Joseph Ayers is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6MG-PHJ : 9 November 2014), Joseph J Ayres, Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey, United States; citing family 272, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). [1]
"New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWR4-HJ7 : 12 December 2014), Joseph J Ayres and Phebe Ann Locey, 27 Sep 1827; citing Morris, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton; FHL microfilm 1,314,453. [3]
"New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ6N-SZQ : 8 April 2016), Jos. J. Ayres, 09 Dec 1882; citing Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 589,834. [4]
Joseph Percy Crayon, Rockaway Records of Morris County, N.J., Families, Rockaway Publishing Company, Rockaway, New Jersey, 1902, p. 81. [5]
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