1. | Joseph Curtiss was born on 12 Nov 1650 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1742 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Notes:
JOSEPH CURTISS (John, Elizabeth), b. Stratford, Conn., Nov. 12, 1650; m. Bethiah, d. of Richard and Elizabeth Hawley Booth, of Stratford, Conn., Nov. 9, 1676. He was one of the most prominent citizens of Stratford for many years. He held the position of town clerk for fifty successive years, 1678-1728. In all the records during his service he always spelled the name "Curtiss." In 1698 he was elected an Assistant or member of the Governor's Council, and served as such for twenty-three years. He was several years Judge of the County Court, and was appointed on several State committees of importance: In October, 1709, Capt. Joseph Curtiss, with the Deputy Governor and three others, was appointed as a Committee of War for the County of Fairfield. In 1710, with Hon. Nathan Gold and Peter Burr, he was appointed, with a committee from the Colony of New York, to locate the boundary line between that Colony and Connecticut as settled by the authorities in 1700. He was lieutenant in the town band, and was a representative from Stratford for a number of years. He was known as "the Worshipful Joseph Curtiss.''
Source: Frederic Haines Curtiss, A Genealogy of the Curtiss Family: Being a Record of the Descendants of Widow Elizabeth Curtiss, who Settled in Stratford, Conn., 1639-1640 (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1903), 6-7.
Joseph married Bethiah Booth on 9 Nov 1676 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Bethiah (daughter of Richard Booth and Elizabeth Hawley) was born on 18 Aug 1658 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Aug 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Elizabeth Curtiss
was born on 17 Jan 1677 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 3. Anna Curtiss
was born on 1 Sep 1679 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 4. Mary Curtiss
was born in 1681 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 16 Apr 1767 in Trumbull, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 5. Ephraim Curtiss
was born on 31 Dec 1684 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 9 May 1776.
- 6. Joseph Curtiss
was born on 1 Nov 1687 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 7. Nathan Curtiss
was born on 21 Feb 1689/90 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 8. Josiah Curtiss
was born on 31 Mar 1691 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 26 Apr 1709.
- 9. Bethia Curtiss
was born on 17 May 1695 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- 10. Eliazur Curtiss
was born on 30 Jul 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Oct 1699.
- 11. Ebenezer Curtiss
was born on 1 Aug 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1699.
- 12. Eliphalet Curtiss
was born on 1 Aug 1699 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 7 Dec 1720.
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