Suffolk County Biographies
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New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800
Persons with Ties to Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
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John Budd
John Budd, b. in England, came from London about 1632, and was
one of the planters of New Baven Colony, in 1639. He was
appointed a deputy from Southold, L. I., in 1653 to the General
Court, but had gone to England in the meantime. His appointment
from Southold indicates that he was already settled there. He was
lieutenant at Southold until 1660, when he resigned, he having
removed or being about to remove to Rye, Westchester county, N.
Y., where he was settled in 1661. He m. Katherine -; d. 1670. By
a declaration, dated October 15, 1669, he gave to son John his
part of the mill on Blind brooke, and all lands otherwise
undisposed of, and personal property, in consideration whereof
John was to pay his father or his mother "thirty pounds a
year in good pay that is to say wheat Twenty pounds porck one
Barrell pease the rest. . . . that we may be freed from
trouble." This instrument seems to have been recorded May
13, 1675, which was probably about the time of John's death.
Issue:
2. i. John2.
3. ii. Joseph.
iii. Judith, m. 1st, John Ogden; 2d, Francis Brown.
iv. Jane, m. Joseph Horton.
2. John2 John1 Budd m. Mary, 3d dau. of Barnabas Horton, of
Southold; d. Nov. 5, 1684. After his father's death he returned
to Southold, having apparently sold to his brother-in-law, Joseph
Horton, the mill on Blind brook. The will of "John Budd of
the Town of Southold, being at present weak in body," dated
Oct. 27, 1684, proved November 12, 1684, provides for the
comfortable maintenance of his wife, Mary, during widowhood,
gives the bulk of his estate to eldest son John, and to son
Joseph "all my right and interest in a neck of land in
Westchester, which lieth between Blind Brook and Mamaroneck
River, and an island of meadow belonging thereto (except 100
acres of upland and 4 acres of meadow), and all my housing and
improvements on said land."--N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1892,
pp. 130-132. Issue:
i. John3.
ii. Joseph.
iii. Mary, m. 1st, - Niccols; 2d. Christopher Youngs.
iv. Hannah, m. Jonathan Hart.
v. Ann, m. Benjamin Horton.
vi. Sarah, under eighteen at the date of her father's will, Oct.
27, 1684; prob. m. Benjamin Conkling.
3. Joseph2 John1 Budd m. Sarah, dau. of Humphrey Underhill, of
Rye; d. 1722. He "was known as 'Captain Budd' as early as
1700. He was prominent in town and county affairs, being townsman
in 1701, justice of the peace in 1710, farmer of the excise
1714-21, and supervisor of the town, 1713-16, 1720-22. In 1720 he
obtained a patent for a tract purchased by his father and known
as 'Budd's Neck.' "--Baird's Hist. of Rye, 405. The will of
"Joseph Budd of Rye in the county of Westchester,
Esquire," is dated May 27, 1722, and was proved June 28,
1722. He devises many tracts of land and other property.--N. Y.
Hist. Soc. Coll., 1893, pp. 250-251. He names children:
4. i. John3, under 30 at the time of his father's will, May 27,
1722.
ii. Joseph, m Ann -. His will bears date 1763.
iii. Elisha, b. 1705; m. Anne, dau. of Joseph Lyon; d. Sept 21,
1765; she d. Dec. 6, 1760.
iv. Underhill, b. April 29, 1708; m. Sarah, dau. of Capt. Henry
Fowler, of Southold, Sept. 17, 1730; will proved May 31, 1755;
she d. Aug. 19, 1798.
v. Gilbert.
vi. Hannah, m. - Palmer.
vii. Sarah.
viii. Annie.
ix. Tamar.
x. Mary.
4. John3 Joseph2 John1 Budd m. Mary Prudence, dau. of Daniel and
Charlot Strang; d. -. He inherited the estate on Budd's Neck,
which he sold in 1745. Peter Jay being the chief purchaser. He
removed about this time to Morris county, and bought a farm near
Black River, in the present Chester township. In 1753, "John
Budd, late of Rye, now of Rexboro, Morris county, New
Jersey," sold a remaining parcel of land on Budd's Neck.
Issue:
5. i. Daniel4, b. July 27, 1722.
ii. Elijah, m. Ursula Sine.
iii. Joseph, m. - Budd.
iv. John, is said to have removed to Kentucky.
v. Underhill, d. unm.
vi. Gilbert, "was for thirty years a surgeon in the British
navy. He returned to this country after the Revolution, and made
his home with his cousin, Colonel Gilbert Budd, of Mamaroneck,
until his death, October 14, 1805; he was 85 years
old."--Baird's Hist. Rye, p. 405.
vii. Hannah, m. Hachaliah Purdy.
viii. Mary, m. Caleb Horton.
ix. Sarah, m. Thomas Sawyer.
x. Abigail.
5. Daniel4 John3 Joseph2 John1 Budd, b. July 27, 1722; m. -
Purdy, d. Dec. 24, 1806.
Issue:
i. John5.
ii. William.
iii. Elizabeth.
iv. Joseph.
v. Abigail.
vi. Daniel.
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