When Katharine Hartwell was born in 1752, in Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joseph Hartwell Jr, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Skinner, was 19. She married Josiah Upton on 19 August 1775, in Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 12 September 1803, at the age of 51, and was buried in Victor, Ontario, New York, United States.
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English (West Midlands): habitational name from any of several places called Hartwell (Staffordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, and Devon), all named with Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
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Catherine Hartwell. Daughter of Joseph & Sarah Hartwell. Second wife of Josiah Upton (b. Aug 24, 1735 in N. Reading, Mass, d. Dec. 10, 1791 in Charlemont, Mass.) m. abt 1774 Mother of Sarah (Israel Bl …
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