Jared Joy

(December 19, 1749 – November 29, 1792) 

Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Jared Joy was a 24-year-old bricklayer at the time of the Boston Tea Party.  

The Joy family lived on Beechwood Street, originally part of the Second Precinct of Hingham, which became part of the “new” town of Cohasset. Jared’s father, Amos Joy, was a deacon of the Church, known as Second Parish, established in 1721, at a time when the area was still a part of Hingham. 

During the Revolutionary War, Joy was a part of the 36th Regiment of Foot Infantry of the Continental Army. Colonel John Greaton’s regiment was raised from local men in Cohasset. Joy enlisted in Captain Job Cushing’s company on May 16, 1775, and served two months and twenty-one days.  Not much information is known about Mr. Jared Joy’s life beyond 1775 with exception of his probate file of 1803, filed nearly a decade after his death, of which his estate included acres of fields, pastures, meadows, swamp, an orchard, a house, and one cow. 

Jared Joy died in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1792. He is buried in Cohasset’s Beechwood Cemetery.