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Josiah Jones

Generation 10 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Sarah Sally Jones ← Russell Jones ← Nathan Jones ← Isaac Jones ← Josiah Jones

In brief

Born 1643, in Roxbury or Watertown, Massachusetts. He married October 2, 1667, in Weston, Watertown, Massachusetts. He died October 9, 1714, in Weston, Massachusetts.

Family

Father
Lewis Jones
Mother
Ann Stone
Spouse
Lydia Treadway
m. 1667

Children

  • Lydia Jones
    b. August 25, 1668
    m. Nathaniel Cooledge, January 1687
    d. May 21, 1718
  • Josiah Jones
    b. October 20, 1670, in Weston, Massachusetts
    m. Abigail Barnes around 1692
    d. December 21, 1734
  • Mary Jones
    b. December 10, 1672
    m. John Brewer, July 3/5, 1693
    m. John Brown
  • Nathaniel Jones
    b. December 31, 1674, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Mary Cooke
    m. Mary Flagg around 1735
    d. November 1745 in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine
  • Samuel Jones
    b. July 9, 1677
    m. Mary Woolson, May 19, 1706
    d. January 1717
  • James Jones
    b. September 4, 1679
    m. Sarah Moore
    d. September 14, 1770
  • Sarah Jones
    b. February 6, 1681
    m. John Warren, May 20, 1704
    d. July 9, 1705, due to childbirth
  • Anna Jones
    b. June 25/28, 1684
    m. Joseph Mixon/Mixer
    d. 1736
  • John Jones
    b. March 19, 1686
    m. Mehitable Garfield, December 8, 1715
    d. Abt. 1768 in Weston, Massachusetts
  • Isaac Jones · in this line
    b. Baptized: May 25, 1690, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Hannah Welles, July 11, 1717, in Colchester, Connecticut
    d. February 15, 1782 · Colchester, Connecticut

Siblings

  • Lydia Jones
    b. England
    m. Johnathan Whitney, October 30, 1656
  • Phebe Jones
    b. January 1645, in Roxbury, Massachusetts
    d. July 6, 1650, in Roxbury, Massachusetts due to scalding
  • Shuebal/Shubael/Suball Jones
    b. July 1, 1651, in Watertown, Massachusetts

Life story

A Watertown Militia Captain

Josiah Jones was born in 1643 in Roxbury or Watertown, Massachusetts, son of Lewis Jones, and bought a 124-acre farm near Sudbury in 1665. He fought in King Philip's War in 1676 and rose to militia captain, while serving Watertown repeatedly as selectman between 1685 and 1709 and, after the family moved to Weston, as selectman there too. In 1669 Josiah gave court testimony describing a three-mile chase after a man he witnessed breaking into a neighbor's house. He inherited a substantial share of his father-in-law Nathaniel Treadway's estate in 1689 and became a freeman the following year, later serving as one of the first deacons of Weston's church. Josiah died in Weston on October 9, 1714.

Sources (4)
  1. Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
  2. William Blake Trask, Some of the Descendants of Lewis and Ann Jones of Roxbury, Mass (Boston, Massachusetts: Gunn, Bliss & Company Printers, 1878).
  3. Elbert Smith, The Descendants of Joel Jones (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1925).
  4. Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908 Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/ancestryofevabel01smit : accessed 14 August 2026).
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