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THE JOB FAMILY Various spellings of the name Job and its derivitives found in old English records are Job, Jobe, Jobbe, Jobber, Joba,Jobb,Jobba, Joab, Jop, Jope, Jobson, Jobling, Juppe, andChubb. Some Jobes weresaid to have come from Kent County, England. No one named Job was granted armsthere. There as a family named Jobson granted arms in Essex County, which is just across the Thames River from Kent. Arms were granted to Job families in Yorkand Lancaster Counties. Crests were granted to families with the name Job andJope.

The characteristics of the Job family were: great longevity, indomitable will and persistency, self reliance and self asserting, dry wit and good humor, fondness of books and flowers, generally married late in life if at all. The traits,more or less, have cropped out in their descendants down to the present generation.

The Job name probably originated in the 13th century when theMystery Plays made the biblical character popular.Tradition says the Job familyof Pembrokeshire were descended from Flemish weavers that the English plantedin the 11th and 12th centuries to build Britain's cloth trade.Some Job family members immigrated to Scotland and Germany and latersettled in America.

Therewas a fanciful tale that said Andrew Job was descended from a noble Scots family, but was stolen when a child by a family of marauders and taken to England where he was adopted by the Job family. (Almost every family can claim that tale.)

1640-1649 Andrew Job and his brother David were in Scotland, probably serving in the King's army; afterward David sailed to America from Liverpool. Andrew and Elizabeth migrated to Kent and then to America. Itis possible that during this time Andrew became a Quaker, a social movement 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 an early Quaker, it is possible that to avoid persecution, Andrew and wife fled to Rhode Island. They were probably well educated; there are references in early Pennsylvania history that their son, Andrew, Jr. was an educated man. There are also references to his friendship with William Penn. The following story is recounted byRichard and Eleanor Job in their booklet, "Another Book of Job and More". It is credited to the"Sharpless Family" by Gilbert Cope. In an Indian uprising in Connecticut,all members of a white colony were massacred except Andrew Job, whowore a leather jerkin, the feel of which indicated a special method of tanning.Andrew was allowed to live so as to teach the Indians how to prepare such leather. Eventually he escaped and went to Pennsylvania. 1680 or there abouts, Andrew Job and family moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania.

1700 Andrew Job wasburied in the Quaker Burial Ground, (The BrickMeeting House) near Nottinham, Pennsylvania (present-day Cecil County,Maryland)

THE BRICK MEETING HOUSE Thestill-standing monument is situated on the 40 acres William Penn selected and gave to the Quaker pioneers of East Nottingham, "for a Meeting House and BurialYard, forever". The first meeting started in 1704 at the home of William Brown.In about 1709, alog house was built, and in 1724, that structure was replacedby astructure built with bricks brought from England. In 1751, a fire caused another rebuilding with a stone addition. During the American Revolution,it housed a hospital. In 1810, there was another fire, and the original bricks 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 families inter married and are found in the area today. Between1763 and 1767, the disputed Pennsylvania-Maryland line was redrawn, leaving the Meeting House in Cecil County, Maryland.