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Joyliffe, John, - 1701
John Joyliffe was a successful merchant at Boston and one of the town’s selectman (1662, 1668-1691). He also served as town recorder in 1691 but resigned the position the following year because of blindness. Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer (Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son, 1885), 1.
Died: 1701
Source: https://yipp.yale.edu/bio/bibliography/joyliffe-john-1701
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Elizabeth Wight had John Joyliffe as guardian in 1665.
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Sometime around the mid-1680’s, Jarvis evidently married Martha Knight (born 1653), the step-daughter of John Joyliffe of Boston and his wife Anna (who had previously been married to Thomas Cromwell and Robert Knight). Joyliffe was an eminent merchant who for many years was a selectman and, in 1691, town recorder. See Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Joyliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893, pp. 34, 39-40 (Philadelphia, 1893). See also Genealogical Dictionary, supra, Vol. 1, p.476 (for Cromwell); Vol. 3, p.39 (for Knight and the 1653 birthdate for Martha Knight); and Vol. 2, p.573 (for Joyliffe). In his will dated February 7, 1699-1700, Joyliffe gave his “mansion house” to his step-daughter Martha and her husband Jarvis Ballard. See “Vickers or Vickery Family,” supra, at 187; “Genealogical Gleanings in England,” Genealogical Register, Vol. 42, pp.62, 69-72.
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From http://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/y1az2imf/who-was-matthew-...
The first mention of John Joyliffe (the wealthy merchant) in _Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay_ comes in 1659, though Savage mentions that he married at Boston in 1657:
JOYLIFFE, JOHN, Boston 1656, m. 28 Jan. 1657, Ann, wid. and extrix. of Robert Knight, wh. had, also, been wid. and extrix. of Thomas Cromwell, the wealthy privateersman, had only ch. Hannah, b. 9 May 1660. He was freem. 1673, many yrs. a selectman, one of the patriots of 1689, wh. put Andros in prison, town recorder in 1691; and was made by Increase Mather one of the Counc. in the Chart. of William and Mary, but drop. at the first pop. choice, d. 23 Nov. 1702. Hutch. I. 374 and H. 14.
The 1699 will of John Joyliffe/ Jolliffe of Boston mentions his (deceased) brother Dr. George Joyliffe, who--the Roll of the Royal College of Physicians shows--was a native of East Stower, Dorset ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC71370178&id=6miNzg303EgC&pg=P...
The 1623 Dorset Visitation has a family that is a good match:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC61399227&id=zCgEAAAAIAAJ&pg=R...
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From http://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/RkStBTIW/was-martha-balst...
Justin Winsor, _Memorial History of Boston_, 1:581, provides the following information on Mr. John Jollife or Joyliffe of Boston:
John Joyliffe, long in office here, married, in 1657, Anne, widow of Robert Knight, as she had been of Thomas Cromwell; had an only daughter, Hannah, who probably died unmarried. This Cromwell was a reformed free-booter, who settled in Boston, where he made his peace with the Church, and died in 1649. His widow, by her second husband (Knight), had an only child,--Martha, wife of Jarvis Ballard.
NEHGR, 42:71-72: "The will of John Joyliffe of Boston, merchant (Suffolk Register, B. 14, L433), made 7 February, 1699 (1700), proved 27 December, 1701, devises his mansion house to Martha, daughter of his late wife and wife of Jarvis Ballard, allowing the heirs of Richard Price power of redemption. He also makes numerous bequests to friends and relatives in England, viz: Katherine Bowles, daughter of his brother Dr. George Joyliffe, Katherine Coope and Alice Morley, daughter of his sister Dorothy Cave, John Cooke of London, merchant, son of his sister Martha Cooke, Rebecca Spicer, daughter of his sister Rebecca Woolcot, John Drake, son of his sister Margaret Drake, and Margaret and Katharine Drake, daughter of his sister Margaret and Esther, daughter of his sister Mary Biss, sometime wife of James Biss of Shepton Mallett, in the County of Somerset. ..." The NEHGR also prints the Jolliffe pedigree from the 1623 Visitation of Dorset, which pertains to this family.
See http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/england/Dorset/visitations/p68.html
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- https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Joyliffe_%281%29_
- link Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 1 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters
- https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/tX...
- http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC61399227&id=zCgEAAAAIAAJ&pg=R...
- https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Joyliffe,_George_(DNB00)_
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