Samuel JUDKINS

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He and his brother Benjamin were granted 100 acres and water rights in the town of Kingston, settled in 1694, if they would dam the Little River, erect and run a grist-and sawmill (R.D.Sawyer from early records). Mills on these sites are still in existence, and the gristmill was owned by the direct descendants of Samuel, the children of Arthur, until 1942. He was an originial member of the First Church organized in 1725 (Ki.Ch.rec.) and died 23 Feb. 1742 in his 56th year. She died Oct. 1756 (Ki.Cem.Inscr.; NHVR).

Samuel married Abigail HARRIMAN on 30 Nov 1710. Abigail was born on 7 Nov 1683 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died in Oct 1756 in New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joel JUDKINS was born on 25 Sep 1712 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died before 25 Jan 1754.

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The first record found of Job Judkins is in Boston, Mass. in 1637, where he was a sawyer and a property owner (Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope). Family tradition has it that he and two brothers emigrated from Scotland. Loren Judkins, a descendant, has sated that Job was born in West Glasgow, Scotland in 1606, the son of Joel born 9 Aug. 1579, and grandson of Samuel born 10 May 1556, and that he came to Massachusetts Bay Colon in 1628, having married Sarah Dudley. No records have been found thus far to confirm this.

Drake, in his "History and Antiquities of Boston, 1630-1770" states that on 27 Sep. 1641 Job was granted a lot for five heads at the Mount "als" Braintry. Appendix 1, containing the Book of Possessions of the Town of Boston, 1653-54, records: "Job Judkins - house and garden, Robert Hull, s.; Elizabeth Purton, N.; the street, w.; Gamiel Waite, e.". This property, which old Boston maps show was owned by Job as early as 1639, marked lot 96, faced the High Street, now Washington Street, and was the second lot from the left from the present Summer Street. It is now occupied by the Jordan Marsh store. In 1666 his property still bounded that of Robert Hull on the north (15 N.E.Hist. and Gen. Reg. 323).

The 1650-52 inventory of the estate of Robert Button included a debt received from Job (8 Reg. 59). An inventory dated 1657-59 of the debts to Stabbins, a victualler, listed Job "of Suffolk County" (32 Reg. 319), and the 1659-60 inventory of the estate of M. Munnings of Dorchester, Mass. included a debt to Job (10 Reg. 177).

Thomas Judkins of Gloucester, Mass., who married 25 Nov. 1665 widow Anna Howard and died 23 Feb. 1695 se 66 years (Gloucester VR and Savage's Gen. Dict.) is probably not of the same family. The name is not found in the descendants of Job at this period. Thomas undoubtedly came from the English Northamptonshire family in which the four ancestors directly preceding Thomas Judkins of Heyford, born about 1600, bore this name (Metcalfe's Visitations of Northamptonshire).

Job married Sarah ---. She joined the First Church of Boston 8 Aug. 1641 and died 26 Nov. 1657 (9 Boston Rec. Comm. report 61). No record has been found of Job's death, probably after 1666.

Job married Sarah ?. Sarah died on 26 Nov 1657. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]