Jones Family - Ourfolk
Benjamin Jones, Sr. 1696 - 1 FEB 1783
Benjamin, Sr. was born on 1696 in Pascommuck, Conn. and died on 1 FEB 1783 in Coventry, Conn and was buried in Samsfield .
He was the son of Benoni Jones (1666 - 13 MAY 1704) and Hester Ingersoll (Jones) (9 SEP 1665 - 27 NOV 1705).
Benjamin, Sr. was married to Patience Evarts (Tower) .
Patience was born on 2 MAY 1695 in Guilford, New Haven, CT and died on 24 APR 1770 (age: 74) in Coventry, Conn. .
She was the daughter of John Evarts (B: 1664) and Sarah Crampton (Evarts) (B: 17 DEC 1669).
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| Parents | Grand Parents | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌈ Griffith Jones (1614 - 19 FEB 1676) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌈ Benoni Jones (1666 - 13 MAY 1704) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌊ Sarah (Jones) (ABT 1615 - 6 MAY 1665) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Jones, Sr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌈ John Ingersoll, (2) (SEP 1626 - 3 SEP 1684) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌊ Hester Ingersoll (Jones) (9 SEP 1665 - 27 NOV 1705) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ⌊ Abigail Bascom (Ingersoll) (D: 1668) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scalped and left for dead in the Pascomunch Massacre May 13, 1704. The only survivor
of the family.
He barely escaped death which took the lives of his father and two brothers.
After the massacre, when his father and two brothers were killed and his
mother taken a captive, he appears to have removed with the Janes family to
Coventry, Connecticut. Benjamin Janes, with whom he went, was son of the
immigrant William Janes or Jeanes, who was a school teacher at New Haven,
He was a 'fence viewer' in 1731, on a commision, also
to 'call the people to the Hall' in 1731.
His date of death is listed as February 1, 1783, age 87
according to a monument in the Beech Plain Cemetary in Sandisfield, MA.
of the family.
He barely escaped death which took the lives of his father and two brothers.
After the massacre, when his father and two brothers were killed and his
mother taken a captive, he appears to have removed with the Janes family to
Coventry, Connecticut. Benjamin Janes, with whom he went, was son of the
immigrant William Janes or Jeanes, who was a school teacher at New Haven,
He was a 'fence viewer' in 1731, on a commision, also
to 'call the people to the Hall' in 1731.
His date of death is listed as February 1, 1783, age 87
according to a monument in the Beech Plain Cemetary in Sandisfield, MA.
- after Benjamin, Patience also married Daniel HOBART and then in 1712,
she married Ibrook TOWER.
she married Ibrook TOWER.
Last change (on this page): 15 OCT 2018