Obadiah Joy (abt. 1726 - 1816)

Born about 18 Jan 1726 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Doyle) Joy — married 26 Mar 1749 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony

Husband of Mary (Park) Joy — married 31 Oct 1798 in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States

Descendants

Died 1816 at about age 89 in Portland, Chautauqua, New York, United States

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Biography

Burial

Place: Joy Burial Site, Chautauqua Co NY

Census Record

1810 Windham Co VT, Putney. David Joy: 11211/01001/40/50

1800 Windham Co VT, Putney. David Joy: 22011/11110

1790 Windham Co VT, Putney, p 53, Obediah Joy: 1/0/2

DAR Patriot Ancestor.

On the rateables tax lists of Rehoboth, Mass. in Nov. 5, 1759 & Oct. 23, 1769.

To Putney in 1773 or '74. Catherine Cornelia Joy Dyer, Brief History of the Joy Family, 1876, p 29.

DEATH: 1816, Chautauqua Co NY (not western PA as stated in Dyer, Joy and Lee books). More of his descendants are given in The Joy Genealogy, by Helen Bourne Joy Lee. Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland, by HC Taylor, MD, 1873.

From Rita Orton, Genforum: There is an application for a military pension on file, for the year of 1832 for a Joseph Joy of Putney, Vt. In this file, a deposition given by Obadiah Joy [Jr] of Putney, Vt. age 64. Obadiah states that he was 10 years old living in Brattleboro, Vt. Joseph's father [Obadiah] had leaned towards being a TORY and had not wanted Joseph to join the army. After finding this information and also knowing that the Joy family were Yorkers, I didn't think records were going to be found that would allow Obadiah Joy to be approved by the DAR.

David Joy, submitted by Dolores Davidson, 2003.

JOY BURIAL SITE, PORTLAND, NY. Located on the former Joy farm on Webster Road east of Portland Center. Disappeared. No known inscriptions exist.

In H.C. Taylor's Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland he mentions on page 301 " Old Mr. Joy, father of Capt. David Joy, and a few others were buried in a field now belonging to Richard Reynolds, on lot 19, town 5... but the precise spot is difficult to determine. Mr. Joy's aged father d. in Portland . about 1816.

