Peter Bishop (1735 - 1825)

Born 6 Aug 1735 in New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Son of John Bishop Sr and Rebeckah (Whipple) Bishop

Husband of Elizabeth (Godfrey) Bishop — married 1755 in Connecticut

Husband of Phebe (Hamilton) Bishop — married 1763 in Horton, Kings Co., Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 8 Apr 1825 at age 89 in Horton, Kings, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Peter Bishop was born 6 Aug 1735 in New London, Connecticut. He was the son of John Bishop and Rebecca Whipple.

He came to Horton with his father and three brothers probably in Jun 1760 at the time when so many settlers, the “New England Planters”, came from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. He was one of the original grantees of the new township of Horton. He received 1 share (500 acres).^[1]

It is said that the property known since as the Hamilton place in Grand Pré was originally his. His lot was located at Grand Pré on the south side of the Perry Borden house at Grand Pré Corner. The Hamilton brothers, Samuel and Jonathan, received a grant of the property at Sunnyside, between Greenwich and New Minas, some three and a half miles east of what is now Kentville, N.S.

Peter exchanged properties with the Hamiltons and came to live in Sunnyside. Peter married twice and had sixteen children. He was baptized by Rev. Ebenezer Moulton in 1763 and “was perhaps the first person baptized by immersion in Nova Scotia”. He was one of the ten original members of the First Horton Baptist Church, founded at what is now Wolfville, 19 Oct 1778. He was one of a delegation from Horton to Falmouth for the ordination of Henry Alline on 3 Apr 1779. He was elected deacon of the First Horton Baptist Church 7 Feb 1780 and assisted at the ordination of his pastor, Theodore Harding 13 Jul 1796.

He married first Elizabeth Godfrey. She was born in 1735 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts and died in 1762 in Horton Township, Kings Co., Nova Scotia.

He married second Phebe Hamilton.

In 1770, Peter is listed in the census of Horton Township with a family consisting of 1 man [himself], 5 boys [Simeon, William, Peter, Jonathan, John], 1 woman [JPhebe, his wife] and 1 girl [Elizabeth], all Protestant, all Americans [sic].

Peter died 8 Apr 1825 in Horton Township and was buried in the old cemetery in Wolfville.^[2] Peter was known as Deacon Peter.

The first 4 children listed below were with Elizabeth Godfrey, the next 12 children with Phebe Hamilton.

Children (All born Horton Township, Kings Co., Nova Scotia except as noted):

1. Simeon B., b. 1755 at New London, Connecticut, said to have been conscripted towards the end of 1775.
2. Elizabeth, b. 1757 at New London, Connecticut, m. 6 Nov 1777 in Horton Township, Noah Fuller.
3. Lemuel, b. 1758 at New London, Connecticut, d. 1759 at New London, Connecticut..
4. William, b. 5 May 1759 at New London, Connecticut, d. 6 Dec 1833.
5. Peter, b. 6 Feb 1763; d. 1848 in Minas, Nova Scotia.
6. Amy, b. ca. 1765, m. George Turner.
7. Nancy, b. ca. 1766, m. __ Turner.
8. Jonathan, b. 19 Sep 1764 in Horton Kings, Nova Scotia. He married Rebecca Anderson.
9. John, b. 18 Aug 1766 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, d. 26 Aug 1866 in New Minas, Nova Scotia.
10. Hannah, b. 18 Aug 1768, d. 10 Apr 1856. She married James Anderson; b. 1761; d. 1822.
11. Eliphal "Fally", b. 18 Nov 1770. She married John Coldwell 7 Jan 1795; b. 14 Apr 1771.
12. Phebe, b. 24 Feb 1773, d. 23 Feb 1818. She married David Coldwell, b. 7 Jun 1779 in Nova Scotia, d. Apr 1856.
13. Jeremiah, b. 18 Apr 1775 in Sunnyside, Kings, Nova Scotia; d. 20 Jun 1856 in Nova Scotia.
14. Eleaser, b. 3 Aug 1777, d. 1865. He married Hannah Curry 22 Jan 1803; b. 1783, d. 27 Nov 1847 in New Minas, Nova Scotia.
15. Esther, b. 18 Sep 1779, d. 1840 in Harwich, Canada West.
16. James, b. 1786 in Sunnyside, Kings, Nova Scotia, d. 12 Oct 1856 in Sunnyside, Kings, Nova Scotia. He married Lydia Martin, 22 Jan 1813 in Sunnyside, Kings, Nova Scotia; b. 1794 in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 9 Feb 1859.
17. Harriet, b. 6 May 1786, m. James Turner, d. Jun 1863. .^[3]

Research Notes

It's unclear why only one of Peter's daughters is counted in the 1770 census. [gb]

Sources

1. ↑ Horton Township grant
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68041813/peter-bishop: accessed May 16, 2024), memorial page for Deacon Peter Bishop (6 Aug 1735–8 Apr 1825), Find A Grave: Memorial #68041813, citing Old Burying Ground, Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada; Maintained by Nedra Fortune (contributor 47405631).
3. ↑ [(http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/dart/533/)]

• Tangled Roots : Descendants of John Bishop (1709-1785) of Horton, Nova Scotia, a New England planter family, Volume III, Deacon Peter Bishop, page 1.
• Township Books of Kings County, Nova Scotia compiled by Lorna Woodman Evans, pages 83-84
• 1770 census, Kings Co., Nova Scotia
• Find A Grave: Memorial #68041813
• Eaton, Arthur W.H., The history of Kings County, Nova Scotia, heart of the Acadian land, giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion ; and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910; Salem Press company, Salem, MA, (1910), p. 570- 574. https://archive.org/stream/historykingscou00eatogoog#page/n596/mode/2up
• Horton Township book, original handwritten

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DNA

Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Greg Bishop, FTDNA kit #IN65298, and his fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Wylmer Bishop, FTDNA kit #162034, match at a Genetic Distance of 0 on 37 markers thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA John Bishop, Sr.. FTDNA indicates that the probability the two share a common ancestor within the last 6 generations is 93.29% and within the last 7 generations is 95.73%.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Leslie Bishop for creating this profile through the import of Bishop_Ducharme (3).ged on Oct 22, 2012. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Leslie and others.