"The ancestors of Mr. Judson were from Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to Concord, Mass., in 1634. In 1672 a portion of the family were members of the first colony settling in Woodbury, Conn. Noadiah and Clarinda Kirtland Judson emigrated from Woodbury to Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y., about 1798, where the subject of this sketch was b. Nov 2, 1801. He and his father came to P. in 1827 and purchased a claim of Lyman Doolittle to the S. E. p't of lot 19, T. 5, and returned. In March 1828, Mr. J. came again to P. with a team and the necessary implements for farming. He purchased that year and the next p'ts of lot 18, T. 5, land now owned by F. Griswold and others. Sept 15 the same year he m. Nancy Dalee, dau, of Waterman and Anstis Dalee, who was b. in Cambridge, N. Y., June 27, 1807. They occupied a log house on lot 18 for two or three years, then building a small frame house on lot 19, which is now standing, enlarged and improved. Mr. J. was a framer, surveyor and conveyancer, and for nearly the whole period of his residence in P. shared largely and deservedly the confidence of the people. In 1839 he represented this county, with Waterman Ellsworth and Abner Lewis, in the lower branch of the state legislature. He was supervisor of the town twelve years, and at various times filled most of the offices in town in the gift of the people. He was always a faithful and efficient officer. Mr. and Mrs. J. were members of the Presbyterian church in P. In politics Mr. J. was a republican. He d. March 10, 1872, and was bu. in Brocton Cemetery. Mrs. J. is still living in Fredonia, with her dau. Mrs. L. L. Riggs. NOTE: Nancy Dalee Judson died in Fredonia on 10 March 1883."