Josiah Jr PELTON
1772 - 1834 (62 years)-
Name Josiah Jr PELTON Birth 5 Mar 1772 Portland, Middlesex, CT 
Gender Male Reference Number 332 _UID 29848C73CAE54825BE84C78B60F729D8B4B3 Death 9 Jul 1834 Vermillion, Huron, OH Person ID I330 My Genealogy Last Modified 3 Apr 2017
Father Josiah PELTON, b. 1714, Canterbury, Windham, Conn. d. 2 Feb 1792, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT (Age 78 years) Mother Hannah CHURCHILL, b. 11 Apr 1731, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 12 Jun 1810, Portland, Middlesex, CT (Age 79 years) Marriage 1750 Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT - Reference Number:3889
Family ID F76 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lucy SHEPARD, b. 1 Aug 1775 d. 2 Sep 1815, Euclid, OH (Age 40 years) Marriage Yes, date unknown - Reference Number:6687
Children 1. Lucy PELTON, b. 2 Nov 1794, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 1819, Euclid, OH (Age 24 years)2. Phoebe PELTON, b. 10 Aug 1796, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 27 Jul 1883, Brownhelm, Lorain, OH (Age 86 years)3. Josiah Shepard PELTON, b. 22 Mar 1799, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 5 Jan 1886, Vermillion, Huron, OH (Age 86 years)4. Nathaniel PELTON, b. 14 Dec 1800, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 7 Apr 1801, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT (Age 0 years)5. Allen PELTON, b. 25 Apr 1802, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 27 Jan 1882, Vermillion, Huron, OH (Age 79 years)6. Charlotte PELTON, b. 29 Mar 1804, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 4 Dec 1834, Vermillion, Huron, OH (Age 30 years)7. Sylvester Augustin PELTON, b. 25 Mar 1806, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. Jan 1891, Vermillion, Huron, OH (Age 84 years)8. Julia Ann PELTON, b. 6 Oct 1810, Portland, Middlesex, CT d. 6 Oct 1832, Vermillion, Huron, OH (Age 22 years)9. Austin PELTON, b. 10 Mar 1814, Portland, Middlesex, CT d. 27 May 1888, Ford City, Ford, KS (Age 74 years)10. Franklin PELTON, b. 13 Nov 1814, Portland, Middlesex, CT d. 1897, Vermillion, Erie, OH (Age 82 years)Family ID F182 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Apr 2017
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Notes - From 1787 to 1811 he followed the sea as cabin boy, sailor, captain and owner, trading principally with the West Indies and the
Spanish Main, both in North and South America;
also with Brazil and the Guianas. In l811, during
the Mexican insurrection, under Hidalgo, he was
captured while commanding a vessel owned by himself and his brother, Moses, the vessel and $30,000 in specie confiscated and he held a captive. * Released, after three years, he found his vessel sold and all his papers destroyed, which prevented the recovery of his property. Abandoning the sea, he, in June 1815, gathered up his family, and with a wagon drawn by an ox team for a conveyance, started for Ohio, and in August following arrived at Euclid, near Cleveland, OH., where a cousin, Jonathan Pelton, son of Joseph Pelton, 1st, of Chatham, Conn., had settled the year before. Here he bought land, and here his
wife Lucy (b. Aug. 1 [or 11], 1775) died September
2, 1815. In 1819 he bought land with a small clearing and a log house, of John Sherrarts, in Vermillion, Huron (now Erie) Co., OH., and removed to the new farm. At that time there was large game, deer, bears, wolves and wild turkeys in plenty, with some Indians still roaming the woods. Here he was a farmer. But he could not forget the old vocation, and soon after his arrival built a small vessel, launched her upon Lake Erie, and called her the "Franklin" after his youngest son. At that time the
nearest mills were at Cleveland and Cold Creek.
* Another account says he was taken and held captive by pirates.
- From 1787 to 1811 he followed the sea as cabin boy, sailor, captain and owner, trading principally with the West Indies and the