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| Fairbanks House, 1940, Dedham, Massachusetts |
FAIRBANKS
Jonathan Fairbanks (abt 1594 – 1668), my 10th
great grandfather, came from Halifax in Yorkshire, England. He was the son of
John Fairbanks (born about 1560) and Isabella Staincliffe, the grandson of
George Fairbanks (born about 1530) and Sybil Wade, and the great grandson of
Gilbert Fairbanks and his wife Janet.
Jonathan settled in Dedham with his wife and six children,
and built the house which is still standing.
The Fairbanks House is built of
timber from England and is considered to be one of the oldest frame houses in
the United States. It remained in the
Fairbanks house and has never been deeded or mortgaged, and has belonged to the
Fairbanks Family Association since 1903.
Jonathan Fairbanks signed the Dedham Covenant in 1636. His will names his wife and five surviving
children. I descend from their son Jonas
(1624/5 – 1676), my 9th great grandfather, who removed his family to
Lancaster, Massachusetts where he was killed by the native Indians with his son
Joshua on 10 February 1676. His wife,
Lydia Prescott remarried to Elias Barron as his second wife.
My 8th great grandmother was Grace Fairbanks
(1663 – 1689), who was orphaned when her father was killed in Lancaster at age
12. She married Ephraim Bullen of Sherborn
and had four children. My Fairbanks
lineage daughters out here. The next
generation removed to Brimfield, Massachusetts, and the next generation to Nova
Scotia, Canada as planters upon the removal of the Acadians.
For more information on the Fairbanks family:
Dedham Town Records 1:28
Genealogy of the
Fairbanks Family in America, 1633 - 1897, by Lorenzo
Sayles Fairbanks, 1897
"The English Ancestry of Jonathan
Fairbanks of Dedham, Massachusetts" by Clarence Almon Torrey, The American Genealogist, Volume 37
[1961]: pages 65 - 72.
"Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham,
Massachusetts and his family in the West Riding of Yorkshire", by Ruth
Fairbanks Joseph and James Swan Landberg, The New England Historic Genealogical
Register, Volume 166, pages 165 - 187.
My FAIRBANKS genealogy:
Generation 1: Jonathan Fairbanks, son of John Fairbanks and
Isabella Staincliffe, born about 1594 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, died 5
December 1668 in Dedham, Massachusetts; married on 20 May 1617 in Halifax to
Grace Smith, daughter of Samuel Smith and Grace Gawkroger. She was born 6 January 1600 in Warley,
Halifax Parish, Yorkshire and died 28 November 1673 in Dedham. Six children.
Generation 2: Jonas Fairbanks, born 6 March 1624/5 Sowerby,
Halifax, and died 10 February 1676 in Lancaster, Massachusetts; married on 28
May 1658 in Lancaster to Lydia Prescott, daughter of John Prescott and Mary
Gawkroger. She was born 15 August 1641
in Watertown, Massachusetts and died 31 December 1723 in Watertown. She married second to Elias Barron. Six Fairbanks children.
Generation 3: Grace
Fairbanks, born 15 September 1663 in Lancaster, died 11 August 1689 in
Sherborn, Massachusetts; married about 1680 to Ephraim Bullen, son of Samuel
Bullen and Mary Morse. He was born 18
July 1653 in Sherborn and died 1690 in Sherborn. Four children.
Generation 4: John
Bullen m. Sarah Underwood
Generation 5: Grace
Bullen m. Ebenezer Healy
Generation 6: Comfort
Haley m. Abigail Allen
Generation 7: Comfort
Haley m. Rebecca Crosby
Generation 8: Joseph
Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9: Mary
Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10:
Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 11:
Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)
The photo above is from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS MASS, 11-DED, 1-9, Jonathan Fairbanks House 511 East Street, Dedham, Massachusetts, General View from South East. Created 1 May 1940.
A previous blog post about the PRESCOTT family:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/surname-saturday-prescott-of-lancaster.html
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ FAIRBANKS of Dedham, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 5, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/05/surname-saturday-fairbanks-of-dedham.html: accessed [access date]).
Interesting connection to South East Arizona, what is now a Ghost Town named Fairbanks after the Banker who helped finance the railroad (?). Following the history of that Banker on Wikpedia it seems he was related to the Fairbanks of Dedham
ReplyDeleteJonathan Fairbanks is also my 10th great grandfather through his daughter Mary who married first Michael Metcalf 2 Apr 1644 at Dedham, MA. I descend from their 3rd child Jonathan Metcalf. I have only been to Dedham in the winter when the Fairbanks House is closed. Hopefully, will get there next summer.
ReplyDeleteI just discovered that two of my ancestors were signers of the Dedham convenant. Robert Hinsdale and Peter Woodward. They, along with your ancestor are gather together on WikiTree under Signer of the Dedham Covenant.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Signer_of_the_Dedham_Covenant
You guy is here:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fairbanks-133