Person:Benjamin Judd (5)

The Estate of Benjamin Judd of Farmington and His Widow, Mary (Lewis) Judd

NOTE: Manwaring provides two separate abstracts; one for Benjamin himself, and one, after her subsequent death, for Benjamin and his wife. Content of the two abstracts has been combined and rearranged chronologically.

"Probate Records. Vol. V, 1687 to 1695. Page 7; Page 129.

Judd, Benjamin. Invt. £267-03-00. Taken 1689, by John Norton & John Judd. Legatees; Benjamin Judd, age 18 years, Mary 14, Sara 12, Hannah 8, Nathaniel 6, Hester 3, Jonathan, one year old.

Court Record, Page 3—6 November, 1689: Adms. to the Widow (Mary Judd).

Judd, Benjamin & Wife. Invt. £292-13-07. Taken by Thomas Porter & John Thompson sen. The children: Benjamin, age 21 years, Nathaniel 8, Jonathan 3, Mary 16, Sarah 14, Hannah 11, Easter, 6 years old.

Court Record, Page 39—3d March, 1691-2: Whereas, the Administrator of the Estate of Benjamin Judd is Decd, Adms. is granted to Benjamin Judd his son & to John Judd, who, with William Lewes, are to take Care for the dispose of the children.

Page 41—13 April, 1692: Invt. now Exhibited of the Estate of Benjamin & Mary Judd. Dist: To Eldest son, £70; to the other two, to each, £35; to the four daughters, to each, £32-18-00; £10 left with the Adms. to bring up the youngest child till he is fit to put out to service.

Page 139—(Vol. IV) 4 March, 1696-7: Whereas, at a County Court held by adjournment, 13 April, 1692, Adms. was granted to John & Benjamin Judd upon the Estate of Benjamin & Mary Judd of Farmington, the Adms. request that William Lewes be joyned with them in the distribution: This Court do ad him to them to do that work, and do fully impower them to put out the youngest son to good service.

Page 24—(Vol. VII) 7 March, 1701-2: Hester Judd, a minor daughter of Benjamin Judd, late of Farmington Decd, chose Joseph Webster to be her Guardian."^[4]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Thomas Judd, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   4:125.

   "Benjamin Judd, b. about 1643 (aged 14 on 27 December 1657 [WMJ 299]; '15 years old about March 1657' [Farmington ChR 1:49-50]."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Benjamin Judd, in Judd, Sylvester. Thomas Judd and His Descendants. (Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States: J. & L. Metcalf, 1856)
   60.

   Benjamin Judd, fourth son of Deac. Thomas Judd, lived at Farmington. Married Mary Lewis, daughter of Capt. William Lewis of Farmington. She was born May, 1645. He died in 1689, probably in October, aged 47. The inventory of Benjamin Judd's estate, £207, was presented to the Court, Nov. 6, 1689. His widow died in 1691 or 1692, aged about 46, and the inventory of his and her estate, 292£, was presented April, 1692. Son Benjamin was appointed administrator, March, 1692, with John Judd; and William Lewis was to aid. The ages of the children were returned to the Court with each inventory, and the baptisms of the four youngest are in the church record. The estate was divided among the children. May 20, 1697. His right to uplands was not then of much value.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Benjamin Judd, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:573-574.

   Judd, Benjamin, Farmington, fourth s. of Thomas the first, freem. 1669, m. Mary, d. of William Lewis, had Eliz. b. 21 Aug. 1668, d. young; Benjamin, 1671; Mary, 1675; Sarah, 1677; Hannah, bapt. 13 Mar. 1681; Nathaniel, 22 July 1683; Esther, 14 Feb. 1686; and Jonathan, 22, Sept. 1688; d. 1689.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Judd, Benjamin & Wife.; Judd, Benjamin., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:473-74.