Androscoggin County ME Archives History - Books .....Jones Family 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 26, 2008, 2:33 am Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine JONES. Ezekiel Jones born in 1728, as shown by a deposition, came from Falmouth. He married before 1757 Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Jewett) Conant, who was born in Falmouth 3 Oct. 1733. They lived at Saccarappa. They sold their land, 19 Jan. 1771 and in 1773 moved to Royalsborough. His name is on records of Royalsborough in 1774. Feb. 10, 1786 he bought 14 acres of land in Royalsborough of Samuel Brown. Nov. 28. 1800 he and wife Elizabeth sold yj acres of Lot 35 to Thomas Pierce of Scituate, the farm now owned by David Crockett. A son Joshua Jones came with him to Royalsborough. He is first mentioned in 1781. He bought, Oct. 23, 1799, lot 96 of Abigail Lyman, widow, of York. He married 17 April 1783 Dorothy Farr of Harpswell. Died about 1836. His family are recorded as follows. EZEKIEL b. 1 Dec. 1783; m. (int. rec. 10 Oct. 1806) Catherine Woodard of New Meadows. WILLIAM b. 12 Jan. 1786; moved to Mexico, Me. SARAH b. 18 July 1788; m. Thomas Austin 1 Nov. 1804. SAMUEL b. 13 Aug. 1790; lived and died in Norridgewock. JOEL b. 14 Nov. 1791; m. 11 Jan. 1821, Sally Thomas; d. 15 Sept. 1864. JOSHUA b. 24 Jan. 1794; m. 2 March 1817, Isabel Raines. DOROTHY b. 24 May 1797; m. 21 Dec. 1817, Abijah Collins. MOSES b. 14 March 1799; see below. PHINEAS b. 11 Sept. 1801; d. 19 Sept. 1803. Moses Jones lived and died on the homestead of his father. He m. (1), 1825, Sarah Hodgkins; (2) 21 Nov. 1844, Elizabeth Hodgkins, who died 22 Mch. 1870. LYDIA b. 19 Sept. 1825; m. 3 March 1845 Rufus Thomas. BENJAMIN b. 13 Sept. 1827; unm. Died in Auburn. ELIZA b. 14 Sept. 1829; m. Joseph Barker. JOSEPH b. 7 Nov. 1833; went West. GEORGE b. 10 May 1836; d. unm. SARAH J. b. 11 Dec. 1839; d. young. MOSES EVERETT b. 10 March 1847; m. Ellen Rice; lives on the homestead. ALFRED P. b. 9 Oct. 1850; m. Lizzie Philbrook of Lisbon. Thomas Jones who married Thankful ____ came "with two brothers" (?) from Wales in 1690 and settled in Hanover, Mass. Later he moved to Harpswell, Me. He had three sons, THOMAS lost at sea, NOAH and LEMEUL. The intentions of marriage of Noah Jones and Patience Joy were recorded in Brunswick 10 June 1774. He was one of the first settlers of Royalsborough and was last taxed in 1803. He with all his family moved to China, Me. Their children, born in Royalsborough, were EPHRAIM b. 11 Feb. 1776; m. Susanna Dudley. Their daughter Sybil Jones was the famous preacher. MARY b. 30 Nov. 1777. THOMAS b. 20 July 1780. THANKFUL b. 6 Dec. 1783. Lemuel, son of Thomas Jones, born in Hanover, Mass. 30 July 1730, m. 7 Mch. 1751 Wait Estes, dau. of Edward and Patience (Carr) Estes. She was born 31 Mch. 1733. He bought, in 1792, lot 9 of David Dunning. It may be that he bought it for his son Israel who afterward lived there. Lemuel Jones was a preacher in the Friends' Society. He had twelve children. MERCY b. 15 May 1752; m. 27 July 1771, Nathaniel Hawkes of Windham. RACHEL b. 2 Feb. 1754; m. 26 Sept. 1773, Andrew Pinkham of Harpswell, afterwards of Durham. CALEB b. 3 July 1755; m. 26 Oct. 1776, Peace, dau. of James and Sarah Goddard of Falmouth. 