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Joseph Bixby II (1649 - bef. 1725)

Joseph Bixby II
Born in Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Englandmap
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Biography

Joseph Bixby Jr. , son of Joseph and Sarah (Riddlesdale/ widow Heard) Bixby [1] was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1649. [2] [3] He was a husbandman, settling at Boxford, Massachusetts. [3]

Military

  • 1675: Served in the Rowley company of Captain Samuel Brocklebank. [3]
  • 1675: November 9: Among the men assigned to Major Appleton command in the Narragansett campaign. [3]
  • 1728: When the General Court granted land to survivors or representatives of King Philip's War, his son John received a grant of land in the right his father Joseph's for his service[2] [3]

Town Offices

Joseph Bixby Jr. was prominent in Boxfrd affairs, taking his father's place in the public's service. [3]

  • On the 22 March, 1689-90, several Boxford men were admitted freemen of the Colony, among them "Joseph Byxbe." [3]
  • Joseph Bixby, Jr., was one of the selectmen of Boxford in 1688, and was reelected 24 June, 1689, when he was styled corporal. [3]
  • He was elected eleven times to that office, his last service being in 1723. [3]
  • He was moderator of town meeting in 1694-5 and in 1699. [3]
  • Constable, an office of great responsibility in early times, in 1691. [3]
  • On committee to build the meeting house in 1699; and to seat the people in the meeting house in January, 1 700/1, a 'post requiring tact and good judgment, as the congregation was seated according to the dignity of their position in society.' [3]
  • In 1701 he was on the committee to build the minister's house. [3]
  • He was again moderator in 1702. [3]
  • In 1702 he also served as tythingman. [3]
  • He helped seat the meeting house in 1703. [3]
  • He was grandjuryman 1703. [3]
  • He is first mentioned in town records as sergeant in 1700. [3]
  • From the incorporation of Boxford until 1705 he was a member of the committee appointed from time to time to meet committees of other towns to agree upon the bounds of Boxford. [3]
  • Member of the Boxford Church and one of the Church Committee appointed to settle differences with the Topsfield Church in regard to the ordination of the minister of the Church in Boxford. ' [2]

Family

He married Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Baker) Gould of Topsfield on March 29, 1682. [4] [2] [3] His wife Sarah was born at Topsfield on December 18, 1664. [4] Sarah died at Boxford on December 4, 1723. [5] [3]

Joseph Bixby Sr., of Boxford, died in the fall of 1725. On October 5, 1725, Joseph Byxbe, eldest son, gave surety of L200 in the administration of his father Joseph Sr.s' estate, his father having died intestate. [6]

The estate inventory was taken on October 29, 1725 valued at £350-12-11 [3] and included real estate of housing and lands in the homelot assesses at L237, 17 acres in rock woods, in partnership at L28 10s and 2 pieces of meadow in Andover at L28. [6]

  • April 11, 1727: Thomas Byxbe of Boxford acknowledged receiving L34 8s 11d ' in payable bills of credit' from Joseph Bixby, administrator of father Joseph Bixby's estate.
  • May 10, 1727: Joshua Higgins of Boston acknowledged receiving L6 bills of credit as part of his wife's portion of her father Joseph Bixby's estate. [6]
  • June 2, 1727: Mary Byxbe and Hannah Byxbe acknowledged each receiving L34 8s 11d of current and payable money from brother Joseph, as full share of their father's estate. [6]
  • June 7, 1727, James and Sarah Higgins acknowledged receiving L34 8s 11d ' in payable bills of credit' from Joseph Bixby, administrator of our father Joseph Bixby's estate. [6]
  • June 28, 1727: Moses Byxbe acknowledged each receiving L35 8s 11d of current bills of credit from brother Joseph, as full share of their father's estate. [6]

Children

  1. Joseph, born March 29, 1683; married Lydia Peabody [5] [3]
  2. Sarah, born August 3, 1685 [5]; married James Higgins of Eastham, Massachusetts on December 12, 1726. [3]
  3. Priscilla, born February 28, 1687/8; married Joshua Higgins of Eastham, Massachusetts on October 27, 1720, at Boxford. [3]
  4. Phebe born April 19, 1690, baptized June 8, 1690, at Topsfield; married Samuel Pickard on March 18, 1713. [5] [3]
  5. John, born July 26, 1692, baptized August 28, 1692, at Topsfield; married Esther Andrews. [3]
  6. Mary, born 10 or 19 April, 1694 [5] baptized June 3, 1694, at Topsfield; married Eliezer Lake on January 12, 1743/4. [4] She was possibly as his second wife. Mary Lake, an aged woman, died in 1775. [3]
  7. Thomas, born April 2, 1696, baptized August 9, 1696, at Topsfield; married Alice Cummings [5]; settled at Hopkington. [3]
  8. Hannah, born December 1, 1699 [5]; married Richard Towne on February. 28, 1736/7 [4] as his second wife. [3] [7]
  9. Moses [6] born July 20, 1704; married Phebe Hopkins at Eastham on March 18, 1724. [3]

