Jonathan Devol (1711 - 1782)

Born 4 Aug 1711 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Allan) Devol — married Apr 1738 (to 1776) in Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Shearman) Devol — married 1776 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Descendants

Died Aug 1782 at about age 70 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Jonathan Devol was a Rhode Island businessman and colonial legislator whose sons became some of Ohio's earliest settlers. He was born August 11, 1711 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, the seventh of Joseph Devol and Mary Soule Devol's nine children.

April of 1738, at the age of 26, Jonathan married Priscilla Allen, daughter of Gideon and Anna (Buck) Allen of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Priscilla, who was probably 22 or 23 years old at the time, was a Quaker. Two years later, their first baby boy was born, and over the next 15 years Priscilla would deliver eight more sons.

When most men's lives wind down, Jonathan's life underwent turbulent changes. In 1775, the first skirmishes of the Revolution disrupted his West India trade. The following February Jonathan lost Priscilla, his wife of 30 years.

A year later, in 1776, the colonies declared their independence, breaking forever, all ties with England. Sometime before year's end, Jonathan remarried; declaring his love for Mary Sherman of Freetown, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Jenny) Sherman. ^[1][2]

His will was written on 6 August 1782 and proved on 2 September 1782 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.^[3] His inventory was done on 28 August 1782.^[3]

To read more about Jonathan go to Find A Grave: Memorial #55225897. His burial place is unknown at this time.

Sources

1. ↑ "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24H-3SD3 : 22 January 2020), Jonathan Devol, 1776.
2. ↑ Marriage Record
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649759_00325). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], Probate and Town Council Records, Vol 2 and 4, 1747-1792, image 325-327. Probate Records of Tiverton, RI, No. 4, July 1, 1771- May 21, 1792, Page 321-325, Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

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• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/94YZ-X89 : accessed 2014-11-04), Original entry for Jonathan Devol, submitted by jverdoorn2768187.