Josiah Upton

Josiah Upton ( Ebenezer 3, Joseph 2, John 1) brother of the preceding, born in North Reading, Aug. 24, 1735; married 1st; Susanna Emerson of Readingm Dec., 28 1756; 2d. Catharine Hartwell. She was a widow, taxed in Charlemont for a house and twenty nine and a half acres of land, in 1798/ He was by occupation a blacksmith and resided in North Reading till about 1769, when he appears to have removed to Bedford. and afterwards, in 1778, to Charlemont, Mass. He was a constable in Reading, 1767; surveyor of highway's, 1764. He was taxed in Bedford in 1771. He died Dec. 10, 1791. His children born in North Reading were by his first wife:

1. Susanna, born Dec. 28, 1757; died September, 1760
2. Josiah, born June 5, 1759; married Sarah Underwood
3. Susanna, born Nov. 11, 1760
4. Lucia, born 1763; baptized March 13, 1763
5. Elias, born Jan. 1, 1765; married --
6. Abiathar, born about 1767; married --
7. Nathaniel, baptized Nov. 6, 1768. In 1798 he owned and occupied a farm of 50 acres in Charlemont. It is believed that he afterwards removed to Western New York. He had no children
8. Joseph, born 1770; married Thirza Flint, Jan., 26, 1797

By second wife:

1. David; married
2. James; born Feb.19 1770; married Olive Boughton
3. Joanna; married 1, Norman Brace; 2 Isaac Marsh
4. Sarah

All the children of the first wife died in Charlemont, except Lucia who died in Rome, NY. 

Source: The Upton Memorial: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of John Upton of North Reading, Mass.; By John Adams Vinton; E. Upton and Sons , Bath, Me.; 1874; pg.174

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Josiah Upton of the North Parish of Reading, and of Bedford and Charlemont, Mass., was born in the former place 24 August 1735 ;* married, 1st, Susanna Emerson ; 2nd, Catherine Hartwell. He was probably born on or near the old homestead in what is now North Reading, where the emigrant spent his latter years ; of which estate a part, at least, seems to have belonged to Josiah Upton’s father. He lost his father when he was nineteen years of age and inherited one-third of the latter’s lands. Soon after this, 28 December, 1756, he married Susanna Emerson of his native town. About the year 1769 he seems to have parted with the ancestral acres and removed to Bedford, where his son Joseph was born and his first wife died. There also it is supposed, about the year 1774, he married his second wife Catherine Hartwell,  believed to have been the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hartwell of Westmoreland, N.H. About this time, certainly as early as 1778 andprobably  before the birth of his daughter Sarah, he removed to Charlemont, a new settlement in the western part of the state, where kindred of his wife had already located. There four children were born to him, and he died 10 December 1791. His widow was taken to Victor, N.Y., by her son James, and died there in, or soon after, 1799. 

* Considerable confusion on this point has been caused by an erroneous inscription on his tombstone, which reads as follows : Josiah Upton Born at Bedford 1728 Moved to Charlemont 1778 Died Dec 10 1791 M 63

His birth, 24 August, 1735, and the births of all his brothers and sisters, children of “ Ebenezer and Sarah Upton,” are to be found in the town records of Reading. Bedford, where the tombstone says he was born in 1728, was not incorporated till 1729. Such erroneous epitaphs are, however, far from uncommon.

Source:MOCAVO / RECORDS / UPTON FAMILY RECORDS : BEING GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS FOR AN UPTON FAMILY HISTORY

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