Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond

Dorcas Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1641 - Lynn, Massachusetts Bay
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1678
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Events
• Alt Birth, 19 Sep 1650 in Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
• Alt Death, 10 Jun 1710 in (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)

Parents
         Father: John Joyce (Abt 1602-1666)
         Mother: Dorothy Cotchet (1608-1679)
Spouses and Children
1. *Nathaniel Bassett (Abt 1628 - 16 Jan 1709)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Mary Bassett (1666-1742) ¹
                2. Nathan Bassett (1667-Abt 1728) ²
                3. Hannah Bassett (1678-1709) ²
                4. Sarah Bassett (Abt 1689-After 1744)
                5. William Bassett (Abt 1685-      )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Nathaniel Bassett)

Children, all in Yarmouth
Mary BASSETT b: 1666 in Yarmouth
Samuel BASSETT b: ABT 1668
Sarah BASSETT
Nathaniel BASSETT b: ABT 1671
Ruth BASSETT b: ABT 1673
Dorcas BASSETT b: ABT 1676
Hannah BASSETT + b: 1680
Joseph BASSETT b: 1680
William BASSETT b: ABT 1685
Nathan BASSETT b: ABT 1691

Dorcas Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: 31 Mar 1671 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: 14 Nov 1757 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Howes burying ground, Dennis
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Elizabeth Chipman (1647-After 1712) ³
Spouses and Children
1. *Prence Howes (Cir 1671 - 2 Oct 1753) ⁴ 
       Marriage: Cir 1695
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Desire Howes (1699-1779)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Prence Howes)

"Prence, b. about 1671; m. Dorcas Joyce about 1695; d. Oct. 2, 1753, in his 84th year.(d) His children appear on the Yarmouth records, the eldest born May 22, 1696.(e) His will,(f) dated Feb. 18, 1739-40, and proved Oct. 16, 1753, mentions his wife Dorcas and his children Desire Hallett, Dorcas Matthews, Prince, Jeremiah, Thomas and Lot. His inventory,(f) dated Jan. 15, 1754, amounted to £696 5s. 4d. in real estate. In 1698 his tax amounted to £2 2s. 4d.(f1) In 1712 he received 36 shares of the common lands of Yarmouth'(g) In 1739 he was one of the proprietors of the common lands of Crockett Neck.(h)"
(d) Gravestone; 59 N. E. Reg. 217, 218. J. C. Howes (14), erroneously gives the marriage as Aug. 8, 1698. He says the wife d. Nov. 14, 1757.
(e) 10 Mf. 242.
(f) 9 Barn. Prob. Recs. 65, 66, 67. (fl) Superior Ct. as above, p. 9.
(g) Swift, 127.
(h) Ib. 141, 142. ⁴

Dorothy Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1690 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: After 1750
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Elizabeth Chipman (1647-After 1712) ⁵
Spouses and Children
1. *John Oats (Est 1687 -       )
       Marriage: 19 Dec 1717 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Status: 
Hosea Joyce
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1682 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1728 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Elizabeth Chipman (1647-After 1712) ⁵
Hosea Joyce
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1642 - Sandwich, Plymouth Colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: Feb 1712 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Events
• Will, 24 Jan 1712 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts

probate 15 Feb 1712
will of Hosea Joyce, yeoman
MDP:327; Barnstable Co. PR 3:346, 349

Parents
         Father: John Joyce (Abt 1602-1666)
         Mother: Dorothy Cotchet (1608-1679)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Chipman (4 Jun 1647 - After Feb 1712) ⁵ 
       Marriage: Est 1671
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Dorcas Joyce (1671-1757)
                2. John Joyce (Cir 1672-1715)
                3. Samuel Joyce (1676-1741)
                4. Thomas Joyce (1678-1743)
                5. Mary Joyce (1680-Bef 1742)
                6. Hosea Joyce (Cir 1682-1728)
                7. Lydia Joyce (Cir 1684-After 1726)
                8. Mehitable Joyce (Cir 1687-1776)
                9. Dorothy Joyce (Cir 1690-After 1750)

2. Martha (Est 1644 - 3 Apr 1670)
       Marriage: Est 1665
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Martha Joyce (Cir 1667-Bef 1741)
Notes
General:

"PCR 4:141, 5 March, 1666/7, letters of administration granted Hosea Joyce to administer estate of John Joyce, deceased."

