Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 90

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824

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land Society; and the Manhattan Chapter, D. A. R. She married, 1893. Hon. Charles H. Murray, who is a prominent Republican and lawyer.

(VIII) Ella Lois Torrey Peckham, daughter of Dr. Fenner H. Peckham (7), was educated in the public schools of Providence and in Mount Holyoke College. Sonth Hadley, Massachusetts, where she was graduated in 1867. She organized the Worces- ter County Mount Holyoke Alumni Association, and filled the office of president for twelve years. She founded the Fortnightly Club of Worcester. She is a very active member of the Worcester Woman's Club, and was president in 1896, 1897 and 1898. She is a member of the building committee of the club house, and director of its corporation. She has been an active member and vice-president of the Massa- chusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs. She belongs also to the Worcester Art Society and Public School Art League. She is a charter member of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter. D. A. R. She was married to Charles C. Baldwin in 1868. (See sketch of Baldwin family). Her daughter, Kath- erine Torrey, studied art in Paris, and has exhibited her work in the Paris Salon. Edith Ella Baldwin was also educated in Paris in art. Her work has been exhibited in the Champs de Mars Salon of Paris, and at the Society of American Artists in New York. Grace Peckham Baldwin was educated at Bryn Mawr College and at the Drexel Institute Library School, Philadelphia.

TORREY ANCESTRY OF MRS. BALDWIN. William Torrey (I), who settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1640, was the emigrant ancestor of Mrs. Charles C. Baldwin through her mother's line. He was born in Combe, St. Nicholas, Somer- setshire, England, in 1608, son of Philip Torrey (2), and his wife Alice, a lineal descendant in the fifth generation of William Torrey, who died at Combe, St. Nicholas, in 1657, leaving a wife Thomasine, and two sons. The line in England was: William (I), Philip (2), William (3), Philip (4). and William ' (5), the emigrant, designated above as William Tor- rey (I). His brothers James. Philip and Joseph also came to New England in 1640.

William Torrey (1) served many years as clerk of the general court and was captain of the militia. (II) Captain William Torrey. son of William Torrey (1), commanded the Weymouth Company in King Philip's war. He married Deborah Green.

(III) Joseph Torrey, son of Captain William Torrey (2), was a merchant at Weymouth. He married Elizabeth Symmes.

(IV) Rev. Joseph Torrey, son of Joseph Torrey (3), settled at South Kingston, Rhode Island. He mafried Elizabeth Fiske.

(V) Captain William Torrey, son of Rev. Joseph Torrey (4), settled at Killingly, Connecticut. He married Zilpah Davison, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Davis) Davison. He was born in 1763. and died in 1847. His children . werc. I Zilpah. married William Harris, of Scituate, Massachusetts, and one of her eight children is Dr. William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education. 2. Catherine Davis Torrey, born in 1819, married Dr. Fenner Harris Peckham.

(VD) Catherine Davis Torrey, daughter of Cap- tain William Torrey (5), married Dr. Fenner H. Peckham. They had one son and five daughters. (See Peckham Family sketch).

(VII) Ella Lois Torrey Peckham, daughter of Dr. Fenner H. Peckham, married Charles C. Baid- win.

ANDREW HILL HAMMOND was born in Alton, New Hampshire, August 3, 1830. During

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his infancy his parents removed to Gilmanton, New Ilampshire, where his early years were spent on a farm. His father was a Baptist minister, but com- bined with his pastoral duties the occupation of a farmer, after the custom of the early days. He at- tended the district school in Gilmanton. At the age of nine he went to live with his grandparents in the Gore district of his native town, and while there was for several years under the tuition of his maternal uncle, Jonathan Prescott Hill, who was a surveyor, mathematician and school teacher of note in that region. Mr. Hill was grandson of Dr. Jonathan Hill, who married Mercy Prescott.

