Ruth (?)1,2

F, #3451

Family: John Sawyer b. c 1688, d. 2 Oct 1731

Biography

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Marriage17243
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Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119.
  3. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 157.

Lieut. Jabez Fairbank Sr1

M, #3452, b. 8 November 1670, d. March 1758

Family 1: Mary Wilder b. 1675, d. 21 Feb 1717/18

Family 2: Elisabeth Whetcomb b. c Oct 1674, d. 10 May 1755

Biography

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BirthNov 8, 1670Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, Torrey: 1671; Nourse: 8 11m 1670 [Nov. 8 1670]3,4
Marriagebetween 1707 and 1712Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, 1691; M. Wilder: gives Hartwell; Torrey: b 1694, b 16935,4,6,7
Church1715/16Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, "& Mary his wife"8
MarriageMar 25, 1719Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA9
DeathMar, 1758Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA10,11,4
BurialOld Common BG Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA
BiographyNourse, Early Records of Lancaster, 1884, p.316: bd "1670 11m 8 Jabez Fairbank. Jonas and Lidia."

Nourse, Birth, Mar Death Reg, Lanc, 1890: p. 13: bd "Jabez of Jonas & Lidea ffairbanks, 8.11.70"

Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, 1884, p. 144 (1704 "census", assigned garrison, 1 adult), 145 (location: "Jabez Fairbank, half a mile westerly in the Deer's Horns neighborhood"), 152 (material lost in the massacre: "Jabez ffairbank one new barne with about 8 loads of good English hay"), 168 (1709 petition), 173 (frontier garrison: Mr. Fairbank, 2 families, 5 inhabitants, 15 souls), 182 ("Caleb Sawyer & Jabaz ffairbank Requested that the Town would grant them libertie to set a fence upon the towns Land to fence in there Medow which lyeth upon the north branch of bare hill brook."), 183 (committee to oversee highway), 190 ("Lancaster February the 1st 1719/20 att a meeting, of the proprieters first made Choyce of Jabaz ffairbank for a Moderator.."), 198 (1722, selectman), 202 (1723, selectman), 215-219 (1724 letters), 334 (deputy, 1714, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1737, 1738).

Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, 1884, p. 218: "Lieutenant Jabez Fairbank
was a grandson of John Prescott. His father, Jonas, and two brothers, Joshua and Jonathan, were slain in the early Indian wars. The stone over his grave in the old burying ground records that he died in 1758, aged about 84 years; the recorded date of his birth is "8th 11mo 1670." Served in Lovewell's war, 1722-1726. pp. 218-221 (diary of his actions, incl. "Muster roll of the company of Jabez Fairbanks, Captain, June 18, 1724."; "Jabez Fairbanks Lt., 31 weeks service, 31 lbs")

Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, 1884, p. 295: "Jonas Fairbank came from the same English township as the Prescotts, being the son of Jonathan Fairbank, who settled in Dedham. His marriage to Lydia, daughter of John Prescott, 28..3mo.1658 is the first recorded in Lancaster. They had seven children:...Jabez, 1670...Jabez retained the paternal estate, attained prominence in town affairs, and as a lieutenant, gained some reputation in the Indian war. In the year 1700 he had lands laid out to him, "on bouth sides of danes Brook aboue Thomas Sawyers Sawmill." This site became the home of the Fairbanks, and so remained for a hundred years or more. George W. Howard now owns their homestead."; p. 296, "In 1715, James Wilder sold to jabez Fairbank lands once Rigby's."

Nourse, Birth, Mar Death Reg, Lanc,1890: p. 271: added to church, "1715/16, Jabez Fairbank & Mary his wife"


Nourse, Birth, Mar Death Reg, Lanc,1890: p. 270: signed covenant of first
church.

Nourse, Birth, Mar Death Reg, Lanc,1890: p. 376: March 29,1752, admitted to
second church.

