2560–2561. William Judson was born in England and died in New Haven Colony on July 29, 1662. Grace _____ died in New Haven Colony on September 29, 1659. They were married in England. She took the name Grace Judson. They had three children:
| i. | Joseph Judson, (Capt.) [#1280]: He was born in England in 1618-1619, and died in Stratford, Connecticut, on October 8, 1690. | |
| ii. |
Jeremiah Judson was born
in England
in 1620-1, and died
in Stratford
on May 15, 1700.
He married (1) Sarah Foote and (2) Catherine (Craigg) Fairchild,
second wife and widow of Thomas Fairchild.
Sarah Foote was the daughter of Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming. Both Sarah and Nathaniel died before Elizabeth; her second marriage was to Thomas Welles of Wethersfield. [Writer's note: This is an early joining of what are to me the Gilbert (via Fairchild) and Judson branches of my ancestry.] Much more information is available in the Jacobus article cited below. Note that Nathaniel Foote and Elizabeth Deming are ancestors of George Bush and George W. Bush, U.S. Presidents, via their daughter, Rebecca: Rebecca Foote, Rebecca Smith, Anna Stillman, (1699), Elizabeth May (1730), Lydia Newcomb (1763), Obadiah Newcomb Bush (1797), James Smith Bush (1825), Samuel Prescott Bush (1863), Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895), George Herbert Walker Bush (1924), and George Walker Bush. | |
| iii. | Joshua Judson was born in England about 1630, and died in Stratford about 1661. His wife's name was Ann. Much more information is available in the Jacobus article cited below. |
His second marriage was to Elizabeth _____. This was her third marriage. They were married on February 8, 1659/60; she died in 1685. She married first Nathaniel Heaton [#2652]. ; and second, Benjamin Wilmot who died April 8, 1651.
William Judson came from Yorkshire, England, in 1634, with his wife, Grace, and three sons, Joseph, Jeremiah, and Joshua. He first settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where a town act of February 5, 1636, refers to "Goodman Judson's lott." He lived in Concord for about four years and then appears to have been a original proprietor of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639. He lived on the southwest corner of Watch-house Hill. His "stone house" occupied a spot just to the west of the present (1939) Judson house, now the home of the Stratford Historical Society. In 1644 he and John Hurd are engaged as a committee from Stratford "who shall demand what every family will give" for the "mayntenance of scollers at Cambridge."
A few years later he removed to New Haven, where he "took the oath of Fidelity." March 7, 1647, he purchased a house and homelot. The next day he applied to the court to be "freed from watching, but the courte sawe no cause to grant it," and again in June, 1649, he renewed the request, "but nothing was done."
He gave to his son, Joseph, his house and homelot on Academy Hill, and to his sons Jeremiah and Joshua, homelots adjoining each other, on the west side of lower Main Street, with much other land in Stratford.
He became an owner in the iron works in East Haven and made his residence in
New Haven, where he died. His will was dated September 20, 1661, and recorded
in New Haven. His estate amounted to £369, 16s, 6d.