Samuel Joy

SAMUEL JOY'S OVEN: From "A History of the Town of Acushnet", by Franklyn Howland (aka; Capt. Albert Franklyn Howland). c.1907. "The writer has found in various records a place or object designated "Samuel Joy's Oven," and has frequently been asked for an explanation of what it referred to. No records or person or writings have come to hand in response to my inquiries in our local papers for such information. In the layout of the present Mill road from Ball's corner southerly to Swift's corner-near the village bridge, the course is thence westerly "along the back side of Samuel Joy's Oven" to Lunds corner. This was Jan(uary) 3-6,1719. It appears that all the tract on the south side of the latter section of this road , extending from the river to the County road, was set off to "Samuel Joy, blacksmith," in 1711. He built a house in the northeast corner of the three acre tract where the present Humphrey Hathaway (Alice Roosevelt) dwelling now stands and a blacksmith shop to the westward of it. Here he doubtless resided till he conveyed the property to Nathaniel Blackwell in 1722. But the oven! Dictionaries, cyclopedias and other books have been searched i vain for the significance of the term in this case. My impression is, however, that his dwelling and others in the neighborhood , may have not had that almost indispensable adjunct in those days of no stoves, a bake oven. Samuel Joy was a town official (of Dartmouth), a bright , thrifty business man, perhaps concluded he could supply a household necessity for the Good-wife Joy, and turn an honest penny by baking for neighbors situated like himself, by building an oven i a small structure apart from the house in which the family lived. Here his family could do the baking for them selves, and at a small cost for neighbors who had no facilities for such needful work. This novel ingenious thought worked out to a conclusion resulted in "Samuel Joy's Oven." Whatever the object was it faced the south, as most buildings at that period did, regardless of their location or the highway, as the layout was "along the back side" of it."

http://www.dartmouthhas.org/uploads/1/0/0/2/100287044/acshunet_hist... (Note: Acushnet was a village in the town of Dartmouth at the time of Samuel Joy's Oven.)

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From Thomas Joy and his descendants:

https://archive.org/stream/thomasjoyandhis00unkngoog#page/n246/mode...

A considerable number of the American Joys trace their descent from Samuel Joy, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, who settled on the island of Nantucket about 1730, having at the time adult sons, David and Ebenezer. His origin is not known, but there is good reason to believe he was the son of Peter Joy (b. 1637) and Sarah Gaskins, of Salem, Massachusetts, who were married May 24, 1661, and had David (b. 1662, his name appears on Salem Town Record in a list made up in 1691, including persons who died since 1669); Anna (b. 1663); Sarah (b. 1666, m. an unknown Dotteridge, of Salem); Peter (b. 1669, m. 1729 to Abial Randall of Providence, RI, and had there Samuel, Job, Sarah, Peter, and Abial - the names strongly suggest a connection with the Salem family); William (b. 1675, "shipwright" d. 1699); and Samuel (b. 1678).

The following partial record of the descendants of Samuel, of Dartmouth and Nantucket, was begun by Hon. David Joy, of Nantucket, and greatly enlarged by Joseph N. Joy, Esq., of Meriden, Connecticut (1899):

Samuel [2] (probably Peter [1], of Salem),

• b. prob. Salem, Massachusetts, July 25, 1678;
• d. Nantucket, before 1738.
• An early settler of Dartmouth (Bristol County), Massachusetts. Removed to Nantucket before 1780.
• Married
  • I. Elizabeth (Unknown)
  • II. Lydia (Unknown)

Children:

• 1. Ebenezer
  • b. (Unknown)
  • m. Elizabeth Covel
• 2. David
  • b. about 1707
  • m1. Mary Taber
  • m2. Sarah Gardner
  • d. 1787