Job WHITCOMB

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"The Whitcomb Family": Job Whitcomb may have been born in Dorchester, Mass., or perhaps was the youngest born in england of Immigrant John's sons. this deduction is made from the fact that Josiah, who was born in Dorchester in 1638, is said to have been the youngest son, and Mr. Nourse, in his early records of Lancaster, classes the two brothers, Job and Josiah, together as "the youngest sons."

Job was doubtless a surveyor, as Marvin's history of Lancaster (p. 17) records: "In surveying the boundaries of Lancaster, Job Whitcomb to carry the chain. It is stated also elsewhere that Job Whitcomb was instructed by the town of Lancaster in 1659 "to assist with Goodman Prescott, young Job Farrar to carry the chain," etc.

Job was married May 19, 1669 to Mary (?). Several authorities say this mary was a daughter of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, but as mary Rowlandson was but three years old at the time of Jobs marriage and as she died at the age of thirteen years, she could not have been the Mary.

The town of Lancaster during the winer of 1675-6 was a scene of alarm, violence and death because of the depredations of the savages, and on February 10, of this season, the house of the pastor, Rev. Joseph Rowlandson, was attacked, whereupon he left the town and later settled in Wethersfield, Conn. Lancaster being considered untenable, troops were sent up with cars and the people and all their movable property were conveyed to the Eastern town,s where they found homes with their friends. The Indians immediately descended upon the luckless town and "burned every house except the house of God and one other." (See Marvin's Lancaster, pp. 111-112)

Job Whitcomb's name was signed with those of his brothers, John and Jonathan, to a petition to governor and council for aid after this raid; but he did not return to Lancaster at the re-settlement of the town but followed the Rev. Joseph Rowlandson to Wethersfield, (See Nourse's Early Records, p. 266), and settled there, probably subsequent to 1678, as the birth of his daughter, Jemima, is recorded in Cambridge in that year. According to Probate Court files he owned land in Wethersfield in 1680 on a proposed six-rod highway to rocky Hill, then a part of Wethersfield.

He died in 1683. His will, drawn October 27, 1683, mentions four children, and his brothers, Jonathan and Josiah, are named in the will as trustees.

Job married Mary UNKNOWN on 19 May 1669. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jemima WHITCOMB was born in 1677 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was christened on 30 Jan 1678 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 10 Dec 1712 in East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.

John married Frances UNKNOWNEngland. Frances was born in England; died on 17 May 1671 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]