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Joseph was the 2nd of eight children (2nd son) born of Thomas Weeks (1718-1804) and his wife Catherine Clark (1722-1818). Joseph's siblings were: Nathaniel (1744-1811), Susanna (1749-1824), Mary (born 1751), David (born 1754), Elizabeth (born 1756), John (born 1759), and Shivery (baptized in 1767).
In April 1775, Joseph enlisted at Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, for eight months as a Militia Man in Captain Samuel Billing's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Massachusetts Regiment. Joseph marched with his company through New Braintree, Oakham, Rutland, Holden, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Marlborough, Sudbury, Weston, Waltham, Watertown, and Brookline to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where they were stationed for the duration of their enlistment. Upon arriving at Roxbury, Joseph was appointed Corporal and served in that capacity for the said eight months until discharged. He was not engaged in battle during this enlistment. He was engaged in building forts and standing sentry duty.
Joseph married, on 10 May 1775 at Harwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Hannah Willis (1748-1798), by whom he had one child, a son, Lemuel who was born in 1777.
A few months before Joseph died, by October 1836, he moved from Hardwick, Massachusetts, to Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont, where he resided with his son Lemuel.
Sources:
Baldwin, Thomas W., Vital Records of Hardwick Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 1917, pages 119, 261, 332
US Federal Military Pension File S21562
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers, and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1907, Vol. XVI, page 173.
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