John JOYCE

- 1817

• Name	John JOYCE
  Born	Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
  	Death Samuel
  Gender	Male
  Birth	[1767]
  Petition	1807	for Pleasant Ridge
  	RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 Name JOHNSON, Nicholas Year 1807 County Charlotte Microfilm F4171 See petition of JOHNSON, NICHOLAS BERRY, JAMES CARLON, JACOB CARLON, MARTIN CARPENTER, ANTHONY W. COOKSON, WILLIAM FOULERTON, ALEXANDER GILCHRIST, GORDON GOODELL, EBEN GRANT, DANIEL GREENLAW, ALEXANDER GREENLAW, EBENZER GREENLAW, JONATHAN GREENLAW, SOLOMON GREENLAW, THOMAS HARVEY, WILLIAM HITCHINGS, AMOS HITCHINGS, GEORGE HITCHINGS, JAMES HITCHINGS, WILLIAM JOHNSON, BENJAMIN JOHNSON, NICHOLAS JOICE, JOHN MACCULLOCH, DONALD MANSFIELD, J. MCCURDY, ALEXANDER MCCURDY, JAMES MCCURDY, LACHLAN MCCURDY, NEAL MCGEAR, WILLIAM RIDEOUT, BENJAMIN RYAN, JOHN SMITH, JOSEPH STINSON, CHARLES STINSON, DAVID STINSON, JOSEPH THOMSON, DOUGALD TRADWELL, REUBEN TURNER, EPHRAIM To His Honour Gabriel D Ludlow, Esquire President of the Province of New Brunswick &c &c The Memorial of Nichs Johnson and other Inhabitants of the parish of St. Andrews, and its vicinity, in the County of Charlotte. --- Humbly Seweth That your Memorialist in general are of the number of those Loyalist, who emigrated into this country at the peace with America in 1783, or their sons now of age, and were mostly comprised among those Loyalist denominated the Penobscot Association, who settled in and about Passamaquoddy bay, and were promised One hundred acres of lands for themselves, and Fifty for their wives, and for each child. --- That from various intervening impediments your Memorialist never received their full allotments of land which Government had at first given them good reason to expect would not have been delayed. That during this long lapse of time your Memorialist have laboured under great difficulties to maintain themselves, and bring up large families of children, who, by the divine blessing have increased to a pleasing degree, as Your Honor will perceive by the annexed list of them. --- That your Memorialist, stimulated by parental affection to provide for their offspring have anxiously sought for unoccupied lands whereon to form a settlement for themselves and families so that by their united endeavours they may be enabled to surmount their present hardships --- That your Memorialist are informed of a Tract of Land lying between this county and the Oromocto river commonly called Pleasant Ridge, being in a wilderness ungranted, which if secured to your Memorialist by a Grant, might answer all their claims as to quality, and they believe is a good quality, and calculated for a large settlement. --- Your Memorialist therefore humbly pray Your Honor will be pleased to Grant them such a portion of the above Tract of Land as may be sufficient for their accommodation and also reserve and lay out such portions of the same, as Your Honor may deem expedient for public purposes, as they with satisfaction look forward to a large and flourishing settlement there if their Memorial is compiled with, and Your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray --- St. Andrews 21st August 1807 The following is a list of the families of the Subscribers attested to in the Memorial hereto subjoined ... Nichs Johnson wife 5 sons 1 daughter Neal McCurdy wife 2 sons 4 daughters James McCurdy Somo Greenlaw wife Laughlan McCurdy wife 2 sons 4 daughters John Ryan & his mother Willm Cookson wife 2 sons 1 daughter Anthy W Carpenter wife 5 sons 4 daughters Thos Greenlaw wife 3 sons 1 daughter Martin Carlow wife 2 sons 3 daughters Jacob Carlow Joseph Stinson wife 4 sons 2 daughters Alex. McCurdy wife 2 daughters Donald McCullich wife 4 sons 2 daughters Alex Fullerton Ephrm Turner Eben Goodel wife 4 sons 1 daughter Danl Grant wife 5 sons 4 daughters Jona Greenlaw Senr wife 1 son 5 daughters Josh Smith wife 2 sons 2 daughter Reuben Tredwel wife John Joice wife 6 sons 1 daughter Bena Rideout Javin Manser wife 4 sons 4 daughters Amos Hichens wife 3 sons 3 daughters James Hichens Geoe Hichens wife 1 son Willm Hichens Gordon Gilchrist wife 1 son 2 daughters Benja Johnson wife 1 son 3 daughters Willm Harvey wife 2 sons 4 daughter Chas Stinson wife 3 daughters Willm McGear wife 1 son 4 daughters James Berry wife 5 sons 3 daughters Dougal Thompson wife 5 sons 4 daughters Alex Greenlaw Senr wife 2 sons 6 daughters Alex Greenlaw Jr Ebenr Greenlaw wife 3 sons 3 daughters Total: 33 Men 27 women 61 boys 67 girls We certify that we are acquainted with the foregoing Memorialist in general --- That they are Loyal Subjects, and useful Settlers --- And we most Respectfully beg leave to Request that the prayer of their Memorial may be compiled with. Hugh MacKay, JP Robt Pagan Thos Wyer Danl Mc[Inaiter] Don McLachland 13th Jul 1808 The Lands are Vacant in the Situation applied for in this Memorial and have been frequently reported to me to be of a very good quality - A settlement in that situation will completely open the inland communication between Fredericton and Charlotte County --- Geo Sproule S Genl
  Residence	May 1815	Town of St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
