Benjamin Jones (abt. 1630 - 1692)

Born about 1630 in Wales

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Spencer) Jones — married 2 May 1661 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 30 Dec 1692 at about age 62 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

His father was Robert Jones Sr. (1600 – 17 November 1691) ^[1] :The Profile for Seventeen Jones that is attached lacks source information as does the FamilySearch.org link to Robert

Benjamin was born about 1630. He passed away in 1692.

(1.) BENJAMIN JONES, the first, according to information as is evidenced below, was of Welsh extraction. he was married^[2] to a Miss Hannah Spencer (1630 Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut-1700 Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut) of Milford, Conn., May 2nd, 1661. To this union one son,

An old record copied from a tombstone in the old graveyard at Bedford, Conn., follows :

Here lies the body of Benjamin Jones, born in Wales, A. D. 1630. Died December 30, A. D. 1692. Age 62 years, 3 months, 5 days."

Note—In explanation it is well here to state for information, that a strip of land now the southern part of Massachusetts and adjoining the State of Connecticut, at the time of the above dates, were a part of the Territory of Connecticut.

He died in 1754, 92 years of age.

Sources

Genealogy of the Jones family; ... the descendants of Benajmin Jones who immigrated from South Wales more than 250 years ago. by Jones, George Russell Publication date [c1912] Topics Jones family (Benjamin Jones, 1630-1692) Publisher Los Angeles, Calif., Times-Mirror Collection newyorkpubliclibrary; americana, https://archive.org/details/genealogyofjones00jone

1. ↑ Robert Jones Sr. (1600 unsourced FamilySearch Record: MD7J-RZH
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3Y-QNK3 : 15 April 2022), Benjamin Jones in entry for Hannah Spencer, ; citing Marriage, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008143425.

Jones, George Robert Genealogy of the Jones Family (Jones, Los Angeles, California, 1912), https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofjones00jone#page/n15/mode/2up/search/Benjamin+Jones' p.5]

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67389425/benjamin-jones Find A Grave

• "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934", database, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H3HH-3GN2 : 16 January 2020), Benjamin Jones, 1690.