The only one of the sons of Sergt. John (Ayres), who returned to Brookfield at the Re-Settlement was Joseph, who had grants of land in Brookfield as follows: in 1713, sixty acres; in 1714, seventy-two acres; he removed from Ipswich to Brookfield with his family in 1717, d. Nov. 3, 1740. He m. (1) 1684, Sarah Caldwell; (2) widow Hannah Dutch, who d. July 1740.