Hello,

My family has lines that relocated to Brockville Ont. if that helps. I haven't deeply researched them, I just know that there were births/deaths recorded there of my line, and there is a Bissell Cemetery there, headstones searchable online, although I don't believe any of them are mine...perhaps far enough back though.

If you are the same person who wrote about Israel Bissell being Jewish, I must confess that I am reasonably in touch with research on him, as he was a distant relative of my line. I must say that I have read of this rumor once before. But from EVERYTHING in the research I've seen, that's all it is. Names of biblical orientation are very common in the Bissell line among others, particularly in the age in which he lived.