Phoebe (Bissell) Seelye (1728 - aft. 1795)

Born 1728 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut

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Biography

Uncertain parentage: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Compiled and Edited, by Donald Lines Jacobus (Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930) page 533 lists her marriage to Justus (undated) and lists her as Phebe ___________ indicating that he did not find her maiden name. The Will of Benjamin Bissell does not list Phebe, only children Joseph (administrator), Benjamin, Sarah, Betty (Betsy) and Zerviah.

Phebe Bissell married Justus Seeley^[1] before 1754.

Phoebe was born about 1725. She passed away about 1790.^{[citation needed] [2]}

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S497 Vol. 1, p. 533.
2. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Scott Baker.

• Source: S497 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield Compiled and Edited, by Donald Lines Jacobus (Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930)

Research Notes

• Walworth, Reuben Hyde, Hyde Genealogy, or, The Descendants, in the Female as Well as in the Male Lines, From William Hyde of Norwich, Albany, 1864. Ancestry.com index notes from this publication erroneously list Phebe as the daughter of Benjamin Bissell and Mary Wattles. https://archive.org/details/hydegenealogyord001walw The book only discusses Sarah Bissell as the wife of her husband Hyde and nowhere mentions a Phebe Bissell.

• The Will of Benjamin Bissell does not list Phebe, only children Joseph (administrator), Benjamin, Sarah, Betty (Betsy) and Zerviah.

• Marked Benjamin Bissell as "uncertain" as there is no documentation and this lineage goes to President Millard Fillmore. It should remain uncertain until such time as documentation proves or disproves the parentage.