"CHILDREN OF JOSEPH BURRITT [5] AND SARAH UFFORD
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6. ix. Joseph, b. Aug. 21, 1795."
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"TRIBE OF JOSEPH BURRITT [6] AND ASENATH CURTISS
Joseph (6), b. Aug. 21, 1795, served a long apprenticeship to a watch repairer and silversmith at East Haven, Ct., who was a master of his calling. .... June 17, 1816, he was married to Asenath Curtiss of East Haven, and in October of the same year, they left Stratford, Ct., in a one horse wagon, for Ithaca, N.Y., where they arrived after a journey of ten days. Here he entered into partnership with Wm. P. Burdick with whome he was associated in business for nearly a quarter century. He was a member of the Aurora street M.E. church for over fifty years, and most of the time an official; for long the oldest living member of No. 2 fire company; a Free Mason; an overseer of the poor; a trustree of the village and academy, and director of Tompkins county National Bank; for some thirty years treasurer of the Ithaca Mechanics' Society. He was twice married, his 2nd wife being Lucinda, widow of Mr. Vandyke of Covert, N.Y. The organ of the jewler's trade, the Jeweler's Record, in 1883, claimed for Mr. Burritt that he was the oldest living jeweler in the United States. He died March 9, 1889. His 2nd wife died Feb. 2, 1867."
