question are: Mary Drake, Elizabeth Thompson, and Abigail Filley.

Not Abigail Filley, who was born on 21 August 1658 and married Samuel Bissell, son of John the Emigrant, on 26 August 1680. Samuel Bissell was born on 5 April 1659 and died on 27 January 1684. Abigail then married second, Samuel Tudor on 30 October 1685.

Not Elizabeth Thompson: her name came to be part of the LDS database as follows. There is a reference in Stile’s Volume 1 about the layout of the town and it refers to a book printed in 1870 entitled “The Golden Wedding of John Bissell and Elizabeth Thompson” by Major Samuel W. Bartlett. This was assumed to be John Bissell, the immigrant. It was not.

That publication refers to this “Golden Wedding” on Page 89, Family 80, of the Stiles genealogies, where it shows Captain John Bissell, gr-gr-gr-grandson of John Bissell the immigrant (son of Hezekiah, John, Jerimiah, John, John ) Married Elizabeth Mcknight Thompson on December 12, 1820. Someone saw that reference only, and without finding that book, made an assumption and printed the information in the LDS database without documentation.

The LDS database is a collection of “opinions” and is only a guide to more serious references. Too many people take the printed word as gospel truth and perpetuate myths by claiming that they are true. Then someone hears a true fact, and it becomes a fact! But who printed the original supposition? Someone who was trying to claim a connection, or someone who has seen the name connected with some other John B. and made an assumption?

Not Mary Drake. The unreliable LDS database names Mary Drake, a wife of John Bissell. In Windsor, the Bissells lived next door to the Drakes, and they were the first families to settle “Sequestered Meadow”, which was the location of the original ferry and the original Bissell Tavern. John Drake and John Bissell brought their families from Boston to settle Windsor in autumn of 1639. Mary, the daughter of John Drake, married John Gaylord.

There are many women named Mary Drake, born in England between 1580 and 1600, who would have been the right age to marry John Bissell but they were all married to others and did not emigrate to America at that time. So, there is no actual data to support the LDS claim that Mary Drake was her name.

An April 1969 Article titled "Dorothy, Unidentified Wife of Edward Kellogg."[5] also calls John Bissell's wife Mary Drake. Donald Lines Jacobus, in the following October issue, refuted this statement.

"May I try to set the record straight once again? John1 Bissell did indeed die in 1677; there is no authority that I know of for calling his wife Mary Drake. A nameless wife, perhaps mother of his children, died in 1641; he thereafter had another nameless wife whose death, as wife of John ;Sr.;, was recorded in 1665. ..."[6]

Conclusion: the name of John Bissell, Sr.'s wives are unknown. Please do not add Mary, Elizabeth, or Abigail to John's profile without reliable primary or secondary evidence.

Sources

1. Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) vol 1, Page 151.
2. Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) (From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.) p. 31.
3. "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7C6-G6J : 16 January 2020), John Bissell,. Name: John Bissell; Event Type: Burial; Event Place: Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; Event Place (Original): Windsor, Conn; Gender: Male; Age: 85; Birth Year (Estimated): 1592; Death Date: 3 Oct 1677; Death Place: Connecticut; Cemetery: #1 Pg 81.
4. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5091692/john-bissell: accessed 22 September 2023), memorial page for John Bissell Sr. (30 Oct 1591 – 3 Oct 1677), Find a Grave Memorial ID 5091692, citing Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA; Maintained by Don Blauvelt (contributor 46932939).
5. Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. "Dorothy, Unidentified Wife of Edward Kellogg." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 123:114 p. 116.
6. Jacobus, Donald Lines. "Dorothy, Unidentified Wife of Edward Kellogg." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 123:278. (1969).
7. Stiles, Henry Reed. The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut: Including East Windsor, South Windsor, and Ellington, Prior to 1768, the Date of Their Separation from the Old Town; and Windsor, Bloomfield and Windsor Locks, to the Present Time. Also the Genealogies and Genealogical Notes of Those Families which Settled Within the Limits of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Prior to 1800. United States, C. B. Norton, 1859, p. 540 and footnote.

• Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages prior to 1700, published by Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985, p. 73. Text: "Bissell, John (1591-1677) &1/wf? Mary Drake (no)/ ?Elizabeth Thompson (–1/21 May 1641); in Eng, ca 1625/1630?; Windsor, CT" and "Bissell, John (1591-1677) & 2/wf __?__ (1589-1665); aft. 1641; Windsor, CT".

Links

• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?o=10&m=168.176.196.199....
• http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/bissell/1162/
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.bissell/168/mb.ashx
• http://www.mc-millan.name/roots/individual.php?pid=P550&ged=McMilla...
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p223.htm
• https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&p=john&n=bissell

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Previous Notes

Family

Reported in a LDS/FamilySearch Ancestral File record

• Marriage 1 Elizabeth THOMPSON b: ABT 1596 in Somerset,, England
• Married: 2
• Children
• John BISSELL b: ABT 1630 in England
• Thomas BISSELL b: 1630 in Somerset,, England
• Mary BISSELL b: ABT 1632 in England
• Samuel BISSELL b: ABT 1633 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut
• Joyce BISSELL
• Nathaniel BISSELL b: 27 SEP 1640 in Of Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Reported at ???

• Name: John BISSELL 1
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1591 in Somerset,, England 2 Quality: 1
• Death: 03 OCT 1677 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Reported at ???

• Spouses/Children:
• 1. Elizabeth Mary THOMPSON
• Sarah BISSELL+
• 2. Mrs Bissell John
• Captain John BISSELL
• Born: 30 Oct 1591, Somersetshire, England
• Christened: 21 Mar 1590/91, Somersetshire, England
• Died: 30 Oct 1677, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Buried: 1 Nov 1677, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Comments

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be October 30, 1581 in Somerset, England.

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

• October 3, 1677 at Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut
• October 30, 1677 at Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Date and place of burial have also been (erroneously?) reported to be circa October 4, 1677 at Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.

Supporting Data

From one unidentified source

RESEARCH: 1590 is the year commonly given as the birthday of John Bissell, If so, it is only 18 years after the massacre of St. Bartholomew's day in France when his Huguenot forefathers, by name of Bysselle, escaped from France and fled to England, settling in Somersetshire. 20 Jan 1662/1663 - John Bissel here gives to his son Nathaniel a two page deed, including a part of the Whiting estate, with this proviso - 'In case John Bissell his father dyes before his now present mother-in-law, and if shee shall be willing and chuse to hvae ye yse of the parlor for her aboad that nathaniell shall Let her have the free use of it During her Life.' This is the first notice we have of a second wife. She died 29 March 1665.

Neither this record nor two references to her death reveal her name. 2 Quality: 1

BIOGRAPHY: Tradition syas that he landed at Plymouth, MA with wife and three children in 1628, in company with his brother Thomas who died there or soon returned to England. This is doubtbul as is also the tradition that Thomas married an Indian girl and died without issue, possibly a mixed version of a similar tradition concerning Thomas son of John.

3 May 1640 - John Bissell Sen'r is in Rev. Matthew Grant's list of Windsor (CT) Church members as having joined the church on this day in May. His is the second one in the list of those 'that have taken full communion since we came here' (from Dorchester).

2 July 1640 - John Bissell first serves on jury service at Hartford and serves 11 more times in the next 8 years.

29 Sep 1642 - 'That the country may be better enabled to kill yearely some Beves for supply of Leather, It is ordered that no calves be killed without approbation of two men within each Towne.' John Bissell and John Porter were the Committee for Windsor.

9 Jan 1648/1649 - John Bissell sat todays Deputy for Windsor in the General Court, which genearly met at Hartford. From this date, he was a continuous representative for Windsor up to at least 1660. He appears again as a deputy in 1664. He was frequently appointed on the important committees of the court.

