Josiah Dartt

(3 May 1759 - 26 August 1829)
Josiah Dartt|b. 3 May 1759\nd. 26 Aug 1829|p422.htm|Joshua Darte|b. 14 Aug 1727|p411.htm|Deborah Spencer|b. pre 1735|p418.htm|Daniel Darte Junior|b. 31 Aug 1691\nd. 9 Feb 1771|p395.htm|Jemimah Shaylor|b. 9 Feb 1702|p406.htm|||||||

4-greats-granduncle of Darrell Allen Martin.
Josiah was born in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut, on 3 May 1759.1 He was the son of Joshua Darte and Deborah Spencer. He was a Revolutionary soldier, who served in a company commanded by Davis Howlit, part of Colonel Ashley's regiment of militia that marched from Keene, N.H. to reinforce the Continental Army at Fort Ticonderoga in May, 1777. That regiment went again to Ticonderoga 4 July 1777 to 10 July 1777. He lived at Keene, N.H. and later perhaps at Weathersfield.2 A Josiah Dart also appears in Capt. William Upham's Company of (Vermont) Militia "for service done at sundry times--1780." He was paid for 8 days and 67 miles travelled. Josiah died on 26 August 1829 probably in Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, at age 70.3,4 He was buried in the northeast part of the Plain Cemetery in Weathersfield.5

Cited documentation

  1. [S42] Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, Genealogy of the Dart Family in America (Philadelphia: Cooper Printing Company, 1927), pg. 13, "Josiah Dartt, born May 3, 1759" and pg. 20, "Josiah Darte, son of Joshua and Deborah Spencer Darte, was born May 5, 1759."
  2. [S42] Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, Genealogy of the Dart Family in America, pg. 20.
  3. [S42] Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, Genealogy of the Dart Family in America, pg. 20, "died Aug. 26, 1829."
  4. [S45] Ernest Warren Butterfield., The Weathersfield Burying Grounds, Weathersfield, Vermont (Reprinted 1989: The Weathersfield Historical Society), pg. 87, "Mr. Josiah Dartt died Aug. 26 1929 Ae 70 years" [sic 1929] next to "Mrs. Elizabeth wife of Mr. Josiah Dartt died April 17 1831 Ae 70 years."
  5. [S45] Ernest Warren Butterfield, The Weathersfield Burying Grounds, Weathersfield, Vermont, pg. 87, "Mr. Josiah Dartt died Aug. 26 1929 Ae 70 years" [sic 1929].
 
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