Joshua Spaulding (1760 - 1825)

Born 14 Dec 1760 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut Colony

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Died 26 Sep 1825 at age 64 in Newburg, Wyoming, New York, United States

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Biography

Joshua was born in 1760. He passed away in 1825.

In 1822, Rev. Joshua Spaulding wrote a fascinating account of the life of his paternal grandmother Hannah Wilson Spaulding Stuart, in a letter to a cousin. After she was widowed when Joshua's grandfather died in a road accident, she took up with and eventually married, in Connecticut, a Scottish adventurer who told her that his name was Henry Stuart and that he was of royal blood. He appears to have been associated with the efforts of Charles Edward Stuart, known as the Young Pretender, to claim the British throne. A transcription of that letter can be found in an Appendix to Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts, self-published and copyrighted in 1991 by Ken Stevens, viewable by short-term borrowing on archive.org.

Sources

• A collection of family records, with biographical sketches, and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Douglas, or allied to families of that name, by Douglas, Charles Henry James, 1856-1931 https://archive.org/stream/collectionoffami00doug#page/204/mode/2up

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85352250.html

• Spalding memorial; a genealogical history of Edward Spalding, of Massachusetts Bay, and his descendants, by Spalding, Samuel Jones, 1820-1892 https://archive.org/stream/spaldingmemorialcad00spal#page/n101/mode/2up and https://archive.org/stream/spaldingmemorialcad00spal#page/n167/mode/2up