Military Service: Revolutionary War veteran. Served after 1777, as a Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Massachusetts and Vermont militias. Served with Williams Regiment, Vermont Militia in 1777.
According to the Vital Records of Putney, Vermont [FHL Call # 974.39/P1/V2s] p. 151, 160 & 189, it shows that Joseph Joy might have been married twice as two intentions were filed.
The first intention was for March 1779 to a Millesent Clay, daughter of Capt. James Clay and his wife Lydia Walker. Millesent was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Millescent's date of birth is June 21, 1759 and is in the Rehoboth, MA VRs as well as in a NEHGS database "Early Vermont Settlers to 1784" which gives her ancestry and siblings in a sketch about Capt. James Clay. No death is recorded for Millescent in the VRs for Putney and no reference to any marriage other than to Joseph Joy. It is possible that she returned to Rehoboth as Ancestry.com shows a marriage to a Cyrel Peck on 8 Mar 1782 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. "A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638: and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England, with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations, with their coat of arms, and copies of wills, and also an appendix giving an account of the Boston and Hingham Pecks" by Ira B. Peck (Ira Ballou), 1805-1888. Higginson Book Co. 442pgs. Originally published by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868. FHL Call 929.273P/335. On pg. 399 of the Additions, Alterations and Corrections section it states the following: "Add with the Pecks of Seekonk, Mass., Israel, who married the widow of Nathaniel Hunt, and resided for some time on the plain, so called, where is now the depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad. Who his father was I did not learn. He probably belonged to some one of the Rehoboth families, where his name was not recorded. His son Cyril settled at Pawtucket, in Mass. He married, first, Millicent Clay, daughter of James Clay, and second, widow Clarissa Wheeler. He died in 1830, aged 50 years...."
Based on the above, it does not appear that Joseph Joy actually married Millicent.
The second intention was for March 15, 1781 to Hepzeba Dikerson. Joseph was of Putney and Hepzeba was from Westminster, VT. Children of this marriage were borne by Hepzeba.
On 8-31-2016, a spousal family link was made for Lucinda Dutton Joy's memorial. Several sources indicate that she is Lucinda Dutton; however, the only sources that indicate that her surname is Dutton are 3 Pedigree Resource Files on Familysearch.org, with no sources. The Pedigree Resource File is user submitted and not an extracted record from vital records. Therefore, confirmation that her surname is Dutton needs to be undertaken.
In 1831, Joseph Joy was declared non compos by the Probate Court at Westminster, Vermont. An Inventory and appraisal was done of his estate at the time and then periodic accountings were submitted to the Probate Court wherein money was given to his wife, but no name was provided in the court documents.
At the time of Joseph's death in 1837, he had no will; therefore, an intestate probate was done. At that time the name of Lucinda Joy was named as his spouse. She submitted an affidavit requesting that she receive certain property from the estate and she also received her dower, which included 31 acres of land, the rest of the landed estate went to Joseph's children from his prior marriage(s).
In the Joy Genealogy by Helen Dyer Joy, she makes no mention of Lucinda as a wife of Joseph.
Besides the 3 Pedigree Resource Files that name Lucinda as a wife, and no others, there is a blog created by Kathy Alvis Patterson called Alvispat's Weblog Ancestors of Kathy Alvis Patterson—Ancestral Lines for Alvis, Armstrong, Pedigo, Light, Eyster, Atwell, Turner, Dorsey and Others at https://alvispat.wordpress.com/joy-obadiah-of-rehoboth-bristol-co-ma-and-putney-windham-co-vt/
This source indicates that Lucinda and Joseph were married in Dummerston, Vermont on March 11, 1819. Follow up research in the town records for Dummerston needs to be undertaken to document this marriage.
MARRIED: New England Historic and Genealogical Society Database for Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Name Events Relationship
Joseph JOY
Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI)
MARRIAGE: 3/11/1819
LOCATION: Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States
VOLUME: Marriages I-J-K to 1871
PAGE: 5267
SPOUSE: Lucinda Davenport
A marriage record was found in the Vermont Town Records, a card file of bride and groom. It gave her surname as Davenport. Both cards indicate place of birth for each on their own card. Further search did not reveal a birth record for her as either Dutton or Davenport and further attempts to locate her marrying a Davenport or a Dutton came up with no hits.
