Benjamin Jones, of Somers & Enfield

Not the same as Benjamin Jones, of Waterbury

Benjamin Jones

• Born: 31 JUL 1651 at: Gloucester, Essex Co., MA 1
• Married: 22 JAN 1677/78 at: Gloucester, Essex Co., MA 2
• Died: 25 JUN 1718 at: Enfield, Hartford, CT 2
• Father:Thomas Jones
• Mother:Mary North
• Wife: Elizabeth Wild Born: at: Died: AFT 1718 Father:John Wild Mother:Priscilla Gould

From Savage

BENJAMIN, Gloucester, s. of Thomas, m. 22 Jan. 1678, Elizabeth Wills, says Babson, wh. adds, they had four ch. there, but he does not name them, and only says, none of the fam. were there aft. 1686.

CHILDREN

• Name: Thomas Jones Born: 13 MAR 1679/80 at: Gloucester MA 2 Married: 24 APR 1708 at: New London, New London Co., CT 2 Died: 4 NOV 1763 at: Enfield, Hartford, CT 2 Spouses: Mary Meacham
• Name: Pricilla Jones Born: 10 JUN 1681 at: Gloucester, Essex Co., MA 2 Married: 13 JUN 1704 at: 2 Died: at: Spouses: John Howard
• Name: Benjamin Jones Born: 1683 at: Gloucester, Essex Co., MA 3 Married: 1710 at: 4 Died: 5 FEB 1754 at: Somers CT 2 Spouses: Ann Prior
• Name: Ebenezer Jones Born: 17 APR 1684 at: Gloucester MA 2 Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Mehitable Unknown Elizabeth Unknown Pricilla Smith
• Name: Elizabeth Jones Born: 26 JAN 1685/86 at: Gloucester, Essex Co., MA 2 Married: 8 SEP 1715 at: 2 Died: at: Spouses: Isaac Osborn
• Name: Ephriam Jones Born: 31 JUL 1688 at: Enfield, Tolland Co., CT 2 Married: at: Died: 3 SEP 1688 at: 2 Spouses:
• Name: Samuel Jones Born: 22 SEP 1690 at: Enfield, CT 2 Married: at: Died: ABT 4 NOV 1691 at: 2 Spouses:
• Name: Eleazer Jones Born: 12 APR 1693 at: Enfield, CT 3 Married: 10 DEC 1719 at: 3 Died: 20 APR 1755 at: Somers CT 3 Spouses: Mehitable Gary
• Name: Gershom Jones Born: 26 OCT 1695 at: Enfield, CT 5 Married: at: Died: 19 OCT 1696 at: 3

Sources

• 1) James Savage Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
• 2) The Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. XLII-1906
• 3) History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of Captain Israel Jones https://archive.org/details/historyandgenea00jonegoog/page/n46/mode...
• 4) The Essex Genealogist, Vol. 18, No. 2, May 1998
• 5) History of Enfield Connecticut
• Wildes Family in America PDF document
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyofjones00jone/page/6
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stuw/fam04124.htm
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey. Page 424 GoogleBooks (Marriage record)

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GEDCOM Note

Biography

Benjamin was born about 1650. He passed away about 1717.

Sources

<references />* Jones, George Robert Genealogy of the Jones Family (Jones, Los Angeles, California, 1912), p.6-7

• Ancestry.com: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000. Averill-Averell-Avery family, A Record of the Descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.
• History and genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of Captain Israel Jones who removed from Enfield to Barkhamsted, Conn., in the year1759 (1902). Parker, L. N. Jones, Asahel Washington. Pg 19.20
• Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988. Elizabeth Wildes.
• Dickinson Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.
• WikiTree profile Jones-6793 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough.

Entered by Don Harris, Jun 10, 2011

Biography

Has errors!!

Genealogy of the Jones Family: ... the Descendants of Benajmin Jones who ...” By George Russell Jones Archive.Org

6 sons

(2.) BENJAMIN JONES, [the second, son of Benjamin Jones, the first and Hannah Spencer Jones, was born at Bedford, Conn., 1662. NO!] He married Elizabeth, his wife, the year 1684.

To this union six sons were born:

• Thomas Jones, born 1686;
• Ebenezer, born 1690, married Priscilla Smith, in 1713, settled in Somers, Conn.;
• Eleazer, born April 12, 1693, married Mahetabel Gary, in 1719, also settled in Somers;
• Benjamin, third, born 1710, at Somers, Conn.;
• Levi, born 1716;
• Zebulon, born 1723.

The records show that a land grant was issued to Benjamin Jones, second, in the year 1686. He moved from Enfield to Somers, Conn., in 1706, and was the first settler in that vicinity, living on the lands during summer and moving back to town in the winter, and at other times when danger was apprehended, but did not make permanent home until 1713.

It was the practice of Benjamin Jones to ride on horseback to his new settlement. It was deemed in those times very dangerous for a man to emigrate five or ten miles into the forest. If he exceeded that distance, his funeral sermon surely would be preached.

He died in 1754, 92 years of age. [NO!]

Somers, Conn., in Ye Olden Times, By Austin Chapman.

• BENJAMIN JONES as he passed around
• Was the first to greet this noble town,
• For seven long years he lived alone,
• Then five neighbors from Enfield street
• Came to the place and there did meet.
• The venturesome man that owned the land
• Where all the emigrants first made stand
• Soon came twelve families more.
• Those numbers then made near a score,
• And from such numbers they formed a plan
• To establish a church, the first on the land.