47. CAPTAIN JOSIAH REMICK ... born in Kittery, 10 Oct. 1758, died in Eliot, 9 Jan. 1844. He married in Kittery, 12 Dec. 1787 (intention dated 25 Nov. 1787), MARTHA-KELLEY PARRY, born about 1759, died
in Eliot, 30 Dec. 1854, aged ninety-five years, daughter of John and Mary (Hammond) Parry.
His military service follows:
"Remick, Josiah, Private.
Enlisted, May 21, 1776, and served as a private in Capt. T. Fernald's company, of the Eighteenth Infantry. Was sick in hospital at Fort George, Dec. 8, 1776.
Was private in the third company of town militia, June 23, 1779, also Oct. 20, 1785.
Commissioned Ensign of the same company, May 25, 1801, and Captain, March 30, 1807.
Was honorably discharged April 24, 1817."
(Kittery & Eliot, Me., in the American Revolution, p. 169.)
The official records of his service in the Revolution read:
"Remick, Josiah. Private, Capt. Tobias Fernald's co., Col. Edmund Phinney's regt.; muster roll dated Garrison at Fort George, Dec. 8, 1776; enlisted May 21, 1776; reported sick in general hospital; also, list of men drafted from Col. John Frost's (2d York Co.) regt.; dated May 7, 1777, and endorsed 'for Rhode Island'."
(Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution, 13: 108.)
Josiah Remick was listed in the Census of 1790 for Kittery with a family of two males over sixteen, none under, and two females. He was a shoemaker by trade and bought a house and lot on the road to the River, 15 Mar. 1797, of Daniel Field. As early as 1808, he is called "Captain," in the records, due to his position in the local militia. He lived on Eliot Neck at the head of the Great Cove.
Josiah Remick and wife are mentioned as members of the Second Church of Kittery 20 Sept. 1794 and 15 Jan. 1804, and had their children baptised in this church. He was buried near where he lived on the Great Cove and his gravestone is still extant. His daughter, Statira-Manning (Remick) Shapleigh, was said to have owned an old Bible brought over from England by one of the early Remicks. This Bible was in the possession of her son, Augustus-Parry Shapleigh, of Eliot, in March 1891, but contained no records of any kind.
