Joseph Mitchell

  Events

• He was a yeoman; had a 15 acre land grant in Braveboat Harbor in 1694; bought 50 acres of upland and 5 acres of salt marsh in 1701 there lying adjacent to land formerly granted to John Andrews, Sr.; could not write his name.

 • He was a founder of the first Congregational Church at Kittery in 1714.

 • In Aug. 1722 it was ordered that several houses "be made Defencible at Kittery" and it was commanded "that Joseph Mitchell's house be fortified, And that ye Inhabitants & familys from Joseph Billings to John Whitney Inclusively Lodge therein." From: The Descendants of Edward Small of New England- Vol.III, p.1419.

 • His son John administered his estate 9 Oct 1746

Joseph married Joanna Couch, daughter of Joseph Couch and Joanna Deering, in 1702 in Braveboat Harbor, Kittery, York, Maine. (Joanna Couch was born about 1678 in Kittery, York, Maine.)