His wife Elisabeth Lambert Swasey (1653-1711) has the same birthdate given on my ancestry tree, Sept 12. She could have been born in 1653 or 1657. So the only documentation that I can attest to is their wedding in 1678, and details of Joseph's probate that are included in a book about the Swasey family.
They had 3 children, with the daughter Elisabeth not living beyond her 19th birthday. Sons Samuel and Joseph III did live longer and each married and had children.
It is also interesting to consider that the Swaseys lived in Salem Massachusetts at the time there were witch trials. We don't know what Joseph did for his livelihood, though the Swasey book suggests that he might have been a fisherman like his father.
Whatever his life was like, or that of his wife Elisabeth, they both died within a year of each other, he in 1710 and she in 1711.
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