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Plymouth, MA

1735 FOSTER Lois Foster born June 9th 1735 (of Thomas Foster & Lois his wife) Birth Plymouth _Plymouth_Vr.



1757 STURTEVANT Nov. 21 Capt. Josiah STURTEVANT Jr. of Hallifax & Mrs. Lois FOSTER of Plymo.'' married at Plymouth Marriage

Husband, Capt. / Dr. Josiah STURTEVANT,
b. 04 Sep 1720, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,
d. 18 Aug 1775, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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. Living STURTEVANT
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

Husband, Dr. Josiah Sturtevant, a physician in practice in the town of Halifax before the Revolutionary War. He early espoused the cause of the king, and on account of his pronounced utterances against the patriot cause, was compelled to leave the town and flee to Boston. He was there appointed a surgeon in the British army, but died soon after, and was buried under the Old South Church, Boston. The following letter illustrates the feeling that existed at the time on the part of the loyalists : -
August 18, 1775.

"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 North 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"