Joseph Judson Captain

  General Notes:

~Old Fairfield, Donald Lines Jacobus, pgs. 349-353

~Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Nathaniel Goodwin, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, pgs. 137, 138

~Genealogical and family history of the State of Connecticut, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1911, William Cutter

~Genealogies of the Town of Stratford, Connetecticut, Samuel Orcutt, 1886

~History of Stratford, Connetecticut, William Howard Wilcoxson, 1939

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ⁵⁸⁷
Lieut. Jospeph Judson, came to the colonies with his father William Judson of Yorkshire, England, where Joseph was born in 1619. He died 8 Oct 1690 at seventy years of age, and was buried in the old Congregational cemetery. In his will of 27 Feb 1679, he speaks of himself as "now of Woodbury." He married Sarah Porter daughter of John Porter of Windsor on 24 Oct 1644. He was among the foremost men in the work of the town, and he held many offices for about thirty years. He was also, for many years, an officer in the militia, first as Ensign in 1665, and bering appointed Lieutenant of the Train Band in Stratford in June, 1672, and also engaged in the Narragansett War of 1676.

In 1661, he purchased a large tract of land from the Indians, at a place called Mohegan Hills, lying between the two branches of the Farmill River, containing more than 5,000 acres. In May, 1673, a pretion was presented to the townsmen of Stratford to the Gereral Court, to confirm the bounds of their plantation and "for adjudication of the claim of Lieut. Joseph Judson to a large tract of land alleged to be within Stratford bounds."

Joseph was one of the leaders in Mr. Walker's party and one of the subscribers to the "Fundamental Articles agreed upon in order to ye settlement of a Plantation at Pomparague." There is no evidence that he moved to Woodbury in 1672, but he was there in 1679 when he made his will.
~History of Stratford, Connecticut : 1639-1939, pages 91-92

• Dates & Events. ⁵³⁸
"Lieutant Joseph Judson, Senior, another subscriber to the Fundamental Articles was a man of note before the removal of this town. He came from Concord, Massachusetts. He was deputy to the Genral Court for some six years, and otherwise distinguished. After the settlement of Woodbury, he was sent as a deputy with John Minor to the session of 1684, being the first time the town had been represented, and continued to represent the town for four sessions afterward. He was one of the leaders of Reverand Mr. Walker's party at Stratford. he had a first class "accommodation," but is not certain that he lived here till the close of his life, as a part of his land afterward sold to pay a ministerial rate. His son John, another "original signer," was a prominent individual in the town and Colony. He died 12th Jan, 1709/10, aged sixty-three years."
~The History of Ancient Woodbury Connecticut, pg. 61

• Dates & Events. ⁵⁵⁵
From the History of Stratford, page 110:
Joseph Judson, son of William, was born in 1619 in England and died in 1690, aged 71 years. He became prominent in the Stratford, and his name is found frequently in the records. He came to Stratford with his father, so he to was among the first of the settlers there. He married Sarah, daughter of John Porter of Windsor, in about 1644. He was made a freeman in 1658, elected a Deputy the next year, and was one of the foremost men in the work and offices of the town for about thirty years.


From the History of Stratford, page 270:
In 1661, Joseph Judson made a purchase of a large tract known as the Mohegan Hills, lying between the two branches of the Farmill River, containing about 5,000 acres.

• Children. ⁷⁶
Children of Joseph and Sarah, all born at Stratford, Connecticut:
• Sarah, b. 2 Mar 1645/46; m. 11 Nov 1664, Edmund Howell of Southampton
• John, b. 10 Dec 1647
• James, b. 24 Apr 1650
• Grace, b. 19 Feb 1651; m. 1st, 30 Dec 1669, Samuel Prudden of Milford, 2nd, Thomas Clark, of Milford
• Joseph, b. 10 Mar 1654, d. 1 Feb 1677/78
• Hannah, b. 31 Dec 1657; m. 12 Jun 1689, Samuel Wadsworth, of Farmington
• Esther, b. 20 Aug 1660; d. 27 Aug 1713, m. 23 Mar 1680/81, Benjamin Curtis
• Joshua, b. 27 Oct 1664
• Ruth, b. 27 Oct 1664; m. Samuel Wells of Hartford
• Phebe, b. 29 Oct 1666
• Abigail, b. 15 Sep 1669; m. Jus 1692, Josiah Curtis
~History and genealogy of the families of old Fairfield, pg. 350

Joseph married Sarah Porter, daughter of John Porter and Rose Anna White, on 24 Oct 1644 in Windsor, Connecticut.^76,538,683 (Sarah Porter was born on 22 Sep 1621 in Felstead, Essex, England,⁷⁴ died on 16 Mar 1696 in Windsor, Connecticut ⁷⁴ and was buried in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.)