Not the same as Deborah French (Button)

Joy, Walter. Walter Joy's wife at Milford was treated by Winthrop, 1657. We are unable to connect him with the Hingham family, and no relationship is known to Peter Joy of Salem. He left little record of himself or family, but for reasons which will presently appear we believe that his wife was Deborah and that she m. (2) Thomas French of Guilford, as his second wife. The first link in the chain of evidence is too the brief record of the estate of Isaac Joy, whose Inv. presented 9 June 1675 showed a small property at Milford and Guilford; he left a mother who lived at Guilford; three brothers and one sister related by the father and mother; and there were two children related by the mother only.

A study of Guilford families reveals that Thomas French, between 1660 and 1667, acquired a second wife Deborah, by who he had two children, - Samuel 1667, and Abigail 1669. This answers the requirements of the case perfectly. Furthermore, Thomas French and Deborah his wife, of Guilford, conveyed on 10 Mar. 1678 and also on 21 July 1679, to Joseph Joy of Guilford. ... With regard to the half-brother, Samuel French, Talcott's manuscript history of Guilford families states that he d. young, but nothing to substantiate this has been found except that no record of him after his birth appears in Guilford records. The age of death of Sergt. Samuel French of Strafield agrees with the birth of the Guilford Samuel, and patient search has failed to disclose any other Samuel with whom the Stratfield man can be identified. The eldest dau. of Sergt. Samuel French was named Deborah, as was also the eldest dau. of Jacob Joy; and this is what we should expect if Deborah was their mother.

We therefore conclude that Walter Joy m. Deborah _____, who m. (2) Thomas French ( Deborah (_____) (Joy) French perhaps m3. John Jordan and d. in 1677. John Jordan and Deborah his wife of Guilford conveyed to John French [stepson of Mrs. Deborah French], 12 Apr. 1677; Jonathan Pitman witnessed the deed, which states that Deborah died before the ensealing and delivery. [Guilford Deeds]).

French Family Association

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• Birth: 1622 in Wiltshire, England
• Death: 1677 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Daughter of: George (1597 - 1642) Margery (Hayward) Worthen (1593 - 1644) wife of Walter Joy. She married Walter Joy (1625 - 1665) on September 17, 1644 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

Children:

• Mary Joy Bennett (1647 - 1684)*

Burial: Unknown

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• Record added: May 07, 2013
• Find A Grave Memorial# 110130896

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Notes

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wathen-16

Deborah was baptized at Trowbridge, Wilts., 13 Mar 1624/5; married Walter Joy before 27 Sep 1652, when she deposed in the case of her cousin Thomas Wathen, late of Gloucester, Mass.

Citations

• Clifford L. Stott, English Background of George & Margery (Hayward) Wathen of Salem, and their Nephew William Sargent of Gloucester, Massachusetts, NEHGR Vol. 148:67-78 (Jan. 1994)

links

• Page 370 of The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: With Some Related ... thank jBy David Webster Hoyt. Inventory of estate of Margaret Wathen, widow, 1644
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174746019/george-wathen