Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Jones, Nathan 1786 - 1870
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

NATHAN JONES, ESQ.

   NATHAN JONES, son of Nathan and Sarah (Clark) Jones, was born Nov. 2, 1786,
in East Medway. He was a farmer and lived at the corner of Main and Plain
streets. Mr. Jones was called to fill many public offices. He was appointed in
1837 a Justice of the Peace, elected in 1836 and 1847 a Representative to the
General Court, and for more than twenty years served as the Deputy Sheriff for
Norfolk County. He was appointed June 22, 1841, special commissioner for five
years, and as County Commissioner in 1847, holding the office for seven years.
He removed in 1858, to Medfield, Mass., where he died Dec. 8, 1870, at the age
of eighty-four years.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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