Job Lawton

When Oliver and Ann Lawton traveled the arduous journey through the woods and trails from Rhode Island to the New York wilderness in 1789 their five sons and daughter were with them.  Although I have no exact date, son Benjamin, born in 1770, married within a couple of years, as he and his new wife began having children in 1792.  Their third child, born the last day of May 1795, was a son which they named Job.

Job grew to be a man, and at age 19 on October 5, 1814 enlisted in the U S Army to fight the British in the War of 1812.  While in the Army he became a part of a crew sent to clear a trail north and west to Sacketts Harbor on the St. Lawrence River.  The further he traveled through the wilderness the more he learned to like it.

After the war, he built a log cabin in the woods on what would become the town line between Scriba and New Haven, New York, and there he and his wife became the parents of a dozen children beginning yet another Lawton clan.