Timothy Bishop II (1774 - abt. 1850)

Born 7 May 1774 in Horton, Kings Co., Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Son of Timothy Bishop and Mercy (Harding) Bishop

Husband of Eunice (Coldwell) Bishop — married 1794 in Horton, Kings Co., Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1850 at about age 75 in Greenwich, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

from The History of Kings County Nova Scotia p. 613, 573.

THE BISHOP FAMILY

Timothy2 Bishop (John1), b. July 22, 1740, in New London, d. at Greenwich, Horton, Jan. 10, 1827. He m. (1) Apr. 1, 1762, Mercy Harding, undoubtedly dau. of Abraham and Mercy (Vibber) Harding, b. Jan. 30, 1742, d. Aug. 22, 1783, (2) Dec. 18, 1783, Mrs. Mercy (Gore) Newcomb, widow of Simon Newcomb, and dau. of Moses and Desire (Burns) Gore, b. in Preston, Conn., Feb. 10, 1743, d. in Horton, June 5, 1827. By his 1st wife Timothy Bishop had children: Abigail, b. Apr. 3, 1763, m. to Ebenezer Fitch; Silas, b. Oct. 2, 1764, m. to Anna Wells; Rebecca, b. July 22, 1766, m. to Elijah Calkin; Eunice, b. April 6, 1768, m. to James Prentice Harris; Ezra, b. Mar. 20, 1770, m. Jerusha Newcomb; Amy, b. July 4, 1772, m. to Oliver DeWolf (Jehiel and Phebe); Timothy, b. May 7, 1774, m. to Eunice Coldwell; Mercy, b. Feb. 8, 1776, m. to Abraham Seaman; Mary, b. Feb. 8, 1776 (a twin with Mercy), m. to Newton Wells; Anna, b. Mar. 29, 1779, m. to Samuel Cox. By his 2nd marriage, to Mercy (Gore) Newcomb, Timothy had childen: Ebenezer, b. Sept. 13, 1784, d. in 1846; Olive, b. Aug. 9, 1789. Of these two children, Ebenezer, m. Nov. 1, 1809, Anne, dau. of Jesse and Chloe (Olney) Lewis, of Parrsborough, b. Dec. 24, 1790, and had children: Jesse Lewis, b, Jan. 30, 1812, m. Elizabeth Ann Johnson; Augusta Maria Theresa, b. Oct. 23, 1815, m. to Edward Young, LL.D.; John Leander, M. D., of Philadelphia, Penn., and Washington, D. C, b. July 5, 1820; Edward Russell, b. Sept. 30, 1822; Ann Sophia, b. May 12, 1825; Nancy Desire, b. Feb. 1, 1828. Olive was m. Dec. 20, 1821, to George Roy, of New Minas, formerly of Edinburgh, Scotland, founder of the Roy family of Horton, and had children: Elizabeth Ann; Catherine Jane; John George; Barbara Maria; William Alexander. Timothy Bishop lived in Greenwich, on the place that his father had previously owned. After his death, as we have said, his son, Ebenezer, and his grandson, Edward Russell, lived there.

THE COLDWELL FAMILY pg 613

The children of John and Eleanor (Hackett) Coldwell were: Sarah, b. Dec. 1, 1763, m., as his 2nd wife, to Perez, son of Brotherton and Betty Martin; Lucy, b. Nov. 20, 1765, m. Aug. 6, 1784, to Caleb Benjamin; Eleanor, b. Nov. 10, 1768, m. to John Graham, b. June 7, 1766; John, b. April 14, 1771, m. Jan. 7, 1795, Eliphal, dau. of Peter Bishop; Eunice, b. Nov. 9, 1773, m. to Timothy Bishop; Jedediah, b. July 27, 1776; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 11, 1779, m. to Jackson; Joseph, b. July 27 1782; Olive, b. Feb. 14, 1787, m. Sept. 24, 1807, Daniel Bishop; Lavinia (twin sister of Olive), m. to Richard Angus, who d. Feb. 24, 1876, aged 93. Perez and Sarah (Coldwell) Martin had a dau. Eleanor, their eldest child, b. in 1798, m. Nov. 30, 1820, by Rev. Robert Norris, to James, son of James and Mrs. Susanna (Tufts) (Levy) Brechin, their only child being Perez Martin Brechin, of Cornwallis, father of Dr. Wm. Pitt Brechin.

Sources

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Franklin Wylmer Bishop, FTDNA kit #162034, and his fifth cousin once removed, Greg Bishop, FTDNA kit #IN65298, match at a Genetic Distance of 0 on 37 markers thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA John Bishop, Sr.. FTDNA indicates that the probability the two share a common ancestor within the last 6 generations is 93.29% and within the last 7 generations is 95.73%.

• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, M. A., D. C. L., The History of Kings County Nova Scotia (The Salem Press Company, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910; Title page also gives ..... Heart of the Acadian Land - Giving a Sketc), p. 613, 573.