John Bishop
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1590 - England
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Death: Feb 1661 - Guilford, Connecticut
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Spouses and Children
1. *Anne Stevens (1592 - Apr 1676)
Marriage: 1627 - England
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2. Anne ( - )
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Children:
1. Mary Bishop (Abt 1633-1675)
2. John Bishop ( - )
3. Stephen Bishop ( - )
4. Betsey Bishop ( - )
Notes
General:
He and George Hubbard first stopped inWethersfield, George stayed but he went on to Gulford,CT, and was one of te seven pillars or proprietors of the town.
He was one of the sevent pillars or proprietors of the town of Guilford, Ct. He and George Hubbard were both in a group of families from Watertown who established Wethersfield in 1635.
Children listed in "Hubbard History and Genealogy", "George Hubbard, of Guildord, Ct" p 200.
George Hubbard born England, said to have been born all over the map. Traditions ays he came first to Watertown MA abt 1633. Records there faint as his stay there was short.
May 6, 1635 General Court of Massachusetts Bay granted permission to inhabitants of Watertown to remove themselves to where they like provided they remain under that government. All towns int eh Bay were straightened by their nearness to one another and too many cattle. In summer 1635 a few explorers from Waterown established themselves where Wethersfield Ct grew up. Oct 15, 1635, 60 men, women and children went by land towards Ct with their cattle, horses and swine, and after a dedious and difficult journey arrived safe tehre. With them were George Hubbard, his family, his father in law John Bishop and his family, aslo another George Hubbard, a Thomas Hubbard and a William Hubbard, it is not known if they were related. The witner of 1635-6 was bitterly cold. Snow and ice surrounded their poorly constructed habitations and furniture and provisions did not arrive because the Connecticut River had frozen, so they had to subsist that winter on acorns, malt and grain.
In 1636 George Hubbard and another were authorized by teh General Court of Connecticut to consider the bounds and sruvey the breadth of Dorchester (Windsor) towards the Falls and of Watertown (Wethersfield) towards the mouth of the River. The bands of migrators from the vicinity of Boston settled Springlfield, MA, Widnsor, Wethersfield and Hartford, Ct.
Though entirely outside the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, accdng to their English charter, Massachusetts still kept Wethersfield (called Watertown until Feb 1637) under her prtecting aegis and governed it by "commissioners the first year. Tehre was much friction in the Wethersfield church. George Hubbard may have been a record of this church though no record of it, but he represented Wethersfiled at the first colnial General Court under constitution of 1639, had to have been a freeman.
He lived abat 3 years in Wethersfield, then with some neighbors went south to the shore of Long Island Sound and settled in Milford, being assigned Milford Island as his grant. Admitted to church tehre Jan 15, 1644.
Before 1650 he sold Milford Island adn removed w son in law John Fowler to Guilford, where his wife's parents, John and Anne bishoip had preceded him. and 9/22/1648 bought property there. Admitted to church membership in Guilford 10/6/1650. Deputy magistrate 1652, 55,57, 58,60,62,65,66. In 1666-7 a member of the Assembly at the union of the Hartford and New Haven colonies. May 1670 th eCourt gave him the authority to marry people. A man of high standing and prominent in the politics of his times. Died in Guilford, Jan 1683, where his will is on record. Inventory of his property was 564 pounds. Buried in teh graveyard south of the soldiers' monument in the centre of the villagegreen.