Joseph Small ^{2 3}

   Cause of his death was drowned trying to save horses.

  General Notes:

Moved to Guilford Co, NC
1791 moved to Randolph Co, NC
about 1804 moved to Highland Co, Ohio

In August 1814 at Salt Creek, Highland Co., OH, Joseph Small was drowned while crossing a stream with horses. They became tangled in their harness and he lost his life while trying to rescue them.

In 1816, with the exception of the two older daughters, the family removed to New Garden Monthly Meeting, Indiana.

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio Volume 5
[p.19] RECORDS

1806, 8, 14. Joseph & wife, Clarissa, & child, Joshua, Joseph, Rachel & Anna, received on certificate from Mt. Pleasant monthly meeting, Va., dtd 1805, 1, 26 (other records give wife name as Clarkey)

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SMALL, JOSEPH, P.O. Plainfield; Farmer, Section 28; born in Wayne Co.,Ind., 7 2, 1815; settled here in 1850; son of John, who was born in N.C., about four years before the Revolutionary War closed, d. 11 1852, and Mary Cox, two years younger than her husband, d. about 1854. Married 9 15, 1842, to Jane Phelps, b. 7 21,1817, in Guilford Co., N.C.; her father was Samuel, mother Sarah Newby, d. 8 mo., 1855;children--Sam'l, b. 7 24, 1843; Rebecca Palmer, 11 10, 1848; Wm. H., 11 19, 1855. John Small's mother's name was Lydia Bundy.

Joseph married Clarkey Clarissa Perisho, daughter of Joshua Perisho and Miriam Morris, on 19 Jan 1793 in Symons Creek Mm; Pasquotank, NC.¹ (Clarkey Clarissa Perisho was born on 28 Feb 1773 in Pasquotank, Pasquotank, North Carolina.)