Judkins, Jonathan (c. 1776-1844)

Name:

Judkins, Jonathan (c. 1776-1844)

Title:

Member, Mechanics Fire Society (social club); admitted 1819, warden 1824-5, president 1833

Born:

1776 circa

Birthplace:

Salisbury, NH

Died:

11/3/1844

Death Location:

Portsmouth, NH

Residence:

Salisbury, NH
Portsmouth, NH 1806-1844

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Cabinetmaker, Portsmouth, NH, 1806-39

Father:

Judkins, Leonard

Mother:

Cram, Sarah

Relations:

Long time partnership with William Senter (1808-26).
Several of Judkin's sons also worked in the shop.

Spouse:

Married Lucy Maria Vaughan, July 2, 1808, Portsmouth, NH

Children:

10 children:
Judkins, John (1809-58; cabinetmaker, worked with his father; moved to Reading, MA, 1835)
Judkins, Leonard (c.1811-39; cabinetmaker, worked with his father)
Judkins, (son)
Judkins, Daniel V. (d.1876; cabinetmaker, boarded with his father; moved to Boston 1840)
Judkins, Samuel L. (c.1819-1842; cabinetmaker, worked with his father)

Notes:

Joseph W. Hammond, "Jonathan Judkins and William Senter, Federal Period Cabinetmakers of Portsmouth, New Hampshire," n.d. (in furniture makers file).

Plain & Elegant, Rich & Common: Documented New Hampshire Furniture, 1750-1850. (Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979), 19, 32-41, 147, 148, 151.

Brock Jobe, Portsmouth Furniture, Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast. (Boston, Massachusetts: Society for the Preservation New England Antiquities, 1993), 59-61, 64, 67, 71, 146, 269, 280, 368, 373.

Death Notice, New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 12, 1844.