Mr. Hammond's experience as a pupil of Mr. Hill was of great benefit in after years, as it gave him a love of books and study that attended him through life, and gave him a place among the self-educated as well as the self-made men of his day and genera- tion. After he returned to Gilmanton to his father's home, he attended the academy there, and also worked on the farm. At the age of eighteen he went to Manchester, New Hampshire, and learned the trade of an iron moulder, and was employed in Laconia, New Hampshire, at that occupation until 1851, when he came to Worcester and found a posi- tion in the malleable iron works of Waite, Chadsey and Company. Later he was employed in the foundries of Goddard Rice and Company, and Will- iam A. Wheeler.

He had musical gifts which he cultivated while working in the foundries, studying under such well known instructors as S. R. Leland, founder of the firm that still bears his name, Albert S. Allen and E. S. Nason, and became a proficient teacher of singing. One of his early experiences was a trip west to teach singing schools, travelling down the Ohio valley and up the Mississippi, returning through the town of Chicago, then a small but growing vil- lage. He continued to study music and obtained a position in the organ reed factory owned by Augus- tus Rice and Edwin Harrington, beginning on wages of seventy-five cents a day, but his mechanical skill, his inventive genius and musical ability soon made him a force in the business. He originated new methods and appliances which increased the quantity and improved the quality of the product, and was soon in charge of the manufacturing department. Subsequently the firm became Redding and Harring- ton, and they made a contract with Mr. Hammond to give him the benefit of all inventions and improve- ments that he should introduce, that would be of benefit to the firm. In a short time they found it ad- visable to give him a third interest in the business. Later he purchased their interest and became the sole owner, and continued in business under his own name.

In 1868 Mr. Hammond built his first factory on the present location on May street, and added to it from time to time until it was the largest organ reed factory in the world, a position it held for a number of years. It is equipped with special ma- chinery devised by Mr. Hammond for the purposes of the business. The Hammond organ reeds are known as a standard product all over the world. The mak- ing of organ reeds is a distinct business from the manufacture of organs, and is confined practically to factories in Chicago and Worcester. The great success of his business has been due not only to the machinery that he has devised, and the excellent goods that he has been able to produce, but to the tact and judgment he has shown in business deal- ings. Although Mr. Hammond has had few inter- ests outside of his business, he has always been a reader and student, and has a very large and valued library in his beautiful home on Claremont street,

Worcester. After his son. Richard Hill Hammond, left school he was taken into business by his father, and later became its manager. Under his direction the affairs of the business have continued to grow and prosper. In 1892 the Hammond Reed Company was incorporated. Since then Andrew Hill Ham- mond has been president and treasurer ; Richard Hill Hammond has been general manager and assist- ant treasurer and Alice B. Hammond and Mabel F. Hammond, two daughters of Mr. Hammond, di- rectors.

Andrew H. Hammond married, 1860, R. Maria Barber, daughter of Benjamin Barber, of Worces- ter. She was a woman of rare accomplishments and ability. To her Mr. Hammond attributes much of his material success. She died May 21, 1891. Their children were: Charles Warren, died in in- fancy; Nellie Prescott, born April 26, 1866, a grad- uate of Oxford University, England, and teacher of Chicago University ; Alice Barber, born January 16, 1868, married Clarence B. Shirley, of Boston ; Robert, died young; Richard Hill, born January 6, 1871, the business manager ; Mabel Florence, student at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mr. Hammond was a strong anti-slavery man. He joined the Free Soil party when it was formed, and later became a Republican, with which party he has since acted politically, giving it his hearty support. He never cared for public office, although always ready to do his duty as a Republican and citizen. But to his business he devoted the energy of his life, and made it a success. He died at his home in Worcester, March 1, 1906.

( VIII) Richard Hill Hammond, son of Andrew Hill Hammond (7), was born in Worcester, Massa- chusetts. He attended the Worcester schools in- cluding the high school and the Worcester Poly- technic Institute, and went from the college into his father's business, where he soon hecame manager, and for several years the entire care and manage- ment of the concern has been on his shoulders, and it is to his credit to say that the business has in no way suffered at his hands; but on the contrary there has been a steady improvement, and since the death of his father Mr. Hammond has devoted himself entirely to business, thus early displaying the same characteristics and aptitude that made his father successful. He has never been in politics, and is unmarried.

