Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Josiah Treadway

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 168 
  • Father:
  • James Treadway 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Bond   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Sep 1707 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 or 16 MAY 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hillard Cemetery, Salem, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Eunice Foote
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 May 1735 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elijah Treadway (Ahnentafel No:84 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Josiah Treadway

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 166, Marriage record for Josiah Treadway and Eunice Foot.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/12/2018).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 2, p. 35, Birth record for Josiah Tredway.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1935, Vol. 89, p. 253, Cemetery record for Josiah Treadway gives both 10 and 16 MAY.
  • ⁵ Goodwin, Nathaniel, The Foote Family: or the Descendants of Nathaniel Foote, One of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with . . ., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1849), 65.
  • ⁶ Tredway, William T., History of the Tredway Family, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: W. T. Tredway (1930), 12, 204.
  • ⁷ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 564.

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