Joshua Atherton

==Ancestry==

==Ancestry==

Atherton has been incorrectly attributed as a descendant of [[Humphrey Atherton]] within certain notable sources.<ref name=”books.google.com”/> His great-grandfather [[James Atherton (early settler to Massachusetts)|James Atherton]] had arrived from England in the 1630s, and went on to serve under Captain John Whiting’s Company, eventually becoming one of the founders of Lancaster.<ref name=”James“/> His great-grandfather on his maternal line was [[Samuel Wardwell]], a carpenter, was who was charged with witchcraft in 1692, and was hung at Witch Hill, in [[Andover, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California|year=1906|access-date=January 16, 2020|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W3dhI7moEvcC&q=colonel.peter+atherton&pg=PA42|quote=Refers to Experience Atherton’s blood relation Samuel Wardwell executed for witchcraft}}</ref>

Atherton has been incorrectly attributed as a descendant of [[Humphrey Atherton]] within certain notable sources.<ref name=”books.google.com”/> His great-grandfather [[James Atherton (early settler to Massachusetts)|James Atherton]] had arrived from England in the 1630s, and went on to serve under Captain John Whiting’s Company, eventually becoming one of the founders of Lancaster.<ref name=”Farmer“/> His great-grandfather on his maternal line was [[Samuel Wardwell]], a carpenter, was who was charged with witchcraft in 1692, and was hung at Witch Hill, in [[Andover, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California|year=1906|access-date=January 16, 2020|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=W3dhI7moEvcC&q=colonel.peter+atherton&pg=PA42|quote=Refers to Experience Atherton’s blood relation Samuel Wardwell executed for witchcraft}}</ref>

==Notes==

==Notes==