Thomas Joy Desc.

Thomas JOY

Born: about 1609/1610 County Norfolk, England

Died: 21 October 1678 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA

Married: 1637 in MA

Joan/Joanna GALLUP (GALLOP) [daughter of Capt. John GALLUP & Cristobel]

b. Mosterton, Co. Dorset, England

d. 20 March 1690/91 MA

Joan Gallop sailed to Massachusetts from England with her mother in the "Griffin", September 1633.

In 1635 Thomas Joy sailed from Gravesend, England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the ship "Constance". He was a contractor, master builder and architect and built the Boston Town House 1640 [1657?] in the market place of Boston from his design (it once held the arsenal, Court House and Town Hall of Boston). A supporter of Dr. Robert Child's petition for extension of the right of suffrage, he was arrested in 1646 for helping to get signers to petition for enlarged franchise and for questioning the Court's authority in arresting him. About 1646/47 he removed to Hingham, MA. Owned Tide-Mill and other property by 1650. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 1658. Admitted a freeman of the Colony in 1665. Bought land from the Indians 1668.

Buried in Hingham cemetery, Hingham, Massachusetts, headstone reads:

[Front]

“In Memory of

Mr. Thomas Joy

Died Hingham, Mass

October 21st 1678”

[Back]

“Thomas Joy

‘Kept in Irons four or

five days by Governor

Winthrop for getting

‘Hands’ to ‘Dr. Child’s

Memorial’ 1646

Builder of

First State House

Bosten 1657

Erected by Henry Bourne Joy 1950”

ISSUE:

• Samuel Joy

• John Joy

• Thomas Joy

• Joseph Joy, Sr.

• Ephraim Joy

• Sarah Joy

• Benjamin Joy

• Eliza Joy

• Elizabeth Joy

• Ruth Joy

Joseph JOY, Jr. [son of Joseph JOY, Sr. & Mary PRINCE]

Born: 30 Jul 1668 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA

Died: 29 April 1716 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Buried Hingham Graveyard.

Married: 22 May 1690 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA

Elizabeth ANDREWS [daughter of Capt. Thomas ANDREWS & Ruth]

Born: 22 September 1665 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA

Died: 10 September 1743

Joseph Joy, Sr was constable, 1679-1711. Joseph's gravestone is the most ancient Joy gravemarker in America which has a legible inscription.

ISSUE:

• Prince Joy

• Joseph Joy

• David Joy

• John Joy

• Simon Joy

• Ruth Joy

• Jedediah Joy

• Abigail Joy

• Johnathan Joy

Isaac JOY [son of Simon JOY & Hannah HUMPHREY]

Born: 22 Jun 1732 Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA

Died: 20 Jul 1801 Plainfield, Hampshire Co, MA

Married (1st): 20 September 1752 Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA

Hanna VINING [daughter of Benjamin VINING & Hannah PRATT]

Born: 19 May 1735 Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA

Died: 4 Mar 1797

Married (2nd): October 1799

Mrs. Hannah Hathaway of Adams, Mass.

Isaac Joy was a soldier in Capt. Gridley's Company in the Lake George Campaign, 1756. Removed from Weymouth to Plainfield before 1785.

“23. ISAAC (Simon, Joseph, Engisn Joseph, Thomas), b. Weymouth, Mass. June 22, 1732; d. Plainfield, Mass., July 20, 1801. A first settler and “principal inhbitant” of that northern district of Cummington, Hampshire Co., Mass., which is now the town of Plainfield.* At the first town meeting of Cummington he was chosen “surveyor of highways.” The warrant calling the first town meeting of Plainfield was issued to “Isaac Joy, yeoman,” July 14, 1785. At this meeting he was elected “tythingman,” and made chairman of a committee “to hire a gospel minister.” In 1788 and 1789 he was one of the selectmen. The floor plan of the first meetinghouse shows his pew in the front row on the main aisle. Soldier in Capt. Gridley’s company in Lake George campaign, 1756.

Married, I, Sept. 20, 1753, Hannah Vining, of Weymouth (d. Mar. 4, 1797). II, Oct., 1799, Mrs. Hannah Hathaway, of Adams, Mass.

CHILDREN.

By first marriage:

51 i. Asa, b. May 27, 1754; m. 1773 Mary Blanchard

ii Hannah, b. Mar. 18, 1756 ; m., 1810, John Taylor, of Hawley, Mass.

52. iii Isaac, b. ----- 1761 ; m. Ruth Tirell.

53. iv Joseph, bapt. Feb., 1764 ; m. 1, Molly Porter ; 2, Mrs. Mehitable P. Brown.

v. Mary, b. Mar. 18, 1768 ; m. Ezekiel Eldred.”

[Thomas Joy and his descendants: in the lines of his sons Samuel of Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephriam of Berwick, Compiled by James Richard Joy, Printed for the Family (New York, 1900)]

ISSUE:

• Asa Joy

• Hannah Joy

• Mary Joy

• Isaac Joy

• Joseph Joy