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Note: · ID: I169 · Name: Andrew Job Sr.
· Surname: Job
· Given Name: Andrew
· Suffix: Sr.
· Sex: M
· Birth: 1620 in Fishguard, Wales
· Death: 29 Jan 1699 in East Nottingham, Chester Co., Pa
· _UID: 70CDE5649E06D711A63281D5AE622D26A361
· Note:THE JOB FAMILY Various spellings of the name Job and its derivitivesfound in old English records are Job, Jobe, Jobbe, Jobber, Joba, Jobb,Jobba, Joab, Jop, Jope, Jobson, Jobling, Juppe, and Chubb. Some Jobeswere said to have come from KentCounty, England. No one named Job wasgranted arms there. There as a family named Jobson granted arms in EssexCounty, which is just across the Thames River from Kent. Arms weregranted to Job families in York and Lancaster Counties. Crests weregranted to families with the name Job and Jope.
The characteristics of the Job family were: great longevity, indomitablewill and persistency, self reliance and self asserting, dry wit and goodhumor, fondness of books and flowers, generally married late in life ifat all. The traits, more or less, have cropped out in their descendantsdown to the present generation.
The Job name probably originated in the 13th century when the MysteryPlays made the biblical character popular.Tradition says the Job familyof Pembrokeshire were descended from Flemish weavers that the Englishplanted in the 11th and 12th centuries to build Britain's cloth trade.Some Job family members immigrated to Scotland and Germany and latersettled in America.
There was a fanciful tale that said Andrew Job was descended from a nobleScots family, but was stolen when a child by a family of marauders andtaken to England where he was adopted by the Job family. (Almost everyfamily can claim that tale.)
1640-1649 Andrew Job and his brother David were in Scotland, probablyserving in the King's army; afterward David sailed to America fromLiverpool. Andrew and Elizabeth migrated to Kent and then to America. Itis possiblethat during this time Andrew became a Quaker, a socialmovement that started in the 1640's.
1650 Andrew, wife and child arrived in Portsmouth, New England (probablyRhode Island, as Portsmouth, NH, was not yet in existence.) Being anearly Quaker, it is possible that to avoid persecution, Andrew and wifefled to Rhode Island. They were probably well educated; there arereferences in early Pennsylvania history that their son, Andrew, Jr. wasan educated man. There are also references to his friendship with WilliamPenn. The following story is recounted by Richard and Eleanor Job intheir booklet, "Another Book of Job and More". It is credited to the"Sharpless Family" by Gilbert Cope. In an Indian uprising inConnecticut,all members of a white colony were massacred except AndrewJob, who wore a leather jerkin, the feel of which indicated a specialmethod of tanning. Andrew was allowed to live so as to teach the Indianshow to prepare such leather. Eventually he escaped and went toPennsylvania. 1680 or thereabouts, Andrew Job and family moved toChester County, Pennsylvania.
1700 Andrew Job was buried in the Quaker Burial Ground, (The BrickMeeting House) near Nottinham, Pennsylvania (present-day Cecil County,Maryland)
THE BRICK MEETING HOUSE The still-standing monument is situated on the 40acres William Penn selected and gave to the Quaker pioneers of EastNottingham, "for a Meeting House and Burial Yard, forever". The firstmeeting started in 1704 at the home of William Brown. In about 1709, alog house was built, and in 1724, that structure was replaced by astructure built with bricks brought from England. In 1751, a fire causedanother rebuilding with a stone addition. During the American Revolution,it housed a hospital. In 1810, there was another fire, and the originalbricks were used to rebuild it in it's present form. Some of the originalsurnames were Bates, Beeson, Brown, Churchman, Cooper, Empson, Gatchell,Hanbey, Hollingsworth, Howell, Job, Kirks, MacKay, Pugh, Reynolds,Richardson, Sheppard, Sidwell, and Trimble. Many of those familiesintermarried and are found in the area today. Between 1763 and 1767, thedisputed Pennsylvania-Maryland line was redrawn, leaving the MeetingHouse in Cecil County, Maryland.
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