Early Life
Josiah was born on April 2, 1709, at Mendon, Massachusetts, the son of Daniel and (Lydia Chapin) Taft, and the grandson of the first American Taft, Robert Taft, Sr. Josiah's father Daniel, had been a local "squire" and Justice of the Peace. Josiah grew up in the western part of Mendon which became the incorporated town of Uxbridge in 1727.
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