1656 - As Bissell was at work at hay one day in the meadow, a Scantic Indian came running toward him and implored his protection. Directing him to lie down, Mr. Bissell rolled a cock of Hay upon him, thus effectively concealing him. He had hardly done this when the Mohawks came runing furiously in pursuit, who wished to know of Mr. Bissell if had se the fugitive. He pointed to a particular direction which the Indians eargerly followed and thus the poor Scantic Indian was saved. (recorded by Styles Vol 1 p 117)

1662 - Moves into a new house on the east side of the Scantic River, likely the first settler in what became East Windsor with son Nathanial. The old house on the opposite side of the river deeded to son John junior. The new house was garrisoned during King Philip's War in 1675. He ran the Scantic ferry over the Connecticut River for many years beginning in 1641 before turning it over to his son John. WILL: The Last Will & Testament of John Bissell senior of Windsor 25 Sept 1673. I doe bequeath my soule into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ my gracious redeemer for the compleating of that glory an earnest whereof I hope he hat given me in this life, & my body I commit to comely & christian buriall. As for the estate God hath committed to my stewardship for the p'vention of future trouble in my family after my decease I doe hereby order the dispose thereof as hereafter is declared. I doe give unto May my daughter now wife of Jacob Drake 10 pounds, but if she be not living at time of paymetn then I give the 10 pounds to my daughter Joyce. O doe give to my daughter Joyce, wife of Samuel Pinney 30 pounds, but if shw be dead attime of payment, then 10 pounds of the 30 pounds is to be paied to my daughter Mary Drake. I do give unto my son John the summe of 50 pounds. The remaineder of my estate, after my just debts and funeral charges are paid, with 20 shillings a piece to each of my grandchildren naturally descending from my foure sons and two daughters, I doe bequeath unto my foure sons John, Thomas, Samuel, an Nathaniel, to be equally devided among them. I do allso appoint my Two sonns John and Thomas Bissell to be executors; and my desire is that my Loveing Friends Deacon John Moore and Daniel Clark to be supervisors to whom I advise my exeutors to repayre for counsell in any difficulty that shall happen in the discharge of this Trust committed to them, & I doe give unto each of them 20 shillings as a reward for what paines they may take about my will. John X Bissell. Witnesses - Daniel Clarke, John Moore Senior

Codicel to Will, dated 5 Apr 1677 - I doe hereby declare & it is my will that wheras my soon in law Jacob Drake hath received of me severall particulars as appear in my Book of Accounts the sums of five pounds fifteen shillings and eight pence for which he is debtor to me I doe hereby order that the foresayed sume shall be ducted out of the 10 pounds disposed unto Mary the noew wife of the sayd Jacob. Inventory of the Estate of John Bissell senior dated 22 Oct 1677 -

Feather bed, boulster and pillow (5-15-00), A rugg 25s, coverlid 20s,2 blanketts (4-5-00), A musket 25s, 1 lb powder 2s, 5 pounds bullets 20 d (1-8-8), 99 pounds lead weights (1-13-00), an old Bible 2s 6d, Marro Gods Oracles 2s, 2 bookes more 1s, 2 payr Glory 7s (0-13-0), Land in wilderness from the Country John Griffers grand (7-0-0), debts by bill due to his estate (374-19-11), 13 other lines of sundry houehold things (17-18-06), cash money (0-7-8), booked debts due to his estate (106-15-06). Total 520 pounds 15 shillings, 3 pence. 2 Quality: 1

Sources

• LDS/FamilySearch Ancestral File

Links

• http://www.geneal.net/6900.htm
• FamilySearch AFN 8VGZ-KF
• FamilySearch AFN T428-0F
• Kaye, Ruth Lincoln. NEHGR (1969). Vol. 123, page 114 - 117 . Dorothy, Unidentified Wife Of Edward Kellogg. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)