Anna (Brown) Jones (1703 - 1747)

Born 2 Mar 1703 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Jones Jr. — married 24 Dec 1724 (to 15 May 1747) in Watertown, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 May 1747 at age 44 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Birth and parents

Anna (Brown) Jones was born in Massachusetts.

Anna (alias Anne), the first of eleven children of Benjamin Brown and Anna Garfield was born on 2 March 1703 at Watertown, Massachusetts.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Anna married as his first wife, Josiah Jones Jr, the son of Capt. Josiah and Abigail (Barnes) Jones on 24 December 1724 at Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts. ^[2]They had eight children born at Massachusetts:

1. Josiah Jones IV (b. 4 Oct 1725, Weston, MA; d. 1786),^[3]
2. Micah Jones (b. 4 Oct 1728, Weston, MA; d. 27 Mar 1746, Stockbridge, MA),^[4][5]
3. Anna Jones (b. 4 Feb 1731, Weston, MA; d. 1770),^[6] m. Oliver Warner
4. Keziah Jones (b. 6 Apr 1733, Weston, MA; d. 1833),^[7]
5. Elijah Jones (b. 23 Jan 1735, Weston, MA; d. bef. 1741),^[8]
6. Abigail Jones (b. 17 Sep 1738, Weston, MA; d. ),^[9]
7. Elijah Jones (b. 25 May 1741, Sturbridge, MA; d. 1782),^[10]
8. William Jones (b. 1743; d. 1816),

Death and Burial

Anna (Brown) Jones died on 15 May 1747 in her 44th year at Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NW-3XP : 10 November 2020), Annah Brown, 2 Mar 1703; citing Birth, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009514.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7C-656 : 10 November 2020), Anna Brown in entry for Josiah Jur. Jones, 24 Dec 1724; citing Marriage, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JJ-CLP : 10 November 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Josiah Jones, 4 Oct 1725; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JJ-ZLH : 10 November 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Micah Jones, 4 Oct 1728; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM4-PZ7 : 17 January 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Micah Jones, 1746.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JJ-8P5 : 10 November 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Anne Jones, 4 Feb 1731; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JJ-DM7 : 10 November 2020), Josiah Junr. Jones in entry for Keziah Jones, 6 Apr 1733; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JJ-DQF : 10 November 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Elijah Jones, 23 Jan 1735; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009670.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4JV-C9J : 10 November 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Abigail Jones, 17 Sep 1738; citing Birth, Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009671.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ2Y-NGD : 14 January 2020), Josiah Jones in entry for Elijah Jones, 1741.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCM4-L5M : 17 January 2020), Ann Jones, 1747.

GEDCOM Junk Note

• This biography of Brown-11330 was created through the import of tryWikiTreeJC2.ged on Dec 31, 2011 by J. C. Adamson. No biography or sources were written until November 2021.

Acknowledgements

• Biography written with inline sources and photo added by [[Baldwin-3428|Carol Baldwin on 25 November 2021.