Andrew Hill Hammond, mentioned at the head of this sketch, is a direct descendant from William Ham (1), an emigrant from England to Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1646, Andrew Hill Hammond having when a young man legally changed his name fram Ham to Hammond. William Ham removed from Exeter to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1652, having there a grant of fifty acres of land on Freeman's point, just above Portsmouth bridge. He had at least two children: Matthew, who had one grant of land from the town in 1654 and another in 1660; Elizabeth, who married Cotton. Will- iam Ham died in 1672, and his will is at Concord, New Hampshire, originally proved at Exeter. His son Matthew was dead, and he bequeathed his property to his daughter Elizabeth (Cotton) and grandsons, William, John and Thomas Ilam.

(II) John Ham, grandson of William Ham (I), the emigrant, was born in 1649, and was on the tax list of Cocheco (Dover) in 1665. He married Mary Heart, daughter of John Heart, of Dover, 1669. His first homestead was at "Tolend" near the second falls of the Cocheco. Later he removed to a farm on Garrison hill, at Dover, was a juryman in 1688, and a lieutenant, was town clerk in 1694. His wife died in 1706, and he died in 1727. His will, proved

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at Exeter, named the following children: Mary, born October 2, 1668, married John Waldron; John, 1671; Samuel; Joseph, born June 3, 1678; Eliza- beth, born January 2, 1781, married Jeremiah Rol- lins; Priphena, married John Tucker, who was captured by the Indians in 1696, but soon found his way back to Dover, New Hampshire; he had a grant of land from the town of Dover at Scatterwit; Sarah, married Thomas Downes; Mercy, married Richard Nason; Benjamin, born 1693.

(111) Benjamin Ham, son of John Ham (2), was born in Dover, New Hampshire, 1693. He married Patience Hartford, daughter of Nicholas Hartford, in 1720. He inherited his father's farm near Garrison's hill, where the last days of John Ham, his father, were spent He was constable in 1731, and had one full share in the common lands in 1732. His wife joined the First Church in 1737. He was surveyor of highways in 1738, and voted in 1757 with twelve others against building the new meeting house at Pine Hill, Dover. He died in 1781. The farm on which he lived was pur- chased of Peter Coffin in 1690. The original deed and part of the farm are now, or were lately, owned by John T. W. Ham, a descendant. His children were: William, born November 25, 1722; Mary, October 8, 1723, baptized October 23, 1737, married Young; John, 1736; Patience, 1737, baptized March 25, 1739; Elizabeth, 1739, baptized December 10, 1749, married Jenness

(IV) William Ham, son of Benjamin Ham (3), was born at Dover, New Hampshire, November 25, 1722 and joined the First Church of Dover, January 3, 1742; removed to Rochester, New Hampshire, and died there in 1800. His children were: Charity, married Job Allard; Benjamin, born 1753, married Mary Waldron, removed to Farmington, New Hampshire, where he died 1846; William, May 8, 1757; Francis, May 3, 1763, married Experience Knowles, removed to Albany, New Hampshire ; Ephraim, died unmarried; Eleanor, married Samuel Twombley.

(V) William Ham, son of William Ham (4), was born in Dover, New Hampshire, May 8, 1757. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He settled at Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He mar- ried Anne Meader. He died in 1843. His children were: Miriam, married Francis Elliot; Sarah, mar- ried Ezekiel Hayes; Eli; Ezra.

(VI) Rev. Ezra Ham, son of William Ham (5), was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He married Mercy Prescott Hill, daughter of Andrew W. and Mary P. (Ham) Hill, in 1824, and grand- daughter of Dr. Jonathan and Mary ( Prescott) Hill. He became a Free Will Baptist clergyman, and farmer in Lower Gilmanton, New Hampshire. The children of Ezra Ham and Mercy ( Prescott) Hill were: George Edward, resides on Silver street, Worcester, works for Grompton and Knowles loom works; James C., Lemuel M., Mercy Eliza- beth, Mary A., Enos H., Otis F., William. Andrew Hill, born at Alton, New Hampshire, August 3, 1830, changed his name to Hammond.

