Joshua Young was born on 27 September 1704 in Scituate, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of Thomas and Sarah (White) Young.[1][2]
He married Elizabeth Cudworth on 22 August 1732 in Scituate.[3] Elizabeth was living on 10 November 1748 when she released her dower rights.
[4] Their son Joshua named his second child "Elizabeth Cudworth Young."[5]
Joshua Young of Scituate, saddler, sold land of his father Thomas late of Scituate on 11 May 1733 to Joseph Young.[6]
In 1737, Joshua signed a receipt for his share of his father's estate.[7]
He also sold land to Thomas Merritt on 10 November 1748 with Elizabeth, wife of Joshua, giving up her dower right.[8]
Joshua married, secondly, Lydia Barnard on 11 December 1751 in Boston.[9] She was born about 1706 and died on 29 September 1793, age 87, and was buried in Scituate.[10] There were no children of this marriage.[2]
Joshua died in Scituate before 29 October 1757, the date that a bond was posted by Thomas Young of Scituate as guardian to Joshua Young, minor son of Joshua Young late of Scituate deceased. Joseph Young was surety on the bond.[11]
No probate records are found for Joshua in Plymouth County.[2]
Children of Joshua and Elizabeth Young, born Scituate:[12][2]
Hannah, bp. 23 Sep 1733 "daughter of Joshua;" d. 23 Dec 1821 age 90, unmarried.
↑ 2.02.12.22.3 Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White. Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) pp. 19, 57-58.
↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1731-1735 vol 27-29 > image 280 of 732; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Plymouth County Deeds 28:22, Joshua Young to Joseph Young, land of his father Thomas Young deceased, 1733.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997D-D222 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1732-1738 vol 7 > image 196 of 242; State Archives, Boston.
"Young, Lydia, Mrs., bur. Sept. 29, 1793, a. 87 y. Col. Cen."
↑Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Plymouth County Probate file #23573, guardianship of Joshua Young. (Link by $ubscription.)
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