♂Job Curtis

Job Curtis (born 5 July 1745) was a son of Torrington, Connecticut, who by 1790 was living at New Hartford and had been left his father’s share in a saw mill and grist mill there. He was the fourth great-grand-uncle of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the brother of John Curtis (1748–1790), Roger’s fourth great-grandfather.

Early life

Job was born at Torrington on 5 July 1745 and baptized there two days later. His parents, Zebulon Curtis (1710–1798) and Lydia Cole (1709–1776), had married at Farmington on 3 July 1735. They had six children, born between 1737 and 1751: Elizabeth, Thomas, Marcy, Job, John and Lydia. Job was the fourth.

His father’s will

Zebulon Curtis made his will at Torrington on 30 June 1790 and named Job in it as “my Son Job Curtis of New Hartford”. To Job he left all his right in a saw mill and grist mill in that town; the matching share in the mills at Norfolk went to the children of Job’s late brother Thomas, and a hundred acres in Vermont to his brother John. The will named Job and John as its only executors and gave the two sons double the share of each daughter.

John died in Worthington, Massachusetts, before September 1790, and Zebulon died at Torrington on 5 May 1798. The will was proved that year; John, the other named executor, had died in 1790.

Death

The tree gives Job’s death as 20 September 1807 at Torrington, and a compiled genealogy gives the same date. No record documents either the date or the place.