Person talk:Joseph Gerrish (2)

From Joseph Gerrish (18): wrong family [5 August 2014]

Source on this page: Source:Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine

Vol. III; pp. 1260-1261

(II) Captain John, eldest son and child of Captain William and Joanna (Lowell) Gerrish, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, February 12, 1645, and died in 1714, aged sixty-nine years. In 1666 he settled in Dover, and was a merchant and farmer. In 1670 he was quartermaster of troops; captain of militia in 1672; high constable in 1683; member of the special assembly convened by Governor Canfield in 1684; representative from Dover to the general assembly under the administration of Governor Andros in 1689-90. In 1692 he became a royal councillor of New Hampshire, and April 27, 1697, he was appointed by the assembly assistant justice of the superior court of pleas of New Hampshire, and this office he held until the time of his death. He married August 19, 1667, Elizabeth, daughter of Major Richard Waldron, of Dover. Children: Richard, John, Paul, Nathaniel, Timothy, Joseph and Benjamin, and three daughters.

According to John's Bible record (here), there is no son Joseph.Old Kittery and Her Families shows no son Joseph in this family.

Burrage does not indicate how he arrived at his conclusion, so there is nothing further we can do to explain it away. I have used this page to put a son Joseph into the family of William Gerrish, John's father, who did have a son Joseph. This Joseph would have been roughly a contemporary to John's, and so may very well be the source of Burrage's confusion? --Jrich 16:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)