“Joseph Garey and Susanna Nowell both of York intend Marriage, Enterd Febr 15. 1771 Joind in Marriage Mar 31. 1771. By Revd Saml Langton”.[1]
“Pay Roll of a Company Raised by the Town of York and under the Command of Capt. Johnson Moulton Esq., April 21, 1775, as Minute Men of the Province of Massachusetts Bay… Privates… Joseph Garey… Samuel Garey”. Also as a private in the company was Caesar, slave to the Talpey family.[2]
This was only two days after the battle of Lexington & Concord, a post-rider had arrived the night before bringing the news of “the shot heard ‘round the world”. Capt. Moulton and his company served in Cambridge that year. Judge Sayward mentioned in diary for 21 April: “ a Remarkable day the whole town in arms Listed and sent of 60 good men to assistance of the Country Round Boston with money drawn out of the County Treasurer £200 to the Care of their Capt. Johnson Mouton”.[3] Capt. Moulton and his company marched 15 miles that day.
The Garey family are listed in the 1798 tax lists for Alfred with Joseph owning a house on 2 acres of land worth $110 and an additional 50 acres of land worth $300. Ebenezer is on the same tax list as owning 100 acres worth $357. Joseph Jr., James and James Jr. are also listed. [4]
“In the Name of god Amen
I Joseph Garey of Alfred… calling to mind that it is appointed for all men once to die and being of a sound mind and memory through the goodness of god. Do on this fifth day of November… one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. Make and ordain this to be my last will and testament…
I give unto Susanna my well beloved wife the use and improvement of one half of all my estate real and personal so long as she remains my widow and after that term her right of dower during her natural life.
I give to my beloved son Joseph one Dollar which with what he has already received is his proportion of my estate.
I give to my beloved son Ebenezer one Dollar which is his part of my estate with what he has already received.
I give unto my beloved son John all my estate real and personal except what I have disposed of in this my last will the one half he is to take possession of at my decease the other part when the term is expired which my beloved wife is to have what I have given her in this my will
I give to my beloved daughter Susanna wife of Jothem Alen one cow to be delivered to her at my decease by my executor hereafter named
I hereby constitute and ordain my beloved son John Garey to be my executor to this my last will and testament…
Joseph Garey
In presence of
Wm Parsons
Abigail parsons
William Parsons Jr”[5]
Marriages, 1771-1907", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F465-2FM : 14 January 2020), Joseph Garey, 1771.
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