1William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of . . ., Vol. 2, p. 604 (1913).
"(V) Joshua (3), son Of Joshua (2) and Mary (Backus) Ripley, was born October 30, 1726, died in December, 1787. He married March 26, 1748, Elizabeth Lathrop, of Windham. Children: Eliphalet, Ralph, married Eunice Huntington, of Windham; Elizabeth, married Thomas Dyer, of Windham; Olive, see forward; Roger, lost at sea; Joshua, lost at sea; Lydia, married Christopher Fitch; Nathaniel, married Sybil Huntington; Rev. Erasmus, married Elizabeth Sherman; Mary, married ------- Rogers, of Vergennes, Vermont.".