Judah Dow

• General Notes
  • Judah signed the Association Test of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He was taxed in Hampton falls in 1787. Vital statistics were never found of a large proportion of Joseph's, born 1688, line, although they must have lived long in or near Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. On branch went to Nantucket, Massachusetts and were rediscovered in the records of that island. Another appeared by 1748 in Epping, New Hampshire but without a single datum of a whole generation.
    It is evident that Judah Dow married young and remained in Hampton Falls until 1787. His name appeared regularly in the tax lists, but then drops out. Nevertheless his name reappears in Hampton Falls in 1790 with a wife, two daughters and three sons, two of the sons being born before 1774. The inference is that Judah sold his farm in 1787 and three years later was temporarily in Hampton Falls with his family. All of this family was untraced. Robert P. Dow believed that some of them went to Vermont; that one son was a Samuel Dow, a Quaker, who set up a trip hammer in 1796 in Danby, Vermont, but who died in 1805, leaving two daughters, one of whom married Charles Billings, Quaker, of Billings Bridge, Ontario.