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Jerusha Newcomb
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Jerusha Newcomb 1 3 4
- Born: 15 Nov 1774, Nova Scotia, Canada 1 2 3
- Marriage: Ezra Bishop in 1791 1 2 3
- Died: 26 Oct 1858, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada aged 83 1 2 3
 Another name for Jerusha was Jerusha Newcombe.2
Noted events in her life were:
• Residence, 1798, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 2 She came from Nova Scotia.
• Census: Canadian, 1851, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 5
• Residence, 1851, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 6 Jerusha was living with her son Thomas and his wife Eliza.
Jerusha married Ezra Bishop, son of Timothy Bishop and Mercy Harding, in 1791.1 2 3 (Ezra Bishop was born on 20 Mar 1770 in Greenwich, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada 1 2 7 and died on 3 Jun 1833 in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 8.)
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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
R. Wallace Hale, Early New Brunswick Probate Records, 1785-1835 (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 33.
5
1851 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Albert County, sub-district 3, p. 13, Jerusha Bishop; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Automated Geneology (http://automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 9 Feb 2009).
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1851 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Albert County, sub-district 3, p. 13, Andrew Bishop; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Automated Geneology (http://automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 9 Feb 2009).
7
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.
8
John Bearse Newcomb, Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family (Chicago, Illinois: Knight & Leonard, 1874), 107.
