Jonathan Fairbanks

Grace & Jonathon Fairbanks Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: Oct. 7, 1666 Dedham Norfolk County Massachusetts, USA Death: Sep. 11, 1697 Lancaster Worcester County Massachusetts, USA

Jonathan was a soldier. He shared in the ill-fated expedition against Quebec in 1690 with Sir William Phips. On August 24, 1688 he married Mary Hayward of Concord, Middlesex Co., Ma. They had three children, Hannah, Mary and Grace. On September 4, 1697 the Indians raided the town of Lancaster and killing Jonathan, Grace and Jonathan's younger brother Jonas. Grace was about seven years old at the time that she perished. Mary was taken away along with six others and held captive, but returned Jan. 17, 1699, on the Province Galley from Casco Bay.

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 Mary Hayward Whitcomb (1666 - 1733)

Burial: Old Settlers Burial Yard Lancaster Worcester County Massachusetts, USA

GEDCOM Note

Category: Lancaster, Massachusetts

Biography =="Jonathan FAIRBANKS dwelt somewhere near the southerly end of the George Hill range." He had shared the hardships of Major William PHIPS' expedition to Canada in 1690 which was ill-fated. Lancaster was represented among the sufferers in Sir William Phips' mismanaged and disastrous expedition against Canada. Endorsed on a list of Phips'

captains, in the Massachusetts Archives, xxxvi, 134, is." "In 1660 Major Simon Willard became a permanennt resident of Lancasterand by virtue of his office as Assistant, solemnized marriages. MajorSimon Willard Solemnized the Marriage of Jonathan Fairbank and Mary Hayward In 1688." "He died in the Raid on Lancaster, Sept 11, 1697 with his daughter Grace FAIRBANK. From his inventory he seems to have been a blacksmith. Two children, the oldest and youngest, escaped capture." His estate was settled by his brother, Jabez FAIRBANK. His tombstone reads: "Jonathan Fairbanks and his Daughter Grace Fairbanks Who Deceased September the 11th, 1697".

"Lt. Benjamin Willard of Lancaster and the names of five soldiers are known from a petition of their heirs, in 1738, for land grants, viz: Joseph Atherton, Jonathan Fairbank*, John Pope, Samuel Wheeler and Timothy Wheelock." Jonathan FAIRBANK Married Mary HAYWARD of Concord, Mass. on 24 AUG 1688 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. She married 2nd David WHITCOMB in 1770.

Children: Hannah FAIRBANKS b: 1689 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. d: 11 DEC 1704in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. Grace FAIRBANKS b: 1691 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. d: 11 SEP 1697 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. Mary FAIRBANKS b: 1692 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. d: 12 JUN 1745 in Lancaster, Worcester, Mass. She married Oliver WILDER and had 10 children.

Sources

<references />* Sources: •Lorenzo S. Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897. Boston: 1897. p.38, 39.

• Henry S. Nourse. Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1884: p.127, p.125, p.295, p.321.
• Henry S. Nourse. "Epitaphs in Lancaster Prior to 1850 - The Old Burial Field" from The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Recordsand Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1640 to 1850. 1890
• Abijah P. Marvin. History of Lancaster. 1879: p.59. C.A.Torrey. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. NEHGS. Boston. 1992: p.257 1. GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN WHITE of Wenham and Lancaster MASSACHUSETTS 1638-1900 VOLUME I, By Almira Larkin White, Chase Brothers Printers, Haverhill, MA, 1900 (page 75) [1] 2. [S5072] "The Whitcomb Family in America": A Biographical Genealogy,Charlotte Whitcomb, (Minneapolis, Minnesota - October 1904). 3. [S5073] "Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897", Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, A.M., (Boston: Printed for the Author by the American Printing and Engraving Co., - 1897).

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