When Samuel Joy was born in 1762, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Abijah French Joy, was 22 and his mother, Anne Hoyt, was 20. He married Dolly Currier on 9 April 1793, in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He died on 6 October 1822, in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Maple Cemetery, Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States.