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Jonas Fairbanks[1]

Male 1625 - 1676  (50 years)


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  • Name Jonas Fairbanks  [2, 3] 
    Birth 8 Mar 1625  Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Gender Male 
    Fact 1 Slain with son in King Phillip's War by indians. 
    Death 10 Feb 1676  Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5] 
    Person ID I1582  Master
    Last Modified 13 Nov 2021 

    Father Jonathan Fairbanks,   b. 3 May 1594, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1668, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Grace Lee Smith,   b. 6 Jan 1597, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Dec 1673, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 20 May 1617  Halifax, St John the Baptist, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Family ID F48  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lydia Prescott,   b. 15 Aug 1641, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1723, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 28 May 1658  Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5] 
    Children 
     1. Marie Fairbank,   b. 20 Apr 1659, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Nov 1681, Sherbourn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)
     2. Joshua Fairbanks,   b. 6 Feb 1661, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1676, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 15 years)
     3. Grace Fairbanks,   b. 15 Sep 1663, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1697, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    +4. Jonathan Fairbanks,   b. 7 Oct 1666, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1697, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years)
     5. Hasadiah Fairbanks,   b. 28 Feb 1668, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1740, Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     6. Hezekiah Fairbanks,   b. 28 Nov 1668, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +7. Jabez Fairbanks,   b. 11 Aug 1670, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Mar 1758, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     8. Jonas Fairbanks,   b. 6 Mar 1673, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1697, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)
    Family ID F46  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 8 Mar 1625 - Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 May 1658 - Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 Feb 1676 - Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • FAIRBANK. Jonathan Fairbanks or Fairbank, immigrant ancestor, was born in England before 1600, and came to Boston with his family in 1633. He remained there about three years, then settled in Dedham, where he was pioneer, and a signer of the Dedham convenant. His house is still standing in Dedham, and is now owned by the family association, having been occupied to the present time by Jonathan and his lineal descendants. He was a town officer, and died December 5, 1668. He married Grace Lee, who died December 28, 1673. Children: 1. John. 2. George. 3. Mary. 4. Susan. 5. Jonas, mentioned below. 6. Jonathan.

      (II) Jonas, son of Jonathan Fairbanks, was born in England and came to Dedham with his parents. He signed the covenant in 1657, and March 7, 1659, became one of the fathers of the town. He was a farmer and believed to be a carpenter also. In 16752 he was fined for wearing great boots, not being worth two hundred pounds, the amount of wealth prescribed by the laws of the colony, in 1651 to suffice for men who could lawfully wear great boots. He removed to Lancaster in 1657. There he met his death in the assault by King Philip and fifteen hundred warriors, February 10, 1675, 76. Some fifty persons were slain that day, including Joshua Fairbanks, son of Jonas. Jonas Fairbanks married, May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, born in Watertown, August 15, 1641, daughter of John Prescott, who came from Sowerby, Halifax, England, the English home of the Fairbanks family. she married (second) Ellis Barron, of Watertown, Groton and Lancaster. Children: 1. Marie. 2. Joshua. 3. Grace. 4. Jonathan. 5. Hazadiah. 6. Jabez, mentioned below. 7. Jonas.

      (III) Captain Jabez, son of Jonas Fairbanks, was born at Lancaster, January 8, 1670-71, and settled there after the war. He died March 2, 1758. He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian War, and was no doubt incited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676, and of his only surviving brother in 1697, during a raid on the town. At the time his brother Jonathan and one of his children were killed, Captain Jabez was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives, including that of his little son Joseph. Twenty-one persons were killed this raid, two were wounded, and six carried off captives, of whom five were ransomed later, including the wife of Jonathan Fairbanks. In 1700 Jabez Fairbanks had land granted him on both sides of the brook above Thomas Sawyer's sawmill. This site was the homestead of Jabez and his descendants for a hundred years. He was deputy to the general court in 1714-21-22-23. He married (first) Mary wilder, who died February 21, 1718, in her forty-third years, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder. He married (second) March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May 11, 1755, aged about eighty years. Children of first wife: 1. Joseph. 2. Jabez. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Jonas. 5. Thomas, mentioned below. 6. Abigail. 7. Jonathan. 8. Grace. 9. Joshua. 10. Anna.

      (IV) Deacon Thomas, son of Captain Jabez Fairbanks, was baptized in Lancaster in 1708, died February 10, 1791. He was sentinel in Captain Josiah Willard's company in the Indian War, June 3, to November 10, 1725. He was also a soldier in Captain Ephraim Wilder's company, Colonel Sam-

  • Sources 
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    2. [S23] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
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    3. [S1133] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Book Title: Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633-1897.

    4. [S23] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
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    5. [S338] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.).

    6. [S1339] Ancestry.com, West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5.


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