Bisbee, Charles

1726 - 1807  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Bisbee, Charles
  Birth	Apr 1726	East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	21 Apr 1726	East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA
  DAR Ancestor Number	A010402
  Tombstone Photo	Sumner, Oxford Co., ME   [1]
  	Sumner Field Cemetery
  Death	05 Jun 1807	Sumner, Oxford Co., ME
  Burial	Sumner, Oxford Co., ME
  Person ID	I10058	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 May 2018

  
  

  Father	Bisbee, Moses,   b. 20 Oct 1695, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA
  Mother	Reed, Mary,   b. 1695, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. Bef 02 Apr 1759, East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA (Age < 64 years)
  Marriage	05 Jul 1716	Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA
  Family ID	F5368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Howland, Beulah,   b. 28 Aug 1737, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA d. 01 Sep 1813, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	16 Sep 1756	East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA
  Children	1. Bisbee, Celia,   b. 07 May 1764, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 22 Nov 1816, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 52 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   2. Bisbee, Lt. Elisha,   b. 04 Mar 1757, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME d. 01 Dec 1826, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 69 years)   3. Bisbee, Charles Jr.,   b. 27 Jul 1758, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 11 Jun 1833, Aurora, Dearborn Co., IN (Age 74 years)   4. Bisbee, Mary,   b. 28 Apr 1760, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Bisbee, Moses,   b. 02 Feb 1765, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA d. 23 Jun 1852, Waterford, Oxford Co., ME (Age 87 years)   6. Bisbee, John,   b. 21 Feb 1767, East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 18 Sep 1839, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 72 years) + 7. Bisbee, Solomon,   b. 03 Sep 1769, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 02 Apr 1845, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 75 years)   8. Bisbee, Calvin,   b. 14 Oct 1771, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 28 Nov 1857, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 86 years)   9. Bisbee, Rowse,   b. 17 Oct 1775, Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA d. 03 May 1852, North Woodstock, Oxford Co., ME (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F5010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Apr 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA Baptised - 21 Apr 1726 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA Tombstone Photo - Sumner Field Cemetery - - Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Marriage - 16 Sep 1756 - East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA Death - 05 Jun 1807 - Sumner, Oxford Co., ME Burial - - Sumner, Oxford Co., ME  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Veteran of The American Revolution- Pvt. in Capt. Freedom Chamberlin's co., Col Barley's reg., which marched on the Lexington Alarm. "Carol Chaney Waters, Jay Tribute to my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Charles & Elisha Bisbee: Charles and Elisha Bisbee (1757-1826), father and son of Bridgewater, MA served as privates in a Mass Regiment. Father, Charles, (1726-1807) was the first settler of Sumner and is buried there in Bonney Cemetery." GREAT GREAT GRANDSON OF MAYFLOWER PASSENGER FRANCIS COOKE REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CAPT. FREEDON CHAMBERLAIN'S CO., COL. BAILEY'S REGIMENT, CONTINENTAL ARMY INVOLVED IN THE "LEXINGTON ALARM," 19 APR 1775 MAINE PIONEER FIRST SETTLER OF SUMNER, MAINE -------------- A BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES BISBEE, by Larry Overmire (5th great grandson), Aug. 2008: Charles Bisbee was born in 1726 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the son of Moses and Mary (Reed) Bisbee. He married Beulah Howland, the daughter of Rouse and Ann (Bonney) Howland on Sept. 16, 1756 in Pembroke, Plymouth County. They had nine children: Elisha, Charles, Mary "Polly," Celia, Moses, John, Solomon, Calvin and Rouse. Charles was a farmer. After his marriage, he moved to Pembroke. He served in the Revolutionary War in the Continental Army and was involved in the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775. In June 1784, he and his family moved to Sumner, Oxford County, Maine. He is recognized as being the first settler of that community. Descendant Axel Reed in his genealogy described how circumstances unfolded: "At the close of the Revolutionary war, in which the father and two sons, Elisha and Charles, had taken part, there was an extensive emigration from the Old Colony towns in Massachusetts to the wilds of Maine. He bought land of Benjamin Darling, of Hanover, Mass., in a township in Maine then called Sharon, afterwards Butterfield or Sumner. In the summer of 1783 he visited his land and built a cheap tenement for his family to occupy later. He returned to Pembroke to spend the winter and the following spring set sail with his family for the new home. They sailed from Scituate harbor in a packet and landed at Yarmouth, proceeding through the wilderness to Sumner on horseback, arriving on the 5th day of June, 1784, the year in which the town of Sumner was incorporated. Dr. [Wm. B.] Lapham [secretary of the Maine Genealogical Society] says: 'He (Charles Bisbee) selected his land with good judgment, and with the aid of his seven stalwart sons he soon cleared him up a good farm. He suffered all the privations and hardships incident to a pioneer life, lived to see his children comfortably settled around him and enjoy much of the fruit of his toil, and he died June 3, 1807, the 23rd anniversary of the arrival in town. His good wife, Beulah Howland, died September 1, 1813, nine years later, and in her 76th year of age.' " Charles died in Sumner on June 3, 1807, at the age of 81. He was buried in the Chaffin Cemetery (aka The Bonney Road Cemetery) there.

  
  

• Sources

  [S861] Sumner Field Cemetery, (Sumner, Oxford County, Maine; 398 Old Sumner Rd, about 800 fee south of the intersection of Old Sumner Rd and Spring Rd; LAT/LON 44.31686N, -70.37096W), Charles Bisbee marker.