Thomas Jones, Jr.

Not the same as Thomas Jones, of New London

Note that incorrect 'Thomas Jones' has been assigned in many ancestries as the Thomas Jones who married Catherine Gammon. Note that Thomas Jones Jr. of Gloucester, Mass. died on Nov 25, 1672 and thus could not have been the Thomas Jones who married Katherine Gammon on June 25, 1677 in New London, CT.

see research regarding Thomas Jones & Katherine Gammon from Ancestors of DONALD ROBERT DICKENSON http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/i/c/Donald-R-Dickenson/GENE128-0081....

GEDCOM Note

Biography

Thomas Jones was born at Gloucester in 1640, the son ofThomas Jones and Mary North. Though originally designated III in this profile, his father's parentage is unknown and thus as a son, he is more properly designated "Jr.", as shownin his will -- a will which also indicates that he died unmarried andwithout issue, as no wife or child are named therein. While it has been posited that this Thomas married Catherine/KatharineGammon at New London, Connecticut, in 1677 -- the marriage that year of a Thomas Jones (who died in 1718) to "Catharine" Gammon was noted by Frances Manwaring Caulkins in her 1895 "History of New London, Connecticut"<ref>https://archive.org/details/historyofnewlond00caul/page/363</ref>, and Thomas's identity as the Gloucester man was theorized by George Waller-Frye in TAG 53 (1977)<ref>The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - ); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12345/218/138181725 (subscription required)</ref> -- the actual records undermine this claim (see discussion in "Research notes" below). An extensive alternative analysis, though without a firm conclusion, may be found on RootsWeb in the "Ancestry of Bob and Mary Beth Wheeler" at https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbwheeler&id=I045170 ; this suggests that adifferent Thomas Jones, possibly from Barbados, may have been Catherine Gammon's husband. Despite the 1977 TAG hypothesis and its acceptance by many in the ensuing years, the existence of both a will and a death record for Thomas Jones, Jr., at Gloucester in November of 1672 makes a New London marriage in 1677 a patently unsustainable proposition.

Research notes: There has been confusion over the death dates of the two Thomases: Thomas, Sr., made his will in August of 1671; his Gloucester death date of "ii of 7 mo 71" in the handwritten record is difficult to make out, but the commonsense reading -- given Old Style dating -- equates to 2 September 1671, which coordinates well with the date of the August will. An evident death date for Thomas, Jr., just over ayear later and also at Gloucester, compounds the confusion as one handwritten entry first shows a near-duplication of his father's death date, which is crossed out and followed by "25 : 9 mo : 72". (For a discussion of both dates and the process of their interpretation, see "Benjamin Jones' Ancestors", http://jtbullock.com/Tree/BenJones.html#TJ ; scroll down to the inserted image of the 1671 handwritten death dateand the comments following. Note that Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary" agrees that both Thomases died at Gloucester, in 1671 and 72; Savage does raise the question of which one died first, but the proximityof the senior man's will to the 1671 death date indicates that he predeceased his son, and the case is closed by the will of Thomas, Jr., made less than two weeks before his death in November of 1672.) When the senior Thomas drew up his will in August of 1671, it is certain that his namesake son was still living at Gloucester; there is no indication of his having removed to New London or anywhere else, and heis given significant land from the father's local estate: " I give & bequeath unto my Sonne Thomas Joanes my Land with the orchyard the Sayd Land containing about three Acres more or lesse & being Situate on the other Side of the River abovesayd vis on the southeast side of the River right over agaynst my House where I now Live and Six Acres of Land upon the Lower Necke where Goodman Harradden liveth and my will & meaning is that my Sonne Thomas shall have & injoythe Sayd Lands presently upon my decease only it is my will & I doe hereby declare that my wife Shall have the thirds ot the Sayd Land during hrre naturall Life." As the 1672 death date noted above is in fact that of Thomas, Jr., then the death date of 6 October 1718, and location, New London, originally shown in this profile were for a different Thomas Jones; generations had been "telescoped", and reassignment of offspring, as well as changes in date and location, were needed. Had any firm evidence been found that Thomas, Jr., son of Thomas of Gloucester, in fact moved to New London between 1671 and 1677, when another Thomas Jones certainly married Catherine Gammon, then we would have been left with a mysterious death on 25 November 1672; the November, 1672 will ofThomas, Jr., however, closes the case.

Sources

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• Birth: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZZY-W52 : 10 February 2018), Thomas Jones, 15 Mar 1640; citing GLOUCESTER, ESSEX, MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823641 V. 1-2.
• Birth and death (years only): A Genealogical Dictionary of The FirstSettlers of New England, Before 1692, Volume #2 Jones - Jones, by James Savage; http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/jones-jones... ; alternative view, p. 295, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cSrlHHj2AFcC&printsec=frontcover&...]
• Will: https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/essex-county-ma-early-p... ; subscription required
• Death: "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1R-SYJ : 10 February 2018), Thomas Joanes, 25 Sep 1672; citing Gloster, Essex, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 192; FHL microfilm 877,447. NOTE: this entry links to the image of incorrect page of the original handwritten record; advance by one page to see the actual entry, or go directly to https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-WQR1?i=367&cc...
• Inaccurate claim of marriage to Katherine Gammon: "The 'Mulatto' Adam Rogers of New London and His White Wife Katherine Jones", by George Waller-Frye, TAG 53 (1977) p. 217; The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12345/218/0 (subscription required); see alsoHistory of New London Connecticut, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, 1852, p. 363, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7N0TAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thomas+Jones%22...]
• Correct assignment of "parentage unknown" to husband of Catherine Gammon: Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Library, by Michael L. Call, p. 2663, "Ahnentafel of Samuel Gates (1804-1877)", http://www.mormonpioneergenealogylibrary.com/?p=2663
• Source: S177 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.NOTE: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version ofthose files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created