Person:Joseph Sill (2)

"2. Joseph, s. of John (1), m. Jemima, dau. of Andrew Belcher, 5 Dec. 1660, and had Andrew, b. 5 Feb. 1665, d. 12 June 1666; Joseph, bap. 11 Mar. 1665-6 [this son is prob. the same as Andrew before named]; Jemima, b. 21 Sept, 1667; Elizabeth, b. 12 Sept. 1668, m. Samuel Green, Jr., 18 Nov. 1685; Andrew; Thomas; and perhaps others. Joseph the f. was engaged in Philip's War, first as Lieutenant and afterwards as Captain. He was appointed as Captain 2 Nov. 1675, to 'take charge of the soldiers raised from Chs., Wat., and Camb., which are about 60 men,' and to lead them forth against the enemy. He had previously been Captain of a company consisting of 100 men, under Major John Pynchon. He was at Lancaster, 21 Feb. 1675-6, when the Court 'ordered, on request of Captain Scyll, that the committee for the war do forthwith send twenty pounds of tobacco and three gallons of rum, for the supply of the company that now resides at Lancaster.' For some insubordination, or, as the Record expresses it, because 'of late he hath carried himself offensively,' he was discharged from office 11 Oct. 1676. In Nov. 1685 he petitioned the General Court for a grant of land, as a compensation for his military services; but was unsuccessful in his request. Before this time, however, he had removed to Lyme, Conn., where he was residing 7 Nov. 1681; at which date he executed a deed of his estate in Camb. to a feoffee in trust for his son Andrew; or if said Andrew should die in his minority, then his other son Thomas to inherit the estate. He d. 6 Aug. 1696. His son Thomas, mariner, of Boston, described himself in a deed, dated 8 Nov. 1699, as son of Joseph Sill, formerly of Cambridge, late of Lyme, Conn., deceased. The son Thomas was probably a shipmaster, residing in Boston, and the Capt. Sill who died in May 1709."

"Joseph (Sill), Cambridge, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. came with his f. in inf. m. 5 Dec. 1660, Jemima, d. of Andrew Belcher the first of the same, wh. d. a. 1675, had sev. ch. of wh. I kn. only Andrew, b. 5 Feb. 1665, that d. soon; Joseph, bapt. 11 Mar. 1666; and Jemima b. 21 Sept. as the town rec. proves to Mr. Paige's satisfact. tho. the ch. reg. says, bapt. 31 Mar. 1667; and Eliz. b. 12 Sept. 1668; and the rec. of b. has no others. But others there were, as the fam. tradit. makes two s. lost at sea; and fully confirm. is it by the fact, that aft. the d. of w. in the begin. of Philip's war, and aft. m. of sec. w. he made deed of trust, 7 Nov. 1681, to Andrew Belcher, their uncle, in favor of his s. Andrew, and Thomas. He was much disting. for serv. in that war, espec. at Groton, where he had com. and at Dover, aid. with Hawthorne in the surpr. of the Ind. at maj. Waldron's. On the close of it, rem. to Lyme, there m. 12 Feb. 1677 or 8, Sarah, d. of George Clark, wid. of Reynold Marvin, and had Joseph, b. 6 Jan. 1678 or 9; and Zechariah, 1 Jan. 1682; and, perhaps, others, but d. 6 Aug. 1696, in 60th yr. Jemima, m. 2 Dec. 1687, John Hall; of Medford; and Eliz. 18 Nov. 1685, Samuel Green, jr. of Boston. In Milford a Joseph is nam. 1648; but I think it may be a mistake for 1678."

Next on the right [of Sarah's tombstone] is that of:
Capt Joseph Sill died August 6, aged 60, 1696