Josiah SMITH

4 Sep 1730 - BEF 5 May 1781

• BIRTH: 4 Sep 1730, Needham, Suffolk, MA [1428]
• BAPTISM: 13 Sep 1730, Needham, Suffolk, MA [1429]
• DEATH: BEF 5 May 1781, Pomfret,Windham,Conn. [1430] [1432]

• MARRIAGE: ABT 6 Dec 1748, Ashford, Windham, CT [5718]

• MARRIAGE: 29 Dec 1761, Ashford, Windham, CT [5719]

• MARRIAGE: 15 Feb 1781, Pomfret, Windham, CT [5720] [5721] [5722]

                                         _Christopher SMITH ___
                   _John SMITH _________|
                  |                     |_Mary FAIRBANKS ______+
 _Samuel SMITH ___|
|                 |                      _Ralph DAY ___________
|                 |_Abigail DAY ________|
|                                       |_Abigail CRAFTS ______+
|
|--Josiah SMITH 
|
|                                        _Samuel MORSE ________+
|                  _Joshua MORSE _______|
|                 |                     |_Elizabeth WOOD ______+
|_Zipporah MORSE _|
                  |                      _Samuel PENNIMAN _____+
                  |_Elizabeth PENNIMAN _|
                                        |_Elizabeth PARMENTER _+

[1434] Ancestry of Zipporah Smith from a GEDCOM at RootsWeb by Helen S. Ullmann [hsullman@comcast.net].

"Vital Records of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1845"
Robert Brand Hanson, ed.
Picton Press; Camden, ME; 1997
"Births to Samuel and Zipporah Smith: Josiah, b. 9/4/1730; bap. 9/13/1730."

"Morse Genealogy"
J. Howard Morse, Emily W. Leavitt
Morse Society, New York, 1903
pp40: "Josiah Smith, born September 4, 1730."

"The Correct Ancestry of Ebenezer Smith"
Judith Miner Hine Luedemann
Connecticut Nutmegger, v23, pp68-76 (1990)
"Josiah, b 4 Sept. 1730; bp 13 Sept. 1730; d in Ashford; mar. (1) 6 Dec. 174(-) (these
dates make Josiah a young bridegroom but no other Josiah Smith is in relevant records)
Mary Stoel (Stowell); d. 10 Jan. 1761 "w Josiah"; mar (2) 29 Dec. 1761 Mary (Watkins)
Watkins, dau of Thaddeus and Ann (Humphrey) Watkins, and the widow of Edward Watkins, son
of William; d 18 June 1770 "w Josiah"; mar (3) Levina Sabin."

"More on the Smiths of Ashford, Connecticut"
Helen Schatvet Ullman
Connecticut Nutmegger, v36, pp559-564 (Mar 2004)
"Josiah Smith's first wife, Mary Stowell, was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, on 2 August
1728, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret (Hewett) Stowell and sister of Josiah's brother
Hezekiah's wife. Josiah's third marriage was at Pomfret on 15 February 1781 to Laura
Levina Sabin, born at Pomfret 29 April 1754, died 31 March 1818, daughter of Seth and
Joanna (Cady) Sabin."

[1428] [S106] "Vital Records of Needham, Massachusetts"

• PAGE: 61
  

[1429] [S108] New England Historical and Genealogical Register

• PAGE: 57 (1903):27
  

[1430] [S100] "Correct Ancestry of Ebenezer Smith"

• PAGE: 74
  
• NOTE:

  [1431] Bons was posted on his estate 5 May 1781 by Levina Smith and AbishaiSabin.

[1432] [S103] Pomfret, Conn.,Probate District

• PAGE: 4:104
  
• NOTE:

  [1433] Inventory of Josiah Smith late of Pomfret of the 2nd Regt. of Lt.Dragoons... Conn. line, 27 June 1781. See also file 3725.

[5718] [S102] Lucius M. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records

[5719] [S102] Lucius M. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records

[5720] [S100] "Correct Ancestry of Ebenezer Smith"

• PAGE: 74
  

[5721] [S133] William Sabin and his Descendants, 1609-2000

• PAGE: 40
  

[5722] [S102] Lucius M. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records

• NOTE:

  [5723] From Pomfret VRs, 2:96.