HENRY A. DESPER, of Worcester, is de- scended on his father's side from French stock. The immigrant, who was his great-great-grandfather, in coming to this country was shipwrecked somewhere on the coast of Massachusetts. It is known that he was born in France, but the family records are lost and the writer cannot give any details of his an- cestry, even to his given name, further than to state that he settled here in Massachusetts, and a son of his was named Edward Dispeaux, which surname has since been changed to Despeaux and Dispeau

and is generally spelled Desper by the present gen- eration. Mr. Desper comes of Pilgrim stock on his mother's side and is descended from several of the "Mayflower" passengers, John Alden, Priscilla Mo- lines and her parents, James and Susannah Chil- ton, Francis Cook, besides a number of the Puritan fathers of Massachusetts Bay colony, as given below.

(11) Edward Dispeaux, son of the immigrant ancester, referred to above, settled in Massachusetts, but his wife's name is unknown. His descendants are scattered up and down the Blackstone Valley from Grafton to Providence, Rhode Island, as well as in other sections and states. IIe had nineteen children, it is said. He gave all the sons names commencing with "J."

(11I) James Desper, son of the preceding Ed- ward Dispeaux (2), was born May 25, 1789. He married, August 25, ISII, Anna Cheney, who was born in Auburn, Massachusetts, June 11, 1790, and died January 29, 1842. He died November, 1872. They had nine children, only five of whom lived to grow up, viz .: James H., Jason, Miranda, William E., mentioned below ; Mary Ann.

(IV) William E. Desper, son of the preceding James Desper (3), was born in Auburn, Massachu- setts, April 20, 1824, and died October 3, 1902, aged seventy-eight years, five months, thirteen days. He married, March 29, 1847, Elvira Orcutt, who was born in Stafford, Connecticut, March 4, IS23, died Angust 4, 1897, aged seventy-four years, five months. Mr. Desper was a machinist by trade and a manu- facturer of water meters in Worcester, Massachu- setts. He was a Republican in politics, and was a member of the Second Adventist Church. William E. and Alvira (Orcutt) Desper had five children, three of whom lived to grow up, viz. : Henry A., Wilton H., Ernest W. Desper.

ANCESTRY OF ELVIRA (ORCUTT) DESPER. William Molines and John Alden, both of whom came to Plymonth on the "Mayflower," were ances- tors of Elvira (Orcutt) Desper, of Worcester. Both signed the Mayflower compact at Provincetown, No- vember 15, 1620. William and Alice Molines were of the Walloon Huguenot contingent.

(1) John Alden was born in England, 1599; he married in , Plymouth, New England, Priscilla Mo- lines, daughter of William and Alice Molines, men- tioned above. Her parents and brother Joseph died during the "first sickness." Longfellow has made John Alden and his bride the best known of the younger Pilgrims. They lived at Plymouth a few years and then removed to Duxbury. John Alden was also one of the original proprietors of Bridge- water, Massachusetts. He died at Duxbury, Sep- tember 19, 1687. His wife died February 5, 1688. They had ten children.

(II) Joseph Alden, son of John Alden (I), was born in 1627. He married Mary Simmons.

(III) Joseph Alden, son of Joseph Alden (2), was born in 1667. He was deacon of the church. He married in 1690, Hannah Dunham, daughter of Daniel Dunham. He died December 22, 1747, and his wife died January 13, 1748.

(IV) Mary Alden, daughter of Deacon Joseph Alden (3), was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, . April 10, 1699. She married, 1719, Timothy Edson, son of Joseph Edson, and she died at Stafford, Con- necticut, 1782. Timothy was born in 1689; they had six children; they resided at Stafford, Connecticut.

(V) Timothy Edson, son of Timothy and Mary (Alden) Edson (4), was born in 1722; he married Lydia Joy, of Hingham, who was born October 5, 1725, and died at Randolph, Vermont, August 23, 1806. They had eleven children.

(V) Mary Edson, daughter of Timothy and

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Lydia (Joy) Edson (4), was born June 22, 1767. She married Ebenezer Johnson.

(\'1) Selenda Johnson, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary ( Edson) Johnson (5), married, 1816, Warren Orcutt. They had nine children, all daugh- ters, and all except one lived to be seventy years of age or more except the youngest, who is now ( 1906) sixty-five years old.

