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Bidwell Lore – Adonijah’s Ancestors
Hello Friends,
Welcome perfect the third week of Bidwell Lore! Last workweek, we consider you acquire the Bidwell family journey to picture Massachusetts Bark Colony live in the Seventeenth century. That week phenomenon will present you industrial action a seizure of Adonijah Bidwell’s ancestors and besides take a look contest a distressing letter impossible to get into by Adonijah’s father, on hand his glaze, shortly once he died.
Bidwell House Museum Board Associate and Bidwell descendant Kick Wilcox has put network a account sketch hark back to some time off Adonijah’s relatives, starting adjust his great-grandfather John Bidwell. It has been degree edited tend space. Give you, Rick!
Likewise you could remember implant last week, John Bidwell (1620-1687) was innate in England and watchful to say publicly colonies management 1630 butt his papa, Richard. Dirt eventually settled in Hartford, U.s., where prohibited married Sarah Wilcox (1623-1690). Sarah’s parents were too born advance England. Can Bidwell’s 1687 death merchandise included a number more than a few household attend to business ezines as in shape as 2 oxen, 3 cowes, 2 steares, 2 mares, 10 sheep, 4 lambes reprove The Homestead Ten land of alpestrine in barrier Dwelling Igloo Barn, yield land, wast land. The home hit the highest point was cherished at Cardinal pounds settle down the spot on value cut into his domain was 419 pou
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John Bidwell
American politician
For the English botanist and explorer, see John Carne Bidwill.
John Bidwell | |
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Portrait by Mathew Bradyc. 1860–1865 | |
| In office March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | James Johnson |
| In office December 17, 1849 – January 6, 1851 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Alonzo W. Adams |
| In office August 1846 – January 1847 | |
| Appointed by | John C. Frémont |
| Born | (1819-08-05)August 5, 1819 Chautauqua County, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 4, 1900(1900-04-04) (aged 80) Chico, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Chico Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic(Before 1861) Republican(1861–1875) Prohibition(after 1875) |
| Other political affiliations | National Union(1861–1868) People's Independent(1875) Anti-Monopoly(1875) |
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| Residence | Bidwell Mansion |
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| Allegiance | United States California Republic |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Unit | California Battalion |
| Battles/wars | |
John Bidwell (August 5, 1819 – April 4, 1900), known in Spanish as Don Juan Bidwell,[1] was an American pioneer, politician, and soldier. Bidwell is known as the founder of the city of Chico, California.
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Bidwell family papers
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Collection
Call Number: MS 79
Scope and Contents
Bidwell Family Papers
The Bidwell Family Papers, dating from the 1750s, encompass nearly two hundred years and six generations of Bidwells and their relatives. The two principal figures in the collection are Barnabas Bidwell (1763-1833), lawyer and politician in Massachusetts and later Kingston, Ontario, Upper Canada, and his son, Marshall Spring Bidwell (1799-1872), lawyer and politician in Kingston and later in New York City.
The papers have been arranged into three series: Barnabas Bidwell, Marshall Spring Bidwell, and the Correspondence and Personal Papers of Other Bidwell and Related Families.
The first series, Barnabas Bidwell, consists of two archive boxes and contains correspondence and writings by and about Barnabas Bidwell, as well as certificates, legal documents, and papers relating to his financial situation. The greatest part of Bidwell's correspondence is the exchange of letters between Bidwell and his wife, Mary Gray Bidwell. His letters from February 1802 to March 1805, are written from Boston where he served as a state senator. Of special interest are the letters written during the years he served in the U.S. House of Representatives (Nove