Welcome to week 18 of Bidwell Lore! Last week we introduced you to Reverend Bidwell’s oldest daughter, Jemima, with a wonderful guest post by Bidwell descendant Russ Taylor. This week we turn to the last and most well known of Reverend Bidwell’s children, his son Barnabas. He had a fascinating and at times dramatic life and so we...
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Bidwell Lore – Jemima Bidwell Partridge
Welcome to week 17 of Bidwell Lore! Last week, we introduced you to Reverend Bidwell’s youngest daughter, Theodosia, with a wonderful guest post by Bidwell descendant Wilma Spice. This week we will introduce you to Reverend Bidwell’s oldest daughter, Jemima, with a guest post from Russ Taylor, one of our 2018 History Talk speakers and a Bidwell descendant. ...
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Bidwell Lore – Theodosia Bidwell Brewer
Welcome to week 16 of Bidwell Lore! Last week we shared a Mayflower connection to the Bidwell family via Adonijah Bidwell, Jr. This week we will introduce you to Reverend Bidwell’s youngest daughter, Theodosia, with a wonderful guest post by Bidwell descendant Wilma Spice, who we previously heard from in the July article about Jemima Bidwell’s pewter. ...
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Bidwell Lore – The Mayflower Connection
Welcome to the fifteenth week of Bidwell Lore! Last week we continued the story of Adonijah Bidwell, Jr., and this week we want to share the Bidwell family’s Mayflower connection via Adonijah Bidwell, Jr.’s wife, Melicent Dench. In the course of receiving Bidwell Lore articles, readers have no doubt become aware that there appears to be a connection...
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Bidwell Lore – Stories of Adonijah Bidwell, Jr.
Welcome to the fourteenth week of Bidwell Lore! Last week we introduced you to the oldest son of Reverend Bidwell, Adonijah Bidwell, Jr., and this week we want to share with you some stories about his life. Adonijah, Jr., was the oldest child of Reverend Bidwell and his second wife, Jemima. Adonijah, Jr. (1761-1837)Barbabas (1763-1833)Jemima (1765-1842)Theodosia (1766-1841)...
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Bidwell Lore – Adonijah Bidwell, Jr.
Welcome to the thirteenth week of Bidwell Lore! In the previous three installments, we discussed the wives of the Reverend Adonijah Bidwell. Now we move on to his children, beginning with his oldest, Adonijah, Jr. Adonijah Bidwell was married three times and it was with his second wife, Jemima, that he had his four children: Adonijah, Jr (1761-1837)Barbabas (1763-1833)Jemima...
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Bidwell Lore – Jemima Bidwell’s Wedding Pewter
Welcome to the twelfth week of Bidwell Lore! As we learned in the last two issues of Bidwell Lore, Adonijah Bidwell was married three times and his first two wives died when they were still fairly young. Sadly we know very little about the day to day lives of these women, but we were very lucky in...
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Bidwell Lore – The Wives of Adonijah Bidwell, Part II
Welcome to the eleventh week of Bidwell Lore! This is the second email in a series about the wives of Adonijah Bidwell. Last week we introduced you to Theodosia Colton and Jemima Devotion and this week you will meet Ruth Kent. We have also included the story of Rev. Edward Taylor, known as the Puritan poet and...
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Bidwell Lore – The Wives of Adonijah Bidwell
Welcome to the tenth week of Bidwell Lore! Last week finished the essay by guest writer Bernard Drew titled The Last Skirmish of King Philip’s War, 1676. We now move back to the Bidwell family and more specifically to the wives of Adonijah Bidwell. He was married three times; his first two wives died tragically young, not...
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The Last Skirmish of King Philip’s War, 1676 – Part II
Welcome to the ninth week of Bidwell Lore! Last week we read Part I of the essay The Last Skirmish of King Philip’s War, 1676 from guest writer and local Berkshires historian Bernard Drew. This essay has been adapted by Mr. Drew from a chapter in his book Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts (McFarland, 2012). At...