Josiah Weed (1754 - 1812)

Born 28 Jan 1754 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Seeley) Weed — married 18 Jan 1776 in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 21 May 1812 at age 58 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Josiah Weed was born on 28 Jan 1754 in Stamford, Connecticut to parents Josiah Weed and Abigail Bouton. He married Sarah Seeley on 18 Jan 1776 in Darien, Connecticut. Children: Rhoda, Anne, Mercy Nancy, Lucretia, Linus, Limas, Lewis, son, Eliaphet, Sally, Lewis. He died on 21 May 1812 in New Canaan, Connecticut. He is buried in the Weed Cemetery in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Josiah served in the Revolutionary War as a private and corporal from 1777 to 1781.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #114131343: Weed Cemetery, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut
• Mead, Penfield C., Expanded Weed Births - Stamford, Connecticut, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Anc. Soc., Inc., Stamford, Conn., May 1994) Vol. 36, No. 4, WN 187, Page 173.
• Mead, Spencer Percival. Abstract of Church Records of the Town of Darien (1920) Page 64.

• Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870
• Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index
• Connecticut Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices
• Connecticut Wills and Probate Records
• North America Family Histories