Eliphalet Jones (1641 - 1732)

Born 9 Jan 1641 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Died 1732 at about age 90 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony

Biography

Rev. Eliphalet Jones was the son of Rev. John Jones. Rev. John Jones arrived in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635, settled at Concord, Mass. in 1637, but then removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644.^[1]

Eliphalet was born in Concord Jan 9, 1640/1.^[2] He attended Harvard in 1662, but never graduated. He went to Greenwich, Connecticut, as a missionary in 1669, at which time he was invited by the people of Jamaica, New York, to become their minister, but must have declined. In April 1673 they again invited him and after some negotiation, he was ordained and remained there until he died June 5, 1731, age 90.^[1]

He married Martha Lawrence, daughter of Thomas Lawrence. They had no children.^[3][4]

He was a "man of great purity and simplicity of life and manners, and was a faithful and successful preacher of the gospel."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Thompson, Benjamin Franklin. History of Long Island from Its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time. Volume 1. 2nd edition. New York: Gould Banks & Co., 1843.
2. ↑ "Early Records of Boston (Charlestown, Concord & Dedham,). New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4:272. Boston: NEHGS, 1850.
3. ↑ The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005.
4. ↑ Schenck: Page 391

• Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York, 1889) Pages 390, 391

• Mead, Spencer Percival. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (Knickerbocker Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1911) Page 35

• Shattuck, Lemuel A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Russell, Odiorne; Concord, J. Stacy, 1835) Page 154

• Baird, Charles W., Chronicle of a Border Town (Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., New York, 1871) Page 276

• Memorial: Find a Grave (no image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #178382953 (accessed 2 February 2024)
  Memorial page for Rev Eliphalet Jones (9 Jan 1641-1732); Maintained by Kay (contributor 51195605).

• Hart, Frederick C., Keeping Up with The Stamford Joneses, Part 4, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 2000) Vol. 42, No. 3, Page 116.