| Birth: | Jun. 21, 1743
Hebron
Tolland County
Connecticut, USA | | Death: | Nov. 3, 1819
Thetford
Orange County
Vermont, USA | 
Joseph was the 3rd of 7 children (1st son) born of Joseph Hosford (1715-1761) and his wife Eunice Beach (1716-1797 or 1799): His siblings were: Eunice (Unis) (b. 1738), Anne (b, 1740), Mindwell (1745-1829), Aaron (1747-1818), Elihu (1749-1810), and Obadiah (1756-1822).
Joseph married, at Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut, September 27, 1764, Mary Peters (1744-1826) by whom he had 12 children: Mary (Molly) (b. 1765), Eunice (b. 1767), Sarah (b. 1769), Lydia (b. 1771), Joseph (b. 1773), Susannah (b. 1776), Phoebe (1778-1778), Heman (b. 1780), Loton (b. 1782), Phoebe (1784-1854), Lucinda (b. 1786), and Tencey (b. abt. 1790).
Joseph, his wife Mary and infant daughter Mary (Molly) arrived at Thetford (now in Orange County, Vermont) on March 3, 1766. In a 1771 Province of New York Census, Joseph was listed as one of twenty-nine heads of families then at Thetford, Glouchester County, New York (now Orange County, Vermont).
Joseph served for 12 days as a Private, along with his brothers Sergeant Elihu and Private Aaron, in Captain William Heaton's (Thetford) Company of Vermont Militia from August, 1780 to April 1781, in the alarm at Royalton and twice to Newbery. In October 1780, an enemy force (British and their Indian Allies) raided Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, burnt the town, and captured a number of people and carried them to Canada.
References:
(1) "Ye Horseforde Booke - Horsford-Hosford Families in the United States of America" by Henry Hallock Hosford, 1936, pages 34 and 50
(2) "The Hosford Genealogy" by Norman F. Hosford & David H. Hosford, 1993, pages 25-26 and 47-49
(3) "Gazetteer of Orange County, VT. 1762-1888" by Hamilton Child, 1888, pages 430 and 431
(4) "The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783" by John E. Goodrich, 1904, pages 364 and 365
Family links:
Spouse:
Mary Peters Hosford (1744 - 1826)
| | | Burial:
East Thetford Cemetery
Thetford
Orange County
Vermont, USA |
Created by: Chazmanbsr
Record added: Nov 19, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 31539105 |
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