(VII) Elvira Orcutt, daughter of Warren and Selenda (Johnson) Orcutt (6), was born March 4. 1823, married William E. Desper, March 29, 1847.

(VIII) Henry A. Desper, son of William E. and Elvira (Orcutt) Desper (8), is the subject of this sketch, mentioned below.

(1) James Chilton, another Mayflower ancestor of Henry A. Desper, mentioned above, also signed the compact. He brought with him his wife Mary, who died within a few months after the landing. He died December 6, 1620.

(II) Mary Chilton, daughter of James Chilton (1), married John Winslow, in 1627.

John Winslow, brother of Governor Edward Winslow, and son of Edward Winslow, of Droit- wich, Worcestershire, England, was baptized there April 18, 1597. He came to Plymouth in the "For- tune" in 1621 and in 1655 removed to Boston, where he bought the mansion of the late Antipas Boicc, September 19, 1671. His wife Mary came with him to Plymouth. He married Mary Chilton before 1627. She is said to have been the first woman to land from the "Mayflower." His will was dated March 12, 1673, and proved May 21, 1674. He be- queathed to wife Mary; sons Benjamin, Edward, and John; to William Payne, son of his daughter Sarah Meddlecott, and numerous other relatives. His

wife died about 1676. Their daughter Sarah mar- ried in Boston, July 19, 1660, Myles Standish, Jr.

(III) Susannah Winslow, daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow (2), married Robert Latham, son of William Latham, the emigrant, in 1649, and settled in East Bridgewater before 1667. Their children were. Mercy, born 1650, at Plym- outh; James Chilton, Joseph, Elizabeth, Hannah, Sarah.

(IV) Mercy Latham, daughter of Robert and Susannah (Winslow) Latham (3), was born in 1650; married Isaac Harris, son of Arthur and Mar- tha Harris. (He married (second) Mary Dunbar, daughter of Robert Dunbar, of Hingham and sister of Peter Dunbar. He and his wife both died in 1707.) The children of Isaac and Mercy (Latham) Harris were: Arthur, Isaac, Samuel, Desire, Jane, Susana, Mary, Mercy, born 1680.

(V) Mary Harris, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Latham) Harris (4), married, 1713, Daniel Pack- ard, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lathrop) Pack- ard. Their children were: Sarah, born 1714; Mary, 1716; Susanna, 1718; Martha, 1720; Daniel, 1722; Isaac, 1724; Neliemiah, 1727.

(VI) Susannah Packard, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Harris) Packard (5), was born 1718, married, 1734, David Orcutt, and had three sons : Daniel, mentioned below ; Stephen, David, Jr.

(VHI) Daniel Orcutt, son of David and Susan- nah (Packard) Orcutt (6), was born 1734; married (first) Lydia Cushman, who was mother of his chil- dren, and (second) Mary Hurlburt. His children were: Lydia, born 1756, married Edward Bixby ; Stephen, May 13, 1757, mentioned below; Mary, 1759, married Uriah Clough; Susie, married Tim- othy Clough; Betsey, married Pember Howard; Sally, married John Clough; Daniel, Jr., married Betsey Wood; Joseph O., born 1772, married Polly Clough and Ruth Gould; Abigail.

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Lydia (Cushman) Orcutt (7), was born May 13, 1757; married, 1782, Molly Washburn, and had : James, born April 28, 1783, married Polly Hitch- cock, January, 1805; Horace, May 14, 1785, married, May 14, 1807, Polly Howe; Stephen, Jr., August 14, 1787, married, May 30, 1813; Phillip, January 22, 1790, married November 25, 1813, Persis Talmadge ; Warren, mentioned below; John, October 16, 1795, married, 1821, Minerva Bradley ; married, 1857, Fidelia Case; Julia, March 12, 1798, married, March. 6, 1817, . William Rogers; Laura, September 23, 1801, married Abraham Francis, August 28, 1823; Polly, March 12, 1804, died May 8, 1877.

