Family History 2.39

Bigelow History: :Post-1630

From Bigelow Society Pages

 

 

Isaac BIGELOW, fourth generation from migration

 

Isaac was the second child and first son of Isaac 3 (Samuel2, Johnl) and Mary (BOND) BIGELOW, and was born 04 May 1713, at Colchester, New London, Conneticut.

 

He was married there 14 March 1734 to Abigail SKINNER, daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail (LORD) SKINNER. She was born at Colchester 09 July 1715.

 

Isaac is found in town records as follows: town indigent, 31 weeks and 3 days;

 

06 February 1736 Isaac Sr. granted son Isaac 40 acres, part of the farm he now occupied [3:430];

 

21 Oct 1740, Ephraim Wells and wife Elizabeth deeded to Isaac jr 7 acres [5:102];

 

17 Jun 1747, William Harris deeded Isaac BIGELOW jr 52 rods of land [4:346];

 

12 May 1752 Elisha BIGELOW to his brother Isaac, an exchange of land [62:65];

 

20 May 1761, Isaac BIGELOW to David DAY, 118 acres [7:492].

    

About 1761, in company with 150 other families, Isaac and his family, excepting daughters Abigail and Mary, and son Timothy, removed to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Isaac was an original proprietor there, but returned to New England at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

 

Son Amasa and three married daughters remained in Nova Scotia.

 

Isaac appears on the 1790 census at Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire.

 

From town records at Keene, NH we learn that in 1792 Isaac and wife Abigail took a life-lease from Samuel Works of Westmoreland, of half a house in Chesterfield, also the yard and half the garden, with Works providing their firewood.

 

We have no further mention of Isaac or wife Abigail after this date. Family tradition says he died suddenly while visiting son Addi in Barre, Vermont, but neither town nor cemetery records provide a clue.

 

Children of Isaac and Abigail (SKINNER) BIGELOW, all born Colchester, New London co, CT:

 

	Abigail	b 01 Jan 1735; d 01 Sep 1803 Colchester; m 24 Mar 1755 Daniel PRATT; res Colchester, CT. 9 children.
	Ann	b 07 Mar 1736; d _ allegedly in Nova Scotia; m 31 Jan 1760 (Colchester) Judah Wells; res Cornwallis, N.S. 3 known children, two of whom died young.
	Isaac	b 17 Nov 1737; d after 1800, probably Franklin county, VT; m 5 Apr 1759 (Colchester) Mary Chamberlain; res Cornwallis, N.S.; Dummerston, VT; Franklin county, VT. 10 children.
	Timothy	b 18 Nov 1739; d 12 Sep 1818 Tyringham, Berkshire, MA at the Shaker colony; m 2 Dec 1762 (Colchester) Rhoda Williams; res Bernardston & WiHiamston, MA, possibly Rl, then at Tyringham. Blacksmith by trade. Served in Revolutionary War. 9 known children.
	Amasa	b 23 Dec 1741; d 18 Jan 1742.
	Mary,	b 02 Feb 1743; d 25 Oct 1773 East Haddam, CT; m 09 Sep 1761 (Colchester) Reuben Beebe, his first wife; res East Haddam. 6 children
	Lydia	b 02 May 1745; d , either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick; m 30 Jan 1772 (Cornwallis) Ezra Pride. 7 children.
	Margaret	b 02 Aug 1747; d 29 Jan 1842 Machias, ME; m 10 Oct 1765 (Cornwallis) Nathan Longfellow; res Cornwallis a number of years, then moved to Maine during the Rev War. I I children.
	Jerusha,	b 08 Mar 1749; died ; m 4 Dec 1766 (Cornwallis) Andrew Newcomb; res Cornwallis, later moved to New Brunswick. 9 children.
	Ruby	("Zubah" on baptismal and burial records), b 14 Dec 1750; d 05 June 1759.
	Samuel	b 01 Nov 1752; d 6 Mar 1830 Nantucket, Nantucket, MA; m 09 June 1799 (Nantucket) Mrs. Naomi Gardner. No issue.
	Amasa	b 11 Feb 1755; d before 1806 Cornwallis, N.S.; m 09 Nov 1773 (Cornwallis) Rosina Cone, her first husband; res Cornwallis. 11 children.
	Addi	b 18 Oct 1757; d before 1817 Franklin county, OH; m ?(1) Mary Nooney 21 Oct 1779 at Enfield, CT; (2) 29 July 1804 (Barre, VT) Zelinda Ingalls, her first husband; res Barre, VT, moving to Franklin county, OH ca 1813.  5 known children, all by second wife.

NOTE: Isaac Bigelow is said to have served thoughout the American Revolution in the colonial cause. If so, it would have been from New Hampshire.