  	Volume D Page 424 [428/473] No 479 John Joice ship carpenter Town of St Andrews and wife Elizabeth William Johnson merchants Town of St Andrews 10 pounds Lot 6 Block C Parr's Division St Andrews - May 1815 John Joyce Elizabeth Joice Wit: Nathan Niblock, David Wyer
  Buried	8 Apr 1817	All Saints Anglican, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
  	All Saints Anglican Burials 08/04/1817 Joyce John St Andrews 50 SA
  Administration	15 Feb 1822
  	https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/MC3706/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&abstract=8370§ion=NameIndex Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835 Reference 8370 Family Name JOICE Given Names John Was there a Will? No Was an inventory completed? No Date administration granted 1822-02-15 County Charlotte Parish St. Andrews Probate is for a woman? No Abstract references a vessel? No Abstract Parish of St. Andrews, Charlotte County. Intestate. Administration granted 15 February 1822 to the widow Elizabeth JOYCE of St. Andrews. Fellow bondsmen Joseph WALTON, St. Andrews, and Benjamin BRADFORD, St. David. RS number 63
  Occupation	Ship carpenter
  Person ID	I41806	4 February 2018
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth HITCHINGS,   b. ME ,   d. 23 Jan 1854
  Married	C 1790
  Children	1. Elizabeth JOYCE,   b. [1792], NB ,   d. Bef 1871 CENSUS?   2. John JOYCE,   b. 1796,   d. Bef 1833  (Age < 36 years)   3. Joshua JOYCE,   b. 1798,   d. Bef 1833  (Age < 34 years)   4. Samuel Charles JOYCE,   b. 12 Aug 1799, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB ,   d. 6 Jul 1860, Ashland, Middlesex, MA  (Age 60 years)   5. George JOYCE,   b. [1800], NB ,   d. Bef 1860 CENSUS?   6. Abel JOYCE,   b. 1802,   d. Bef 1833  (Age < 30 years)   7. Frederick JOYCE,   b. 6 Apr 1806,   d. 20 Apr 1880  (Age 74 years)   8. Louisa Maria JOYCE,   b. 30 Jul 1810,   d. 27 Jul 1891  (Age 80 years)   9. David H JOYCE,   b. [1812], NB ,   d. Bef 1860 CENSUS?
  Family ID	F12386	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Petition 1807: wife 6 sons [John, Joshua, Samuel, George, Abel, Frederick] 1 daughter [Elizabeth] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cannbfam/CH.pdf RETURN OF THE BACK LANDS OF THE PENOBSCOTT LOYALIST - 1784 Cleadie Barnett James Joice 1 woman 4 children 250 acres http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cannbfam/CH.pdf RETURN OF THE BACK LANDS OF THE PENOBSCOTT LOYALIST - 1784 Cleadie Barnett John Joice 100 acres RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 Name GREENLAW, JONATHAN Year 1796 County Charlotte Microfilm F1040 See petition of TURNER, JAMES . BALDWIN, JOHN . BRADFORD, BEN . COOKSON, WILLIAM . DALEY, DAVID . DOUGHERTY, EDMOND . EASTMAN, DAVID . GREENLAW, JONATHAN . HALEY, JOHN . HITCHINGS, AMOS . JOYCE, JOHN . LINNEKIN, ZEBEDEE . MCCURDY, LACHLAN . MCINTOSH, JOHN . MILLEKIN, DOMINICUS . PENOBSCOT ASSOCIATION, ----- . RIGBY, JOHN . SIM, ROBERT . THOMSON, DUGALD . TURNER, JAMES To His Excellency Thomas Carleton Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Brunswick etc etc The memorial of James Turner, David Eastman, Jonathan Greenlaw, Lachlan McCudy and others... Humbly sheweth That your Memorialists were of the number of those persons who during the war between Great Britain and her Colonies, left their possessions on account of their attachment to the British Government, and sheltered themselves and families from the rage of their enemies in His Majesty's Garrison then established at Penobscot... That previous to the Garrison's evacuation Penobscot the General there commanding agreeable to his instructions, directed to be made known to your Memorialists, that besides the Land allowed indiscriminately to all Loyalists desirous to settle in the bay of Passamaquaddie, those of the Penobscot association who had families should be allowed a certain proportion of Land for each woman and child to be laid out in the rear of the Land given to the Loyalists... That accordingly directions were given to the Surveyors who actually did lay out land for each woman and child belonging to the families of the Penobscot association and the Lots were drawn and assigned to each one. That numbers of those children now come to maturity and others concerned in the said Land have been and are still desirous to occupy and improve but have been much discouraged therefrom, as hitherto no Grant could be obtained to confirm the Possession- as also it having been represented to your Memorialists that certain persons now of the Association have applied for and allowed License to occupy a large portion of the Lands allotted to the families of your Memorialists Your Memorialists therefore beseech your Excellency a Grant of the Land agreeable to the original Survey... And as in Duty bound etc St Andrews, County of Charlotte 1st February 1796 [Signed] James Turner David Eastman Jonathan Greenlaw Lachlan McCurdy Amos Hitching William Cookson David Daley Dominicus Millekin John Hurley John Joyce Dugald Thomson John McIntosh Robert Sim John Baldwin Ben Bradford Zebedee Linnekin Edmod Dougherty John Rigby James Turner & others of Penobscot Association for their Family lots Saint Patricks The Family lots fall mostly within the reserve the Survey of them is therefore Anulled Filed 12th March 1793 [sic]