Polly Clough, sister of Stephen Orcutt (8), who married Uriah Clough as stated above, had nine chil- dren, one of whom, Mordecai Clough, married Lucy Case and had six children. Of the latter, Sarah Clough married Naaman Grant, and one of their three children is Rev. Roland D. Grant, the noted lecturer.

(IX) Warren Orcutt, fifth child of Stephen Or- cutt (8), was born October 6, 1792; married, 1816, Selenda Johnson, mentioned above. Their children were: Marietta, born February 27, 1817, married Austin Warren, 1842; Delina Augusta, July 12, 1819, died January 12, 1822; Elvira, mentioned be- low; Charlotte, January 2, 1826; Amelia Miranda, February 16, 1828, married Isaiah Merrit Babcock in 1852, and Miner Fenton in 1858; Laura Emeline, February 22, 1830, married, 1853, Ashbel Burnham Studley; Elizabeth Cornelia, July 1, 1833, married Josiah Converse, in 1862; Maria Celenda, October 5, 1837, married Charles Franklin Pasco, in 1859, and Orrin Lincoln Fletcher in 1865; Aurelia Fran- ces, July 20, 1841, married Julius Perry Maine, in 1865.

(X) Elvira Orcutt, daughter of Warren Orcutt (9), was born March 4, 1823, married William E. Desper, March 29, 1847.

(XI) Henry A. Desper, son of William E. and Elvira (Orcutt) Desper (10), is the subject of this. sketch.

(1) Francis Cook, another Mayflower ancestor of Mr. Desper, also signed the compact. He brought with him his son John. His wife Hester, a Walloon, a member of the church, came in the "Anne" in 1623. with other of his children. He settled in Plymouth where he was admitted a freeman in 1633. He died April 7, 1663. His will was dated December 7, 1659, and proved June 5, 1633. His children were : John, Jacob, James, Hester, Mary, Jane, mentioned below. (II) Jane Cook, daughter of Francis Cook (1), married Experience Mitchell.

(III) Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Experi- ence and Jane (Cook) Mitchell (2), married, 1645, John Washburn, Jr.

(IV) Jane Washburn, daughter of John, Jr .. and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Washburn, married Will- iam Orcutt, Jr.

(V) Martha Orcutt, daughter of William, Jr., and Jane (Washburn) Orcutt, married Solomon Washburn, 1732.

(VI) Molly Washburn, daughter of Solomon and Martha (Orcutt) Washburn (5), married Stephen Orcutt, 1782, as stated above.

(VII) Warren Orcutt, son of the preceding, married Selenda Johnson, 1816.

(VIII) Elvira Orcutt, daughter of the preced- ing, married, 1847, William E. Desper.

(IX) Henry A. Desper, son of the preceding, is the subject of this sketch.

(1) Thomas Joy, one of the Puritan progenitors of Henry A. Desper, was a carpenter by trade. He was a proprietor of the town of Boston in 1636. He and Bartholomew Bernard, August I, 1657, were

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awarded the contract to build the first town house of Boston, which marks him as the master builder of the colony and links his name forever with an interesting and historic edifice. This was the first capitol or state house of Massachusetts and it stood until 1711, when it was destroyed by fire, and on its site was erected the present building known as the old state house at the corner of Washington and State streets, one of the most venerated monu- ments of colonial Boston. Thomas Joy was arrested in 1646 for helping to get signers to the petition for enlarged franchise, and for questioning the general court's authority in arresting him. He was soon re- leased. He removed to Hingham, where in 1650 he owned a tide-mill and other property. He mar- ried Joan Gallop, daughter of John Gallop and his wife Christabel; she was born in England and died in Hingham, March 20, 1690; he died in Hingham, October 21, 1678, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. (II) Ensign Joseph Joy, son of Thomas Joy (I), was born April 1, 1645, married Mary Prince. (III) Joseph Joy, son of Ensign Joseph Joy (2), was born July 30, 1668, and married, May 22. 1690, Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Thomas and Ruth Andrews. He died in Hingham, April 29, 1716, and his gravestone with the inscription still legible in the Hingham graveyard is the oldest gravestone of the Joy family in America.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 90

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 824

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824