6 ch. born in Brunswick. LEMUEL b. 26 Feb. 1758; m. (1) Catherine Allen; (2) 9 Oct. 1800 Deborah Hawkes. Settled in Windham before 1790. 12 ch. SARAH b. 10 Feb. 1760; m. James Goddard. EDWARD b. 7 April 1762; see p. 206. MARY b. 9 March 1764; m. Joshua Frye. STEPHEN b. 22 Feb. 1766; m. 5 Aug. 1786 Eunice, dau. of Jeremiah and Anne Hacker of Brunswick. 12 ch. born in Brunswick. ISRAEL b. 11 May 1768; m. (1) Judith Tuttle; (2) Martha Preble; (3) Widow Day. Lived in So. Durham later than 1810. Moved to Brunswick and lived there. Had one son Caleb who died in Westbrook. THOMAS b. 7 May 1770; m. (1) Esther Hacker; (2) Hannah Winslow. PHEBE b. 18 May 1772; m. Nathaniel Owen. LYDIA b. 9 April 1774; m. Stephen Nichols. EDWARD JONES, mentioned above, m. 11 Nov. 1784 Mary, dau. of Reuben and Eliza (Varney) Tuttle, born 24 Mch. 1765, died 15 Jan. 1804. He m. (2) Eleanor Morrison, born 22 July 1775, died 21 Jan. 1847. He died 6 Dec. 1833. The register of his family is copied from the Records of the Friends' Society in Durham, and from family records. RACHEL b. 1 Mch. 1786; d. 11 Sept. 1868. REUBEN b. 19 Dec. 1787; d. 17 Feb. 1868. LEVI b. 31 Oct. 1790; d. 5 Oct. 1861. MEHITABEL b. 8 May 1793; d. 4 Nov. 1793. TOBIAS b. 4 Nov. 1794; d. 27 Dec. 1884. ASA b. 21 July 1796; d. 20 June 1856. ELISHA b. 19 June 1798; m. (1) 4 June 1824 Sarah Hawkes of Windham, who was b. 25 Mch. 1794 and d. 20 June 1857; m. (2) Mrs. Sarah (Winslow) Boody. He was a prominent man of Windham. Died 22 June 1879. SILAS b. 27 Mch. 1800; see below. ELIAS b. 9 Feb. 1802; d. 3 July 1875. ELIZABETH b. 9 Jan. 1804; d. 2 July 1859. MARY b. 9 Jan. 1804; d. 24 Nov. 1830. Children of Edward Jones by second marriage. LYDIA b. 22 Oct. 1809; d. 27 Aug. 1885. EDWARD b. 3 Feb. 1812; d. 27 Dec. 1855. MARTHA b. 27 Feb. 1814; d. 1896. OLIVE b. 11 May 1816; d. 1 May 1839. DAVID b. 1 July 1818; d. 1 March 1821. ABIGAIL b. 3 April 1822. Silas, son of Edward and Mary (Tuttle) Jones, lived in Windham. Whether he was born in Durham is uncertain. He m. (1) 3 May 1827 Seviah Goddard, who died 28 April 1835; m. (2) Lois Brown b. 16 July 1808; d. 2 Aug. 1887. He died 9 Oct. 1863. 4 ch. by first marriage; 8 by second. GEORGE b. 7 Feb. 1828; m. Charlotte S. Heald who was born 21 Aug. 1830 and died in Auburn 20 April 1894. Ch. George Edlon and Oscar W. of Auburn and Mrs. Ham of Hartland. SARAH b. 10 Dec. 1829. ELIJAH b. 24 May 1832; d. 30 Mch. 1834. ELIJAH b. 1 May 1834; d. 4 Jan. 1835. JOSEPH b. 29 Aug. 1837; m. Abbie Goold. DAVID D. b. 2 June 1839; d. 20 Oct. 1892. CHARLES W. b. 30 Dec. 1840; d. in Windham. PHEBE T. b. 7 Nov. 1843; d. 23 Feb. 1877. CLARISSA C. b. 3 Mch. 1846; d. 23 Feb. 1877. JAMES N. b. 16 Jan. 1848. MARY E. b. 6 Dec. 1849; d. 28 Dec. 1849. BYRON W. b. 30 June 1851. Additional Comments: Part of Chapter XII. GENEALOGICAL NOTES Extracted from: HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES. BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE. PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN. LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 1899. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/androscoggin/history/1899/historyo/jonesfam77nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mefiles/ File size: 7.0 Kb