Joseph Poor (1737 - 1795)

Born 24 Aug 1737 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Bailey) Poor — married 22 Apr 1756 in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 28 Feb 1795 at age 57 in Byfield, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Capt. Joseph Poor performed Patriotic Service in the American Revolution.

Joseph Poor is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A090839.

Joseph Poor was born in 1737, the son of Samuel Poor and Elizabeth Searle.^[1]

Joseph married Margaret Bayley in Bradford, Massachusetts in 1756.^[2][3] They settled in the area of Rowley, MA later (1838) to be broken away as Georgetown, MA., where their nine children were born and registered on the records of Rowley, as follows:

1. Elizabeth, b. 16 Mar. 1757; d. 29 Mar. 1777 (unm.)
2. Joseph, b. 13 Dec. 1758 (not listed in the John Poore genealogy)
3. Samuel, b. 13 Dec. 1758; m. Anna Bridges, 21 Oct. 1784; d. 18 Aug. 1841
4. George, b. 22 Jan. 1761; m. Mary Little, 11 Dec. 1783; d. 20 Apr. 1833
5. Ruth, b. 26 Dec. 1762; m. Benjamin Poor, 4 May 1784; d. 30 Sep. 1828
6. Jesse, b. 3 Feb. 1765; m. Phebe Hedges; d. 1 Oct. 1845
7. Job, b. 22 Oct. 1767; m1. Sally Hobart; m2. Patty Bixby, 1812; d. 7 Oct. 1851
8. Joseph, b. 23 Dec. 1770; m. Hannah Wood, 31 May 1797; d. 10 July 1843, and
9. John, b. 26 Nov. 1775; m. Hannah Chute, 1797; d. 9 Dec. 1819.

Joseph was in the Army at Lake George in the French and Indian War in 1757. At the time of the Revolutionary War, he was the head of a company that marched from Byfield to Cambridge on Apr. 20, 1775, and he signed on the pay roll that year as “Joseph Poor, Capt.”. He was an officer in Byfield Parish and was a deacon of its church. He was recorded on the 1790 census in Rowley, MA.

Deacon Joseph Poor died of "shock of paralysis" while at church service in 1795, at the age of 57.^[4] He was buried in what later became known as Georgetown, Massachusetts. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex institute, Salem, Mass., 1928-31)| Page 177
2. ↑ Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1907)| Page 262
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-GN34 : 5 November 2017), Joseph Poor and Margaret Bayley, 20 Apr 1756; citing Marriage, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1911)| Volume 2, Part 2, Page 701
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #29972551 for Capt. Joseph Poor

See Also:

• Family Search | Capt. Joseph Poor
• A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts, Historical and Genealogical Researches, of Merrimack Valley, Vol 1, Nbr. 1, April 1857, Published by Alfred Poor, Haverhill,| Page 92, top left-hand column
• A Memoir and Genealogy of John Poore, by Alfred Poore, Genealogist, Salem, Mass., 1881| Pages 202-205

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Jodie Beeson for creating WikiTree profile Poor-304 through the import of Beeson_Lemmer Family Tree.ged on Oct 27, 2013.