Joseph Sperry (1709 - 1788)

Born 30 Dec 1709 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

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Sergeant Joseph SPERRY ^[1] was born ^[2] 30 Dec 1709.^[3] He died ^[4] Jan 1788. Joseph married ^[5][6] Anna WILMOT on 18 Feb 1731.

Listed among Company members in the "Campaign of 1755" (French & Indian War), 2nd Regiment, Col. Elizur Goodrich, Second Co., Nathan Whiting of New Haven commanding.^[7]

He is also listed as having 7 children with his first wife & no children with his second.

Notice that 3 of his children all died within a few months time in 1738.

Sources

1. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 243. "Campaign of 1755 - Second Regt, Second Co." War Service Records.
2. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1670.
3. ↑ Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850 (Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, Hartford, 1917) Part 1, Page 112.
4. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1670.
5. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1670.
6. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 8, p 1984.
7. ↑ Families of Ancient New Haven, Jacobus, p. 243