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Josiah Priest (1706 - aft. 1764)

Josiah Priest
Born in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of and
Husband of — married 18 Sep 1727 (to 1738) in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusettsmap
Husband of — married 16 Jan 1739 in Waltham, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died after after age 57 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Baymap [uncertain]
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Biography

Josiah Priest was born in Watertown in 1706. In 1727 he married Mary Bemis in Weston (though both lived in Watertown); they had four (six?) children born 1731-1734. She died in 1738. In 1738/39 he married Mary Brown of Concord; they had ten children born in Waltham 1739-1761 and two in Groton 1762-1765.

Footnote

The birthplace the first child of Josiah's second marriage, Josiah, has not been ascertained. Groton has been claimed. Waltham is likely.

For Josiah Sr.'s death Groton seems likely but no record appears.

Sources


Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachuetts, Town Clerk vital records, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Watertown/aBirthsP.shtml

Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Town Clerk Vital Records, https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Weston/Images/Weston_021.shtml (Mary Bemis)

Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Town Clerk Vital Records, http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Waltham/aMarriagesP.shtml (Mary Brown)

THE PRIEST FAMILY COLLECTION OF DATA, ORIGINAL, CONTRIBUTED AND SELECTED, CONCERN- ING VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE PRIEST FAMILY. COMPILED BY GEO. E. FOSTER, 1900. ITHACA, N.Y.: WEST HILL PRESS https://archive.org/stream/priestfamilycoll00fost/priestfamilycoll00fost_djvu.txt

Western Michigan Genealogical Society (WMGS) Members Genealogy, http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I17014&tree=Schirado

Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. by Henry Bond, M.D. Boston, 1860, https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond

http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=5086:1344&ref2=5086:1345

OneWorldTreeSM, Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.





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