The book measures approx 8"x10.5" with 201 full pages.
Booksellers label inside is Fred W. Barry.
Presumed to be a descent of The Joy Family with excerpt of genealogy, from the book Thomas Joy and his descendants in the lines of his sons Samuel of Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephraim of Berwick : a portfolio of family papers" below:
THOMAS JOY, COLONIST.
The name of Joy has been borne with honorable distinction by families in England and Ireland for at least five centuries. There is reason to believe that the name was derived from the locality Jouy, in Normandy,* and may have reached England in the form " de Jouy." It has undergone many modifications, in some of which its identity disappears, as it passes from Joy to Jay through such forms as Joye, Joie, Jaie, Jaye, and even Gee. The earliest of the name in England of whom we have information is William, who was vicar of Tibenham, in Norfolk, in 1395. In 1441 one Thomas Joye was rector of Fritton, in the same shire. In the list of Irish Archbishops of Tuam we find William Joy in 1487. George Joye, a fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge (1517), was one of the most learned and devoted leaders of the Protestant Reformation in England, and his fame is associated with Tyndale's in the translation of the Bible into the English tongue. Among the English colonists of Ulster about 1597 was a Captain Thomas Joy, among whose descendants are Francis Joy, the pioneer paper maker of Ireland and founder of the Belfast News-letter ; Robert Joy, the promoter of the Ulster cotton manufactures; and Baron Henry Joy, attorney-general, whose statue stands in the Hall of the Four Couits, Dublin. George W. Joy, artist and marksman, and Albert Bruce Joy, the sculptor, are of this branch, and the roll of English painters includes the names of three other Joys of considerable merit.
Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera.
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