Joseph SILVESTER (Capt.)

Father: Richard SILVESTER
Mother: Naomi //

Family 1: Mary BARSTOW

(1) U.S. and International Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

  1. Joseph SILVESTER
  2. Mary SILVESTER
  3. Anna SILVESTER
  4. Naomi SILVESTER
  5. Solomon SILVESTER
  6. Naomi SILVESTER
  7. Benjamin SILVESTER
  8. David SILVESTER
  9. Amos SILVESTER
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Notes

Updated January 8, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joseph SILVESTER
- Event Type: Birth
- Birth Date: 12 Apr 1638
- Birth Place: Weymouth, Massachusetts
- Father Name: Richard SILVESTER

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joseph SILVESTER
- Gender: Male
- Birth Place: MA
- Birth Year: 1638
- Spouse Name: Mary BARSTOW
- Spouse Birth Place: MA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1641
- Marriage Year: 1663

(3) Deane, Samuel. History of Scituate, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement to 1831. Boston, published by J. Loring, 1831.

Page 130: "In the eastern expedition, planned and urged chiefly by Massachusetts General Court in 1689, commanded by Colonel CHURCH, we can only state that Scituate furnished six men and two officers, viz. Capt. Joseph SYLVESTER, (the same whose house was burnt in Philip's war)... This expedition, though not very successful, was not disastrous in losses, and probably all our town'smen returned... In the Canada expedition in 1690, under Sir William PHIPPS, at the taking of Port Royal and the attempts upon Quebec, Scituate furnished sixteen men, under Capt. Joseph SYLVESTER... This expedition proved fatal to Capt. SYLVESTER... and to many of his men."

(4) Barry, John Stetson. A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., with Family Genealogies. Boston, published by Samuel G. Drake, 1853.

Page 22: "Capt. Joseph, the father of Amos and Benjamin, of Hanover,... was Capt. under Col. Benjamin CHURCH, the famous Indian warrior, in the Eastern expedition in 1689, and in 1690, was Captain with 16 men from Scituate, many of whom never returned, in PHIPS' expedition to Canada, and died in the service. His will, which was verbal, was proved in the Court by three of his soldiers, Benjamin STETSON, and John and William PERRY, and gives 'all my land at Hugh's Cross to son Joseph; the three younger sons (Amos, Benjamin, and David,) to be provided for by their mother (Mary,) out of the remainder of my estate.'"

Page 401: "Capt. Joseph, s. Rich'd., lived where Sam'l WATERMAN's house stands, in So. Scit., near Church Hill, and improved the farm wh. he purchased of Jno. WHISTON, 1664... As a reward for his services in the Indian Wars, a grant of land was made to him and his company, by the Gen'l. Court, which was designed to have been in Maine, but which, when the line was run between the Provinces, proved to be in N. Hampshire; and on a repres'n. of these facts by Chas. TURNER, and others, agents for the claimants, in 1765, and new grant was made in Me., on condition that 30 families and a minister should be sett., and a meeting-house built, within six y'rs., and this is now known as the town of Turner, Me."

(5) Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 262-263.

- A tailor
- Replaced his brother-in-law, Joseph BARSTOW, as an innkeeper in Scituate, October 29, 1670
- Representative to the General Court in 1689 and 1690
- "A captain under Colonel Church in the expedition against the eastern Indians in 1689"
- Fell sick in the expedition against Canada in 1690, and received medical assistance for some time before his death
- Declared his will on July 22, 1690

(6) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC.

"Capt. Joseph SYLVESTER, son of Richard, was born in Scituate, Mass., in 1638. While on an expedition to Canada with Col. PHIPPS, he died. This account gives the descendants (daughters) the honor of 'Colonial Dames', and they are eligible to that Society."