Joseph Mather (1753 - 1840)

Born 21 Jul 1753 in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Scott) Mather — married 29 May 1777 (to 29 Feb 1840) in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Descendants

Died 29 Feb 1840 at age 86 in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ensign Joseph Mather served with 9th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Joseph Mather is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A075225.

Private, Captain David Waterbury’s Company, 5th Connecticut Continental Regiment, Colonel David Waterbury, May 9 to December 10, 1775; Private, Captain Samuel Mather’s Company, Connecticut Militia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Mead, August 13 to September 16, 1776; Private, same company, December 24, 1776 to February 24, 1777; Private, Captain Asa Bray’s Company, Colonel Nodiah Hooker’s Regiment, Connecticut Militia, April 3 to May 15, 1777; Sergeant, Captain Eli Reed’s Company, Connecticut Militia; ensign, Provisional Regiment, Connecticut Militia, 1781

Parents: Moses Mather, Hannah Bell

Married Sarah Scott

Children: Hannah Mather, Sarah Mather, Moses Mather, Raina Mather, Clara Mather, Clara Mather, Joseph Mather, Nancy Mather, Betsey Mather, David Scott Mather, Phebe Mather

Burial

Mather Cemetery, Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut

Sources

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Scott Family of Ridgefield, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1968) Vol. 44, Page 14.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #14974332
• Mead, Spencer Percival. Abstract of Church Records of the Town of Darien (1920) Page 95.
• Mather, Horace E., Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1890) Page 157.
• 1925 Year Book of the Sons of the Revolution, page 458

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3X4-4?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 473 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.
• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3CT-Z?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM3%3A1588792203 : 24 January 2018), Connecticut > image 516 of 977; citing various published state rosters, United States.
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