Bickford newsletter
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Quarterly.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Aug 1989) -

Editor: Mahlon C. Bickford and Phyllis Bickford Meyer.

Only one issue published for vol. 5 (1993).

Published in Washington, D.C.; Buffalo, New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hoboken, New Jersey; Jersey City, New Jersey; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Unity, Maine.

One fold-out pedigree chart comes with vol. 2 no. 3 (autumn 1990). Some text is photocopies of original, handwritten docuements, which may be hard to read. Best copy available.

Includes bibliographic references.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bickford (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Denmark, England, Ireland, and Scotland. Immigrant John Bickford (1607-1676) was born in Devonshire, England, and became a freeman in Dover, New Hampshire in 1654. Some focus is on (but not limited to) the Belgrade Bickford line who descend from Benjamin Bickford and Lydia Stanton, who settled in Belgrade, Maine ca. 1794. In the 1600s, some Bickfords settled in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In the 1700s, some settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), Connecticut, Maine, New York, and Vermont. During the 1800s, some moved to Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec (Canada), California, the Dakota Territory, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington D.C., the Wisconsin Territory, and the Wyoming Territory. Later descendants also lived and died in British Columbia (Canada), Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and elsewhere. Information of appointments to military academies, awards, biographical sketches, births, deaths, genealogies, histories, honors, and marriages were extracted or transcribed from cemetery records, census, journals, land records, military service records, obituaries, parish records, pensions, tax records, vital records, wills, and other sources covering the years from 1000 to the present. Some accounts of persons who changed their names.

Page header title: Bickford family newsletter.

The "Bickford newsletter" was co-founded by Mahlon C. Bickford and Phyllis Bickford Meyer in 1989. In September 1996, a Bickford Family Association was organized at their 3rd annual reunion. The goal of the Association and newsletter is to trace most Bickford lines back to John Bickford of Devonshire, England who immigrated to Dover, New Hampshire in 1623.

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