Historical records matching Jonas Fairbanks
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About Jonas Fairbanks
Conflicting evidence, found he died on 10 Feb 1676, but was killed by Native Americans with son, Joshua, on Sept. 22, 1697.
GEDCOM Note
Edited from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fairbanks-105 April 2019
Biography
Jonas was born in Sowerby, and baptized 6 Mar 1624/5 in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Ruth Fairbanks Joseph and James Swan Landberg, Jonathan Fairbank of Dedham, Massachusetts, and his family in the West Riding of Yorkshire, NEHGR Vol. 166 (July 2012), p. 165</ref> He married at Lancaster: "Jonas ffairebanke & Lidea Prescott were maryed 28. 3. 1658." <ref>Andrew H. Ward, Lancaster Records, NEHGR Vol. 16, (Oct 1862) p. 355
Occupation: Farmer, Carpenter, Soldier.
"Came to Dedham with his parents. In 1652 he was fined for wearing great boots before he was worth 200 English pounds, which was contrary tothe sumptuary laws of the government of Massachusetts.He signed the Lancaster, Mass. Covenant on 11 April 1659, having married at Lancaster 28 May 1658, Lydia Prescott born at Watertown 15 August, 1641 the dau. of John Prescott and Mary (Gawkroger-Platts) Prescott. This was the first wedding in Lancaster, Mass. He was killed by the Indians at Lancaster, 10 Feb. 1675/6 and Lydia (Prescott) Fairbanks m.(2) Ellis Barron, son of Ellis Barron."
His death, along with his son's, is recorded in Lancaster:"Victims of the Massacre of February 10, 1676: Jonas Fairbank.
Joshua Fairbank, son of Jonas, aged fifteen years. Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643 – 1850, Edited by Henry S. Nourse. Clinton, Mass.:W. J. Coulter, 1890., p. 16. Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897 (Boston, MA: pub. bythe author [American Printing & Egraving Co.], 1897), p. 32
"KILLED OUTSIDE OF ROWLANDSON GARRISON, BEING ALL OF SOUTH LANCASTER
A List of the Casualties - Feb'y 10 1675/6 Compiled from all Known
Sources of Information:
- John Ball.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, wife of John.
- An infant child of John Ball.
- Jonas Fairbank.
- Joshua Fairbank, son of Jonas, aged 15.
- Ephraim Sawyer, aged 26.
- Henry Farrar.
- Richard Wheeler. TAKEN CAPTIVE:
- Two of John Ball's family, names unknown.
Sources
- Lorenzo S. Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America1633-1897. Boston: 1897. p.38, 39.
- Abijah P. Marvin. History of Lancaster. 1879: p.59.
- The Longley Family Genealogy compiled by Louise Baneck Longley and Janneyne Longley Gnacinski, 1967, FHL Film # 928132 Item 6, page 3.
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Jonas Fairbanks's Timeline
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Sowerby, Parish of Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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April 20, 1659
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Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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February 6, 1661
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Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
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September 15, 1663
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Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
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