Jacob Bissell (1664 - 1694)

Born 28 Mar 1664 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Gillette) Buell — married before 1689 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

Died 1 Aug 1694 at age 30 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Jacob Bissell was born on 28 March, 1664 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.^[1][2][3]

He married Mary Gillett before 1689 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. ^[1][4]

In 1694 Jacob was listed for taxes as was his father, Samuel Bissell, Sen. in Simsbury, CT^[5]

He died on 1 August, 1694 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.^[1][6][3] Estate was inventoried on 23 August 1694^[6] Final settlement after appeals was settled on 6 Oct., 1712 giving the estate to brothers and sisters of Jacob Bissell (see detail below).^[6]

Research Notes

On April 5, 1711, Peter Buell of Simsbury, and Mary his wife, formerly married to Jacob Bissell, Sr., Administrators of the Estate of Jacob Bissell, Sr., advised the Court that Jacob Bissell, Jr., age 16, the only child of Jacob Bissell had recently died intestate and without issue, and requested that they Mary be allocated the whole of Jacob Bissell, Sr.'s intestate estate. John Pettibone, Jr., in behalf of his wife Mary; Stephen Pettibone, in behalf of his wife Deborah, both sisters of Jacob Bissell, and John Bissell, the son of John Bissell, deceased, and one of the brothers of Jacob Bissell and all of their children requested that all of then intestate estate be awared to them. The court awarded the intestate estate to Peter and Mary Buell, but the Court of Assistants reversed awarding it to Jacob Bissell's brothers and sisters.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stu Wison's Tree Publisher: Rootsweb Source cited: The American Genealogist 54 <1978): 65-765, 150-158.
2. ↑ #S246 Page: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MQe21xly7AsC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA63 Accessed 6 July 2017
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors.com Page: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2079.htm#i62472 Source cited New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey., p. 73. Accessed Nov.4, 2016
4. ↑ #S245 p.151 Torreys New England Marriages to 1700
5. ↑ #S364 page: 152 Page: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucw.ark:/13960/t0qr4zj24;view=1up;seq=152 Accessed 5 July, 2017
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Connecticut- Early Probate Records Publisher: New England Historical and Genealogical Society NEHGS Connecticut- Early Probate Records Page:405 reference page 184. accessed April 12, 2016
7. ↑ Manwaring, C.W., A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, pp. 405-406 (Hartford, Connecticut : R.S. Peck & Company, 1904-1906) Available here

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