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 2019 to...
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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...