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From email 7/21/2011 Find A grave contributer 47560798
"William Bidlack was born 8/8/1754 son of James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack. He was among the first young men of the Wyoming valley to enlist in the Continental Army. During the Battle of Long Island on Aug. 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and confined in a sugarhouse in New York."
fate:
taken Prisoner at Long Island Battle
Confined in the Sugar house Prison-alleged to have starved to death
Brother of Rev Benjamin Bidlack
The massacre of Wyoming: The acts of Congress for the defense of the Wyoming-The Wyoming Historical Society 1895 .p.56
Note: Another brother James Bidlack was slain at the battle of Wyoming in 1778. William Bidlack's mother was a cousin of Captain Robert Durkee also killed at Wyoming in 1778. A distant cousin of his brother Benjamin
Bidlack first wife was Colonel
Ichabod Alden slain at Cherry Valley in 1778
From email 7/21/2011 Find A grave contributer 47560798
"William Bidlack was born 8/8/1754 son of James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack. He was among the first young men of the Wyoming valley to enlist in the Continental Army. During the Battle of Long Island on Aug. 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and confined in a sugarhouse in New York."
fate:
taken Prisoner at Long Island Battle
Confined in the Sugar house Prison-alleged to have starved to death
Brother of Rev Benjamin Bidlack
The massacre of Wyoming: The acts of Congress for the defense of the Wyoming-The Wyoming Historical Society 1895 .p.56
Note: Another brother James Bidlack was slain at the battle of Wyoming in 1778. William Bidlack's mother was a cousin of Captain Robert Durkee also killed at Wyoming in 1778. A distant cousin of his brother Benjamin
Bidlack first wife was Colonel
Ichabod Alden slain at Cherry Valley in 1778
Vital dates from LDs search engine
From email 7/21/2011 Find A grave contributer 47560798
"William Bidlack was born 8/8/1754 son of James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack. He was among the first young men of the Wyoming valley to enlist in the Continental Army. During the Battle of Long Island on Aug. 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and confined in a sugarhouse in New York."
fate:
taken Prisoner at Long Island Battle
Confined in the Sugar house Prison-alleged to have starved to death
Brother of Rev Benjamin Bidlack
The massacre of Wyoming: The acts of Congress for the defense of the Wyoming-The Wyoming Historical Society 1895 .p.56
Note: Another brother James Bidlack was slain at the battle of Wyoming in 1778. William Bidlack's mother was a cousin of Captain Robert Durkee also killed at Wyoming in 1778. A distant cousin of his brother Benjamin
Bidlack first wife was Colonel
Ichabod Alden slain at Cherry Valley in 1778
From email 7/21/2011 Find A grave contributer 47560798
"William Bidlack was born 8/8/1754 son of James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack. He was among the first young men of the Wyoming valley to enlist in the Continental Army. During the Battle of Long Island on Aug. 27, 1776, he was taken prisoner by the British and confined in a sugarhouse in New York."
fate:
taken Prisoner at Long Island Battle
Confined in the Sugar house Prison-alleged to have starved to death
Brother of Rev Benjamin Bidlack
The massacre of Wyoming: The acts of Congress for the defense of the Wyoming-The Wyoming Historical Society 1895 .p.56
Note: Another brother James Bidlack was slain at the battle of Wyoming in 1778. William Bidlack's mother was a cousin of Captain Robert Durkee also killed at Wyoming in 1778. A distant cousin of his brother Benjamin
Bidlack first wife was Colonel
Ichabod Alden slain at Cherry Valley in 1778
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