40–41.  Samuel Judson was born in Connecticut in 1775-1785, and died in Hiram Township, Portage County, Ohio, on October 29, 1826. His death date is inferred from the probate of his estate. Lois Atwater was born in Connecticut on Wednesday, June 23, 1784, and died in Mantua Township, Portage County, Ohio, in March, 1813. She may have died in childbirth. They were married in Mantua Township on Thursday, January 24, 1805. She took the name Lois Judson. He is the son of Elijah and Abigail (Edwards) Judson. She is the daughter of Enos and Lois (Alling) Atwater. They had five children:

i. Alma Judson was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1807, and died in 1896. She married Enos Ford and lived in Braceville, Ohio. They had three children. She had "small comfort in old age."
ii. Alvin Judson was born in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, in 1808-09. He married and lived in Braceville; was present with his Uncle Amzi and Cousin Darwin at the funeral of his cousin, Sophia Pond Rich, August 15, 1844.
iii. Ella Judson [#20]: He was born in Mantua Township on February 22, 1809, and died in Byron Township, Kent County, Michigan, on October 22, 1872.
iv. Elijah Judson was born in Mantua and died before 1885. He married and had four children.
v. Cyrus Judson was born in Mantua and died before 1885. He went west.

His second marriage was to Lucy Moss in Litchfield, Connecticut, on Friday, June 20, 1817. She took the name Lucy Judson. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, before 1793. Her birth data is from the International Genealogical Index. Marriage data from Litchfield, Connecticut, St. Michael's Parish, Record for 1750–1870 vol. I, Hartford; Conn. State Library, 1936, p. 187. Since Cyrus was born in Ohio as were Lucy's children, and it is certain that Samuel and Lucy were married in Litchfield, he clearly returned to Connecticut to marry her and then brought her back to Ohio. They had four children:

i. Harley Judson was born in Mantua Township on February 28, 1815. He married Chloe J. Loomis on December 29, 1847, and was living in Franklin Township in 1885 when an entry about him appeared in History of Portage County, Ohio, pages 684–5. This article is the source of much of the information on Samuel Judson and his family. Of Harley Judson it states:
"... was reared in Mantua and Hiram Townships, his education being received in the district schools. After he became of age he worked on a farm by the month for two years, then on his father's farm for seven years, after which he purchased a farm of sixty acres, which he kept only one year. In 1848 he purchased the farm in Franklin Township where he now resides [1885]. Mr. Judson's first wife was Chloe, daughter of Horace Loomis, of Charlestown, Township, by whom he had three children: Julia (Mrs. Darwin Furry), Hannah (Mrs. Byron Ferry), and Henry D. His present wife is Almira, daughter of Noah and Hannah (Shaw) Lemoin, of Stowe, Summit County, Ohio, by whom he has two children: Samuel E. and Barton H. Mr. Judson is a representative farmer of Franklin Township. In politics he is a Democrat."
ii. Sallie Judson was born in Portage County before 1817, and died after 1898. She married Truman Vaughn. She was interviewed by Francis Atwater in December, 1898, the details of which are in his book, Atwater History and Genealogy (see below).
iii. Lucy Judson died after 1885. She married James McElroy; date and place from the International Genealogical Index. Their descendant, Rhonda McElroy Prentice, says they are buried in Rome, Ohio.
iv. Mary Judson was born after the census of 1820, and died before 1885.

Samuel Judson, with two brothers, Gersham and Enoch, came to Mantua Township (pronounced Man'away or Man'tuh-way), Portage County, Ohio, from Hartford, Connecticut, in about 1800, and here cleared and improved a farm. In 1821, Samuel moved to Hiram Township where he lived out his years. [History of Portage County, Ohio, pp. 684–5.]

In early tax records of Portage County, Ohio, (some on crumbling paper in the archives of Kent State University Library) are found:

Samuel and Lois lived near the "Mud Hill", perhaps at first west and later east of the mill. In May 1812, on the formation of the Congregational Church in Mantua, Lois became a charter member.

