SHURBORN, Job 1790 US Census Winthrop 1-4-3-0-0

The Sherburne homestead is still intact in 2013.

Job Shurborn was born 9/4/1755 in Epping, NH[i] a son of John and Miriam (Shortridge) Shirburne.[ii] He came to Readfield about 1770[iii] with his father and brother Richard.[iv] They settled on Lot#244[v] in East Readfield.[vi] Job served in the Revolutionary War as a private on the New Hampshire line according to his pension application in 1827.[vii] He married Hannah Elliot about 1779. She was born in 1756[viii] but her parentage and place of birth are not known at this time. Their ten children were born 1779-1798 in Readfield. On the 1816 Readfield taxpayer’s list Job Sherburne is documented as owning 100 acres and buildings with the farm of John Shepherd to his south.[ix] It was located on the west end of Hoyt Hill Road (now Gay Road) which used to run all the way from Dudley Plains (Plains) Road to Gordon Road (route 135N).[x] See John Shirburne for a picture and more information about the homestead.

Job died 5/20/1847 in Readfield and Hannah on 10/11/1843. Both are buried in Dudley Plains Cemetery.  This family remained in Readfield for several generations – until the name essentially died out in this town. 

Children of Job and Hannah (Elliot) Shurborn born in Readfield:[xi]

1. Henry b.12/13/1779 m.1799 Nancy Sheppard d/o John and Sarah Sheppard (neighbors). She b.12/17/1780
2. Mariah b.12/1/1780
3. John b.12/19/1782 m.1805 Rebecca (Mehitable) Sheppard d/o John and Sarah Sheppard. She b.7/7/1783 Readfield
4. Job, Jr. b.3/7/1785 d.bef.1821 Readfield m.1814 Lydia Whittier d/o Moses and Lydia (Taylor) Whittier. She b.6.11.1789 d.1860 Readfield
5. Abigail b.1/26/1787 m. Timothy Bartlett
6. Thomas, Capt. B.2/7/1790 d.1/10/1863 Readfield m1.Sarah Smith b.1797 New Brunswick, Canada d.11/18/1830 Readfield. He m2.1831 Lovina Fifield b.1/21/1803[xii] d/o Joseph and Lovina (Lyon) Fifield of Manchester. She d.5/10/1889 Readfield
7. Dolly b.9/25/1792 m.1811 Fitch Woods of Belgrade
8. Hannah b.7/12/1794
9. Elias b.5/24/1796 d.1/12/1865 Mt. Vernon m.1821 Sarah (Sally) Dudley d/o Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth (Smith) Dudley. She b.1/14/1799 Mt. Vernon
10. Simon b.8/9/1798 m.1823 Anstress Jane

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[i] Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary Way Maine by Fisher; pub. SAR Louisville, KY 1982; page 708

[ii] Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999 accessed 7/8/2013

[iii] Stackpole’s History of Winthrop, ME with Genealogical Notes by Keene; pub, Heritage Books Inc, Bowie, MD 1994; page 807

[iv] ibid page 808

[v] Jones and Prescott map Kennebec Registry of Deeds Book 3

[vi] ibid page 807

[vii] Ancestry.com, Maine Pensioners, 1835 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998) accessed 7/8/2013

[viii] Date on gravestone Dudley Plains Cemetery, Readfield

[ix] ibid

[x] 1856 Kennebec County map and atlas (Readfield) shows J. Sherburn on south side of Hoyt Road (Gay Road); By 1879 (per that map of Readfield) there are two Sherburn homes across the road from each other (the original is now that of Llewellyn Sherburn on the south side and J.T. Sherburn north side).
[xi] To Those Who Led the Way: Readfield VR’s 1768-1913; self pub. Dale Potter Clark 2009; page 40

[xii] The part of town she was born in later became Manchester (1850)