Joyce (Smith) Young (1730 - 1804)

Born 1 Jul 1730 in Bristol, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Died 16 Jan 1804 at age 73 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA

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Biography

Joyce was born in 1730 at Bristol in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (now part of Rhode Island). She was the daughter of Daniel Smith and Elizabeth Cary.^[1]

She married Isaac Young of Newport on 22 December 1753 at Bristol.^[2] Children, recorded at Bristol:^[3]

• [daughter] b. ca. 1754; d. 24 May 1759 about 5 years old
• Elizabeth b. 23 February 1756; d. (presumed) 15 June 1758
• George b. 12 May 1759
• William b. 12 September 1761
• Sarah (twin) b. 8 April 1764; m. Joseph Sanford 16 October 1806
• Daniel (twin) b. 8 April 1764

She passed away in 1804 and was buried at the East Burial Ground at Bristol.^[4][5]

Research Notes

From the naming of their first son George, it is to be wondered if Isaac was the son Isaac Young born at Scituate in Plymouth County to George and Mary (Stockbridge) Young on 15 March 1722/3. According to the Mayflower Families series, there is no further record of this son, but there is also no probate record known for George or Mary. This identification is given a small amount of further support by a gravestone at Bristol for Sarah Young, which reportedly names her parents Joseph and Lydia Young of Scituate. This is the only other known record of a Young family in Bristol from this time period, so it would not be surprising if Isaac and Joseph were kin. This Joseph was probably brother to George Young mentioned as the possible father to Isaac.

Joyce appears as widowed head of household in Bristol in the 1774 census of Rhode Island^[6]. Her household distribution and inferred attributions are

• one white male under 16: son William
• one white female over 16: Joyce
• one white female under 16: daughter Sarah

Sources

1. ↑ Arnold: vol. 6, Bristol births, page 103
2. ↑ Arnold: vol. 6, Bristol marriages, page 60
3. ↑ Arnold: vol. 6, Bristol births, page 113
4. ↑ Arnold: vol. 6, Bristol deaths, page 175
5. ↑ Gravestone for Capt. Isaac Young and Joyce his wife; digital image of gravestone from Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission
6. ↑ 1774 Census

• Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., Providence, R.I., 1891)

• 1774 Rhode Island Census, Bristol, Page 4, Entry 16 — Joyce Young Widdow; from "Census of the Colony of Rhode Island," one bound volume, Rhode Island State Archives, identifier C#00197; viewed through "Colony of Rhode Island Census, 1774", database of images from Rhode Island State Digital Archives (sosri.access.preservica.com/).