Zebulon Bidwell - East Hartford, CT - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

The Bidwell's are one of the oldest families (late 1600s) in East Hartford. They owned a saw-mill near here on the Hockanum, river.

Zebulon was married to Mary Burnham, a decendent of Thomas Burnham who bought the land of East Hartford and South Windsor from the podunk indians in 1659.

In the Battle of Freeman's Farm (aka Battle of Stillwater) in the Battle of Saratoga, Zebulon Bidwell was faatlly wounded when he lost a leg to a cannon ball. He died the next day.

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Captain Bidwell is referenced in an article about his great-grandson, Benson Bidwell, an inventor. (See page 191) (visit link)

Geneology of Zebulon Bidwell (see bottom of pg 79 to pg 80): (visit link)

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