Josiah SLAWSON

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Name:
There is so much speculation on who Josiah SLAWSON really is. There are some reliable sources that list both spelling of Josiah's last name. The WILLIAMSON genealogy states that their daughter, Mary, married Josiah SLAWSON. But no further information is given as what happen to them.

The CLOSSON genealogy states that Josiah CLOSSON, is the husband of Mary WILLIAMSON. However, they go further by listing the names of their children and their descendants.

I will be leaving a wife for Josiah as Mary WILLIAMSON, but not the Mary WILLIAMSON, the daughter of Timothy WILLIAMSON and Mary HOWLAND.

Josiah married Mary WILLIAMSON on 9 Mar 1678/79 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph SLAWSON was born in 1680 in Bedford, Westchester, New York, USA.
2. Mary SLAWSON was born about 1682; died about 1695.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Thomas Slauson

Notes:

[Slosson 11-20-00 Greene.FTW]

Emigrated to America with his brother, probably on the ship JONAS in 1637. Was
in Sandwich, MA on Cape Cod in 1638. Moved to Stamford, Fairfield County, CT in either 1641 or 1642. Apparently he did not like Stamford, and returned to
Plymouth County, MA, where he married, though the name of his wife is unknown.

George Slason was in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts by 1637 and soon afterward in Sandwich, Barnstable County (Cape Cod), by 1638. the name of George Slason (but not THOMAS) was awarded 2 acres in a division of meadow land in Sandwich dated 16 April 1640.

The Slason "brothers" apparently removed from Sandwich to Stamford during the first year of settlement of that town. Thomas Slason was granted a house lot and another 3 acres, and presumably George was also, but no record of such a grant to George seems to have been preserved. There is no further record of this Thomas Slason in Stamford and although it has been claimed that he quickly returned to the Plymouth Colony, it also seems possible that the single record for Thomas in Stamford instead belonged to George all along and that Thomas therefore never existed -- at least not as a Stanford resident.

Thomas married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]