Jonas Fairbanks

Male, #1926, (6 March 1625 - 10 February 1676)
Jonas Fairbanks|b. 6 Mar 1625\nd. 10 Feb 1676|p1926.htm|Jonathan Fairbanks|b. 1595\nd. 5 Dec 1668|p260.htm|Grace Smith|b. a 1599\nd. 28 Dec 1673|p262.htm|George Fairbanke|b. 2 Aug 1562|p1914.htm|Mary Farrer|b. 1581|p5453.htm|Samuel Smith|b. 22 Apr 1565|p21079.htm|Grace Gawkroger|b. 9 Mar 1566|p21080.htm|
     Jonas Fairbanks was baptized on 6 March 1625 in Warley, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England.1 He was the son of Jonathan Fairbanks and Grace Smith.1,2 Jonas Fairbanks emigrated with Jonathan Fairbanks and Grace Smith in 1633 from Sowerby, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England.2,3 In 1652, he was fined for violating the Statutes of 1651, by wearing great boots, while not being worth £200.2 Jonas Fairbanks moved in 1657 to Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.2 He was a farmer and possibly a carpenter as well in October 1657.2 On 28 May 1658 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Jonas married Lydia Prescott, daughter of John Prescott and Mary Platts. Their marriage date was recorded as 28 (3) 1658.4,1,5,6,2 On 7 March 1659, he was one of the signers of the Covenant establishing the town of Lancaster.2 On 1 June 1668 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Jonas Fairbanks was mentioned in the will of Jonathan Fairbanks.1,7 Jonas Fairbanks died on Monday, 10 February 1676 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, at age 50 years, 11 months and 4 days killed by Indians.1,2

Children of Jonas Fairbanks and Lydia Prescott

Citations

  1. Lawson, Stephen M.. "Fairbanks Ancestory of Stephen Lawson. Online http://sml.simplenet.com/smlawson/fairbank.htm. Printout dated 12 March 1998.
  2. Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.
  3. Fairbanks, Hiram Francis. "Fairbanks Marriages in the Parish of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England From 1538 to 1624", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXX (60) (April 1906).
  4. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Lancaster Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XVI (1862).
  5. Wheeler, Daniel Merrick. The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of their Ancestors. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: by the author, 1924.
  6. Potter, Charles Edward. Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. and Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation. 1887. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995.
  7. Trask, William B.. "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record and on the Files in the County of Suffolk, Mass.", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIX (1865).