Joseph Nash

From the Nash Family of Weymouth, Massachusetts

8. Joseph[3] Nash (Jacob[2], James[1])

• was born 11 October 1669, at Weymouth Massachusetts, a son of Jacob and Abigail (Dyer) Nash. [19]
• Joseph married Phebe Marsh, the mother of all his children, 17 Mar. 1698/9, at Braintree, Massachusetts. She was born 7 May 1676 at Braintree, the daughter of Alexander and Mary (Belcher) Marsh.[20], Ogebe dued at Weymouth 12 April 1728, and
• on on 18 January 1730, Joseph married Hannah Sturgess, a widow. [21] Hannah died 24 October 1734, and
• he married Hannah Vinson, widow of Samuel Vinson, on 4 December 1735, at Weymouth. [22]

Joseph was a farmer, carpenter, and housewright. He lived in Weymouth, but owned land in Boston, which he sold in 1708. [23]

When his father died in 1718, Joseph received bequests of, "Forty-five (45) acres of land... where his house now standeth, thirty and four (34) acres of land... in the upper division, which he formerly made use of, thirty (30) acres of land lying at the head of the Great Pond in Weymouth," and a third part of a tract of land containing 60 acres in Weymouth. [24]

According to Gilbert Nash, Joseph's house was demolished in the 1780s, by his grandson, Job. It had two stories in front and one in back. [25]

Joseph was elected lieutenant, or second in command, of the Weymouth militia company. His father and grandfather had been officers in that company. He served at the conclusion of Queen Anne's War with the French and Indians in 1713.[26]

Joseph died at Weymouth 6 April 1751. His will was dated 1 May 1749 and proved 10 July 1752. He left his wife, Hannah "twenty (20) pounds per year in bills of credit of the old tenor or other passable money equal to it, and one cow and all the household stuff and goods she brought to me when I married her that is not then worn out." He named his sons Joseph, Alexander, Job, and Moses, and provided that his daughter, Katherine (see below), be provided for by his sons out of his estate for so long as she shall live. [27]

Children of Joseph and Phebe (Marsh) Nash: [28]

• 1. Mary [4], born 22 April 169[torn, probably 1699]. Married Samuel Tirrell of Abington, Massachusetts, 11 March 1717/8. He was born at Weymouth, 17 November 1686, the son of William and Abigail (Pratt) Tirrell. He died about 1774. Mary and Samuel had 12 children. She died at Abington, 4 October 1775. [29]
• 2. John, born 24 July 1701. No further record. Not mentioned in father's will.
• 3. [27] Joseph, born 8 January 1702/3.
• 4. [28] Alexander, born 16 June 1704 (16 January in another record)...

Footnotes:

• 19 Weymouth Vital Records, 1:193
• 20 Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, 4:423
• 21 Hannah's surname and the date of marriage are from "Gilbert Nash," page 26.
• 22 Weymouth Vital Records, 2:128, 305.
• 23 Suffolk County Deeds, 24:47.
• 24 Suffolk County Probate, 20:391.
• 25 GIlbert Nash, page 26.
• 26 Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, 1:322
• 27 Suffolk County Probate, 46:365, 366
• 28 Weymouth Vital Records, 1:190, 193, 195, 2:307
• 29 Weymouth Vital Records, 1:194; Vital Records of Abington, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, 1912), hereafter Abington Vital Records 1:194; Robert Wilson Tirrell, Tirrell-Tirrill-Terrill-Tyrrell Book (Englewood, New Jersey, 1967), page 28.

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From History of Weymouth, Mass:

Lieut. Joseph Nash, s/o Jacob, b. Weymouth 11 Oct 1669,

• m. (1) Braintree 17 May 1699 Phebe Marsh,
• m. (2) 18 Jan 1730 Mrs. Hannah Sturges,
• m. (3) Weymouth 4 Dec 1735 Hannah Vinson, widow of Samuel Vinson.