Welcome to the Benjamin Freeman Bird Ancestry Site! The purpose of this site is to create a clearinghouse of correct and solidly documented information regarding Benjamin Freeman Bird, his immediate family, and his ancestors. We will not be focusing on the descendants of Benjamin’s children. If you have a genealogy site that focuses on his descendants, please let us know and we would be happy make a link to your site.
Note: Please do not post in your comments any information on any descendants of Benjamin Freeman Bird except for his children and their immediate families. We want to make sure privacy is protected, and any more recent information posted to this site will be removed.
We appreciate your cooperation, and we look forward to working with you!
I was wanting to download the pictures from the other website, but I do not have the address. Could you email that to me? My aunt told me about it and would like the pictures.
Thank you!
All of the pictures should be on this site soon. Thanks for your patience.
A gold mine of good history.
However, it seems that your photo #21 of James Bird, and photo #34 of Richard Bird are the same photo?
Thanks for checking.
You are so right. Thanks for the tip! We will fix it as soon as we can. I think #22 is James Bird, and #21 and #34 are Richard.
I am a descendant of Charles Bird and his daughter, Eliza Jane Bird Merrell/ill. In 2010 I documented with primary documents my relationship to William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, through the Bird, Kennedy, Churchill, Bradford line. If you are a descendant of Mary Ann Kennedy (Charles Bird’s first wife), you are also descended from Richard Warren and Isaac Allerton, both of whom were original Mayflower passengers.
If you want to join the Mayflower Society (which you should) and you can relate to my line, the hard work is all done for you. In 2011, I documented my membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution Society back to Jeremiah Bird as my Patriot. Again, if you can relate to my line, the documenting is done and you too would be eligible to join DAR or SAR. I am very grateful for the work on this website. Thank you Sandi. This is awesome!
How do we find your documentation? I am a descendant of Charles Bird’s son, John Pratt Kennedy Bird. Thank you. Ellen Barzee
Thank You so much for making this website. I learned so much last night as I found it. I’m so proud to be a descendant of Benjamin Freeman Bird. I am from his second son Charles line. I never knew anything about him until I read what I did. Thank you.
I appreciate all the work you have done on this website. I would like to see names by the pictures becuase I have not idea who many of them are. Thank you, Ellen Barzee
As a descendant of Benjamin Freeman Bird, I am concerned about the accuracy of the familysearch website. They list the parents of Elizabeth Marsh as… Elias Marsh and Mary Davenport. However, Elizabeth’s parents should be Esther Cutter Marsh Freeman and Benjamin Freeman. Am I mistaken?
Elias Marsh and Mary Davenport did have a daughter, Elizabeth according to his will dated 25 Sep 1788. However, this was a different Elizabeth Marsh than the one who was the mother of Benjamin Freeman Bird. The whole New Jersey Marsh family seems to be related, and I have spent a lot of time collecting Marsh data, then trying to piece it together. I have been dealing with some health issues, but hope to soon get back to the task of posting more family group sheets and pedigree charts. FamilySearch can be frustrating because people can go in and change what was correct, so if we sort things out on this website and share the correct information we find, maybe we can eventually get everything done right. We can only hope! If you have good sources on our Bird lines, please feel free to send them to us.
Oops. No. Apparently, Elizabeth’s parents should be Esther Cutter Marsh Freeman and Charles Marsh. But Elizabeth named her son, Benjamin Freeman Bird after her step father Benjamin Freeman.