PARENTS: Isaac Isham, born Barnstable, MA., and Elizabeth Brown. They raised their family at Colchester, Westchester Parish, [now in New London County,] CT.

WIFE: Sarah Mobbs, married SEP 16, 1783, at East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT.

SON: Ezra Isham, husband of Lucinda E. Grimshaw. Ezra and Lucinda had a daughter named Sarah Ruth Isham.

CHILDREN OF JEHIEL & SARAH:
1. Bathsheba (1784-1784)
2. Ebenezer (1785-1863)
3. Henry (1787-1854)
4. Adosha (1788-1880)
5. Sarah (1789-1789)
6. Isaac Isham (1791-1813)
7. Silas (1793-1882)
8. Elias (1795-1869)
9. Sarah (1797-1845)
10.William (1798-1881)
11.Amasa (1799-1887)
12.Gershom (1801-1878)
13.Ezra Isham (1803-1877)
14.Sophia Isham (1805-1887)
15.Eunice (1807-1884)

SIBLINGS OF JEHIEL ISHAM:
Jehiel was the 9th of 10 children (4th son) born of Isaac Isham (1718-1804) and his 1st wife Elizabeth Brown (1724-1770). Jehiel's siblings were: Elizabeth (b. 1742), Eunice (b. 1743), Abigail (b. 1746), Hannah (1749-1769), Isaac (1751-1816), Susannah (b. 1754), Ebenezer (1756-1780), .William Isham (1759-1849), Jane (b. 1764), Henry (b. 1773), Hannah (1776-1778), Chauncey (1778-1872), and Wealthy (1784-1863).
(Note: Sibling Info listed above contributed by Herman C. Brown.)

BIOGRAPHY: Jehiel Isham, born in Westchester parish, Colchester, Conn. June 17, 1761; died in St. George, Vt. Sept. 17, 1851 (one record says 1852); married in East Haddam, Conn. Sept. 16 (or 19) 1783, Sarah Mobbs, born in East Haddam May 7 (or 9), 1762, died in St. George June 5 (or 12), 1847, daughter of Pierce and Eunice (Sawyer) Mobbs of East Haddam.

Connecticut records show no Revolutionary service for Jehiel Isham, but his application for a pension, dated Apr. 14, 1818, is on file at Washington, D.C. This declares that he enlisted Apr. 1782, as private in Capt. Stillwell's Company, Col. Grosvenor's Regiment, Connecticut Line. This was probably the same company in which his brother William Isham was serving. The pension was granted. He engaged in no battle, and probably served only on guard duty. There is no indication of the places of service.

Jehiel Isham probably served his apprenticeship with some farmer in East Haddam, Conn., for it was there that he met Sarah Mobbs, his future wife. Soon after his marriage he joined his cousin, Joshua Isham, Jr. who began the settlement at St. George in the spring of 1784. The little company, with their wives and families, rode to
St. George on horseback from Connecticut, and took up land in the smallest town in Vermont, lying about four miles southeast of Burlington. The writer visited the place in 1908, walking down from Burlington. He was courteously received by Mr. Tilley and was given much information regarding the Ishams of that region. Nearby was the cemetery, where many of the name have found their last resting place. The town had at that time twelve voters. It is a quiet rural spot.

Jeheil Isham was a man of great activity and endurance and left behind him a numerous posterity. A newspaper of the time states that his age at death was ninety years, three months and six days. There were present at his funeral eight children, whose united ages were four hundered and seventy years, sixty-eight grandchildren, and twenty-one great-grandchildren.

SOURCE: "An Index of the Ishams in England and America," pages 126, 127. Compiled by Edward Paul Isham (Nov. 1984). Portions of this book have been taken from "A Survey of the Ishams in England and America," by Homer W. Brainard, 1938.

MILITARY: "Jehials Rev. War records. National Archives. He enlisted Apr. 1, 1782 and served with the 1st. Regt. 3rd. Co. Col. Zebulon Butler and was discharged Apr. 17, 1783. He was listed as sick in Aug., 1782. He was mustered on 14 March, 1783 back in Co.3 Commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas Grosvenor. His pension application is quite lengthly as he failed to notify the proper authorities that he moved to New York to be with his son, and then back to Vermont."
MILITARY SOURCE: Dennis Craddick