John Joyce
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Abt 1602 - Mickle-over-Derby, Derbyshire
        Baptism: 
          Death: 21 Dec 1666 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Events
• Will, 20 Nov 1666 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts

probated 5 Mar 1667

Spouses and Children
1. *Dorothy Cotchet (16 Oct 1608 - 12 Jan 1679)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Dorcas Joyce (Abt 1641-1678)
                2. Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
                3. Mary Joyce (Cir 1647-1718)
                4. Abigail Joyce (1646-Bef 1666)
Notes
General:

bef 1637 at Lynn
1638 proprietor of Sandwich
1643 moved to Yarmouth
1646 Yarmouth
Marriage Notes (Dorothy Cotchet)

"John Joyce removed from Lynn to Sandwich in 1637, and thence to Yarmouth in 1643. He was a man of wealth, residing in the village of Hockanom. He died in 1666. The family name became extinct in 1755 by the death of Jeremiah, his great-grandson." ⁶

John Joyce
      Sex: M
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1672 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: 1715 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Elizabeth Chipman (1647-After 1712) ⁵
Spouses and Children
1. *Esther White (Est 1680 - Bef 14 Nov 1714)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
Lillian C Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: 20 Apr 1920
        Baptism: 
          Death: Dec 1984 - Quincy, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 015-12-3965 in Massachusetts

Spouses and Children
1. *James Garfield Curran Jr (21 Dec 1919 - 8 Sep 1997) ⁷ 
       Marriage: 25 Apr 1947 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts ⁸
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. James Garfield Curran 3rd (1950-      ) ⁹
                2. Mary Ellen Curran (1952-      ) ¹⁰
                3. Lydia Ann Curran (1949-      )
Notes
General:

There is a Lillian Joyce (1911-1957) in the Atwood Chipman lot 21, Pleasant Hill cemetery.

Lydia Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1684 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: After Dec 1726 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Elizabeth Chipman (1647-After 1712) ⁵
Spouses and Children
1. *Ebenezer Howes (Cir 1674 - 8 Jan 1727) ¹¹ 
       Marriage: 20 Nov 1706
         Status: 
Martha Joyce
      Sex: F
Individual Information
          Birth: Cir 1667 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: Bef 10 Mar 1741
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
Parents
         Father: Hosea Joyce (Cir 1642-1712)
         Mother: Martha (Est 1644-1670)
Spouses and Children
1. *John Godfrey (Cir 1656 - 1735)
       Marriage: Cir 1688
         Status: 
Notes
Marriage Notes (John Godfrey)

Children
John Godfrey b: ABT 1689
Martha Godfrey b: ABT 1691
Mary Godfrey b: ABT 1693
Dorcas Godfrey b: ABT 1695
Uriah Godfrey b: ABT 1697
Elizabeth Godfrey b: ABT 1699
Priscilla Godfrey b: ABT 1701
Thankful Godfrey b: ABT 1703
Elizabeth Godfrey b: ABT 1705
Mehitable Godfrey b: ABT 1707
Dorothy Godfrey b: ABT 1709

Sources:
Title: John Joyce of Yarmouth, Mass. (ca. 1615-1666)
Author: MeLean, Maclean W.
Publication: The American Genealogist Vol. 43, 1 (Jan 1967)

John Godfrey of Yarmouth, Mass., Son of Richard of Taunton by Roberta Gilbert Bratti, The American Genealogist, 53 (1977): 26-8

Sources

1 Jean Mayo-Rodwick, Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants (2001).

2 Bob Ferreira, "Cape Cod Families" (Rootweb file bobferr (no longer online)).

3 Matt Bushnell Jones, History of the town of Waitsfield Vermont (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1909.) big history of Waitsfield, a focus on the Yankees, beautiful fold-out map

4 James W. Hawes, Thomas Howes of Yarmouth, Mass., and some of his descendants, together with the Rev. John Mayo, allied to him by marriage. (1917. Yarmouthport MA: C. W. Swift, No. 13, Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy), 21.

5 Matt Bushnell Jones, History of the town of Waitsfield Vermont (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1909.)

6 Simeon L. Deyo, editor, History of Barnstable County Massachusetts, 1620-1890. Chapter 17. Yarmouth (1890. New York: H. W. Blake & Co.), 459.

7 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1919, p 46.

8 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1947.

9 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1950, p 49.

10 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1952.

11 James W. Hawes, Thomas Howes of Yarmouth, Mass., and some of his descendants, together with the Rev. John Mayo, allied to him by marriage. (1917. Yarmouthport MA: C. W. Swift, No. 13, Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy), 21-22.

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