Colonel Job Almy1,2

M, b. circa 1640, d. before 1 March 1684
FatherWilliam Almey b. 1601, d. b 23 Apr 1677
MotherAudrey Barlowe b. 1603
     Job was born circa 1640 in either Sandwich, Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, or or in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Job married Mary Unthank, daughter of Christopher Unthank and Susanna (?), circa 1663 in Rhode Island. On the 1st of September 1677, Christopher Unthank, inhabitant of Portsmouth, with Susan Unthank, made a deed of gift to his son-in-law Job Almy of the same town. Job made his will on 19 January 1684. He left to his widow all visible estate, while a widow, to bring up the children till of age. To his eldest surviving son, John, born January 25, 1676, all lands and buildings in Portsmouth, reserving the best room for his widow; to son John he also left lands at Pocasset. To Job all the lands in Punkatest except a meadow. To his youngest son, Anthony, the land at Sepowit Neck, etc. To his youngest daughter he left money, and to the four eldest daughters a share of land in Pocasset. He left two negro slaves and some Indian servants, cattle, horses, and other farming accessories.



Job departed this life in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. His will was probated on 1 March 1684.

Family

Mary Unthank b. c 1643
Children

Citations

  1. [S435] Charles Kingsbury Miller, William Almy of Portsmouth, Rhode Island 1630, Joris Jansen de Rapalje of Fort Orange, New Amsterdam & Brooklyn, 1623, pages 23-26 - JOB, THE THIRD SON of William Almy, Sr., born also in Portsmouth, married Mary, daugher of Christopher and Susanna Unthank of that town. Their first two children, twins, William and Christopher, were born January 20, 1664, and died the following March. Another, William, born 1665, died in infancy, but five daughters and three sons grew to maturity and were named respectively: Susanna, Audry, Deborah, Catharine, John, Mary, Job and Anthony. In December, 1705, Mary married Samuel Snell and her brother, job, married Bridget Sanford, by whom he had nine children.
    In 1660, Job Almy was on a jury in Plymouth Colony,
    in the case of James Pierce, of Boston, who "died by the immediate hand of God, thunder and lightning." In 1670-72 he was deputy from Warwick, and on May 7, 1673, he was appointed commissioner to treat with the Indian sachems, in order to consult with them the best means of putting an end to the excesses of drunkenness and other vices, into which the Indians were being betrayed by civilization. The sachems were: Mawsup and Ninecraft, of Narragansett, Philip of Mount Hope, Wetamo of Pocasset, and Awashunks of Seaconnet. In 1673-75 he was an assistant.
    On March 5, 1680, Job and seven others bought Pocasset lands for ,1,100, he having three and one-quarter (3) shares (same as his brother Christopher) of the whole thirty shares. He died in 1684 and his widow married Thomas Townsend. Abstract of will.
  2. [S457] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, JOB, b. say 1639; m. by 1664 Mary Unthank, daughter of Christopher Unthank (eldest known child b. 20 January 1664 [Austin 211, citing an unknown source]; on 1 September 1677, "Christopher Unthank, inhabitant of Portsmouth," with "Susan Unthank," made a deed of gift to "my son-in-law Job Almy of the same town" [Warwick LE A2:310-11]).