Deacon Joseph Ives

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 14 Oct 1674, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Deacon married Esther Benedict on 11 May 1697 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Thomas Benedict and Mary Messenger) was born about 1679 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 1 Jan 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Ives was born on 30 May 1698 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 13 Jan 1748.

Notes:

John Ives (1644-1682) = Hannah Merriman (b. 1651)
John Ives (1669-1747) = Mary Gillett (1671-1716)
John Ives (1694-1745) = Hannah Royce (1701-1770)
John Ives (1729-1816) = Mary Hall (1742-1788)
Isaac Ives (1764-1845) = Sarah White (1773-1851)
George Ives (1799-1862) = Sarah Wilcox (1808-1899)
George Edward Ives (1845-1894) = Mary Elizabeth Parmalee (1850-1929)
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American composer

John married Hannah Merriman on 12 Nov 1668 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Merriman and Joan) was born on 16 May 1651 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated to New Haven, 1639. A founder of the Quinnipiac Colony.

From Genealogy of the Ives Family:

There is today, in the new cemetery at North Haven, a comparatively new obelisk-shaped monument on which is inscribed:
WILLIAM IVES, 1607-1648
JOSEPH IVES, 1647-1694
CAPT. JOSEPH IVES, 1673-1751
STEPHEN IVES, 1708-1745
STEPHEN IVES, 1742-1793

William married Hannah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is called only "wid. William Ives" in the Bassett section in volume 1 of Jacobus's Families of Ancient New Haven, but in the Ives section, in Volume 4, she is identified as Hannah. Presumably Jacobus found her given name in the time between publishing volumes 1 and 4.

Notes:

He was never married to an Abigail Olney. See The American Genealogist 9:91, 1932.

Emigrated 1632, first in Boston, then New Haven 1640-70, then one of the principal founders of Wallingford, Connecticut.

Served in the Pequot War of 1637. Ensign of the New Haven company, lieutenant of that in Wallingford, and was appointed a Captain to recruit troops for King Philip's War in 1675.

Town clerk of Wallingford for eight years, selectman for five years, and nine times a deputy from Wallingford to the General Court.

Nathaniel married Joan. Joan was born about 1628; died on 8 Dec 1709 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A cooper.