Joshua Tower

25 Apr 1733 – 30 Sep 1810 · about 77 years

From the burial index · with sourced details below

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Joshua Tower lived from 25 Apr 1733 to 30 Sep 1810, a span of about 77 years.

Theirs is one of 75 markers bearing the name Tower in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.

View family network 6relatives, as recorded on Find a Grave

Peter Tower1697–1781Ann Tower Tower1708–1801

Joshua Towerm.Lucy Dunbar Tower1749–1775also here

Lucy Tower1775–1777also here

Relationships are as recorded on Find a Grave.

What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed

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Matched exact birth date on a child line in the Tower family genealogy, corroborated by a relative's name.

The entry, as printed

iv. Joshua, Apr. 25, 1733. m. Jan. 30, 1776, Lucy, dau. of Solomon Dun- bar, and d. 30 Sept. 1810, aet. 77 yrs. Joshua was constable 1766, and captain of a military company in active service during the War of the Revolution

1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗

Born and died in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

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