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Birth: 02 Jan 1717 Sudbury / Middlesex / MA Death: abt 1779 Sudbury / Middlesex / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Captain and commanded a Company in the Sudbury, Massachusetts Militia
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
"History of Sudbury, Mass 1889", 1638-1889, pg 402, 406; NSDAR Application #377390
Josiah Hoar: Josiah Hoar was born Jan. 2, 1717/18 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts to John and Ruth (_____) Hoar, and grandson of Daniel and Mary (Stratton) Hoar. During the American Revolution, he served as a Captain in the Massachusetts Militia (shown as such on Muster Roll of Capt. Nathaniel Maynard Oct. 19, 1778). He died about 1779 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. On Feb. 6, 1745/46, he married Mary Walker in Sudbury, Massachusetts. She was born Oct. 11, 1718, and died after 1757/ before 1774, the daughter of Daniel and Dorothy (Manning) Walker. After her death, he married again on Feb. 10, 1774, to Hepzibah (Allen) Williams. Josiah had seven children:
Lucy (1746-)
Jonathan (1747-1813)
Dorothy (1748-)
Sarah (1749-)
Persis (1752-)
Rebeckah (1755-)
Ruth (1757-)
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