Joseph Bixby

Marriage #1 Joseph Bixby and Lydia Walker, both resident of Shrewsbury, filed intentions to marry on 30 September 1767 at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Marriage #2 Joseph Bixby of Shrewsbury & Miriam Bryant of Lancaster, married 13 July 1769 at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Marriage #3 Joseph Bixby of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Hadley of Sterling married 16 March 1784 at Sterling, Massachusetts. [Shrewsbury M/R]

Joseph Bixby marched on the alarm, April 19, 1775 from Shrewsbury (2nd Precint) to Cambridge: Bixby, Joseph, Shrewsbury. Private, Capt. Robert Andrew's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Shrewsbury (2d Parish) to Cambridge service, 9 days; reported enlisted into the army; also, Sergeant, Capt. Job Cushing's co., Col. Jonathan Ward's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 28, 1775; service, 3 mos. 11 days; also, company return dated Dorchester, Oct. 7, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Dorchester, Nov. 13, 1775; also, return of men enlisted into Continental Army from Capt. Ebenezer Ingalsbe's co., 6th Worcester Co. regt., dated Dec. 15, 1777; residence, Shrewsbury; enlisted for town of Shrewsbury; joined Capt. Adam Wheeler's co., Col. Thomas Nixon's regt.; enlistment, 3 years or during war; reported mustered by Thomas Newhall, Muster Master, April 24, 1777; also, Private, Colonel's co., Col. Nixon's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 12, 1777, to April 30, 1778; reported discharged April 30, 1778; also, descriptive list of enlisted men; Capt. Ingoldsby's co., Col. Cushing's regt.; age, 40 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 7 in.; complexion, light; occupation, farmer; residence, Shrewsbury; enlisted April 1, 1781; enlistment, 3 years; also, order for wages, etc., due for service in Capt. Wheeler's co., Col. Nixon's (6th) regt., dated Shrewsbury, Aug. 22, 1785. [Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors Vol 2, pg 90]

"The son of Samuel and Mary Buck Bixby, he was born in Chelmsford in 1741. In 1758 he was apprenticed to Joseph Wilder, of Lancaster, and later saw service in the French and Indian War. He is described as being 5’7” tall, and light complected. Joseph Bixby, married Lydia Walker in 1767, then Miriam Bryant in 1769, and third Elizabeth Hadley in 1784. He was a farmer by trade, and at the time of the Alarm he lived in what is now West Boylston."[Per "Boylston Historical Series]

"In about 1785, he moved to Vermont, and in 1787 he was listed as a resident of Grafton, Vermont, but in 1790 as an inhabitant of Rindge, New Hampshire. Joxeph Bixby died in Rindge after 1810, and is reputedly buried in Boylston's Old Burial Ground". [Per "Boylston Historical Series]

The is no grave stone.

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