Olson's Tree » Captain Josiah Starr (1693-1778)
Personal data Captain Josiah Starr
Source 1Source 2- He was born in the year 1693 in Danbury,Fairfield Co.,Connecticut.Source 2
Attention: Was younger than 16 years (13) when child (Comfort Starr) was born (October 20, 1706). Attention: Was older than 65 years (66) when child (Levi Starr) was born (April 9, 1759). - He died on December 12, 1778 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, he was 85 years old.Source 2
- He is buried in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States of America.Source 2
- A child of Josiah Starr Captain and Rebekah Whitney
Household of Captain Josiah Starr
He is married to Rebecca Bushnell.
They got married in the year 1713 at Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, he was 20 years old.
Child(ren):
- Comfort Starr 1706-1763
- Josiah Starr -1795
- Levi Starr 1759-1810
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Sources
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- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Day of death December 12, 1778
- The temperature on December 12, 1778 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1778: Source: Wikipedia
- February 5 » South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- June 18 » American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
- June 28 » American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
- July 28 » Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
- August 29 » American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
- November 11 » Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
Same birth/death day
- 1758 » Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695)
- 1766 » Johann Christoph Gottsched, German philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1700)
- 1782 » Charles Gray, English lawyer and politician (b. 1696)
- 1789 » John Ponsonby, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1713)
- 1790 » Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian historian and philosopher (b. 1733)
- 1794 » Meshullam Feivush Heller, Ukrainian author (b. 1742)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P20953.php : accessed January 14, 2026), "Captain Josiah Starr (1693-1778)".