Josiah DEMARANVILLE

Josiah married Sarah EDMINSTER on 21 May 1820 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 20 Nov 1803 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jan 1841 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dennis DEMARANVILLE was born on 17 Jun 1823 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Jul 1892 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Levina DEMARANVILLE was born in 1833 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died between 21 and 24 Apr 1870.
3. Josiah DEMARANVILLE was born on 01 May 1821 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Sep 1911 in Lakeville, Massachusetts.
4. Judith E. DE MARANVILLE was born about 1828 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 29 Nov 1863 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

Josiah married Eliza F. COLEMAN on 18 Nov 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eliza E. DEMARANVILLE was born in 1851 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.

Josiah married Hannah PECKHAM on 19 Sep 1861 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Josiah married Bridget HUGHES on 03 Nov 1867 in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1769

Josiah married Sarah HASKINS on 03 Mar 1793 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah (daughter of Anthony HASKINS and Rest CRAPO) was born on 07 May 1774 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Nov 1855 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chaumont married Mercy ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Rest CRAPO on 03 Dec 1772 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Rest (daughter of John CRAPO and Sarah CLARK) was born on 11 Jan 1753 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts ; died on 07 Apr 1834 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Bef 1773, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Notes:

"DeMaranville Genealaogy": Legend says Louis DeMaranville was born in Paris, France, and was a young officer in the army, age 19. One morning while walking in the garden he saw his new step-mother punishing his little sister and becoming enranged pulled out his sward and knocked her bonnet off. To escape a worse punishment he was put on bord a war ship of which Francis Crapo was Captain. This vessel was wrecked off th shor of Cape Cod, and four men and the boy Peter Crapo were saved in a boaat said to have landed at Plymouth, Mass. The boy Peter Crapo about 12 years of age was bound out by his brother the Captain to Francis Coombs of Middleboro, Mass. No date is given of their coming but it was probably before 1700--A rhyme of the men's names I have heard repeated by descendants of the five families, was
Louis Demaranville and Louis Voteau.
Old Peter Juckett and Francis Crapeau.
Peter Crapo buys land in Rochester, Mass. as early as 1703 and was married in 1704. At the time of this marriage Louis DeMaranville is said to make a vow that he would not marry until he could marry a daughter of Peter Crapo, which in 1730 he did, and is said to have had thirteen children, of several of which I find no mention. It is said that while waiting for his future wife to grow up that he cleared up an exceedingly nice farm for those days and built thereon a wall so wide that a yoke of oxen could be driven on top thereof, a portion of this wall is shown today on the old homestead near Braley's Station, in Dartmouth, Mass. It is said also that Louis named his first child Chaumont after the Duke of Chaumont. An old pewter porringer said to belong to Louis is yet shown and is in the hands of a descendant Mrs. Abbie J. Brooks of New Bedford, Mass.
A deed dated 1773 refers to Lois as lately deceased and while we do not know how old he was at his death, yet if our legend is true he must have been more than 100 years old, and it has been claimed 110. The family has been noted for its longevity, also for its musical and inventive abiltity.
It is not known how much truth there is in this legend, but this we do know that the men mentioned in the rhyme and the boy Peter Crapo were all in the town of Rochester and married before 1735 and therefore could not have been of the Arcadians (who were not driven out until after 1740) as has been alleged.
The spelling of the name has differed among many branches and often in the same family I find it DeMaranville, DeMoranville, Demeanvlle, Maranville, Moranvlle, and Ranville, and should be pronounced MeMaranville with each a, as in ran. I have made no attempt to show which each one uses, as I only use first and middle names in the following pages.....

Louis married Susanna CRAPO on 08 Dec 1730 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Susanna (daughter of Peter CRAPO and Penelope WHITE) was born on 05 Nov 1707 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died after 28 Dec 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Abt 1765, Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Aft 16 May 1783, Rochester, Mass.

Notes:

Excerpt from Certain Comeoverers: He was born in 1711. In 1734 he married Sarah Clark, the daughter of a neighbor. In 1739 his father Peter conveyed to him twenty acres "by the orchard of Joseph Ashley" near Peter's Sniptuit holdings. It was here perhaps that he lived. In 1743 his father deeded to him additional land. In 1744 he purchased a large tract in the "gore." The consideration was L150. He is described in this deed as a "husbandman". I am of the impression that I somewhere found him described as a "blacksmith, " but I am unable to verify the statement. In 1762 he and his brothers, Peter and Hezekiah, made a partition of the land which they received as residuary legatees under their father's will, and to John was given the land which the first Peter purchased of Ebenezer Lewis not far from the Pond. There are several other records of land transfers to and from him. He was living as late as 1779 when he conveyed most of his lands to his son John, junior, having doubtless given his other sons their shares by helping them establish the lumber business in Freetown. His son Peter, of whom more anon, was the father of Jesse Crapo.

John married Sarah CLARK on 07 Nov 1734 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John CLARK and Mary TOBEY) was born on 18 Mar 1714 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Dec 1776 in Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Cemetery, Rochester, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]