Person:Jabez Fairbanks (1)

Soldier and officer in the Indian Wars. His father and brother were killed in the massacre of 1676 and his last remaining brother, Jonathon, was killed in raids in 1697.

1. ↑ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles. Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633-1897. (Boston: Printed for the author by the American Printing and Engraving Company, 1897)
   39, 50.

   Jabez Fairbank [#13], b. "8 : 11 : 1670", "died March 2, 1758, aged 84", m. (1) Mary Wilder, d/o Thomas Wilder and Mary Houghton, m. (2) 25 Mar 1719 Elizabeth Whitcomb [note: incorrectly gives his 3rd wife to the son].

2. ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
   p. 324.

   FIRST CHURCH, BOOK 1
   1758
   Jabez Fairbank, [died] March 1.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Find A Grave: Old Settlers Burial Yard, Lancaster, MA, in Find A Grave
   Jabez FAirbank.

   In Memory of Lieu^t
   JABAZ FAIRBANK, who
   died in March 1758
   Aged about 84 years.
   M^rs MARY his first Wife died
   In March 1718 Aged 42 Years
   M^rs ELISABETH his Second
   Wife died May y^e 11^th 1755
   Aged 80 Years & 7 Months

4. ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
   p. 13.

   Jabez of Jonas and Lidea ffairbanks, [born] 8 . 11 . 70.
   [Note: In old-styles dates, the eleventh month is January. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.]

5. ↑ Source:Marvin, Abijah P. History of Worcester in the War of the Rebellion, p. 170, refers to "Lieut. afterwards Capt. Jabez Fairbank", but the later records of him all refer to him as Lieut., i.e., his gravestone, the intentions for his last marriage in 1756, so seems to be how he was known.