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 1720 - 1775
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| Born |
04 Sep 1720 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
18 Aug 1775 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA |
| Notes |
- "Dr. Josiah Sturtevant of Plymouth and Halifax (1720-1775) had been a man of prominence and wealth in pre-revolutionary Massachusetts. A surgeon, lawyer, justice of the peace, deputy sheriff, and a captain of Provinchal troops. He begat eighteen children by his two wives - Priscilla Croade and Lois Foster (widow). Throughout the increasing tension with English rule, Josiah remained uncompromisingly loyalist, despite the patriot stand of his brothers and most others of his clan and the majority of his neighbors. For this, he suffered increasing persecutions. At the outbreak of hostilities he galloped from Hakifax to Boston during the nights of April 19 and 20, 1775, so closely pursued that he lost his saddle bags in the chase. There he was confirmed in his Captains commission by the British Commander, Gage, and put in charge of a military hospital, in which he contracted small pox and died Aug 18, 1775.
He was buried in the crypt of the Old South Church, at Boston, Mass. Much of Dr Josiah`s estate was confiscated, including 1488 acres of land he had in the Hartland- Woodstock areas of the New Hampshire grants. Aided by relatives his widow and younger children had a most difficult time in Plymouth County for the next decade. In the fall of 1788 widow Lois Sturtevant remarried in Halifax. She married Sam Savery of Wareham and soon after they moved to Woodstock, Vermont
On the death of her husband Josiah she wrote: "August 18th, 1775 my dear husband departed life. He was in his Fifty-fifth year. At Boston whither he was driven by a mad and deluded mob for no other offence but his loyalty to his Sovereign - God forgive them and grant that his death may be sanctified to me and all the children for our souls everlasting good."
She is buried in Windsor, Vermont - the stone inscription:
"widow Lois Savery died Feby 20, 1815 ae 79 yrs. formerly the widow of Doct. Josiah Sturtevant - Halifax County of Plymouth. Mass"
(2003 - The above I copied from the papers of Basil S. Hammond, a desc of Josiah and Lois. I do not as yet know the source - GJR)
Emailed to me by Gerald J. Rice (gjricevt@adelphia.net, October 10, 2003
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| Person ID |
I469 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Jun 2012 |
| Father |
Josiah Sturtevant, b. 22 Feb 1690, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 17 Feb 1774, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Hannah Church, b. 21 Oct 1699, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 14 Mar 1788, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Married |
24 Dec 1719 |
Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Family ID |
F247 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 1 |
Lois Fuller Foster, b. 09 Jun 1735, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 20 Feb 1813, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| Married |
21 Nov 1757 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Children |
| | 1. Infant Son Sturtevant, b. 18 Feb 1759, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 1759 |
| | 2. Josiah Sturtevant, b. 09 Aug 1760, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. Abt 1790 |
| | 3. Hannah Sturtevant, b. 01 Jan 1762, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 19 Jul 1847, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| | 4. Foster Sturtevant, b. 12 Aug 1763, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 14 Dec 1779, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 5. Lois Sturtevant, b. 30 Jun 1765, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 6. Friend Sturtevant, b. 19 Feb 1767, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 26 Aug 1830, Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, USA |
| | 7. Deborah Sturtevant, b. 03 Nov 1768, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 8. Salome Sturtevant, b. 06 Aug 1770, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 19 Jun 1790, Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 9. George Sturtevant, b. 16 Aug 1771, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 09 Jun 1773, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 10. Rufus Sturtevant, b. 22 Apr 1773, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. Aft 1825, Independence, Allegany, New York, USA |
| | 11. George Sturtevant, b. 23 Jan 1775, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 30 Jun 1847 |
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| Family ID |
F238 |
Group Sheet |
| Family 2 |
Priscilla Croade, b. 1728, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts , d. 15 May 1757, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Married |
07 Aug 1744 |
Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Children |
| | 1. Parnel Sturtevant, b. 27 Jun 1745, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 2. Theophilus Sturtevant, b. 08 Mar 1746, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 12 Apr 1747, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 3. Thomas Sturtevant, b. 24 Jun 1748, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 01 Jul 1748, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 4. Thomas Sturtevant, b. 26 Jan 1749, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 14 Nov 1836, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 5. Priscilla Sturtevant, b. 11 Oct 1751, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 16 Mar 1834, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 6. Josiah Sturtevant, b. 20 Sep 1753, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 13 Mar 1754, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 7. Elizabeth Sturtevant, b. 12 May 1755, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 21 Jan 1756, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| | 8. Croade Sturtevant, b. 20 Jan 1757, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA , d. 19 Aug 1758 |
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| Family ID |
F237 |
Group Sheet |
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| Sources |
- [S39] Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant, Robert H. Sturtevant, (Name: 1986 Edition;), 4-25.
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