Samuel Fones (1666 - 1757)

Born 1666 in Jamestown, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Ancestors

Husband of Meribah (Smith) Fones — married 1701 in Rhode Island

Descendants

Died Dec 1757 at about age 91 in North Kingstown, Kings, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Biography

Samuel Fones was born in 1666 in Jamestown, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of John Fones (1635–1703) and Margaret Irene UNKNOWN (1640–1692).

Samuel married Ann Tibbitts (born about 1663; daughter of Henry Tibbitts and Sarah (Stanton) Tibbetts). Their daughter was Ann Fones (1689– ).

Samuel (34) married Meribah Smith (29) (born in 1671 in Kings Towne, King's Province, Rhode Island) in 1701 in Rhode Island. Their son was Samuel Fones (1702–>1735).

Life Event Timeline

• 1687, Sep. 6: On 6 September 1687, Samuel Fones is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1s which places him as an adult resident, but not a property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[1] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. Therefore, this tax list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[2] His father, Capt. John Fones, and his brothers Jeremiah and John Fones Jr. are also cited on this 1687 tax roll.

Samuel died in December, 1757 in North Kingstown, Kings, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, aged 90.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
2. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-KGSD : 24 May 2022), Samuel Fones, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 35618530, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also:

• Bentley, William Perry & Bentley, John Earle. Genealogy of One Branch of the Peckham Family of Newport and Westerly, R.I. (Dallas, 1957) Page 64
• Ancestral File(R) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ancestral File Number: N2CZ-T8
• International Genealogical Index (Church of the Latter Day Saints)
• Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co., 1905) Page 416
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LDJH-G7L
• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F87K-KQQ : 17 December 2019), Samuel Fones in entry for Samuel Fones, 1702.