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- Information from Bill Jobe
"The family name, Job, originated in the thirteenth century when the Mystery Plays made the name popular. John fil Job is in the Hundred Rolls of County Cambridge and Elyas Jobbe in those of County Suffolk. The Jobs in Pembrokeshire, Wales, are descended from the Flemish weavers planted in England in the eleventh and twelfth century to build the cloth trade. Andrew was an early Quaker.
"1640's Andrew in Scotland with brother David, who sailed from Liverpool, England to America.
"1650 Arrived Portsmouth, New England from Kent, England. It was probably Portsmouth, Rhode Island, for that colony was the only one that tolerated Quakers. Portsmouth, New Hampshire was not yet in existence.
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