File:History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and America. Comprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, (14781607522).jpg

Identifier: historygenealogy00byubick (find matches)
Title: History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and America. Comprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925
Subjects: Bicknell family Bicknell family (Zachary Bicknell, 1590-1636)
Publisher: Providence, R.I. The editor
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, in Frankfort, Me. 5. Harriet; b. in Frankfort, Me. 6. Oliver; b. in Frankfort, Me. 7. Lemuel; b. in Frankfort, Me. 8. Betsey; b. in Frankfort, Me. 9. Mary; b. in Frankfort, Me.10. James; b. in Frankfort, Me. Oliver Parker died in Frankfort, Me., Aug. 5, 1816. Lydia Bicknell died in Frankfort, Me., Nov. 10, 1851. Oliver and Lydia (Bicknell) Parker were of the pioneers inthe wilds of Maine, then a part of the territory of Massachusetts.Oliver was born in Natick, was a soldier in the RevolutionaryWar, and in 1789, three years after his marriage, removed fromWeymouth with his wife, Lydia Bicknell, and two daughters,Susan and Lydia, the former two years old and the younger onlynine months, to Frankfort, a town on the Penobscot River, whichwas incorporated that year. He settled on the Parker farm,built a log house, cleared the forests of spruce and pine for hisfirst planting, and brought his little family from Weymouth. Thefirst settlers got their living by hunting deer, moose, beaver and
Text Appearing After Image:
Lvdia (BrcKXKix) Parker.1765-1861. Froma water color portrait painted about 18, in the possession ofJames H. Brehaut of Roxbury, Mass. Sixth Generation 63 muskrats, by fishing in the Penobscot, and by an abundance ofwild fowl, ducks and geese. For several years the early settlershad a hard struggle for their support, but the natural food sup-plies and a fruitful soil soon gave the Parker family an abun-dance, and eight children were born on the Penobscot. Mrs.Parker was endowed with great ability and energy, and was awoman of fine character and of great worth to the new settlement. Lemuel6 (134), (Lemuel, Zachariah, John, John, Zachary), sonof Lemuel and Ruth (Vining) Bicknell; b. at Weymouth,Mass., Jan. 24, 1770; m. Abigail, Dec. 24, 1792, dau. ofWilliam and Mary Trask Cutler, b. Feb. 9, 1771. Children. 344— 1. Lucy; b. May 1, 1794, at Waterford, Vt.; m. Ben- jamin Green, of Westford, Oct. 15, 1815. 345— 2. John ; b. June 8, 1797, in Westford, Mass.; d. in 1870. 346— 3

Note About Images