John Bishop (1580-1661)

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English Immigrant to America
Signer to the 1639 Guilford Plantation Covenant

John Bishop the Immigrant was born circa 1580 in England and died 7 February 1661 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of unspecified causes. He married Anne Stevens (1592-1676) 1620 in England.

Biography

1639 Plantation Covenant

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The Guilford Covenant (or sometimes called the "Plantation Covenant" was a covenant signed on June 1, 1639 by English colonists during their Atlantic crossing as the founding document of what would become Guilford, Connecticut.

Led by Rev. Henry Whitfield, the Plantation Covenant was signed onboard ship after departing England.^[1] The 25 signers were the male heads of household among the group of settlers bound first for Quinnipiac (later known as New Haven). Most of these families were from Surrey and Kent, who by September 1639 founded present-day Guilford after securing a land grant from Shaumpishuh, the Quinnipiac sachem of Menunkatuck.^[2]

John Bishop was one of Six men as Trustees of the community land and justice of the peace from 1639-1643

He was married to Anne Bishop in England she d. April 1676 in Hartford Connecticut. They had 6 Children Mary, Anne, John, Bethia, Stephen, Sarah.

Children

Offspring of John Bishop the Immigrant and Anne Stevens (1592-1676)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Anne Bishop (1622-1672)
John Bishop (1625-1683)	1625 England	1 October 1683 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States	Susannah Goldham (1632-1703)
Stephen Bishop (1625-1690)
Sarah Bishop (1628-1657)
Bethia Bishop (1630-1677)	1630 England	January 1677 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States	James Steele (1622-1698)

Siblings

Residences

References

^ Cutter, William Richard (2008). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield. pp. 1687. ISBN 978-0-8063-4960-2.
^ Smith, Ralph Dunning (1877). The History of Guilford, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1639. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. pp. 11.

Footnotes (including sources)

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[1] Cutter, William Richard (2008). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield. pp. 1687. ISBN 978-0-8063-4960-2.

[2] Smith, Ralph Dunning (1877). The History of Guilford, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1639. Albany, New York: J. Munsell. pp. 11.

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