Lewis Jones
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 ← Lewis Jones
In brief
Born about 1600 in Wales/England. About 1635: Ipswich, England to North America. He married in England. He died April 11, 1684, in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Family
Children
- Josiah Jones · in this lineb. 1643, in Roxbury or Watertown, Massachusettsm. Lydia Treadway, October 2, 1667, in Weston, Watertown, Massachusettsd. October 9, 1714, in Weston, Massachusetts
- Phebe Jonesb. January 1645, in Roxbury, Massachusettsd. July 6, 1650, in Roxbury, Massachusetts due to scalding
- Shuebal/Shubael/Suball Jonesb. July 1, 1651, in Watertown, Massachusetts
- Lydia Jonesb. Englandm. Johnathan Whitney, October 30, 1656
Siblings
- Gregory Jones
Life story
A Welsh Planter's Estate
Lewis Jones was born around 1600 in Wales or England and emigrated to Massachusetts around 1635, settling first at Watertown Farms before moving to Roxbury around 1640 and back to Watertown by 1650, where he farmed a ten-acre plot. He helped fund Roxbury's free school in 1645 and joined the town's Congregational church under the Reverend John Eliot. In his January 1678 will, later amended to appoint guardians for a son he considered too weak to manage the estate alone, Lewis left everything to his wife and that son, with the remainder to pass to his other children if both should die; he died in Watertown on April 11, 1684, leaving a modest household estate of furniture, bedding, and farm tools valued at just over 62 pounds.
Sources (3)
- Nathan Henry Jones, The Ancestors of My Daughters (Poultney, Vermont: Nathan Henry Jones, 1914).
- William Blake Trask, Some of the Descendants of Lewis and Ann Jones of Roxbury, Mass (Boston, Massachusetts: Gunn, Bliss & Company Printers, 1878).
- Elbert Smith, The Descendants of Joel Jones (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1925).