John Banks (abt. 1641 - 1699)

Born about 1641 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Lyon) Banks — married 3 Apr 1672 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

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Biography

• "...settled in Greenwich near the border of Rye. About 1681 he is said, with Thomas Lyon, to have received a large grant of land, four hundred acres, situated in the angle made by the Armonck or Byram river and the Westchester path (History of Greenwich Conn by DM Mead p 68). The houses of John Banks and Thomas Lyon are still standing on the eastern bank of Byram River near the Boston Road. They were probably half brothers. The family tradition places their coming to this spot forty years earlier in 1640; but this is a palpable mistake. John married Abigail and died July 14, 1699 (Savage). He had a son John and perhaps another Joseph"

Sources

• findagrave
• Baird, Charles W. Chronicle of a Border Town (Anson D. F. Randolph and Company, No. 770 Broadway, New York, 1871) Page 395-396
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Genealogical Publishing Company, Vol. 1, pages 25, 26; Vol. 2, page 38 (#2)
• Mead, Spencer Percival. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (Knickerbocker Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1911) Page 495