Joseph Curtiss (1650 - 1729)

Born 12 Nov 1650 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Bethiah (Booth) Curtiss — married 9 Nov 1676 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 25 Jun 1729 at age 78 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Birth: 12 NOV 1650, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, son of John Curtis and Elizabeth^[1][2][3][4]

Death: 1742, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut,^[1][2]

Married 9 Nov 1676 Bethia Booth^[1][2]

He was one of the most prominent citizens of Stratford. holding the office of town clerk for fifty successive years, 1678-1728, being only 28 years of age when he was elected. In all of the records, he always spelled the name "Curtiss".^[5]

Joseph was a deputy for Stratford to the General Court in Hartford in May & July 1686, May & Oct,1689 May 1690, May 1691, May & june 1692, May & Sept 1693, May 1694 ; Assistant to the Conn. Colony 1698-1721; Commissioner for Stratford 1692-1697, Associate Judge of Fairfield County Court 1698 and Judge of the County Court 1711, 1725; on the the Committee of War for the county of Fairfield in October , 1709; Justice 1722-28. He was a member and was appointed Ensign of the Stratford Company raised for war on March 6, 1692/3.^[2]

Children recorded at Stratford:^[2]

1. Elizabeth b. 17 Jan 1677/8; m. 5 Dec 1694 Samuel Ufford^[2]
2. Anna b.1 Sept 1679^[2]
3. Mary b. abt 1682; d. 16 Apr 1767 in 83rd year; m. 26 Dec 1704 Joseph Nichols; m. (2) Henry Hawley^[2]
4. Ephraim b. 31 Dec 1684, d. at Stratford 9 May 1775 in his 92nd year; m. Elizabeth Stile^[2]s
5. Joseph, b. 6 Nov 1687; d Stratford July 1738; m. Elizabeth Wells 5 July 1711^[2]
6. Nathan b. 21 Feb 1689/90; m. 23 June 1715 Eunice Judson^[2]
7. Josiah b. 31 Mar 1692; d. 26 April 1708^[2]
8. Bethia b. 10 Mar 1695/6; m. 7 Dec 1714 Benjamin Burton.^[2]
9. Eleazer , b. 1 Aug 1699;^[6] d. 21 Oct 1699^[2]
10. Ebenezer, b. 1 Aug 1699;^[6] d May 1700^[2]
11. Eliphalet, b. 1 Aug 1699;^[6] m 7 Dec 1720 Hannah Burroughs^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jacobus, D. Lines. (1952). The genealogy of the Booth family: Booth families of Connecticut for six or more generations. Deland, Fla.: Eden C. Booth. p. 3
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15} Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930.
3. ↑ Cothren, William. History of Woodbury Vol III History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1879. Woodbury, Conn.: Publ by William Cothren, 1879. Deaths pp 689/90 Children’s births p. 658
4. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Stratford. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
5. ↑ Orcutt, Samuel. A history of the old town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut New Haven, Conn. : Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886 p. 262
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 "Wallingford" (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• History of the old town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut
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