Charlotte Joy

Charlotte Austin and her husband David Joy worked for the emancipation of the slaves. When David Joy died in 1875, Fredrick Douglas sent his wife a condolence letter reading.

"happiness to see much of our departed friend the reproach of his noble life and his benevolent works have reached me from many quarters. Perish me threw, in the nature of my long enslaved but now emancipate people, whose cause he made his own-remembering those who were in bonds has found with them and in my own name, to bring one laurel to the tomb of this man and noble benefactor.

Fredrick Douglas"

The letter can be found the the Joy Family Letters in the LInk below in the Nantucket Archives.

https://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpu...

Born: 30 December 1817, Nantucket, Nantucket, Mass.

Died: 13 March 1892, age 74.

Father: Isaac Austin b. 11 Aug 1785, d. 15 Dec 1864

Mother: Anna Easton b. 12 Jun 1793, d. 23 Oct 1869

Marriage (1) 15 JUL 1842, Nantucket, Nantucket, Mass.

Spouse: David Joy, b. 18 Oct 1801, d. 5 Apr 1875, Isle of Wight, son of Moses Joy and Deborah Macy

Marriage (2) Dec 1880;

Spouse: Seth H. Mann

Sources:

http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p97.htm#i2893

Robert Austin of Kingston, Washington Co., Rhode Island - http://www.afaoa.org/db_files/Robert_Austin_RI/Individuals/I886.html