Jonathan Wentworth (abt. 1704 - abt. 1756)

Born about 1704 in Dover, Strafford, Province of New Hampshire

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Descendants

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Biography

Abigail Heard married Jonathan Wentworth. ^[1]

Alive at the time of his father's death in 1749. Deceased before April 30th 1756.

Birthdate is approximate based on parents estimated marriage date of 1699 and birth order.

Ephraim and Mary (Miller) Wentworth had children:

1. 55. Ephraim [236]
2. 56. Spencer, married Kezia, daughter of Tristram and Abigail Heard, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth Heard. She was born 1 December 1712. She had sisters: Mary, married _____ Warren, and Elizabeth, married _____ Knight. Spencer died childless, 5 August 1773, willing property to niece Phebe, daughter of Jonathan, and niece Sarah, daughter of Samuel and the balance to wife Kezia. His widow married, 2d 11 December 1776, Capt. Thomas Pierce of Portsmouth, N.H.; survived him, and lived with a nephew of Spencer, viz: Jacob, who married Martha, daughter of Daniel and Anna (264) (Wentworth) Hurd.
3. 57. Ezekiel [264]
4. 58. Samuel [273]
5. 59. Jonathan [282]
6. 60. Mary, married Nehemiah Kimball, and had Ephraim Kimball, who was living in Dover, 20 September 1780; and perhaps Daniel Kimball, who married Martha (261), daughter of Ephraim Wentworth, son of Ephraim.
7. 61. Anna, married ----- Ham
8. 62, Martha, married ----- Twombly
9. 63. Elizabeth, was unmarried at the date of her father's will, but is said to have married ----- Twombly.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wentworth, Edward Norris The Genealogy of Edward Norris Wentworth, Junior (Wentworth, Chicago, Illinois, 1928); Footnote Abbreviation: Wentworth. p 46.
2. ↑ "The Wentworth Genealogy comprising The Origin of the name, the Family in England and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the Emigrant and of his descendants". By John Wentworth, LL.D., of Chicago, Ill. In Two Volumes, Volume 1. 1870 Press of Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Mass pg. 91

• California State Library; Sacramento; Index of the Records of the Council of New Hampshire
• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs pgs 494 http://tinyurl.com/qyjlu7z