According to the Vital Records of Putney, Vermont [FHL Call # 974.39/P1/V2s] p. 151, 160 & 189, it shows that Joseph Joy might have been married twice as two intentions were filed.
The first intention was for March 1779 to a Millesent Clay, daughter of Capt. James Clay and his wife Lydia Walker. Millesent was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Millescent's date of birth is June 21, 1759 and is in the Rehoboth, MA VRs as well as in a NEHGS database "Early Vermont Settlers to 1784" which gives her ancestry and siblings in a sketch about Capt. James Clay. No death is recorded for Millescent in the VRs for Putney and no reference to any marriage other than to Joseph Joy. It is possible that she returned to Rehoboth as Ancestry.com shows a marriage to a Cyrel Peck on 8 Mar 1782 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. "A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638: and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England, with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations, with their coat of arms, and copies of wills, and also an appendix giving an account of the Boston and Hingham Pecks" by Ira B. Peck (Ira Ballou), 1805-1888. Higginson Book Co. 442pgs. Originally published by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868. FHL Call 929.273P/335. On pg. 399 of the Additions, Alterations and Corrections section it states the following: "Add with the Pecks of Seekonk, Mass., Israel, who married the widow of Nathaniel Hunt, and resided for some time on the plain, so called, where is now the depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad. Who his father was I did not learn. He probably belonged to some one of the Rehoboth families, where his name was not recorded. His son Cyril settled at Pawtucket, in Mass. He married, first, Millicent Clay, daughter of James Clay, and second, widow Clarissa Wheeler. He died in 1830, aged 50 years...."
Based on the above, it does not appear that Joseph Joy actually married Millicent.
The second intention was for March 15, 1781 to Hepzeba Dikerson. Joseph was of Putney and Hepzeba was from Westminster, VT. Children of this marriage were borne by Hepzeba.
On 8-31-2016, a spousal family link was made for Lucinda Dutton Joy's memorial. Several sources indicate that she is Lucinda Dutton; however, the only sources that indicate that her surname is Dutton are 3 Pedigree Resource Files on Familysearch.org, with no sources. The Pedigree Resource File is user submitted and not an extracted record from vital records. Therefore, confirmation that her surname is Dutton needs to be undertaken.
In 1831, Joseph Joy was declared non compos by the Probate Court at Westminster, Vermont. An Inventory and appraisal was done of his estate at the time and then periodic accountings were submitted to the Probate Court wherein money was given to his wife, but no name was provided in the court documents.
At the time of Joseph's death in 1837, he had no will; therefore, an intestate probate was done. At that time the name of Lucinda Joy was named as his spouse. She submitted an affidavit requesting that she receive certain property from the estate and she also received her dower, which included 31 acres of land, the rest of the landed estate went to Joseph's children from his prior marriage(s).
In the Joy Genealogy by Helen Dyer Joy, she makes no mention of Lucinda as a wife of Joseph.
Besides the 3 Pedigree Resource Files that name Lucinda as a wife, and no others, there is a blog created by Kathy Alvis Patterson called Alvispat's Weblog Ancestors of Kathy Alvis Patterson—Ancestral Lines for Alvis, Armstrong, Pedigo, Light, Eyster, Atwell, Turner, Dorsey and Others at https://alvispat.wordpress.com/joy-obadiah-of-rehoboth-bristol-co-ma-and-putney-windham-co-vt/
This source indicates that Lucinda and Joseph were married in Dummerston, Vermont on March 11, 1819. Follow up research in the town records for Dummerston needs to be undertaken to document this marriage.
MARRIED: New England Historic and Genealogical Society Database for Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Name Events Relationship
Joseph JOY
Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI)
MARRIAGE: 3/11/1819
LOCATION: Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States
VOLUME: Marriages I-J-K to 1871
PAGE: 5267
SPOUSE: Lucinda Davenport
A marriage record was found in the Vermont Town Records, a card file of bride and groom. It gave her surname as Davenport. Both cards indicate place of birth for each on their own card. Further search did not reveal a birth record for her as either Dutton or Davenport and further attempts to locate her marrying a Davenport or a Dutton came up with no hits.
Military Service: Revolutionary War veteran. Served after 1777, as a Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Massachusetts and Vermont militias. Served with Williams Regiment, Vermont Militia in 1777.