Research Notes

Topsfield Births

GOULD, Sarah, d. John, Dec. 18, 1664. CTR (p. 52)

Topsfield Marriages

BIGGISBY, Joseph, and Sarah Gold of Topsfield, Mar. 29, 1682. CTR (p. 116)
Bixby, Hannah, and Richard Towne, Feb. 28, 1736-7. (p. 123)
Bixby, Mary, and Eliezer Lake, Jan. 12, 1743-4. (p. 123) [4]

Boxford Births

Biggisby, Joseph, s. Joseph and Sarah, Mar. 29, 1683. CTR (p. 13)
Biggisby, Sarah, d. Joseph and Sarah, Aug. 3, 1685. CTR (p. 13)
Bixbe, ___l, d. Joseph and Sarah, Apr. 10, [1694-6?].(p. 14)
Bixbee, ___ah, d. Joseph and Sarah, Feb. 28, [16––. BC 1687-8]. (p.14)
Bixbee, ___rah, d. Joseph and Sarah, Dec. 1, 1699. (p. 14)
Bixbee, Thomas, s. Joseph and Sarah, Apr. 2, 16[96?]. (p. 14)
Bixby, ___, d. Joseph and Sarah, Apr. 19, [1689-90?]. (p. 15)

Boxbord Marriages

Bixbee, Josaph, and Ledyah Peabody, Jan. 4, 170–. [1705-08?] (p. 116)
Bixbe, Phebe, and Samuel Pickard, Mar. 18, 1713. (p. 116)
Bixbe, John and Esther Andrew, May 18, 1722 [Mar. 6 BC] (p. 116)
Bixbe, Prisellah, and Joshua Higens of Eastham, Oct. 27, 1720. (p. 116)
Bixby, Thomas [Byxbe. int.], and Alice Cummins [Alliss Comings. int.], ––– ––, 1725. BC [int. Apr. 22, 1725.] (p. 117)

Boxford Deaths

BIXBEY (Bixby), Sarah, w. Sargent Joseph, Dec. 4, 1723. (p. 225)
Bixbee, Josaph, Sergt., Apr. 19, 17––. [1700-01?] (p. 225) [5]

Sources

  1. ↑ Threfall, John. Twenty-six Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins. Published by J.B. Threlfall, , Madison, Wisconsin, 1993 p. 2-10
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Converse, Charles Allen. Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, Jr: Of Thompson Parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; Hon. Heman Allen, M. C., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, Sr. of Killingly, Conn, Volume 2, E. Putnam, Boston, Massachusetts, 1905, p. 807-8
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 Goldthwaite, Willard Bixby, compiler, E. Putnam, assistant. A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, who spell the name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby family in England, descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk, Willard G. Bixby, Brooklyn, New York, 1914, p. 28: 31-4: 43- 9
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Vital Records of Topsfield Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, The Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1903
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Vital Records of Boxford Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, The Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1905
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Case 2509:1-16: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
  7. ↑ Hoover, Lois Payne. The Towne Family, William Towne and Joanna Blessing, Salem Massachusetts, 1635, Five Generations of Descendants, 2010, p. 111

See Also

  • Perley, Sidney. The History of Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts: From the Earliest Settlement Known to the Present Time: a Period of about Two Hundred and Thirty Years, Published by the author, Boxford, Massachusetts, 1880
  • The Towne Family, William Towne and Joanna Blessing, Salem Massachusetts, 1635, Five Generations of Descendants, by Lois Payne Hoover, (2010, 3rd printing 2015), Towne Family Association by Otter Bay Books, Baltimore, Maryland, Page 111Hannah Bixby
  • No stone: unsourced: Find A Grave Memorial# 70343507 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70343507

Acknowledgements

  • This person was created through the import of 104-B.ged on 12 September 2010.




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