Nourse, Birth, Mar Death Reg, Lanc,1890: p. 404: Gravestone: "In Memory of
Lieut. jabaz Fairbank, who died in March 1758. Aged about 84 years. Mrs. mary, his first Wife died in March 1718, Aged 42 years. Mrs Elizabeth his Second Wife, die May 11th, 1755. Aged 80 Years 7 Months."

Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 2

page 257
CAPT. JABEZ FAIRBANKS of Lancaster, Mass., b. 8th Nov. 1670, d. 1758. Was in the Lancaster Garrison in 1704, commanded by Thomas SAVAGE. Was Commander of the Garrison in 1711; in Arcadian Expedition in 1707-10, and Lovewell's (Father Rasle's) War 1722-26; Lieutenant, 1723; commanded a company [p.257] as per Muster Roll dated 18th June, 1724; Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts 1714-21-22-23 and 1737-38. m. (firstly) Mary WILDER, b. 1676, d. 21st Feb. 1718, dau. of Capt. Thomas WILDER, b. 1645, d. 7th Aug. 1716, a soldier in King William's War, who m. 25th June, 1668, Mary HOUGHTON, b. 4th mo. 11, 1653, dau. of Ralph and Ann HOUGHTON, both of Lancaster, Mass. m. (secondly) Elizabeth WHITCOMB.12
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AlertProb. with bd of children and marriages
ResearchSee Nourse for full descendancy of Lt. Jabez Fairbank and Mary Wilder13
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Joseph Neil Fairbanks, Oct. 26, 2002.
  3. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 13, 316.
  4. [S42] Torrey, New England Marriages, p. 256.
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 452.
  6. [S169] Wilder, Book of Wilders I, p. 2.
  7. [S171] Wilder, M., Book of Wilders, p. 146.
  8. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 271.
  9. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 17.
  10. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 28.
  11. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 404.
  12. [S930] George Norbury Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the USA, Vol. 2, p. 257.
  13. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 469.

Thomas Wright1

M, #3453

Family: Abigail Sawyer b. c 1704, d. 6 Aug 1760

Biography

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MarriageNov 18, 1729Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA2,3
AFNG421-L6
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 24.
  3. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119.
  4. [S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 128.
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 58.
  6. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 295.
  7. [S43] Thomas W. Baldwin, Harvard MA VRs, p. 325.

Dinah Farrar1

F, #3454, b. 1704, d. 25 October 1727

Family: Seth Sawyer b. 7 Jan 1705/6, d. 29 Mar 1768

Biography

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Birth17042
MarriageJan 21, 1726/27Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA3,4
DeathOct 25, 1727Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, ae 232
AFNG421-MC
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 192.
  3. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 24.
  4. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 192.

William Whitcomb1,2

M, #3455, b. 24 September 1710

Family: Hephzibah Sawyer b. c 1709

Biography

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BaptismSep 24, 1710Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, son of Hezekiah3,4
MarriageFeb 25, 1729/30Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA5,1,3
CovenantNov 1, 1730Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA6
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Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S36] Letter, to Charles J. Vella from Robert Caldwell, May, 1998.
  3. [S520] Mary E. Mayo (Ed.), Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims, Lineage Book III, p. 507.
  4. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 274.
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 25.
  6. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 281.
  7. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 58.
  8. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 60.
  9. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 61.
  10. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 63.
  11. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 65.
  12. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 67.

Hepzibah Whitney1

F, #3456, b. 1710, d. 1797

Family: Seth Sawyer b. 7 Jan 1705/6, d. 29 Mar 1768

Biography

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Birth1710Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA2
MarriageOct 12, 1732Harvard/Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA3
Death1797Harvard, Worcester Co., MA, USA2
AFNG421-NJ
Biographydau. of Richard and Elizabeth (Sawtell) Whitney2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S13] "Ancestral File of LDS, Version 4.13", Ancestral File.
  2. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 192.
  3. [S157] Fred E. Sawyer, Sawyer Families Gen. Dict., p. 119, 192.
  4. [S795] "New Hampshire Genealogical Record", 5 [1908]: 81.