JOY
JOYCE
JOY, Thomas, colonist, was born in Norfolk
county, England, in 1610, where the family name,
derived from the town Jouy in Normandy, has
been well-known for five centuries. He joined
"VVinthrops company and immigrated to America,
settling in Boston, Mass., about 1635. His name
appears in the " Book of Possessions "and records
of conveyances as the owner of much land com-
prising that on which Governor Hutchinson and
Sir Charles Henrj- Frankland erected mansions,
and land on Bendall's cove, possibly including
the sites of Faneuil Hall and the Old Feather
store. He owned acres in Hingham and Lynn,
besides tracts in Maine and Massachusetts, pur-
chased from the Indians. He was an architect
and builder and is credited with planning the Old
Feather Store, the Hingham meeting-hovise and
the Aspinwall mansion in Brookline. He con-
structed the early warehouses and wharves in
Boston and Charlestown and owned and operated
corn and saw mills. In 1646 he was concerned
in " Dr. Child's Memorial." and with Samuel Mav-
erick, Thomas Fowle, John Dand, David Yale,
and others, strove for an extension of the right
of suffrage which was then restricted to church
members, thereby disfranchising three-fourths
of the adult male population. The prayer of the
memorialists was not only refused, but many of
the petitioners were imprisoned or heavily fined,
and most of them left the colony. Joy removed
to Hingham, where he probably joined the Rev.
Peter Hobart's church. About 1656, when the
policy of the government was liberalized, he
resumed business in Boston and was selected to
plan and construct the town-house of Bos-
ton, which was the most important public
work undertaken up to that time in New Eng-
land. It was erected largely through the munid-
cence of Capt. Rob- ert Keayne, who died in 1656 and made provision in his will for the con- struction of a mar- ketplace and conduit with a building con- taining a " conven- ient roome or too for the courts to meete in both Winter and Sumer & so for the Townesmen and com- miss"^' of the Towne " besides a "convenient roome for a Library & a gallery or some other handsome roome for the Elders to meete in," also " for an Armory and a place for merchants." The contract was awarded to Thomas Joy and partner, Aug. 1, 1657, and the building occupied in 1658. This first town and state house was destroyed by
fire on the night of Oct. 2-3, 1711, and the " Old
State House " was erected of brick on its site. In
the " pine state house " the artillery company, or-
ganized in 1637, met, and Joy was a member of the
company. This building was the "pine state
house "of Emerson's " Boston Hymn," the " Town
Hall "of Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter," and in its
council chamber Whittier laid the scene of "The
King's Missive." Joy became a freeman of Massa-
chusetts Bay colony in 1665 and died, Oct. 21, 1678.
JOYCE, Charles Herbert, representative, was
bora in Wlierwell, England, Jan. 30, 1830; son
of Cliarles and Martha E. (Grist) Joyce. He em-
igrated to America with his parents in 1836, and
they settled in Waitsfield,Vt., where he worked on
a farm in summer, attended the district school
and academy in winter, and then completed his
school attendance at Northfield academy and
Newbury seminary. In the meantime he served
as page in the Vermont house of representatives
for three sessions, and was librarian of the house
one year. While studying law he taught school,
and he was admitted to the bar in 1852. He
opened a law office in Nortlifield, Vt., in 1855, and
was state attorney of Washington county, 1857-
58. He was commissioned major of the 2d Ver-
mont volunteers by Governor Fairbanks in June,
1861, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel by Gov-
ernor Holbrook in June, 1862. He served at Bull
Run; in the Peninsula campaign; at second Bull
Run, and at Fredericksburg. In January, 1863,
he was obliged to resign on account of disability
due to the hardships of the service. He resumed
the practice of law at Rutland, Vt., and repre-
sented Rutland in the state legislature, 1869-72,
serving as speaker of the house. He was Re-
publican representative from the first district of
Vermont in the 44th, 45th, 46th and 47th con-
gresses, 1875-83, and during his congressional
term served on important committees and made
notable speeches on the presentation of the
statue of Ethan Allen, on Cliinese emigration,
and on the tariff. At the close of the 47th con-
gress he resumed the practise of law,
JOYCE, Isaac Wilson, M. E. bishop, was bora in Hamilton county, Ohio. Oct. 11, 1836; son of James W. and Mary Ann (Bowers) Joyce; grand- son of William and Margaret (Wilson) Joyce, who came from Dublin, Ireland, and settled in Hamilton county. Ohio, about 1786, and of David and Abigail (Brooks) Bowers. David Bowers came from Germany in childhood, and his wife was born in New Jersey. Isaac Wilson Joyce removed with his parents to Tippecanoe county, Ind., in April, 1850, and was a student at Harts- ville college, Ind. He joined the Northwestern Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1859, and was pastor of several of the more prominent churches in the conference,
