Joan and her husband Arthur were enslaved by Isaac Chauncey of Hadley, Massachusetts. They had seven children: George, 1722-1794; Elenor, born 1724; Ishmael, born 1726; Caesar, born1727; Abner, born 1729; Zebulon, 1731-1802; and Chloe, born 1738. (Town records, 1659-1719, Hadley, Massachusetts. See also James Avery Smith, History of the Black Population of Amherst, Massachusetts (Boston, MA: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1999), pp. 110-111.)