"Joseph , the fourth son of Thomas & Dorothy, was a landholder in Sandwich in 1658. He was fined for selling liquor to the Indians in 1659. He was employed to drill the cavalry company in 1660. He was authorized to look abroad for lands in 1667. He sold out his property in Sandwich to Richard Bourne in 1677 and removed to Rochester; which town he represented in the Court at Plymouth in 1689." (From the Burgess Genealogy by E. Burgess, 1865)287