According to the Vital Records of Putney, Vermont [FHL Call # 974.39/P1/V2s] p. 151, 160 & 189, it shows that Joseph Joy might have been married twice as two intentions were filed.
The first intention was for March 1779 to a Millesent Clay, daughter of Capt. James Clay and his wife Lydia Walker. Millesent was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Millescent's date of birth is June 21, 1759 and is in the Rehoboth, MA VRs as well as in a NEHGS database "Early Vermont Settlers to 1784" which gives her ancestry and siblings in a sketch about Capt. James Clay. No death is recorded for Millescent in the VRs for Putney and no reference to any marriage other than to Joseph Joy. It is possible that she returned to Rehoboth as Ancestry.com shows a marriage to a Cyrel Peck on 8 Mar 1782 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. "A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638: and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England, with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations, with their coat of arms, and copies of wills, and also an appendix giving an account of the Boston and Hingham Pecks" by Ira B. Peck (Ira Ballou), 1805-1888. Higginson Book Co. 442pgs. Originally published by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868. FHL Call 929.273P/335. On pg. 399 of the Additions, Alterations and Corrections section it states the following: "Add with the Pecks of Seekonk, Mass., Israel, who married the widow of Nathaniel Hunt, and resided for some time on the plain, so called, where is now the depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad. Who his father was I did not learn. He probably belonged to some one of the Rehoboth families, where his name was not recorded. His son Cyril settled at Pawtucket, in Mass. He married, first, Millicent Clay, daughter of James Clay, and second, widow Clarissa Wheeler. He died in 1830, aged 50 years...."
Based on the above, it does not appear that Joseph Joy actually married Millicent.
The second intention was for March 15, 1781 to Hepzeba Dikerson. Joseph was of Putney and Hepzeba was from Westminster, VT. Children of this marriage were borne by Hepzeba.
On 8-31-2016, a spousal family link was made for Lucinda Dutton Joy's memorial. Several sources indicate that she is Lucinda Dutton; however, the only sources that indicate that her surname is Dutton are 3 Pedigree Resource Files on Familysearch.org, with no sources. The Pedigree Resource File is user submitted and not an extracted record from vital records. Therefore, confirmation that her surname is Dutton needs to be undertaken.
In 1831, Joseph Joy was declared non compos by the Probate Court at Westminster, Vermont. An Inventory and appraisal was done of his estate at the time and then periodic accountings were submitted to the Probate Court wherein money was given to his wife, but no name was provided in the court documents.
At the time of Joseph's death in 1837, he had no will; therefore, an intestate probate was done. At that time the name of Lucinda Joy was named as his spouse. She submitted an affidavit requesting that she receive certain property from the estate and she also received her dower, which included 31 acres of land, the rest of the landed estate went to Joseph's children from his prior marriage(s).
In the Joy Genealogy by Helen Dyer Joy, she makes no mention of Lucinda as a wife of Joseph.
Besides the 3 Pedigree Resource Files that name Lucinda as a wife, and no others, there is a blog created by Kathy Alvis Patterson called Alvispat's Weblog Ancestors of Kathy Alvis Patterson—Ancestral Lines for Alvis, Armstrong, Pedigo, Light, Eyster, Atwell, Turner, Dorsey and Others at https://alvispat.wordpress.com/joy-obadiah-of-rehoboth-bristol-co-ma-and-putney-windham-co-vt/
This source indicates that Lucinda and Joseph were married in Dummerston, Vermont on March 11, 1819. Follow up research in the town records for Dummerston needs to be undertaken to document this marriage.
MARRIED: New England Historic and Genealogical Society Database for Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Name Events Relationship
Joseph JOY
Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI)
MARRIAGE: 3/11/1819
LOCATION: Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States
VOLUME: Marriages I-J-K to 1871
PAGE: 5267
SPOUSE: Lucinda Davenport
A marriage record was found in the Vermont Town Records, a card file of bride and groom. It gave her surname as Davenport. Both cards indicate place of birth for each on their own card. Further search did not reveal a birth record for her as either Dutton or Davenport and further attempts to locate her marrying a Davenport or a Dutton came up with no hits.
According to the Vital Records of Putney, Vermont [FHL Call # 974.39/P1/V2s] p. 151, 160 & 189, it shows that Joseph Joy might have been married twice as two intentions were filed.
