Joseph Cody (1736 - 18?? )

1760 Joseph Cody House from Camp Street

In 1760 Joseph Cody would build a farmstead on Camp Street close to the intersection of Pine Island Road today. It would later become known as the Partridge Place after Aaron Partridge who bought the property from Mr. Cody in 1799. The Partridge family lived in this spot for generations. We get some more history on this property from Adin Ballou's History of Milford P.952:

1760 Joseph Cody House

"Aaron Partridge was born in 1774 and purchased the old Cody place in Milford on Camp Street near Bungay in 1799. Joseph Cody was from Hopkinton, the son of Isaac and Hannah Cody, born May 2, 1736. He settled in the vicinity of Bungay around 1760 on what has been in our time called the Partridge place. This family remained in town some little time after its incorporation. I think he was its first constable, and was styled "Lieut. Joseph Cody." He was a carpenter and tradition says that he seldom used any measuring implement, but laid out his framing work so accurate by eye that all his joints and mortises fitted exactly when his frames were raised. He probably moved from town, perhaps to Hopkinton not long after its incorporation. I cannot trace him further."

1897 Map of Milford Massachusetts

An 1897 map of Milford shows a lady named Mary Ferguson as owning the Cody farm and the last owner was the Harding family, William Harding is shown in front of the house in the picture below.

William Harding - Last family to live in the old Cody house

The New England Power Company purchased the land that the house was on to install high tension wires and the old swamp they called Bungay has reclaimed all but the cellar hole of Joseph Cody's Farmstead.

Site of Cody House Bungay - Milford Massachusetts