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Jonas Weed, immigrant to Watertown, Wethersfield in 1635, Stamford in 1642[1]
There were two Jonas Weeds (grandfather and grandson), who lived at different times at Stamford, Connecticut. They both married Marys. The grandson Jonas Weed (1668-1706), son of John Weed, married Mary Scofield who married as her 2nd to Samuel Hoyt.[2]
This earlier Jonas Weed (1610-1672), here profiled, married Mary Unknown.
Unfortunately errors in confounding these two families have been repeated throughout various user-submitted data bases and websites.
Please discuss any changes to these families before making them. A lot of mis-information is "out there." Only the most primary sources are appropriate for any pre-1700 profiles, and especially these.
Jonas was born by 1610, based on date of his freemanship (18 May 1631). When John Winthrop, Jr. treated Jonas in 1669, he called him seventy, but Anderson believes this age "seems inflated."[1] His origin is unknown.[1] His parents are unknown.
A merged profile reported birth place as Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England (no evidence, source was an Ancestry Tree).[citation needed]
Jonas immigrated in 1630.[1] Note: Anderson does not identify which ship brought Jonas Weed to Massachusetts. Some claim he was aboard the Arbella. The Winthrop Society states there is no extant passenger list for the Arbella. Our only record is Gov. John Winthrop's Journal, and he mentions only a few of the passengers. Jonas' first residence was at Watertown in 1630, Wethersfield by 1635, and then Stamford in 1642.[1]
He married by about 1637 to Mary Unknown (assuming she was his only wife and the mother of all this children).[1] She died by 10 March 1689/90.[1] Jonas had ten known children, nine living at the time of his will.[1]
The sequencing of the children's births presented some questions. Anderson placed Mary first in birth order (born say 1637), because she married by about 1657. Otherwise, he orders the boys and girls according to Jonas's will, incorporating whatever other clues we have. The children seem to have been listed in "two groupings; first John, Daniel, Jonas, Mary, and Dorcas; and second: Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Hannah."[1]
In his Comments section, Anderson speculates there may have been two wives, but in the absence of any evidence, "only one wife is assigned here to Jonas Weed, but the possibility of there having been two wives remains."[1]
Children of Jonas Weed:[1]
In May of 1635, Jonas was one of six dismissed from the Watertown Church to form a new church on the Connecticut River at Wethersfield. Court held at Newton on 26 April 1636 granted them permission: 'Whereas there was a dismission granted ... to Andrew Ward, Joe Sherman, Joe Strickland, Rob'te Coo, Rob'te Reynolds and Jonas Weed, with intent to forme a newe Church ... (p 135).[3]
By about 1636, Jonas was living in Wethersfield. His home there was at the extreme northern end of the Eastern side of the present High Street. It's position is indicated by his name on the 1640 map of the town in The History of Ancient Wethersfield (p 310)[3]
In November or December 1642, Jonas received a land grant at Stamford. In his will Jonas' home at Stamford was left to his wife, "the house he now lives in and the use of the houselot with two acres of meadow and two acres of upland lying in the East field during her lifetime."[1]
We do not know the exact death date for Jonas, but we assume he died at Stamford, where he lived beginning in about 1642. Jonas wrote his will on 26 November 1672 and it was proved on 7 November 1676.[4][1] He probably died within a short time before the will was proved. Inventory was taken on 5 June 1676, totaling £116 9s 6d; £58 was in real estate.[4][1]
There is a lot of incorrect information about this Jonas Weed. He has been confounded with his grandson, Jonas Weed (1668-1706), son of John Weed. In addition, Anderson cautions that some other errors have been made. Savage (1860) divided Jonas into two men, one at Watertown and one at Wethersfield, and a son at Stamford. Actually there was only one early Jonas Weed immigrant. In addition, Manwaring included an abstract of Jonas Weed at Southampton, Long Island, but Anderson believes this was clearly a mis-reading of Jonas Wood.[1]
FindAGrave profile reports his date of birth as February 1610, without source Cole-12288 17:34, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Weed-73
According to Torreys New England Marriages John Weed, the eldest son of Jonas Weed, 1610-1676, married Deborah Winsley, 14 Nov 1650, at Amesbury, Mass. This couple had 10 children. The John Weed you have married to Joanna Westcott and Mary Forman (sp?) was born in 1643 and died in 1690. These are two different John Weeds."
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The wife (Mary Hoyt Scofield Weed) on the Find a Grave memorial is incorrect. Please also notice the "other" wife given, Mary Unknown. http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=163803497
As you yourself discovered, it was the grandson of the immigrant Jonas Weed, who married Mary Scofield (who married Jonas and later Hoyt). http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70003113
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