DAVID JOY- "Old Capt. Joy" came to P. from Vermont in 1810. He built a log shanty in the woods near where the house of M.J. Munson now stands, on pt of lot 33, T. 5. He left this claim the next year, and returned to Vermont. Early in 1812, having removed his family to P. he rented the log tavern house of Wm. Berry, standing near where the house of Lincoln Fay now stands, on lot 25, T. 5, and continued the tavern. Within the next two or three months the house was burned, but a frame house was at once built and a public house continued. Early in 1814, Mr. Joy and his son Moses erected a large frame building, on pt of lot 19, T. 5, where the house of W. W. Pettit now stands, and opened it as a tavern. It was sold to Wm. Harris, sen., in 1817, and a double log house built on the N. pt of the lot, where the house of H.A.S. Thompson now stands, and opened a tavern. Sometime previous to 1831 the house now on the farm was built. In 1831 the farm was sold, and the farm now owned by Linus Burton, S. of Brocton, S. pt lot 13, T. 5., purchased. In 1837 Mr. Joy removed to Michigan, where he died many years since. Mrs. Joy d. in Portland . June 1st, 1831, aged 69. Mr. Joy's aged father d. in P. about 1816. As before hinted, Mr. Joy left his family in their home in Vt. until he could prepare for them a plce in the wilderness. After building his shanty on lot 33, as stated, he furnished it with a bed of straw in one corner on the bare earth, a brown earthen pan or two, a bowl of the same material, and one wooden spoon. Chairs or stools were of no account, and were not used, a block of wood answering every purpose. A fireplace was built of two or three bowlders, in one corner, and an old blanket was hung up at the doorway. The inventory of cooking utensils was not large, including but one iron kettle. He purchased a small cow and turned her into the woods to browse; a half bushel of corn meal and a pound or two of salt. After the labors of the day he would drive home his cow, secure her milk, and cook mush sufficient for his supper and two meals the next day. THe mush and milk thus prepared and eaten from his brown bowl with his wooden spoon he described as delicious. On a certain occasion while at his work, his faithful cow came about the cabin, and finding the door easy of removal, pushed it aside and made her way into the best apartment the cabin afforded. A slight exploration discovered to her the mush kettle, and claiming an interest in the property of her master, she soon cleared it of its entire contents; then going to the bed of Mr. Joy very complacently laid herself down in it. When Mr. Joy came in for his dinner he was not a little surprised to find his mush kettle empty, and the intruder very quietly chewing her cud in his bed. He had not the heart to eject her rudely, but quietly drove her out, and took good care that she did not again thus deprive him of "his bed and board." OBADIAH5 JOY (DAVID4, JOSEPH3, ENS. JOSEPH2, THOMAS1, THOMASA) was born 18 January 1725/26 or 27 in Rehoboth, Brstl., Massachusetts, and died in Pennsylvania (* Not correct, died in Portland Chautauqua Co NY, close to PA). He married ELIZABETH DOYLE 26 March 1749 in Rehoboth, Brstl., Massachusetts. She was born ca. 1726 in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and died July 1772 in Rehoboth, Brstl., Massachusetts. Parents: David Joy and Ruth Ford. He was married to Elizabeth Doyle on 26 Mar 1749 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA David JOY was born Birth: ca 1765 [sic] in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Death: Apr 1844 in Union, Cass, Michigan. Burial: East Union Cemetery, Union, Cass, Michigan BIRTH & DEATH: Tombstone inscription; Union Cemetery, Cass County MI; age 80 yrs; Father: Obediah JOY b: 18 Jan 1726 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts the aged father died in Portland, 1816 Chautauqua, New York he was 90. Mother: Elizabeth DOYLE Marriage 1 Mary or Molly DICKERSON in Putney, Windham, Vermont, Birth: 14 Dec 1761 in Putney, Windham, Vermont. Death: 1 Jun 1831 in Portland, Chautauqua, New York DEATH: Portland Historical Sketches; JOY, David (27) "Mrs. Joy died June 1st, 1831, aged 69

