This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IGB.2ACI/198.1 Message Board Post: There was a Jesse Bishop who emmigrated from Richmond, Ontario County,, NY. after his parents died.He was born there 5-24-1803. Son of Issac & Lucinda Short-Bishop, a farmer born in Blandford, Conn. She was born in Mass.Jesse wed Abigail Fox 9-4-1825 in NY.He came to Michigan 1831.He had 9 children.H was around after 1879. >From here you try to connect the gap. He was in Romeo, MI mostly.So the historical group there could help more I would think.He owned a grist mill there.No children listed. Good luck.