Research notes: needs to be verified

Birthdate written in (Bishop's of America) by Ira Elmore Bishop

Record of the Descendants of John Bishop of Guilford in 1639 by Willi am Whitney Cone, Published by John Guy Bishop of Nyack, New York Gives will of Ann Bishop.

Families of Early Guilford Connecticut compiled by Alvan Talcott. Edited and Prepared for Publication by Jacquelyn L. Ricker. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 198 4. p. 76

John Bishop married Anne ( ) [Stevens written in] who died April 1676. Lived in Guildford, Conn. 1639. John died Feruary 1661.

Children: John, died October 1683; mar. Susanna Goldham

Stephen, died June 1690; mar Tabitha Wilkinson

Bethya, Mar. James Steele. Esq. of Hartford, Conn.

Genealogy.com

SAVAGE, VOL 4 DICT FIRST SETTLERS OF NE

A Genealogical history of early New England settlers; These books are still regarded as the authority on early New England genealogy; Written by James Savage;

Vol. IV - Page 113-114

"JAMES, Hartford 1657, s. of George, but prob. b. in Eng. m. late in life, perhaps as sec. w. Bethia, d. of John Hopkins, wid. of Samuel Stocking; but by former w. had s. James, b. a. 1658; and John, a. 1660, wh. d. bef. his f. beside ds. Sarah, a. 1656; Mary; Eliz.; and Rachel; their mo. perhaps was Ann, d. of John Bishop. He was commissar. for all Conn. forces in Philip's war."

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Ancestry.com

"Families of Early Guilford Connecticut"

compiled by Alvan Talcott. Edited and Prepared for Publication by Jacquelyn L. Ricker. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 1984.

Page 76

"John Bishop married Anne ( ) [Stevens written in] who died April 1676. Lived in Guilford, Conn. 1639. John died February 1661.

Children:

John, died October 1683; mar. Susanna Goldham

Stephen, died June 1690; mar Tabitha Wilkinson

Bethya, Mar. James Steele. Esq. of Hartford, Conn."

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"The American Genealogist"

Volume 36 - Page 188

"John Bishop's will is lost, but that of his widow Ann is found in Hartford, as she had some property there when she died and perhaps had been living with her daughter Steele. [Bethia married James Steele] Her will, dated 12 June 1673 ('Manwaring's Digest', 1:183-4] calls her of Guilford and with other legacies names 'my three children, viz, John and Steuen (Stephen) Bishop and James Steele', and makes James Steele, 'my son-in-law,' her executor.

"She failed to state the daughter's first name. However, James and Bethia Steele witnessed a deed together on 18 Sept. 1660 ('Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll.', 14:487). Also James and Bethiah Steele are listed among the original members of the Second Church in Hartford in 1669. These dates are prior to Ann Bishop's will. Furthermore, on 21 Feb. 1685, Mrs. Bethia Steele, 'dismissed from the church of Middletown,' was admitted to the Hartford Second Church. Since Samuel Stocking died Dec. 1683 at Middletown, we may conclude that his widow had married James Steele by 1685, and that she took her dismission to the Hartford church soon after her second marriage. Thus it appears that both of Steele's wives were named Bethia."