Seth JUDD

Seth married Lydia RICHARDS in Oct 1772 in New Britain, Connecticut. Lydia was born on 10 Apr 1754 in Farmington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was one of the first settlers of the central part of New Britain, having his house on the north side of Wet Main Street, a few rods back from the highway and nearly on the site of the Erwin parsonage. He was a lieutenant in the local militia and also held several civil office. In 172, he was a member of the First Ecclesiastical Society in Farmington, though living in Kensington; but on the organization of the First church in New Britain, he and his wife became constituent members and were mentioned by Dr. Smalley as from the Church in Kensington.

John married Mary BURNHAM on 4 Apr 1745 in Farmington, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Rev William BURNHAM and Hannah WOLCOTT) was born on 7 Feb 1722/3 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 22 May 1801 in New Britain, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died before Nov. 8, 1751, and probably shortly before that date. Will dated Jan. 31, 1749/50; value of estate, L6317, 2. 6d., old tenor.

He was a large farmer and lived in the north part of the village; a man of influence and represented the own of Farmington many times between May 1717 and May 1741, When the Church at Great Swamp was founded, it consisted of 10 members, of which he was No. 4 one of its "seven pillars" and its first Deacon, being chosen March 10, 1712/13. Thomas Hart, son of Thomas hart was its second Deacon. A curios relationship existed between him and his children, for he married as his second wife, June 26, 1707, Mary, dau. of Sergt. Samuel Seymour; while his son Phinehas, married her sister; his daughter Susannah, married her brother, so he became a brother-in-law to two of his children. In his will, Deacon Anthony Judd names his wife Mary, his two daughters, viz: Lydia, wife of John Cole and Susannah relict of Samuel Seymour dec'd, and his three sons, Amos, Phinehas, and John.

Anthony married Susannah WOODFORD on 26 Jun 1707. Susannah (daughter of Joseph WOODFORD and Rebecca NEWELL) was christened on 3 Dec 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Joseph Woodford and Rebecca Newell of Farmington, Conn.

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He graduated from Harvard College in 1702 and settled in the Ministry at Kensington, Dec. 10, 1712, being ordained the day the church was founded. he drew up an agreement with the Society which provided for the transfer to him of a considerable tract of land and the Society guaranteed fifty acres more which the town of Farmington proposed to give him. The Society was also to build him a house, "the two Loer rooms of which were to be finished before the last day of March that shall be in the year 1710," the remainder within twelve months after, I only finding Glass & nails." His salary for the first four years was to be fifty pounds per annum in grain, "that is to say Wheat, indian corn or Ry"; he was also to receive five pounds in labor and his firewood. The agreement was accepted by the Society June 10, 1709, "provided the above sd. Mr. Burnham at the confirmation of the lands mentioned in the Articles, do give sufficient security to sd. Society." for the full agreement, See Andrews' New Britain, p. 23. He seems to have been an excellent man of business; at any rate, he succeeded in acquiring what was at that time considered wealth. (Hinman's Puritan Settlers.)

His only published work is an Election Sermon entitled, "God's Providence in Placing Men before the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut at Hartford, May 10, 1722. The Day for Electing the Honourable the Governour, the Deputy Governour, & the Worshipful Assistants there. Published by Order of Authority, New London, 1722." (Stiles' Ancient Wethersfield.)

William married Hannah WOLCOTT on 18 May 1704. Hannah (daughter of Hon. Samuel WOLCOTT and Judith APPLETON) was born on 19 Mar 1683/4 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 16 Mar 1747/8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]