Joshua Cane (1757)

Born 1757 in Sanford, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima (Stewart) Cane — married 31 Jan 1781 in Wells, York, Massachusetts, United States

Died [date unknown] in Wells, York, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Joshua Cane served with Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

Cane, Cain, Joshua, MA b 1757 r Sanford 1777 Capt Leightons co Captian Littlefields' s co 1S; S-3, p 74 aso r Wells page 110 & 114 Soldiers Sailors & Patriots of the Revolutionary War_Maine by Carlton & Sue Fisher

Revolutionary War reference to Cane, Joshua. He was the son of Joshua Cane, who took up a settler's lot in 1739. After his father's death, and mother's second marriage, he moved to Wells. Though his name appears among Sanford names on a muster-roll of 1778, he lived in Wells in November of that year. page 74 History of Sanford.

Israel Smith, Daniel Eastman, Daniel Goodrich, Nathan Powers, William Powers, Joshua Cane, John Huson, and Charles Smith were in Captain Samuel Waterhouse's company. Colonel Jacob Ger- rish's regiment, on guard at Winter Hill, from April 2 to July 3. 62 HISTORY OF SANFORD.

James Chadbourn, Joshua Cane, and Nathan Powers were in Cap- tain Samuel Sawyer's company, Major Littlefleld's detachment (York County) in the expedition against Penobscot, July 7 - September 6, 1779. SANFORD IN THE REVOLUTION. 65

Joshua was born in 1757. He is the son of Joshua Cane.

Sources

• Clan Stewart Magazine