Quaker birth record: Name Joseph Shotwell, Birth Date 2 Aug 1747, Birth Date on Image 02 Sixth 1747
Birth Place Union, New Jersey, Father Joseph Shotwell, Mother Sarah Shotwell
Event Type Birth, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings.
Married Elizabeth Greenleafe, on 5 May 1774, Nottingham MM in Lancaster, PA. No children. Elizabeth was daughter of Isaac & Catherine Greenleafe.
Joseph served apprenticeship in New York, becoming a member of Friends Meeting by cert from Rahway to Flushing MM on 21 6m 1769.
After the death of his father, Joseph Sr, in 1787, Joseph Jr, filled the position of clerk for many years.
Joseph died in his house that was later owned by his grand nephew Joseph S Smith, grandson of his brother John Shotwell. Source: Ambrose Shotwell, Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors, pg. 149.
Quaker Death record: Name Joseph Shotwell, Birth Date abt. 1747, Death Age 70
Death Date 13 Apr 1817, Death Date on Image 13 Fourth 1817, Death Place Union, New Jersey
Event Type Death, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings. Burial Rahway.
Quaker birth record: Name Joseph Shotwell, Birth Date 2 Aug 1747, Birth Date on Image 02 Sixth 1747
Birth Place Union, New Jersey, Father Joseph Shotwell, Mother Sarah Shotwell
Event Type Birth, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings.
Married Elizabeth Greenleafe, on 5 May 1774, Nottingham MM in Lancaster, PA. No children. Elizabeth was daughter of Isaac & Catherine Greenleafe.
Joseph served apprenticeship in New York, becoming a member of Friends Meeting by cert from Rahway to Flushing MM on 21 6m 1769.
After the death of his father, Joseph Sr, in 1787, Joseph Jr, filled the position of clerk for many years.
Joseph died in his house that was later owned by his grand nephew Joseph S Smith, grandson of his brother John Shotwell. Source: Ambrose Shotwell, Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors, pg. 149.
Quaker Death record: Name Joseph Shotwell, Birth Date abt. 1747, Death Age 70
Death Date 13 Apr 1817, Death Date on Image 13 Fourth 1817, Death Place Union, New Jersey
Event Type Death, Rahway and Plainfield Monthly Meetings. Burial Rahway.
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