Josiah Gilbert (1699 - 1781)

Born 24 Mar 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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Died 20 Oct 1781 at age 82 in South Salem, Westchester, New York, United States

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Biography

Josiah, the son of John Gilbert and his second wife Hannah Gilbert was born in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut on 24 Mar 1699.^[1][2][3] Y-DNA testing suggests that he is not the son of John Gilbert

Josiah Gilbert died on 20 Oct 1781 in the 83rd year of his life, and is buried in South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery.^[4][5]

Research Notes

Husband of Elizabeth Smith.

Father of Abijah Gilbert, Lois Gilbert, Nathan Gilbert, Elizabeth :Gilbert, Ephraim Gilbert, Benjah Gilbert and Jacob Gilbert

• Wife: Sarah Unknown

• The only marriage I see for Josiah is in 1722 in Fairfield, Connecticut to Sarah Lord.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) on Ancestry.co.uk
2. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74M-55S : 7 January 2020), Josiah Gilbert, 1699.
3. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 459.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #18803543
5. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 1, p 222.
6. ↑ Josiah Gilbert in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), TEXT: Josiah Gilbert, 14 Jun 1722, Fairfield, Connecticut, Sarah Lord. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.

• Orcutt, Samuel, 1886. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, Genealogies. (Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, Conn.) page 1206 (#4)
• Rockwell, Kenneth W., Genealogies of Early Families of Ridgefield, CT: a Bibliographical Essay, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Nov 2010) Vol. 53, No. 2, Page 74.