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Some Notable Bissell Cousins I - Z

J

 

Jacobus, Donald -- Genealogist

 

Jones, Anson -- Fourth President of the Republic of Texas

 

K

 

Keep, Nathan Cooley -- Founder of Harvard Dental School

 

Kellogg, Frank B. -- Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner

 

L

 

Lindbergh, Anne M. -- Author, explorer

 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth -- Poet

 

Loomis, Alfred Lee -- Inventor of LORAN radar

 

M

 

Mather, Cotton -- Minister

 

Mather, Increase -- Minister

 

Merrill, Charles E. -- Founder, Merrill Lynch

 

Morey, Samuel -- Inventor, steam engine

 

Morton, Levi -- 22nd Vice President

N

 

Norris

 

O

 

Olcott, Chauncey -- Actor, Tenor and Songwriter, Composer of "My Wild Irish Rose" 

 

 

Olmstead, Frederick Law -- Landscape Architect

 

 

Otis, James, Jr. -- Founding Father, Lawyer

 

 

Otis, Mercy -- Author, historian

 

P

 

Phelps, Anson Greene -- Merchant, Philosopher

 

 

Pinchot, Gifford -- Forester, first Chief of U.S. Forest Service

 

 

Plimpton, George -- Journalist

 

 

Porter, William S. (O. Henry) -- Author

 

 

Price, Vincent Leonard -- Actor

 

R

 

S

 

Steinbeck, John -- Author, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner

 

Stevens, John Paul -- Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

 

T

 

Taft, William Howard -- Only person ever to be both U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

 

U

 

V

 

Vincent, Strong -- Union Army Brig. General hero killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, at the age of 26. 

 

W

 

Wadsworth, Peleg and Elizabeth Bartlett Wadsworth -- Peleg was a Revolutionary War general.  Elizabeth is the Bissell Cousin whose daughter Zilpah became Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's mother.

 

Wray, Fay -- Actress, Star of "King Kong"

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The Hatfield Attack

 

Robert and Editha also had a daughter Sarah (Thomas’ sister) who married Samuel Kellogg.  Sarah and her infant son Joseph were killed by Indians Sept. 19, 1677 in the attack on Hatfield.  Her son Samuel was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada; he eventually returned to Colchester, CT., bought land from his brother Nathaniel and married Hannah Dickinson.  

 

While men were out working in the fields, the Indians attacked, burning houses, killing 12 people and capturing 21.  It is likely that Samuel was returned from Canada by Benjamin Waite and Stephen Jennings, two Hatfield men whose wives and children were taken captive.  

 

Waite, an accomlished Indian scout, and Jennings got approved as agents to bargain for the captives, built a canoe and went up Lake George and Lake Champlain in the winter to Quebec City, Canada.  They may have been the first English colonists on Lake Champlain.  They were able to secure the release of 17 captives and returned to New England in May 1678.  A quarter century later, Waite was killed in the Deerfield Massacre that was part of Queen Anne’s War. 

 

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