Joshua Hightower III (1697 - 1772)

Born 1697 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Colonial Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Travenor) Hightower — married 1720 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia

Descendants

Died Feb 1772 at about age 75 in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, Virginia

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Biography

Joshua Hightower was the 3rd of his name to be born in early colonial Virginia. He was born between 1696 and 1698 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, English colony of Virginia to Joshua Hightower Jr., and his wife, Eleanor (Charnold) Hightower.^[1]

In 1720 Joshua Hightower III married North Farnham parish neighbor Susannah Travenor. The couple had the following children:^[2]

1. Charnel Hightower b: 30 OCT 1721 in Richmond Co., Virginia
2. Catherine Hightower b: 5 OCT 1723
3. Ann Hightower b: 1726
4. Lettice Hightower b: 17 MAR 1729 in Richmond Co., Virginia
5. Joseph Hightower b: 13 OCT 1731
6. Susannah (Ann) Hightower b: 13 APR 1734
7. Robert W. Hightower b: 24 SEP 1737 in Richmond Co., VA
8. Tavenor Hightower b: 22 APR 1740
9. Epaphroditus Hightower b: 1742

In the 1740-50s, Joshua and Susannah Hightower, along with several of his brothers and neighbors, left Virginia's "Northern Neck," and moved into the frontier area of Amelia County. They homesteaded in Nottaway Parish there. This parish later became Nottaway County. Joshua Hightower III died in February 1772 in Nottaway Parish, Amelia County, Commonwealth of Virginia. His wife survived his passing. She died in 1797 in Nottaway County, Virginia, USA, at 93 years old.

Sources

1. ↑ Note: No birth, marriage, death registers were kept in Virginia parishes until 1700, missing this man's birth by a few years. No primary sources exist for his birth. His father's Will, proven in 1726, does exist. See: Richmond County, Virginia, Will Book 5, p. 16-17, on file in Warsaw, Virginia.
2. ↑ Hightower information on RootsWeb - Susannah Tavenor

• Joshua Hightower on Name: 2639377 -- Pettit Family, RootsWeb Quotes earlier Hightower family genealogists about family origins; includes summary of Joshua Hightower's 1726 Will.

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Hightower-50 was created on 19 May 2010 through the import of My Family File.ged.

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