Bissell Family History

 

[------ Nicholas Wade [GMD] , b. 1615

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[------- Nicholas Wade, Jr.

[          b. 1660, Scituate

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[                   [                  [------ Jeffrey Hanford, b. 1585, Fremington

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[                   [------ Elizabeth Hanford, b. 1621, Fremington, Devonshire

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[                                      [                   [------ Robert Hatherly, b. 1552

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[                                      [------- Eglin Hatherly [GMD] , b. 1586, Winkleigh, Devonshire

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[                                                          [------ Ellnor

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Ruth Wade, b. 3 Aug 1692, 7th Great-grandmother

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[                                                                              [------ George Rippon Ripley

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[                                                          [------- William Ripley, b. 13 Nov 1568, Bourne, Lincoln, Eng.

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[                                                          [                   [------  Dorothy Bines, b. 28 apr 1577, Saint Peter,

                              [                                                          [                              Leeds, Yorkshire, Eng.

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[                                      [------- William Ripley [GMD] , bap. 14 May 1598, Ripon, Yorkshire, Eng., 10th Great-[                                      [          grandfather

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[                    [------ Abraham Ripley, b. 9 May 1624, Ingleby Greenhow, Yorkshire, Eng., 9th Great-

[                    [                 [          grandfather

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[                    [                 [------- Amia Emmote Jackson, b. 7 Dec 1592 Swanton Abbot, Norfolk

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[------- Mary Ripley, b. 1 May 1660, Hingham, MA, 8th Great-grandmother

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                                                   [                 [------- Joseph Farnsworth [GMD] , 10th Great-grandfather

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 [------- Mary Farnsworth, b. 30 Mar 1637, 9th Great-grandmother

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                   [------- Elizabeth (Joseph's first wife)

                           

 

 

 

Notes.

 

Jeffrey Hanford and Eglin Hatherly were married 31 March 1611 in Fremington.

 

Nicholas Wade Junior (8th Great-grandfather) had an older brother (and thus a Great-uncle) Joseph who fought in King Philips War and was killed with Michael Pierce  on 26 March 1676.

 

George Ripley was born 1540 in St. Michael, Cornhill, Eng.; his father was Thomas Rippon Ripley, b. 1490 in Yorkshire; Thomas’ father was George, born 1448; George’s father was George Canon Ripley, b. 1415 in Yorkshire.

 

William Ripley, b. 1598, m. (1st) Katherine Banks in 1618.  Their third son John settled in Hingham, MA.  William m. (2nd) Amia Emmote (Jackson) Watker 14 Aug 1621 in Whitby, Yorkshire and their first child was Abraham, who also eventually settled in Hingham, MA.  HIs sister Sarah m. Jeremiah Beal, Sr. and settled in Hingham, MA.  William m. (3rd) Elizabeth Susannah Sharp 14 Sep 1630 at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire and they emigrated to Massachusetts.

 

Mary Farnsworth was born in 1637 in Dorchester.  She is mentioned in the will of Joseph Farnsworth dated 2 Jan 1659/60.  Joseph Farnsworth was born in 1612 in Prestwick, Lancashire, England and died in 1659 in Dorchester MA.  He was the son of Richard F. Farnsworth and Elizabeth Marshe and had several siblings in America including his brother Matthias. Joseph was in Dorchester in 1632. He was a freeman 14 March 1638/9.  He was an ancestor of Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur.  Joseph married (1) Elizabeth; he married (2) Mary, widow of John Long.  Joseph Farnsworth was called "brother" by William Lane in his will of 6 July 1654.

The will of Joseph Farnsworth is printed in NEHGR 9:140. It was dated 2 January 1659. It mentions his wife Mary; her two children by a former husband, viz., Joseph Long and Thomas Long; and son Samuel Fernsworth, by this wife Mary, though he had other children by a former wife.

 

A note about the old burying ground behind the First United Church of Christ in downtown Hartford, at the corner of Main and Gold Streets.  This is where the Hartford Founders Monument is located.  Also in that cemetery I found the graves of one of Joseph Farnsworth's (b. 1612) grandsons, Joseph Farnsworth b. 16 Jun 1694, d. 8 Oct 1741; and his wife Mary Olcott, b. 1 Aug 1698, a grandaughter of Thomas Olcott, b. 1612.  Joseph Farnsworth b. 1612 had a son Samuel, and he was our Mary Farnsworth's brother.  Thomas Olcott b. 1612 had a son John, b. 1649 (who married Abigail Porter) and whose brother was our Thomas Olcott b. 1637 and John Olcott's daughter was Mary Olctott b. 1698.  So as to this couple buried in Hartford, Joseph Farnsworth b.1694's aunt was Mary Farnsworth, Bissell 9th GG, so Joseph was a first cousin (to Mary Ripley, Bissell 8th GG b. 1660); and his wife Mary Olcott had Thomas Olcott, Bissell 8th GG, for her uncle, so she was a first cousin (to Timothy Olcott, Bissell 7th GG b. 1677).