Joseph, third child and second son of Captain Joseph and Sarah (Collins) Hoyt... married, August 11, 1774, Nary Cass, (she) died February 2, 1811, and they were the parents of fifteen children: Joseph, Hannah, Polly, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Chandler, Sarah, Nason, John, Samuel, Amherst, Dorothy, Moses Lewis, Asa, and Sherburn.