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Margaret Mead

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Josiah Starr

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Margaret Mead — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Starr 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Dean   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Nov 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1782 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Upham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Nov 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Deborah Starr (Ahnentafel No:27 )

• Sources for Josiah Starr

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weston, Vol. 1, p. 115, Marriage record for Dr Josiah Star and Abigail Upham.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dedham, Vol. 1 and 2, p. 68, Birth record for Josiah Star.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1942, Vol. 96, pp. 376-377.
  • ⁴ Bond, Henry, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts . . ., 2nd ed., Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic-Genealogical Society (1860), 449-450.
  • ⁵ Lamson, Col. Daniel S., History of the Town of Weston, Massachusetts, 1630-1890, Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co. (1913), 182.
  • ⁶ Starr, Burgis Pratt, A History of the Starr Family of New England, from the Ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr, of Ashford, County of Kent . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1879), 508-509.
  • ⁷ Upham, F. K., Upham Genealogy: The Descendants of John Upham, of Massachusets, Who Came from England in 1635 . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1892), 82, gives Josiah's name as Isaac.