Biography

The sheriff mentioned in 18380331BJS_WHS.

"Judon Southland was bom in Mendon, Mass., April i, 1793. His father, born in New Jersey, was an iron forger by trade, and soon after his marriage enlisted in the Revolutionary war, and was at the battles of Bunker Hill, Monmouth, and several others. Judson was the youngest of nine children. In 18 18, he, with others, started from Massachusetts, and arrived at Mayville the ist day of March, having made the journey by sleighing. He taught school during the summer, and returned in the fall on horseback, making the journey in three weeks. In May, 18 19, he married Rhoda For- bush, of Grafton, Mass. ; and in the ensuing fall they removed to Chautauqua Co., with a three-horse team, and, after a tedious, journey of five weeks, arrived 
at Jamestown, and made a short stop with Elisha Allen, then keeping a hotel at the south-east comer of Main and Third streets. In the spring of 1820, he built a plank house on the top of what was called English Hill, 2 y^ miles from Jamestown, and conveyed his wife, one child, and a hired girl, on an ox-sled, through the woods, by marked trees, to their new home. In 1825, he moved to Jamestown, where he kept the Allen House one year. He then built a house on the north-west comer of Fourth and Pine streets, where F. A. Fuller now resides. He served nine years as deputy sheriff under sheriffs Daniel Sherman, Benj. Douglass, and Wm. Sexton, and as sheriff from Jan. I, 1838, for the full term of three years. In 1841, he purchased the farm where he now resides, on the lake road in Busti. His wife died in Galena, 111., Sept. I, 1853. In 1856, he married Martha P. Holbrook, of Grafton, Mass. Mr. Southland had 7 children."