Ruth (Ford) Joy (1698 - 1795)

Born 7 Sep 1698 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of David Joy — married 18 Jun 1718 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1795 at age 96 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ruth Ford was born 7 Sep 1698 in Pembroke.

She married David Joy 18 Jun 1718 in Pembroke.

On 23 Sep 1765, Ruth Joy of Rehoboth, widow, conveyed for £63 "all my Right of Dower and power of Thirds that I had set of[f] to me out of the Real Estate of my Late Husband David Joy Late of Rehoboth" to "Benjamin Joy of Killingly, yeoman"; Phillip Whittaker of Killingly, husbandman [husband of Tabitha Joy]; Ephraim Talbot of Killingly, husbandman [husband of Lois Joy]; Jared Talbot of Killingly, yeoman [husband of Deborah Joy]; David Perry of Killingly, cordwainer [son of Sarah (Joy) Perry]; David Joy of Gilford NY [now VT]; Obadiah Joy of Rehoboth, laborer; and "Ruth Joy the second" of Rehoboth.

On 24 Sep 1765, "Benjamin Joy of Killingsly [sic]... yeoman" and each of the grantees in the previous deed (except David Joy), plus Tabitha Whitaker, "Louis" [i.e., Lois] Talbot, Deborah Talbot, and Silvanus Perry of Rehoboth, laborer [son of Sarah (Joy) Perry], joined in a conveyance to Ephraim Hunt of Rehoboth, gentleman, for £63 of "the Whole of What the Widow Ruth Joy had set of[f] to her for her Dower or Thirds" of her late husband's estate.^[1]

It must have been at this juncture that Ruth Joy, widow, having sold her dower interest, followed her children to Killingly, for the records of the First Congregational Church of North Killingly (now Putnam) show that she was admitted to the church on 27 Feb 1767 by letter from the Second Church of Christ, Rehoboth; the same records show her death in Jul 1782, aged 97.^[2]

Research shows that Ruth died 17 Jan 1795 in Weymouth.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Porter, Harold F, Jr, The Ancestry of Sarah Cummings, wife of Benjamin Joy of Rehoboth, MA, Killingly, CT, and Plainfield, NH, The American Genealogist, 66: 176:
2. ↑ Index of Putnam First Congregational Church records, typescript, Conn. State Lib., hereafter Putnam Ch. Index, p.87
3. ↑ Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol II, p.292 Ruth Joy, widow, Jan 17, 1795.

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