The first intention was for March 1779 to a Millesent Clay, daughter of Capt. James Clay and his wife Lydia Walker. Millesent was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Millescent's date of birth is June 21, 1759 and is in the Rehoboth, MA VRs as well as in a NEHGS database "Early Vermont Settlers to 1784" which gives her ancestry and siblings in a sketch about Capt. James Clay. No death is recorded for Millescent in the VRs for Putney and no reference to any marriage other than to Joseph Joy. It is possible that she returned to Rehoboth as Ancestry.com shows a marriage to a Cyrel Peck on 8 Mar 1782 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. "A genealogical history of the descendants of Joseph Peck, who emigrated with his family to this country in 1638: and records of his father's and grandfather's families in England, with the pedigree extending back from son to father for twenty generations, with their coat of arms, and copies of wills, and also an appendix giving an account of the Boston and Hingham Pecks" by Ira B. Peck (Ira Ballou), 1805-1888. Higginson Book Co. 442pgs. Originally published by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868. FHL Call 929.273P/335. On pg. 399 of the Additions, Alterations and Corrections section it states the following: "Add with the Pecks of Seekonk, Mass., Israel, who married the widow of Nathaniel Hunt, and resided for some time on the plain, so called, where is now the depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad. Who his father was I did not learn. He probably belonged to some one of the Rehoboth families, where his name was not recorded. His son Cyril settled at Pawtucket, in Mass. He married, first, Millicent Clay, daughter of James Clay, and second, widow Clarissa Wheeler. He died in 1830, aged 50 years...."
Based on the above, it does not appear that Joseph Joy actually married Millicent.
The second intention was for March 15, 1781 to Hepzeba Dikerson. Joseph was of Putney and Hepzeba was from Westminster, VT. Children of this marriage were borne by Hepzeba.
On 8-31-2016, a spousal family link was made for Lucinda Dutton Joy's memorial. Several sources indicate that she is Lucinda Dutton; however, the only sources that indicate that her surname is Dutton are 3 Pedigree Resource Files on Familysearch.org, with no sources. The Pedigree Resource File is user submitted and not an extracted record from vital records. Therefore, confirmation that her surname is Dutton needs to be undertaken.
In 1831, Joseph Joy was declared non compos by the Probate Court at Westminster, Vermont. An Inventory and appraisal was done of his estate at the time and then periodic accountings were submitted to the Probate Court wherein money was given to his wife, but no name was provided in the court documents.
At the time of Joseph's death in 1837, he had no will; therefore, an intestate probate was done. At that time the name of Lucinda Joy was named as his spouse. She submitted an affidavit requesting that she receive certain property from the estate and she also received her dower, which included 31 acres of land, the rest of the landed estate went to Joseph's children from his prior marriage(s).
In the Joy Genealogy by Helen Dyer Joy, she makes no mention of Lucinda as a wife of Joseph.
Besides the 3 Pedigree Resource Files that name Lucinda as a wife, and no others, there is a blog created by Kathy Alvis Patterson called Alvispat's Weblog Ancestors of Kathy Alvis Patterson—Ancestral Lines for Alvis, Armstrong, Pedigo, Light, Eyster, Atwell, Turner, Dorsey and Others at https://alvispat.wordpress.com/joy-obadiah-of-rehoboth-bristol-co-ma-and-putney-windham-co-vt/
This source indicates that Lucinda and Joseph were married in Dummerston, Vermont on March 11, 1819. Follow up research in the town records for Dummerston needs to be undertaken to document this marriage.
MARRIED: New England Historic and Genealogical Society Database for Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Name Events Relationship
Joseph JOY
Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008
Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI)
MARRIAGE: 3/11/1819
LOCATION: Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States
VOLUME: Marriages I-J-K to 1871
PAGE: 5267
SPOUSE: Lucinda Davenport
A marriage record was found in the Vermont Town Records, a card file of bride and groom. It gave her surname as Davenport. Both cards indicate place of birth for each on their own card. Further search did not reveal a birth record for her as either Dutton or Davenport and further attempts to locate her marrying a Davenport or a Dutton came up with no hits.
Inscription
Erected by his wife
The most likely wife to have erected this marker was Hepzeba Dikerson whom Joseph married March 15, 1781 in Putney, Vermont.
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