Judson Canfield (1759 - abt. 1840)

Born 23 Jan 1759 in New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

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Died about 5 Feb 1840 at about age 81 in New York City, New York, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Judson was born about 1758, son of Samuel Canfield, Jr and Elizabeth Judson.

A biography of Judge Judson Canfield can be found in the 1842 text by Charles Sedgwick, A history of the town of Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., from its first settlement. :

Canfield, Hon. Judson was a son of Col. Samuel Canfield, of New Milford, and a nephew of Hon. John Canfield. He graduated at Yale College in 1782. He came to Sharon in 1787, and commenced the practice of law. He built the house now occupied by Nathaniel Berry and lived there. He was a member of the house of representatives at seventeen sessions, and for several years a member of the council. He was also a judge of the court of common pleas. He left Sharon in 1815, and removed to the state of Ohio, where he died in 1889, at the age of more than eighty years. ^[1]

Burial

Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland, New York

Sources

1. ↑ Sedgwick, Charles F. A history of the town of Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., from its first settlement. Case, Tiffany, & Co: Hartford, CT. 1842 pages 68-69

• Bostwick, Henry. Genealogy of the Bostwick Family in America (Bryan Printing Co., Hudson, New York, 1901) Page 140
• Burial Site of Judge Judson Canfield, Find A Grave: Memorial #79516143, in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland, New York
• Morris, Myrtle Melona. Joseph and Philena (Elton) Fellows, and their ancestry and descendants; also the ancestry of Reuben Fairchild, John and Dorothy (Waldorf) Turner and George Morris. pages 226-227