Hon Joshua UPHAM

1741 - 1808  (66 years)

• Name	Joshua UPHAM
  Prefix	Hon
  Birth	3 Nov 1741	Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  _UID	9F2C2A0F7ABD483A974A824D2CF841BF9168
  Death	1 Nov 1808	London, England, United Kingdom
  Person ID	I1966	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	Dr Jabez UPHAM,   b. 3 Jan 1717, Malden, Middlesex County, Mass d. 4 Nov 1760, Malden, Middlesex County, Mass (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Katherine NICHOLS,   b. 12 Mar 1721, Leicester, Worcester, Mass d. 12 Mar 1774, Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	23 Nov 1738	Leicester, Worcester, Mass
  Family ID	F678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth MURRAY
  Marriage	1768
  		Marriage
  Children	1. Sarah UPHAM   2. Frances UPHAM
  Family ID	F680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Mary CHANDLER
  Marriage	11 Dec 1792	Westmorland, NB
  Children	1. Elizabeth UPHAM,   b. 19 May 1771, Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   2. John Murray UPHAM,   b. 21 Jul 1773, Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   3. Joshua Niccols UPHAM,   b. 6 May 1775, Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   4. Salla UPHAM,   b. 19 Feb 1777, Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   5. Charles W. UPHAM,   b. 15 Jun 1875, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F679	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Joshua Upham (November 3, 1741 – November 1, 1808) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick . He served as a member of the New Brunswick Council. He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts , the son of Dr. Jabez Upham and Katharine Nichols, and graduated from Harvard College in 1763. He practised law in Brookfield. In 1768, he married Elizabeth Murray. In 1777, when, as a lawyer, he was required to take an oath of allegiance to the American state, he declared himself a loyalist and left for New York City to join the British. (He was subsequently named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778.) Upham was an officer, ending the war as a major in the King's American Dragoons. He was named a judge in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick in 1784. After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Chandler, the sister of Samuel Chandler and sister-law of Amos Botsford , in 1792. Upham, a slave-owner, voted to uphold the legality of slavery in New Brunswick in 1800. He died at the age of 66 in London, England , where he had gone to lobby the British government to make the salaries of Supreme Court judges in New Brunswick comparable with those in Upper and Lower Canada. His daughter Sarah married John Murray Bliss and his daughter Frances married John Wesley Weldon .