Ezra Bishop 1
- Born: 20 Mar 1770, Greenwich, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada 1 2 4
- Marriage: Jerusha Newcomb in 1791 1 2 3
- Died: 3 Jun 1833, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada aged 63 1 5
 Noted events in his life were:
• Taxation, 1791, Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. 6
• Residence, 1798 to 1833, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 2 7
• Alt. Death, 2 Jun 1833. 2
• Probate, 6 Sep 1833, Hopewell Parish, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 8 His will was dated 2 Jan 1833.
Ezra married Jerusha Newcomb, daughter of Andrew Newcomb and Jerusha Bigelow, in 1791.1 2 3 (Jerusha Newcomb was born on 15 Nov 1774 in Nova Scotia, Canada 1 2 3 and died on 26 Oct 1858 in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 2 3.)
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Sources
1
Genealogical Committee of the Bishop Family Association, Tangled Roots, Descendants of John Bishop (1709-1785) of Horton, Nova Scotia A New England Planter Family, 4 volumes (Wolfville, Nova Scotia: Genealogical Committee of the Bishop Family Association, 1990), 4: 8.
2
Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. 124; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006.
3
Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. N-13; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006.
4
Aurthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County (Salem, Massechusetts: The Salem Press Company, (Online at Our Roots, http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1416), 1910), 573.
5
John Bearse Newcomb, Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family (Chicago, Illinois: Knight & Leonard, 1874), 107.
6
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, "Nova Scotia Poll Tax Rolls 1791-1793," database, That's My Family (www.thatsmyfamily.info : accessed 30 Jan 2009), Entry for Ezra Bishop .
7
Daniel F. Johnson, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, "Newspaper Vital Statistics," database, Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats), Newspaper record of Ezra Bishop.
8
R. Wallace Hale, Early New Brunswick Probate Records, 1785-1835 (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), Ezra Bishop Sr. Will and Probate, 6 Sep 1833: 33.
