Joseph Granger 1765-1847, blacksmith

Happy birthday to my 5th great grandfather born in 1765, Dec. 7, in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts.  I'm updating a post from 2013 in his honor.

Joseph Granger is my grandmother's (Ada Swasey Rogers) grandmother's father.

He was a little boy during the American Revolution.  He had 6 siblings.

His parents were Jacob (1735-1795) and Sarah Farnam Granger (1730-1806) whose grave markers still may be found in Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, MA.  A brief post was on my blog Here for Jacob Granger's birthday in August
  
Sarah Farnam Granger had descended from her great grandfather Hopestill Tyler (1646-1734) who I'll blog about later this week.




Back to Joseph.  He married at age 28 in 1794, in Newburyport, Essex, MA..  The writing of the record is almost illegible, so it's either Jan 20, or 29, or June 20.  His wife was Sarah Tyler (1768 – 1831) She is of the family of Job Tyler's descendents as described in North America, Family Histories 1500-2000, p82.  I gave some of Job Tyler's history HERE.

Joseph and Sarah Tyler Granger had seven children, and George Tyler Granger (1806-?) was to become my great times 4 grandfather, (see post here.)

Upper left notation is "Children of Joseph and Sarah Grainger" which indicates his son and my ancestor, George Tyler, was born in 1806 rather than the 1804 date which all the other records on Ancestry show.  Oh my.  This is how records are messed up.

Joseph lived to be 81, which is outstanding in and of itself.  He died Mar 21, 1847.  He had outlived his wife, and at least 2 of his children.  

The 1840 Newburyport, MA census has a household under the name of Joseph Grainger, where he would be the male age 75, living with one female age 30-40. .  His youngest daughter, Mary S. Granger Chase would have been 41, but since she apparently had 8 children, and she moved to Maine at some point, I doubt that she was living with him.  It could have been an employed housekeeper.

One of the two written death records about him states he was a blacksmith, and had palsy at the time of death as a widower.  It also lists Daniel and Sarah Granger as survivors. Daniel was his youngest son.



 Quote for today:

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

JOHN MUIR