Josiah Talmadge (1744 - 1790)

Born 20 Jul 1744 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

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Died 13 May 1790 at age 45 in Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut

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The name Josiah Talmadge appears on the muster rolls of the Seventeenth Military Company of the Second Regiment of Militia which turned out to meet the British at the New Haven alarm 5 July 1779. His grave is also mentioned among those of veterans of the Revolution in nineteenth century publications of Hamden history. The company boundaries later became the boundaries of the town of Hamden when it was formed.

JOSIAH TALLMADGE was born on July 20, 1744, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony. He married Mary Bassett, of Hamden, Connecticut Colony. According to the text, The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy, "He was a very prosperous miller living near Whitneyville, and the " Tallmadge Mills." His children were :

1. Joseph, born about 1766; baptised June 6, 1773.
2. Micajah, baptised Nov. 17, 1775.
3. Mary, baptised July 3, 1774; died 1780.
4. Enos, baptised Oct. 7, 1781.
5. James, born 1780; baptised July 17, 1785.
6. Mary, baptised Feb. 28, 1779.^[1]

He died in New Haven, Connecticut on May 13, 1790. He and his wife were buried in what is now New Haven Green.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Talmadge, Arthur. The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy (The Grafton Press, New York, 1909) page 79
2. ↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Inscriptions on Tombstones in New Haven, Erected Prior to 1800 (1882), Page 591

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