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Note: Person #23 in Homer, pages 61f
Job I (3) was the son of Philip (2), son of Arthur (1). His wife Sarah was a cousin; she was the daughter of Philip (3), son of Arthur (2), son of Arthur (1).
Job I married Sarah in 1765. This was the second marriage for Job and the first for Sarah. Job was approximately 43 at the time; Sarah was 19.
Records are presented in Homer, showing that Job purchased some land in Coventry in 1767 and 1768 and later sold this to Francis Bates.
On September 8th, 1772, at the approximate age of 50, he sold the 102 acres on which he lived for 90 pounds and probably emigrated soon after. The Aylsworth Register {prepared by Sylvester Aylsworth in 1840} says that "he resided for sometime in Schodack, New York and then moved to Canada." Homer notes: it is the opinion of some of he descendants that he dwelt in Saratoga Co., New York, awhile.
Job "entered Canada in the scarce year, 1788, and settled in Ernesttown, near Bath ..." Job was approximately 66 at the time; Sarah was 42. Both Job and Sarah, and three of their children died in 1803, "during the prevalence of spotted fever." Job was 81; Sarah 57.
"He was a man of resolute character. Having a distressing felon he removed the affected finger himself with a chisel and mallet." (page 62)
So far as is known, Job and Sarah had 12 children. Five of the children died young and one child, Sarah, was "nearly speechless from sickness in childhood, and died, unmarried, at her brother Bowen Aylsworth's in 1846." (p62)
The other six children of Job and Sarah all married. I, Samuel William Aylesworth, the compiler of this family tree, am a descendant of their son Bowen Aylsworth.
Homer (p90) notes that it is possible that two of the 12 children referred to above, namely Job II (4) and Othnial (4) were the sons of Job I (3) and his first wife, Sarah Clark, rather than of Job I (3) and his second wife, Sarah Aylsworth.
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Sir Allen Aylesworth writes as follows regarding Job I, in the book written to summarize the 1929 Aylsworth Family Reunion in Bath, Ontario:
" ... it is probable that Job I was born in the house of his grandfather, Arthur, the emigrant -- his father, Philip, who was born in 1692, being then about thirty years of age. .... Job's grandfather, Arthur, died when Job I was a child two or three years old.
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Following the family reunion in 1929, members of the extended family shared in erecting a very fine headstone for Job and Sarah Aylsworth. It is located in a small cemetery in the town of Violet, near to Napanee, Ontario. The headstone reads:
"AYLWORTH
Here lie buried Job Aylworth, 1722 - 1803, and his wife Sarah Aylworth, 1745 - 1803, both born in Rhode Island, married there in 1765, came, with ten children to Canada in 1788, granted by the crown Lot II in 2nd Con. Ernest Town, and lived on that lot till 1803 , when both died.
Job Aylsworth and Philip Aylworth, Father of Sarah, were first cousins of each other."
I, Samuel William Aylesworth, and my wife Diane, saw this headstone on our trip to Ontario in 2005. It was wonderful to see.
Some of the many contributions of the Aylworth/Aylsworth/Aylesworth family to the life of Ernestown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario, Canada are summarized in the book "Ernestown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario, Canada , Rural Spaces, Urban Places," by Larry Turner, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1993. See pages 167 - 168, and numerous other references to the Aylsworth family in the Index of this book.
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