When Abraham Bidwell was born on 3 March 1769, in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Captain David Welles Bidwell Jr., was 48 and his mother, Esther Lawrence, was 41. He married Abigail Benedict on 26 October 1786, in Ballston Center, Saratoga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Stillwater, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States in 1790 and Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1820. He died on 4 February 1842, at the age of 72, and was buried in Martin Cemetery, Concord, Darke, Ohio, United States.
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English: habitational name from Bedwell (Essex, Hertfordshire), Bedlar's Green (Essex), Bidwell (Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Devon, Somerset), or Biddles Farm (Buckinghamshire), all of which were named as ‘the spring or stream in a shallow valley’ from Old English bydewelle (composed of the elements byde(n) ‘tub’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’).
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