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Joshua Edward UPHAM
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Name Joshua Edward UPHAM Birth 28 Jul 1784 Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Gender Male _UID 6CF87C38021B43E1B15767569E7A35AE19AF FamilySearch ID LZJC-WK6 Reference Number 520 Death 1 Feb 1862 Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
Burial Saint Peters Anglican Church Cemetery, Upham, NB
Person ID I520 My Genealogy Last Modified 7 Apr 2019
Family Charity FOWLER, b. 16 Jun 1791, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 29 Mar 1866, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
(Age 74 years) Marriage 18 Oct 1812 Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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Marriage
18 Oct 1812 • Hampton Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
Kings County Marriage Register, Volume I, 1812-1828, copied by Jean McAuley Carmichael, "1812, 18 Oct. - Upham, Joshua, Hampton, Yeoman, and Fowler, Charity, Hampton, Spinster; witnesses, E…Smith and James Hart Fowler."

Marriage Children 1. James Wellington UPHAM, b. 4 Apr 1814, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 5 Feb 1885, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
(Age 70 years)2. Jabez Edward UPHAM, b. 17 Nov 1815, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 1 May 1861, Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
(Age 45 years)3. Charlotte Bernard UPHAM, b. 20 Apr 1818, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada 
4. Mary Ann UPHAM, b. 18 Feb 1820, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 23 Feb 1897, Nauwigewauk, King's, New Brunswick, Canada
(Age 77 years)5. Catherine Sophia UPHAM, b. 21 May 1821, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 21 Aug 1898, Rothsay, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
(Age 77 years)6. James UPHAM, b. 1822 d. Yes, date unknown 7. William Henry UPHAM, b. 4 Feb 1822, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 1836 (Age 13 years)8. Caroline Frances UPHAM, b. 1824 d. 1898 (Age 74 years) 9. Nathaniel Hart UPHAM, b. 12 Jan 1826, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 1905, Parrsboro, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
(Age 78 years)10. William UPHAM, b. 1828 d. Yes, date unknown 11. Joshua Cutter UPHAM, b. 8 Jan 1830, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 24 Apr 1867, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine
(Age 37 years)12. Sarah Isabella UPHAM, b. 27 Oct 1830, Upham, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada
d. 1917 (Age 86 years)13. Charlotte Ann UPHAM, b. 1832 d. Yes, date unknown 14. Mary Ann UPHAM, b. 1834 d. Yes, date unknown 15. Sophia UPHAM Family ID F203 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 25 Dec 2021
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Notes - Claims & Memorials
Commission of Joshua Upham as Lieutenant Colonel
By His Excellency Sir Henry CLINTON Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, -General and Commander in Chief of all His Majestys Forces within the Colonies laying on the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to West Florida inclusive &ca &ca &ca
To Joshua UPHAM Esqr.
Reposing especial trust and confidence as well in the care, diligence and circumspection as in the Loyalty, Courage and readiness of you to do His Majesty good and faithful service, and in the recommendation of the Honorable Board of directors of Associated Loyalists certified by the President I do by Virtue of the Power and Authority in me vested Constitute and Appoint you the said Joshua UPHAM Esqr. to be Lieutenant Colonel to the Battalion of Associated Loyalists under the said Board of Directors commanded by [blank]
You are therefore to take the said Battalion into your care and charge and duly to Exercise and train as well the Officers as privates thereof, and to Use your best endeavors to keep them in good Order and Discipline, And the said Associated Loyalists are hereby charged and Commanded to Obey such Orders as they shall from time to time receive from you or from such other Officer or Officers as may be Appointed under you in the said Battalion.
And you are to Observe and follow the Articles of Your Association, and such Orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from the Board of Directors of Associated Loyalists, Your Commandant or any other Your Superior Officer, Subject however to my Controul, that of the Commander in Chief for the time being or in Our Absence to the General Officer Commanding at New York, And when Acting in Conjunction with any Detachment of His Majestys Forces to be subject also to the Orders of the Officer Commanding the same in pursuance of the trust hereby repos'd in you.
Given Under my hand and Seal at Head Quarters in New York the Twentieth day of June One thousand seven hundred and Eighty One, in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth
Sign'd
H: CLINTON
By His Excellency's Command
Sign'd
John SMITH
Great Britain, Public Record Office, Treasury, Class 1, Volume 651, folio 140.
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