Family of Mr. and Mrs. Joy.: (1) Moses; m. Patty HILLS; settled in Portland.; but removed to Michigan in 1837, where he d. some years since. Patty was the dau of Ezekiel HILLS, died 15 NOV 1844 in Pomfret, NY and Malinda PALMER Birth: 20 JUN 1777 in Tolland, CT Death: 1836 in Charlotte, VT; they had 8 known children: Patty b ca 1798 DEATH: EAST UNION CEMETERY (RINEHART CEMETERY) Cass County, MI; received from Gloria Winslow, Mattawan, MI Moses Joy came from Portland TWP, Chautauqua NY in 1835 and owned 720 acres of land in Cass Co., Michigan. Children: Alonzo JOY b: 1821 in NY; Emaline JOY b: 24 Apr 1823 in Chautauqua, NY; Fidelia JOY b: 25 Feb 1825; Elution JOY b: Jun 1827 EAST UNION CEMETERY (RINEHART CEMETERY) m Harriet Parker, Death: 19 Dec 1850 in Calif, 1850 census on the Consummes River, Hsehold # 4-4, buried Union, Cass County, MI. Wellington JOY b: 1829 in NY; Mary "Patty" JOY b: Abt. 1831; Nelson JOY b: 1832 in NY; Franklin JOY b: 1834 in NY; Dianthia JOY b: 1838 in MI; Alice JOY b: 1841 in MI EAST UNION CEMETERY (RINEHART CEMETERY). (2) EZRA; m. ____ ; for some time lived on N. pt lot 25, T. 5; afterward removed west. Married Lucy WILDER b: 30 Mar 1791. Children: Elias Wilder JOY b: 1818 in : 1818 in Pennsylvania; Death: 1900 in Bloomingdale, Vanburen, Michigan m Cervilla Ann FERRY; Obadiah JOY b: 1824/1826 in New York Marriage Marian MCMAHAN, Married: 3 Oct 1852 in Cass, Michigan; (3) DORREL; never m.; went west with the family in 1837 or Darrell ABT 1795. (4) DIAH; m. Sophia Everden; lived in Portland . for some years; eventually removing west. He is OBADIAH c 1803 wed SOPHIA, had At least 7 children went to MI. Children: Roxanna JOY b: 1829 in New York; Polly JOY b: 1832 in , New York; May J. JOY b: 1834 in New York; Andrew JOY b: 1839 in Michigan; Elias JOY b: 1843 in Michigan; Oscar JOY b: 1846 in Michigan. Harmon JOY b: 1849 in Mason Twp, Cass, Michigan. (5) ANNA; b ca 1800 m. Asa Brooks; lived on the lake shore; afterward went west.Death: ABT 1845 in Fosterburg, Madison, Illinois, Burial: Brooks Cemetery, Madison Co., Illinois. Children, Mary BROOKS b: 26 Jan 1819 in Chautauqua Co., New York. Frances BROOKS b: 17 Jan 1837 in Fosterburg, Madison, Illinois. (6) _____; M. James Wilder. [See Biog. Sketches No. 4]* ROXANNA b BIRTH: c 1788 approximated from marriage date. MARRIAGE: Dummerston Vital Records; Births, marriages and deaths 1761-1886; bk 1; pg 147; FHL film #28,152. Children: Marilla WILDER b: Nov 1809 in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont; Anna WILDER b: ABT 1820 in New York; Elias David WILDER b: 3 Aug 1824, Madison, Illinois; Abigail WILDER b: in Davies, Illinois; Henry WILDER b: 1833 in Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois George WILDER Jane WILDER; Josiah WILDER; Lucy WILDER. (7) POLLY; m. William Miller. pages 319-321 Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland, H.C. Taylor 1873, Posted by Donna Mills 14 Nov 1999 on the message boards; added data from census and family records. Obadiah and probably the wife of DAVID are in the Joy Burial site with assorted others not known nor ever will be.^[1]

Farmer. On the tax lists of Rehoboth, Mass. in Nov. 5, 1759 & Oct. 23, 1769. Removed to Putney, VT ca 1773 and later with a son to Pennsylvania [sic, actually Chautauqua Co NY. The area was frontier between settled areas of New York and pennsylvania].^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland.
2. ↑ Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths, with Supplement containing the Record of 1896, Colonial Returns, Lists of the Early Settlers, Purchasers, Freemen, Inhabitants, the Soldiers serving in Philip's War and the Revolution.

• James Richard Joy, Thomas Joy and his Descendants in the Lines of His Sons Samuel of Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephraim of Berwick: a Portfolio of Family Papers, 1900
• Source: S-2123956555 Repository: #R-2145490117 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=2487351&pid=796
• Repository: R-2145490117 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
• The Joy Genealogy, by Helen Bourne Joy Lee, passim.
• Marriage Record sent by Pat Haslam, Certified Genealogical Record Searcher, of Stowe VT, 30 Aug 1988. Obadiah is named as the groom and was a resident of Putney.
• Rehoboth, Bristol Co MA Vital Records.
• Chautauqua Co NY Cemeteries, p 140, cites Taylor, op cit., 301: "Old Mr Joy, father of Capt. David Joy, and a few others were buried in a field now belonging to Richard Reynolds, on lot 19, town 5... but the precise spot is difficult to determine."
• Richard LeBaron Bowen, Early Rehoboth, Vol 4. Rehoboth MA, 1950, pages 91, 95, 107.

Acknowledgements

• Joy-798 was created by Scott Raymond through the import of Raymond Family Tree.ged on Dec 16, 2014.