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Elisha Bisbee

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Name Elisha Bisbee [1] Gender Male Died Aft Apr 1688 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts [2]
Alternate death Abt 1689 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts [3]
Person ID I8461 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 9 Dec 2018
Family Joanna Children + 1. John Bisbee, b. Bef 21 Dec 1645, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 4 Sep 1726, Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts
(Age > 80 years)
Last Modified 21 Feb 2021 Family ID F694 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Often spelled Beesbeach, Besbedge, Bisby, Besbey, etc. He was a cooper and a planter.
Robert Charles Anderson has established that he cannot have been a son of the immigrant Thomas Beesbeech.
"Elisha Bisby [...] kept the first ferry where Union Bridge now [1831] stands, in 1644. His house stood near the bridge on the west side of the river, and the south side of the way." [Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831]
"His house was a tavern." [Lapham, citation details below.]
- Often spelled Beesbeach, Besbedge, Bisby, Besbey, etc. He was a cooper and a planter.
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Sources - [S1430] Family Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Besbedge, (Bisbee,) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634 by William B. Lapham. Augusta, Maine: Homan & Badger, 1876.
- [S2561] Genealogy of the Bisbee Family: Descendants of Thomas Besbeech (Bisbee) of Scituate, Dixbury and Sudbury, Massachusetts by Frank J. Bisbee. Otter Brook Press, 1956.
- [S1512] Pane-Joyce Genealogy by David Pane-Joyce.
- [S1430] Family Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Besbedge, (Bisbee,) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634 by William B. Lapham. Augusta, Maine: Homan & Badger, 1876.