TUCKER, Josiah

1727 - 1798  (70 years)

• Name	TUCKER, Josiah
  Birth	2 Jan 1726/7	York County, ME
  Gender	Male
  _COLOR	6
  Death	1798	Cherryfield, ME
  Person ID	I35810	Puffers
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2022

  
  

  Father	TUCKER, Nicholas,   b. 1653, Isle of Shoals, ME d. 21 Jan 1717, Kittery, ME (Age 64 years)
  Mother	ENDLE, Jane,   b. CA 1655   d. 4 Dec 1719, MA (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	6 Jan 1690	Kittery, ME   [1]
  Family ID	F9628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LEIGHTON, Susanna,   b. 6 Dec 1742, Dover, NH d. 1794, Cherryfield, ME (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1758	Columbia, ME
  Children	1. TUCKER, Mary,   b. 1782, Cherryfield, ME d. 1845, ME (Age 63 years)   2. TUCKER, Susan,   b. 1776, ME d. 1810, ME (Age 34 years)   3. TUCKER, Betsey,   b. 8 Jan 1796, Cherryfield, ME d. 5 Sep 1885, Cherryfield, ME (Age 89 years)   4. TUCKER, Samuel,   b. 1758, Columbia, ME d. Aft 1840 (Age > 83 years)   5. TUCKER, Robert,   b. 1760, ME d. 1841, ME (Age 81 years)   6. TUCKER, John,   b. 1766, ME d. 1840, ME (Age 74 years)   7. TUCKER, Dorcas,   b. 1768, Cherryfield, ME d. 23 Nov 1826, ME (Age 58 years)   8. TUCKER, Josiah Jr.,   b. 1769, Cherryfield, ME d. Sep 1850 (Age 81 years)   9. TUCKER, Theodore,   b. 1772, Cherryfield, ME d. Aft 1867, Trescott, ME (Age > 96 years)   10. TUCKER, William,   b. 3 Jun 1774, Cherryfield, ME d. 28 Jul 1822, Cherryfield, ME (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F10704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Nothing is known about the date or place of his birth. He first appears to have settled in Gouldsboro,Maine sometime before 1760. He subsequently lived in Steuben and then Cherryfield. In Cherryfield he lived in a house on the East side of the Narraguagus River and was very active in the then Plantation #11 affairs. For a time he operated a sawmill on the Narraguagus River. He had a settler's right in Plantation # 11 and subsequently purchased and sold sizeable pieces of land. A land record of 1792 refers to him as the moderator of a Town Meeting held in his house and town records refer to a school being held in one room of his house. He served twice in the American Revolution, first in 1775 for four months for defense of the seacoast and again in 1779 for one month,marching to Majorbagaduce (Castine) and the Battle of Penobscot. He did not leave a will, and his last deed of record was dated at Cherryfield in 1796. The surname of his wife, Susanna, is not known but Perley Leighton believes it to be Leighton. It is the opinion of one descendant, Allen L. Sproul, that Josiah and his wife moved to Lubec where they both died.

  
  

• Sources

  [S695] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.