Peter
Joy
Born in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Reuben Joy
and Anna (Way) Joy
Husband of
Phebe (Coleman) Joy
— married
30 Apr 1782 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Peter Joy and Reuben Way Joy
Died
at age 26
in At Sea
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Sep 2021
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Biography
Peter was born in 1757 to parents Reuben and Anna (Way) Joy.[1][2]
He married Phebe Coleman in 1782.
Peter worked as a mariner and was lost at sea during a whaling voyage in 1784.[3]
Research Notes
According to the Joy Family History, Peter Joy was a whaler lost at sea in 1824.
J. I. Joy wrote:
"I believe after Peter Joy's wife Phebe left him, and remarried, he and probably Peter Joy Jr. went back to Nantucket and the Whaling again, and left his son Reuben W. Joy to live with his grandmother Anna (Way) Joy, or he could have stayed with his mother.
My grandmother Joy told me Reuben Joy at one time had all of his family home from the sea. He took them and moved to North Carolina. He thought there had been enough Joys lost at sea, but it looks like after he died, the sons returned to the sea."
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQD8-H7H : 15 January 2020), Peter Joy, 19 Oct 1757, citing Birth, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- ↑ The Barney Genealogical Record Online Database, Nantucket Historical Association, entry for Peter Joy (1757 - 1784), Person ID I12627, https://genealogy.nha.org/getperson.php?personID=I12627&tree=barney (accessed 12 May 2023).
- ↑ “Mariners Lost at Sea,” database, Nantucket Historical Association, entry for Peter Joy, https://nha.org/research/nantucket-history/history-topic/the-essex-and-its-legacy/lost-at-sea/ (accessed 14 May 2023).
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