PHILIP JUDD

PHILIP JUDD


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Philip Judd (Johnathan 5, Benjamin 4, Thomas Thomas 3, William 2, Thomas 1) was born December 31, 1715. Philip died 1745-1746 in Cape Breton Expedition.

He married Mary Peters January 17, 1764. Mary was born in Hebron September 29, 1744. She was the daughter of William Peters and Ruth Chapwell. Mary died January 20, 1838 in Maple Grove Cemetary, Bethany Center, Ny, at 93 years of age. Sergeant Philip Judd was in a Cape Breton expidition in June 1745 and kept an extensive journal from New London to Cape Breton, this journal was in the Library of the Connecticut Historical Society in 1850. Philip had a wife and probally had children but none could be listed even in the records of 1850. The only hint as to a wifes name is the records in Hebron (which is a city that Philip may have lived in at one time) shows a marriage of a Philip Judd to a Mary Peters on Jan 17 1764. This record is assumed to be correct and will be installed here in this family tree. To create further difficulty in the records of any Philip Judds around this time it is now known that this Philip Judd is the Philip who, while in the Cape Breton Expedition may have been captured, put on a ship and sent off to sea with other prisoners of the war. The fate of the people in that ship is not known, Philip and the others "disappeared". Confusion eminates from almost all the Philip Judds of this Family Tree because of many other reasons besides this Philips disappearence, there is also the fact that some of the Philip Judds were either born or lived in Danbury, Conn before the Revolution. The records of Danbury were burnt in a fire when that town was destroyed by the British in the Revolution, thus making it very difficult to find the correct Philip Judd and the descendants of the correct one, extensive measures have been taken to get the information correct, however, sometimes things needed to be assumed and/or logically entered according to the only known facts. Like a Jigsaw Puzzle of Facts, they were placed in this family tree as best as they could fit, unfortunately this puzzle has many missing pieces making the picture one that is hard to see.