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John Jones

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England, United Kingdom
Death: before September 17, 1667
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
Immediate Family:

Husband of Ann Jones Moses
Father of Francis Jones; Mary Jones; John Jones; James Jones and Nathaniel Jones

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About John Jones

  1. Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939), 387.

JOHN JONES, blacksmith, Portsm. His age, ± 44 in 1660, ± 50 in Oct. 1665, would permit him to be the J. J. ag. 20, who came in the Susan and Ellen to Boston 1635. At Portsm. early with w. Ann; both dep. in 1660 ab. Wm. Clifton’s land and the talk at their ho. in 1637. In May 1647 he was in charge of Wannerton’s ho. Gr. j. 1655. O. F. 11 July 1659. Lists 41, 321, 323, 326a, 330ab, 311 b. Besides his trade, he cleaned the meet.-ho. and rang the bell, but liked to idle, and was censured in 1663. Will 2-17 Sep. 1667 names as exec. w. Ann, who soon m. John Moses, and ch:

  1. Francis.
  2. Mary, m. James Drew (5).
  3. Nathaniel, not found later.
  4. James.
  5. John. In 1673 one John, ± 20, was servant of John Lewis, Gt. Isl., who sued Dr. Francis Morgan for not curing him. Poss. the same taxed 1681. List 329.

Will

link to his will

  1. Harold Rhodes, John Jones of New Hampshire: A Line that goes to Texas, in Tibbetts, Charles W, ed, and New Hampshire Society of Genealogists. The New Hampshire genealogical record. (Dover, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Genealogical Society ), Vol 11, No. 1&2: 57-63 .
  2. New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire provincial and state papers. (Concord, New Hampshire), 1:113.
  3. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015), 187.
  4. New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records. (Ancestry.com [database on-line]), 31:107.
  5. Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Joseph Waterhouse, 1754-1837, of Standish, Maine. (Portland, Maine: Anthoensen, 1949).
  6. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963). JONES, John (1614?-) & Ann _____; m/2 John MOSES ca 1667?; ca 1640?; Portsmouth, NH {Moses 198; Putnam's Mag. 4:260; GDMNH 387, 496; Waterhouse 73}
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John Jones's Timeline

1615
1615
England, United Kingdom
1639
1639
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
1640
1640
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
1650
1650
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
1654
1654
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
1667
September 17, 1667
Age 52
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States
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