Joseph Vose (1738 - 1816)

Born 26 Nov 1738 in Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Howe) Vose — married 27 Dec 1761 in Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 May 1816 at age 77 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Joseph Vose is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A119181.

Brigadier General Joseph Vose served with 1st Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Joseph Vose was born in Milton, Mass 26 Nov 1738, the son of Elijah Vose and Sarah Bent.^[1] He married Sarah Howe on 27 Dec 1761 in Milton.^[2]

He was active in the Revolution, beginning as a major in Col. William Heath's Massachusetts Regiment and as Lt. Col. in Col. John Greaton's 24th Continental Regiment. He became a colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment, Continental Army, on 1 Jan 1777. He participated in the Monmouth Campaign as part of George Washington's army. The Regiment then moved north to operations around Newport, Rhode Island. In Feb 1781, 8 companies of Mass. troops were reorganized into a battalion and placed under Vose's command. The battalion was placed in Lafayette's Division for operations in Virginia. In a June 1783 reorganization, he was given command of one of the Massachusetts regiments. He led this regiment into New York City on Evacuation Day, 25 Nov 1783. ^[3] He was breveted Brigadier General at the close of the war. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

He and Sarah had 11 children before and after the war, all born in Milton. He died 22 May 1816.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Milton Births
2. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Milton Marriages
3. ↑ from an article on Colonel Joseph Vose on the National Park Service Yorktown Battlefield site
4. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Nov 11, 2018), "Record of VOSE, JOSEPH", Ancestor # A119181.
5. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
6. ↑ The Massachusetts Magazine
7. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Genealogies of Abraham of Roxbury, James of Ipswich, Abraham of Marlborough and Edward of Lynn, Massachusetts", Vol. 2, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.18.

• Journal of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Vose, April-July 1776
• Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1905) Vol. 7, Page 245: footnote 4

• "The Milton Town Records give the date of Colonel Vose's birth as 26 November, 1738, and Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the CIncinnati (1890), p. 493, give it as 7 December, 1739. In the Milton Church Records his baptism is found under date of 3 December, 1738. The Milton Town Records state that he died 22 May, 1816, aged 76."

• Milton Records, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843 (Alfred Mudge & Sons, Boston, 1900) Page 70 & Page 136 & Page 253.
• Drake, Francis Samuel. Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati (The Society, Massachusetts, 1873) Page 492-3
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 January 2019), memorial page for BG Joseph Vose (26 Nov 1738–22 May 1816), Find A Grave Memorial no. 29944625, citing Milton Cemetery, Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Grant Mesner (contributor 48544916) .
• Park, Lawrence. Old Boston Families, Number Three, The Savage Family, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1913) Vol. 67, Page 324: see footnote: He "had a horse shot under him in one of the actions connected with the capture of Burgoyne."
• Vose, Ellen. Robert Vose and His Descendants (Boston, Mass., 1932) Page 73-5

• Heitman, Francis Bernard. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution (W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, DC, 1893); p. 23, p. 561

• The Massachusetts Magazine (Salem, Mass., 1908-1918); Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 28

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 16, p. 358-9