Jonas Main (1736 - 1804)

Born 7 Feb 1736 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Patience (Peckham) Maine — married 3 Jun 1756 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Husband of Content (Bromley) Main — married 14 Apr 1760 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1804 at age 67 in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ensign Jonas Main served with 11th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Jonas Main is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A073167.

Jonas Main is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-240809
Rank: Ensign, Connecticut Militia

Jonas Main was born to Deacon Thomas and Annah (Brown) Main on February 7, 1735/6 at Stonington, New London County, Connecticut Colony.^[1] He was baptized on November 7, 1736.

Military Service

As a young man Jonas Main volunteered for the militia during the French and Indian War, serving the British cause in the Connecticut 3rd Regiment under the command of Col. Eleazer Fitch, entering service on May 26, 1758 and was discharged on November 8, 1758.

During the American Revolutionary War he fought against the British in support of the Colonial cause for independence. He was appointed Ensign on November 5, 1780 in the 4th Alarm Company, 8th Regiment, Connecticut Militia under the command of Col. Samuel McClellan. He was discharged on January 3, 1781 after being wounded in battle.

Family

Married, first, on June 3, 1756 at Stonington, Connecticut to Patience Peckham b, February 13, 1733; d. July 23, 1758. Conflicting records have place of marriage as Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. 1 Child:

1. Sebbeus b. March 23, 1757 (Name spelled various ways: Sibius, Sebbers. Sebbears, Sebbeers and others.

Married, second, on April 14, 1760 at Stonington to Content or Constant Bromley. They had 10 children:

1. Content (Main) Hakes (1761-1825); married George Hakes
2. Reuben Peckham Main (1763-1842); married Sarah Burdick
3. Patience (Main) Peckham (1765-1862); married Thomas Hazard Peckham
4. Lyman Main (1767-1839); married Frances Burdick
5. Dewey Main (1770-1847); married Lucinda Colgrove
6. Jonas Main Jr. (1772-1860)
7. Thomas Main (abt.1773-); married Hannah Chapman
8. Jabish Breed (Main) Maine (1774-1856); married Freelove P. Edwards
9. Nancy (Main) Gray (1778-1804); married John Gray
10. Paul B. (Main) Maine (1782-1867); married Lydia Miner

Jonas Main was a miller, and kept a mill.

Jonas Main died 24 Jan 1804 in North Stonington, Connecticut.

Notes

Aspinwall said in his works that he personally saw the family Bible of Jonas Main in 1900, then in possession of his great grandson Thomas W. Wheeler (p. 83) of North Stonington, Conn. Mrs. Wheeler told Aspinwall that her husband's grandmother, Patience (Maine) Peckham (#69, p. 35), who lived to be 97 years old, told her that her father, Jonas Main, kept this Bible at his mill in Milltown, (North Stonington) and was a constant reader of this Bible.

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume: Stonington, page 154. See record at subscription site.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 17, 2017), "Record of Jonas Maine", Ancestor # A073167.

• 1800 United States Federal Census [database on-line].Census Place: Stonington, New London, Connecticut; Series: M32; Roll: 3; Page: 680; Image: 205; Family History Library Film: 205620.

• Brown, Cyrus H. 1909; Genealogical record of Nathaniel Babcock, Simeon Main, Issac Miner, Ezekiel Main. The Everett Press, Inc. Boston; pp. 50, 72: https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalreco00brow5#page/50/mode/1up; https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalreco00brow5#page/72/mode/1up

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Birth

Marriage to Patience Peckham

Marriage to Content Bromley

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