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David Joy BIRTH 1764 Putney, Windham County, Vermont, USA DEATH 1 Apr 1844 (aged 79-80) Porter Township, Cass County, Michigan, USA BURIAL East Union Cemetery Union, Cass County, Michigan, USA MEMORIAL ID 39254499 Son of Obadiah and Elizabeth (Doyle) Joy, father of Moses Joy. David is believed to have been a Revolutionary War soldier. He would have been about 19 years old when the war ended in 1783. His grave was marked by the Captain Samuel Felt Chapter DAR, Dowagiac, Michigan. David Joy is a Mayflower Descendant. Several of David's older brothers have clearly documented Revolutionary War service. Either David was too young to be recorded, or the records have not yet been located. Earlier NSDAR records accepted him as Patriot #063200, but the four successful applications have since been discovered to have been based on the service records of his first cousin, another David Joy, but of Guildford, Windham County, Vermont. The NSDAR research site states "the only service proof is his tombstone." This statement was made in Aug 1998.Possibly he served in Massachusetts, some researchers claiming he was a Private, 8th Massachusetts Regiment, or possibly he served in New York State, of which Vermont was a part during the War. Possibly he was never officially enlisted, but participated enough during the War to consider himself a soldier. His children claimed, when they erected his gravestone, that he was a veteran, and he was called "Captain" Joy during his lifetime. Based on the gravestone, the Michigan DAR listed him in a volume of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in their state. Based in part on that book, two Vermont historians listed him in their books. David Joy doubtless fought for his new nation, but it is unlikely that his name will be located on a valid military roster. For now, it is assumed he was a young man who accompanied the troops, rendered aid, but did not formally join any unit or get his name on a muster list. Two decades after the end of the war, the family was uprooted and tracked west to Portland, Chautauqua County, New York, and finally to Cass County, Michigan. Added: Sep. 16, 2011-Bev (Revised) Tombstone inscription: "He fought for his country, employed it's liberty and lived to a mature old age." DAVID JOY- "Old Capt. Joy" came to Portland, New York, from Vermont in 1810. He built a log shanty in the woods near where the house of M.J.Munson now stands, on pt of lot 33, T. 5. He left this claim the next year, and returned to Vermont. Early in 1812, having removed his family to Portland he rented the log tavern house of Wm. Berry, standing near where the house of Lincoln Fay now stands, on lot 25, T. 5, and continued the tavern. Within the next two or three months the house was burned, but a frame house was at once built and a public house continued. Early in 1814, Mr. Joy and his son Moses erected a large frame building, on pt of lot 19, T. 5, where the house of W. W. Pettit now stands, and opened it as a tavern. It was sold to Wm. Harris, sen., in 1817, and a double log house built on the N. pt of the lot, where the house of H.A.S. Thompson now stands, and opened a tavern. Sometime previous to 1831 the house now on the farm was built. In 1831 the farm was sold, and the farm now owned by Linus Burton, S. of Brocton, S. pt lot 13, T. 5., purchased. In 1837 Mr. Joy removed to Cass County, Michigan, where he died many years since. Mrs. Joy died in Portland June 1st, 1831, aged 69. Mr. Joy's aged father died in Portland about 1816. As before hinted, Mr. Joy left his family in their home in Vermont until he could prepare for them a place in the wilderness. After building his shanty on lot 33, as stated, he furnished it with a bed of straw in one corner on the bare earth, a brown earthen pan or two, a bowl of the same material, and one wooden spoon. Chairs or stools were of no account, and were not used, a block of wood answering every purpose. A fireplace was built of two or three boulders, in one corner, and an old blanket was hung up at the doorway. The inventory of cooking utensils was not large, including but one iron kettle. He purchased a small cow and turned her into the woods to browse; a half bushel of corn meal and a pound or two of salt. After the labors of the day he would drive home his cow, secure her milk, and cook mush sufficient for his supper and two meals the next day. The mush and milk thus prepared and eaten from his brown bowl with his wooden spoon he described as delicious. On a certain occasion while at his work, his faithful cow came about the cabin, and finding the door easy of removal, pushed it aside and made her way into the best apartment the cabin afforded. A slight exploration discovered to her the mush kettle, and claiming an interest in the property of her master, she soon cleared it of its entire contents; then going to the bed of Mr Joy very complacently laid herself down in it. When Mr Joy came in for his dinner he was not a little surprised to find his mush kettle empty, and the intruder very quietly chewing her cud in his bed. He had not the heart to eject her rudely, but quietly drove her out, and took good care that she did not again thus deprive him of "his bed and board." Joy Family History.
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