Josiah Starr II (1693 - 1778)

Born 1693 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Rebekah (Bushnell) Starr — married about 1713 (to 22 Jul 1757) in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut

Husband of Rebecca (Seymour) Starr — married about 1765 in Danbury, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1778 at about age 85 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

• he had 7 children and 2 wives - Rebekah Unknown, who died 1757 and Rebekah Boughton who died 1775

In 1767, he and his children received a distribution from his brother, Comfort Starr's estate.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate records v. 1-3 1744-1782”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-892K-TFT3 : 23 February 2023), FHL microfilm 007627321, image 312-321, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 2, 1745-1775, Pages 215-232.

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 17 September 2020), memorial page for Josiah Starr II (1693–12 Dec 1778), Find A Grave: Memorial #36399441, citing Wooster Street Cemetery, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Gary Boughton (contributor 46892198) .
• Our Heritage by Danforth & Kathryn Starr, privately published 1955
• Hill, Susan Benedict. History of Danbury, Conn. 1684-1896 (Burr Printing House, New York, 1896)

• Page 17: He was appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut in July, 1745, "to be captain of one of the companies now to be raised and sent to Cape Breton to reinforce the troops there" and in May, 1746, he was appointed "to be captain of the Fifth Company in the regiment to be raised in the expedition against Canada."
• Page 505: Josiah, the fourth son, was born about 1693, and a gravestone erected to his memory in 1790 in this old ground reads that he died December, 1778, in his eighty-fifth year.

• Starr, Burgis Pratt. A History of the Starr Family of New England (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1879) Page 269 & Page 386-7.
• Bailey, James Montgomery. History of Danbury, Conn., 1684-1896. "We find in the records of the Starr family that Captain Josiah Starr (born 1693) was appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut in July , 1745 , “ to be captain of one of the companies now to be raised and sent to Cape Breton to reinforce the troops there ; ' ' and in May , 1746 , he was appointed " to be captain of the Fifth Company in the regi ment to be raised in the expedition against Canada . ” He died in Danbury in 1778 , “ full of honors and full of years . " p. 17
• Bennett, Anne Selene. The First Wife of Ezra Dibble (1697–1739) Was Rebecca Starr, Not Hannah Starr, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2020) Vol. 174, Page 157.