Matthew P. Joy [5983]
Noted events in his life were: • He worked as a Second Mate on the whaling ship Essex in 1820 in Nantucket Island. Matthew married Nancy Slade [5985] [MRIN: 2283], daughter of Benjamin Slade [5986] and Rhoda Coleman [5987], on 7 Aug 1817 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts.1 (Nancy Slade [5985] was born on 30 Dec 1798 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts,4 died on 11 Aug 1833 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts 5 and was buried in 1833 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts.) |
1 Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Vol 2 pg 372.
2 Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Vol 2_222.
3 Starbuck, Alexander (1924), Pg 495. "January 10. Matther P. Joy, the second mate died. He had suffered from debility and privations more than either of the others for he was ill nearly all the voyage."
4 Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Vol 2 pg 472.
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