Joshua Pitman Trefry 3rd. (1788 - 1870)

Born 25 May 1788 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Bethiah (Eldridge) Trefry — married 1812 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Joshua Pitman Trefry III was born in 1788, the son of Joshua Pitman Trefry II and Elizabeth Kinney of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia^[1]

In 1812 he married Bethia Eldridge, and had children^{[1] [2]}

1. Kimball, born 1813, who married Mary Godfrey the daughter of a lightkeeper from West Lubec Maine^[3]
2. Lydia, born 1815, who married Levi Teal of Cambridge, Mass^[4]
3. Thomas, born 1817, who went west. Was last heard from in 1870.
4. Meredith, born 1819, who married Mary Smith of Lubec, Maine.^[5]
5. Emily, born 1821, who died at age 4
6. Reuben Clements Trefry, born 1823, who married Letitia Kimball, daughter of Captain Samuel Kimball of Barrington on December 27, 1848^{[6] [7]}
7. William, born 1825, who settled in West Dennis Cape Cod and had a family.^[8]

On November 29, 1860, he married a widow, Lavinia Crowell.^[1]

Joshua Pitman Trefry III died April 7, 1870^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 589
2. ↑ Familysearch shows several family trees with this information
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQW-P8Y : 14 July 2016), Kimball Trefry, Lubec, Washington, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 178, sheet 248B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0490; FHL microfilm 1,254,490.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZCD-9ST : 30 December 2015), Lydia Teel in entry for Levi C Teel, 1860.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDH2-FFC : 30 December 2015), Meredith Trefrey, 1860.
6. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6R-BN5 : 18 November 2014), Reuben Trefry, Cheboque, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 32; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13171, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,807.
7. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images : accessed 27 July 2019, memorial page for Reuben Clements Trefry (1822–1916), Find A Grave: Memorial #139064429, citing Arcadia Cemetery, Arcadia, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada ; Maintained by MacSwamp (contributor 46881955).
8. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MWVB-KF6 : accessed 2017-03-12), entry for William Henry TREFFRY.

• Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4NX-QS4 : 24 May 2018), William H. Treffrey and Adaline Snow, 20 Nov 1867; citing Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,433,025.