Joseph Curtis, Jr.

Married Elizabeth Wells July 05, 1711 in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Ct.

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Category: Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, Connecticut

Biography ==*Joseph CURTISS was born 1 Nov 1687 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut.*Joseph Curtis was born November 6, 1687 at Stratford, Connecticut, toparents Joseph and Bethyah Curtis.<ref name=barber>Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Reference Stratford volume, page 46] Subscription required.</ref>*Joseph Curtis, Jr. married Elizabeth Welles July 5, 1711.<ref>Hollister Family of America, compiled by Lafayerre Wallace Case, MD 1886, Reference page 35. NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED TO VIEW</ref> Another source lists Elizabeth's last name spelled Wells, and doesn't show Jr. for Joseph.<ref name=barber/>

• Mentioned in his will:
  1. Wife: Elizabeth
  2. Daughter: Mary Curtiss, wife of Daniel Curtiss
  3. Daughters: Elizabeth, Tabitha & Bethia Curtiss
  4. Sons: James (eldest son), Joseph, Gideon & Robert Curtiss
  5. Witness: Ephraim Curtiss (likely his brother)*Joseph Curtiss, late of Stratford wrote his will July 1,1738, and it was probated Aug. 2, 1738. It mentioned his wife, Elizabeth, and children Mary wife of Daniel Curtiss, Elizabeth, Tabitha, Bethia Curtiss, James, Joseph, Gideon, and Robert. Executors were his wife Elizabeth and son James. Witnesses Ephraim Curtiss, William Burton, and Robert Walkar, Jr.<ref>Fairfield County, CT: Probate Records, 1704–1757 . (Online database:AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), (Unpublished abstraction by Spencer P. Mead, "Abstract of Probate Records of Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut" 1934) Reference page 2833. Subscription required</ref>

Sources ==*Curtiss, Frederic Haines. A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family (Rockwell and Churchill, Boston, 1903-1953), pages 9, 18*findagrave.com*Hollister Family of America, compiled by Lafayerre Wallace Case, MD 1886, Reference page 35*Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, page 657

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From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:*Connecticut Town Birth Records (Barbour Collection), 1687*Connecticut Town Marriage Records (Barbour Collection), 1711*Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1738