Mrs. Sallie Judson Vaughn (Mrs. Truman V.), daughter of Samuel Judson by his second wife, in interview with [Francis Atwater], December 1898, mentioned that John Rudolph and Darwin Atwater came over to their home to nurse and watch with her father in his last sickness, about the year 1827. She also said she remembers the time (as they then lived at the foot of the Stevens Hill in Hiram) when Joe Smith [Mormon] was mobbed and tarred and feathered at the top the hill, March 28, 1832. [Atwater History, p. 240.]

Lois's sister, Miriam Pond, and five of her children, followed Joseph to Missouri, then to Illinois. The children all died, but Miriam returned to her family in Ohio after Smith was killed and Brigham Young elected as leader. [ibid., pp. 241–3.]

See also A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of David Atwater, one of the Original Planters of New Haven, Connecticut, to the Sixth Generation by Edward E., Atwater, 1873. Lois Judson's death was reported in the March 17, 1813, issue of "Trump of Fame", a Trumbull County (Ohio) newspaper.

From pages 480–1 of History of Portage County, Ohio comes:

The name "Mantua" was given by John Leavitt, in honor of Napoleon, who had in 1796 captured the city by that name in Italy. In 1806 there were but 27 men in the township, but in 1810, at the organization, there was a population of 234. Elias Harmon was appointed United States Marshall in 1810 and took the census of that year. In his enumeration of Mantua he gives the following names of heads of families and the number of each family: ... Gersham Judson, 5; ... Enoch Judson, 5; Samuel Judson, 5 [Samuel, Lois, Alma, Alvin, Ella] ... The first death was that of Mrs. Anna Judson [Enoch's first wife], who had but recently been married, and just moved in with her husband. She had arsenic given to her through mistake, which caused death in a short time. This occurred July 2, 1804, ... [Other deaths were]: Samuel Judson's wife in 1813, ... Enoch Judson's second wife in 1816, ...

The 1820 census of Mantua Township, page 40A, shows Samuel Judson with

[Note that On page 41 is an entry for Gashom [sic], and on page 39, Hiram Township, is an entry for Enoch.

In 1810 William Russell purchased the distillery apparatus of Gersham and Samuel Judson, ...

Samuel Judson died intestate. Details of the settlement of his estate are recorded in pages 189 through 196 of the Probate Court Records of Portage County, Ohio: Estates, volume 4; microfilm number 14. The available copy is, of course, handwritten and occasionally difficult to interpret. The entire process of settling the estate covers a period of over six years, from February 19, 1827, to March 28, 1833. The first step is an inventory and appraisal of the estate and the setting aside of parts of it for his widow, Lucy, who is required by law to receive at least a bed and bedding. She does fare better than this but Samuel's creditors do not.

The appraised value of the estate was $174.99½. The appraised value of goods and chattels set aside for Lucy Judson was $102.28¾; this is in addition to the other amount. The estate not set aside was sold, probably at auction, on March 15, 1827, for which a total of $168.21½ was received; remarkably close to the appraised value. A total of $119.04 in expenses were paid from the estate for: his last illness, $47.73; his funeral, $5.50; court and legal fees, $62.81; and for "pointing" and preserving property, $3.00. After this, 20 individuals made claims against the estate totaling $295.84; these were paid at 35 cents on the dollar.

It is interesting to note that Amzi Atwater, the brother of Samuel's first wife, Lois, was paid $11.25 for Samuel's last sickness. Also, Samuel's brother, Gershom (spelled "Garsham" in the record), filed by far the largest claim against the estate: $157.77. Since that is nearly equal to the entire of the amount received at auction, one can only speculate on the basis for the claim.

Samuel still owned six acres of land back in Connecticut when he died. It was adjacent to his brother Eban's land; Eban bought it for $72.00. Details of the probate of this estate several basic items of clothing and sundries; therefore, the must have been some manner of dwelling on the land so that Samuel could return for a visit carrying a light load.

From the settlement of his estates we can imply:


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