Joseph(1) Moyce probably born in Suffolk County, England, about 1585-90, died, probably in Essex County, Mass., after 1669. … Joseph Moyce was in Salisbury as early as 1639. He was a joiner by trade. The town granted him land in the first division in Dec. 1640, in Salisbury, where he was a commoner and where he was taxed in 1650 and 1652. He served on the Grand Jury in 1651 and on the Trial Jury in 1653. He left no will and no administration was taken on his estate. His children are proven by facts learned from deeds. He gave land to grandsons, Philip and Andrew Greeley; George Goldwyer, and wife Martha, deeded rights which he bought of "my father in law Joseph Moys of Salisbury," Mar. 1674-5; while in 1700, Martha Pike mentions her sister Greely and her "cousin" (nephew by marriage), Ephraim Winsley, Sr. There is no absolute proof of Hannah Moyce being his daughter but as she is the only other person of the name in Essex County at the time of her marriage and as the name of Moyce is rare, there can be little doubt that she was a child of Joseph and Hannah Moyce especially as she named her second son "Joseph."
