Joseph Fish

Reverend Joseph Fish (1705-1781) from Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, was for fifty years (from 1732-1781) pastor of the Congregational Church in North Stonington, Connecticut. Biography Rev. Joseph Fish was born January 28, 1705, in Duxbury, Plymouth County, and died May 26, 1781, in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut. He went to Harvard and graduated in 1728. Reverend Nathaniel Eells, one of his classmates at Harvard, became his long time friend and neighbor. Rev. Fish was the third son of Thomas Fish and Margaret Woodward. Fish married Rebecca Pabodie, who was the daughter of William Pabodie and the great-granddaughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. Reverend Joseph Fish and Rebecca had two daughters and one son. Many of Fish's sermons were published and he was respected as a writer. After his death on May 16, 1781, in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, he was buried in the Great Plains cemetery.