Joseph Getchell II (1726 - abt. 1822)

Born 26 Jun 1726 in Wells, York, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Berry) Getchell — married 17 Jul 1750 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1822 at about age 95 in Machias, Washington, Maine, United States

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Biography

Joseph Getchell was born on June 26, 1726, in Wells, Maine, his father, Joseph, was 34 and his mother, Eunice, was 23. He married Mary Mitchell Brown on July 17, 1750, in Scarborough, Maine. They had four children during their marriage. He died in 1822 in Machias, Maine, at the impressive age of 96.

Massachusetts Militia

Joseph Getchell Jr., son of Joseph and Eunice Getchell was born at Wells, Maine and baptized on June 20 or 26, 1726.Everett Lamont Getchell and Frederick G. Getchell, The Family of Samuel Getchell of Salisbury, Mass. (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)), Vol. 63 (1909), p. 270]George Sawin Stewart, A.B, Records of the First Church of Wells, Maine (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)), Vol. 75 (1921), p. 105

Joseph Getchell Jr. married Mary (Berry) Mitchell, widow of Israel Mitchell, in Scarborough, Maine on July 17, 1750. Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families (Press of Lewiston Journal Company, Lewiston, Maine, 1903, 822 pages), p. 610] Getchell--Gatchell: a Family Genealogy of Maine Pioneers, by Sylvia Fitts Getchell, 2005, p. 6

In 1765 they removed to Machias, Maine.

George W. Drisko, Narrative of the Town of Machias, The Old and the New, The Early and the Late (Press of The Republican, Machias, Maine, 1904, 575 pages), p. 23]

He built the first saw mill erected in eastern Maine.

He died at Machias in 1822 at the age of 96.

Children: Benjamin born in Scarborough February 4, 1753; married Mehitable Meserve. At the age of 26 he removed to St. Stephen, New Brunswick and was one of the first settlers there. Mary born June 9, 1754. Joseph born May 8, 1757; married Sally Berry of Machias, Maine.

Military

• 1751: Sergeant in the Colonial Militia under his father.
• 1775: June 12: First Naval battle of the American Revolution: One of the volunteer crew of the sloop Unity, commanded by Capt. Jeremiah O'Brien at the capture of the British armed schooner Margaretta. Maine in War: Organization and Officers of the Society, what the Society Has Accomplished, Constitution of the Society, Roll Members, Officers of National Society, Constitution of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Maine Society

Thurston Print, 1897, p. 85

• 1775: July 14: also at the capture of the British schooner Diligence and her cutter Tatmagouch.
• 1777: Private of Artillery in Capt. John Preble's Co., 1777.
• Was a pensioner.
• 1779: Corporal in the Penobscot expedition for the reduction of Canada.

Research Notes

Sources

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 for Joseph Getchell. Page 370.

• Sweetman, Jack. American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-present, Naval Institute Press, 2002
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 11, J. T. White Company, 1901, p. 112-3

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