Job Partridge (1698-1742)

Job Partridge was born to Eleazer Partridge and Elizabeth Smith in Medfield, Massachusetts, May 19, 1698. He was in the Colonial service in 1722. He married twice: first, in 1724, Abigail Thompson, born in Medfield, July 23, 1704, died in Wrentham, Massachusetts, April 1, 1728, daughter of Ebenezer and Susannah Thompson; and second, Feb. 28, 1729, Anne Cook of Bellingham, Massachusetts. He was drowned at Wrentham, Massachusetts, Feb. 7, 1742. His widow was administratrix of his estate, which was valued at £641. 11s. ^[1]Suffolk Co. Prob. Rec, vol. xxxvi., p. 157, She died Nov. 24, 1752.

Family

Child by Abigail Thompson:

1. Benoni Partridge, 4 born March 24, 1726; died 1747, at Cape Breton.

Children by Anne Cook:

• Job Partridge, born April 24, 1730; died Jan. 22, 1742.
• Anne Partridge, born April 3, 1731; died in infancy.
• Anne Partridge, born Feb. 19, 1733; died May 27, 1756; married March 26, 1755, at Cumberland, Rhode Island, Cornelius Cook of Wrentham, Massachusetts. One child,
• Rhoda Partridge, born April 8, 1734; died Jan. 6, 1742.
• Seth Partridge, born March 20, 1736. A Seth Partridge, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, married Oct. 9, 1760, Mercy Harding of Medway, Massachusetts.
• Levi Partridge, born Sept. 22, 1739; died Jan. 29, 1813.

Sources

• George Homer Partridge, Partridge genealogy : descendants of John Partridge of Medfield, Massachusetts, Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1904, p. 10.