John Bissell
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In brief
Born about 1591 in Huntington, Somersetshire, England. 1628/1638: Arrived in Plymouth Colony. He died October 3, 1677, at the home of his son Nathaniel in East Windsor, Connecticut.
Family
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Children
- Thomas Bissellb. Abt. 1630 in Englandm. Abigail Moore, October 11, 1655d. July 31, 1689, in East Windsor, Connecticut
- Samuel Bissell · in this lineb. Abt. 1633m. June 11, 1658m. Abt. 1686d. Windsor, Connecticut
- Nathaniel Bissellb. September 24, 1640, in Windsor, Connecticutm. Mindwell Moore, September 25, 1662m. Dorothy Fitch in 1683m. Deliveranced. March 12, 1713[1714]
- Mary Bissellb. Englandm. Jacob Drake, April 12, 1649d. September 11, 1689
- John Bissellb. Somersetshire, Englandm. Isabel/Izrael Mason, June 17, 1658d. Abt. 1693 in Connecticut
Life story
Windsor's First Ferryman
John Bissell was born around 1591 in Huntington, Somersetshire, England, and emigrated to Plymouth Colony, settling in Windsor, Connecticut, by 1640 as the first settler to live on the east side of the Connecticut River there. He served repeatedly as a Hartford juror through the 1640s and as a deputy to the Connecticut General Court in 1648, the same year he established Bissell's Ferry across the river between Windsor and East Windsor — a crossing his family would operate for generations. John later served in Connecticut's first cavalry militia in the late 1650s. He died October 3, 1677, at the East Windsor home of his son Nathaniel.
Sources (1)
- Edward Payson Jones, Genealogy of the Descendants of John Bissell of Windsor, Connecticut by 1640 (Winsted, Connecticut: Roderick Bissell Jones, 1939); digital images, Digital Maine Repository (https://digitalmaine.com/books/33/ : accessed 23 July 2026).