Josiah Talmage

  General Notes:

History on Talmadge and ancestors from application by Jane Hubbard Gregory for membership in DAR Society showing lineal decent from Josiah Talmage Jr who during Revolution was residence at Cheshire and Brandford, CT.
Jane gathered information from Litchfield CT Vital Records and Family Records, Cheshire, CT, DAR Books vol 90 page 65 and family records and vol. 66 page 167. Also Talmadge Genealogy by A.W. Talmadge.
Genealogy report shows public records of New York and Conn.prove that several of Josiah's younger brothers took part in the Revolution. Of Josiah we have simply the one incident related by his sister Sally to Henry Talmadge on 8/12/1846 ---- When the news came to Branford that British had landed at New Haven, Josish immediately mounted his horse, took his gun and powder and ball and provisions and started fo rNew Haven and met them in Mark Lane. He fought till they got his horse from him and then he fought till he recovered his horse and the British retreated to their ships. He fired at them from behind a post orstump and the post stood for several years with the bullet holes in it that were shot at him. He returned home in safety after being absent three or four days. D.A.R. Lineage books credit Josiah Talmage Sr. as a minutemen from Branford.

Josiah married Sybal Todd on 15 Mar 1759. (Sybal Todd was born on 17 Nov 1740 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut and died on 23 Apr 1778 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut.)