In brief

Born about 1648–1649, in Watertown, Massachusetts. She married October 2, 1667, in Weston, Watertown, Massachusetts. She died September/18/22, 1743, in Weston, Massachusetts.

Family

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

  • Jonathan Treadway
    b. November 11, 1640, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Judith Thurston, March 1, 1666[1667], in Medfield, Massachusetts
    d. May 28, 1710, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
  • Mary Treadway
    b. August 1, 1642, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. John Fisher, September 12, 1665, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Timothy Hawkins, July 21, 1675, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    d. May 14, 1677, in Watertown, Massachusetts due to childbirth
  • James Treadway
    b. Abt. 1644
  • Elizabeth Treadway
    b. April 3, 1646, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Shadrack Hapgood, October 21, 1664, in Sudbury, Massachusetts
    m. Joseph Hayward, March 23, 1676[1677], in Concord, Massachusetts
  • Josiah Treadway
    b. Abt. 1650 in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Sarah Sweetman, June 9, 1674, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Dorothy Bell, February 3, 1698[1698], in Charlestown, Massachusetts
    d. January 15, 1731[1732], in Charlestown, Massachusetts
  • Deborah Treadway
    b. August 2, 1657, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    m. Joseph Goddard, March 25, 1680, in Watertown, Massachusetts
    d. June 8, 1714, in Roxbury, Massachusetts

Life story

Nearly Three Hundred Descendants

Lydia Treadway was born around 1648–1649 in Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Nathaniel Treadway, and married Josiah Jones in Weston in October 1667. By the time of her death in Weston on September 17, 1743, Lydia had 296 recorded descendants, 233 of whom were still living.

Sources (5)
  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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