Bissell Family History

 

[------- Sarah Baldwin Searle

[          SEE Searle Chart 2.1 (dead end for now...)

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[------- Benjamin Edwards, b. 24 Jun 1652, Springfield, MA

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[                   [------- Alexander Edwards, b. 10 Feb 1612/13, Llandabog, Wales

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[------- Benjamin Edwards, II,  b. 1681

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[                   [                  [------- Isaac Sheldon, b. 1630, England

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[                   [------- Thankful Sheldon, b. 27 Aug 1663, Northampton, MA

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[                                       [                                         [------- Robert Blott [GMD], m. Susanna

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[                                       [                   [------- Mary Blott [GMD], b. 1609

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[                                       [------- Mary Woodford, b. 24 Jan 1636

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[                                                           [------- Thomas Woodford [GMD], b. 1614

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Mary Edwards, b. 1707, 7th Great-grandmother

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[                                       [------- Lt. William Clark [GMD]

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[                   [------- Deacon John Clark, b. 1 May 1651, Dorchester, MA

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[                   [                   [------- Sarah Strong (1611-1675), Taunton, Somerset, Eng.

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[                   [                                     (Sarah Strong and Elder Strong and a sister )

[------- Mary Clark, b. 27 Dec 1685        (Eleanor were the children of John Strong,   )

                    [                                     (1561-1613 and Eleanor Dean, 1586-1654.  )

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[                   [------- Elder John Strong [GMD], b. 1610, Chard, Eng.

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[------- Mary Strong, b. 26 Oct 1654, Windsor, CT

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                    [                   [------- Thomas Ford [GMD] 11th Great-grandfather

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                    [------- Abigail Ford, b. 1619

                               SEE Searle Chart 9.1.1

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                                        [------- Elizabeth Charde

 

Notes.

 

Sarah Baldwin married John Searle 19 Mar 1638/39 and Alexander Edwards 28 Apr 1642. See Searle Chart 2.1.

 

Lt. William Clarke’s second wife was Sarah Slye Cooper.  Deacon John Clark's first wife was Rebecca Cooper (b. 15 May 1657, Dorchester, MA) daughter of Thomas Cooper and Sarah Slye Cooper.  Rebecca died in childbirth, 1678. 

 

John Strong’s (1561) father was George Strong, b. 1556. Eleanor Dean’s father was Wm. Deane (1558), son of Richard Deane d. 1586. Eleanor’s mother was Johanna Walsely (abt 1566).

 

Elder John Strong is the connection to Cousin Nathan Hale (and many other "Notable Cousins").  Mary Strong’s brother Thomas Strong's descendants are Joseph Strong, b. 1672; to Joseph Strong, b. 1701; to Elizabeth Strong, b. 1727, who married Richard Hale and was the mother of Nathan Hale, b. 1755.