John Fairbanks (1755 - 1830)

Born 6 May 1755 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Husband of Fanny (Kelton) Fairbanks — married 16 Jul 1780 in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 20 Oct 1830 at age 75 in Chazy, Clinton, New York, United States

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Biography

John was born 6 May 1755 in Athol to John and Relief Houghton Fairbank. ^[1]

Private John Fairbanks served with Berkshire County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

John Fairbanks is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A038399.

John was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was eight months in 1775 in Captain Ichabod Dexter's company, Col. Woodbridge's Berkshire regiment; two months and twenty days from September 1, 1777, in Capt Thomas Lord's company. Colonel Cushing's regiment, in the miscellaneous militia service, and spent a hard winter at Valley Forge.^[2]

John Jr. and Fanny Kelton/Kilton were married in Athol on July 16, 1780.^[3]

John and Fanny had, in Athol:^[4]

• Reuben, b. Sept. 20, 1780, married Lucinda Fish, Oct. 5, 1806
• Asa, b. Sept. 9, 1784
• Lydia, b Apr. 25, 1787
• Zelinda, b. Aug 21, 1791
• Fanne, b. Oct. 27, 1796
• John 3d b. July 27, 1798
• Calvin Warren, b. Sep. 15, 1801
• Lorenzo, b. Jan. 4, 1804

No further marriage or death records found in Athol for this family, except for two children born to Reuben and Lucinda, suggesting that John and Fanny removed to another location sometime after 1806. Apparently that was in northernmost Clinton County, the northernmost county in New York, by Lake Champlain just a mile south of the Canadian border.

John died in Rouses Point, Clinton County. He was buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery there. So are his sons Warren Calvin and Lorenzo.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Athol, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, p. 29: "son John & Releef'
2. ↑ Northern New York, pages 130-131, cited in findagrave #49659604.
3. ↑ {http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Athol/Images/Athol_M124.shtml Worcester, Vital Records of Athol, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, p. 124 & 142]
4. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Athol, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, pp. 29 & 30
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #49659604

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KLDC-18Y
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC2B-FQ1 : 5 January 2021), John Fairbank, 1755.
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-SRKP : 18 February 2020), John Jr Fairbank and Fanny Kilton, 16 Jul 1780; citing Marriage, Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011252.
• Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897 (Boston, MA: pub. by the author [American Printing & Engraving Co.], 1897)

Acknowledgments

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