Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

160 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
wife of Hosea Joyce of Yarmouth. He married first Martha,
and had John and Dorcas. His wife Martha died
April 3, 1670, and he married Elizabeth Chipman before
1676, and had Samuel, June 1, 1676 ; Thomas, June 3,
1678, and Mary, Sept. 19, 1680. The above is all that can
now be obtained from the Yarmouth record, which is mutilated
and a part of the leaf gone. By his will it is ascertained
that he had ten children, two by his first wife Mar-
tha, and eight by his second wife Elizabeth Chipman. 1,
John, married first, Margaret, daughter of John Miller,
Feb. 5, 1701-2, and second, Esther, daughter of Jonathan
White, Nov. 7, 1707. He died in 1714, leaving two daughters.
Desire and Fear. His widow married John Drake of
Yarmouth, and removed to East Greenwich, R. I., about the
year 1726 ; 2, Dorcas, married Aug. 8, 1695, Prince Howes
of Yarmouth ; 3, Samuel, died unmarried in 1741, aged 65 ;
4, Thomas, married March 19, 1719, Mary, daughter of
Jeremiah Bacon- of Barnstable. He had one son Jeremiah
a cripple, died unmarried in 1755, and five daughters noted
for their beauty. He was a man of wealth, became
melancholy, and from fear of starvation committed suicide
20 April, 1743 ; 5, Mary, married James Gorham Sept. 29,
1707, and had five children. The other children of Hosea
Joyce were Hosea, whom his father cut off in his will by
giving him his "small gun" ; Lydia who married Nov. 20,
1706, Ebenezer Howes ; Martha, who married Godfrey ;
Mehitable; and Dorothy who married Dec. 12, 1717, John
Oats, an Englishman. His descendants write their name
Otis, and reside principally in Maine. Hosea Joyce died in
Feb. 1712, and his widow Elizabeth sm-vived him. He had
a large landed estate, and in his will calls his wife "well
beloved," though he appears to have loved his money
better, for he gave her but a small portion of his estate.
"The stille-borne maide childe of John Chipman buryed
Sept. 9, 1650."— [Church Records.
II. Hope, born August 31, 1652, in Barnstable, married Aug.
10, 1670, John, son of Mr. Thomas Huckins of Barnstable,
and had Elizabeth, 1 Oct. 1671 ; Mary, 3 April, 1673 ; Experience,
4 June, 1675, and Hope, 10 May, 1677. John
Huckins 'died 10 Nov. 1678, aged 28, and she married
March 1, 1682.-3, Jonathon, son of Elder Henry Cobb of
Barnstable, born 10 April, 1660. He was twenty-two and
his wife thirty at the time of their marriage. By him she
had five children born in Barnstable. June 3, 1703, she
was dismissed from the Church in Barnstable, to the Church
in Middleboro'. From that town the family removed to
Portland, Maine. (See Cobb.)