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Facts and Events
| Name |
Capt. Jonathan Danforth |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3][4] |
29 Feb 1627/28 |
Framlingham, Suffolk, England |
| Christening[1] |
2 Mar 1627/28 |
Framlingham, Suffolk, England |
| Marriage |
22 Nov 1654 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Poulter |
| Marriage |
17 Nov 1690 |
Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Esther Champney |
| Death[2] |
7 Sep 1712 |
Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ "Nicholas Danforth", in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
II:281ff.
Children of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber: 7) Jonathan, bp 2 Mar 1628[/9?] (deposed 29 May 1677 "aged about fifty years"), m. (1) Boston 22 Nov 1654 Elizabeth Poulter, m. (2) Billerica 17 Nov 1690 Esther (Champney) Converse.
[The question mark after the baptism date apparently indicates ambiguity or question by Anderson whether the year should be 1627/28 or 1628/29. Presumably, the baptismal record says 2 Mar 1628, as a numeric month of 1 would be unequivocally 1627/28. One source giving the February birthdateS3 says 1628 which would require use of 1628/29, while the older oneS4 says 1627 which would require the use of 1627/28. But the date, 29 Feb in both such citations, would indicate a leap year, and this would have to be 1627/28 (the modern year equivalent, 1628, divisible by four). Birthdates were not typically recorded, and so it is not clear how reliable this birthdate is, but if we accept it at face value, the year must be 1627/28. The age at death, 84S3, would suggest birth before 7 Sep 1628, and hence support the 1627/28 interpretation as well. (An age of death of 85S2 pushes the birth even earlier, but it is possible that what was meant was that common gravestone phrase "in the 85th year of his age", i.e., 84.)]
- ↑ Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
354.
Danforth, Jonathan, Capt., [died] Sept. 7, 1712, a. 85.
[Birth calculates to about 1627.]
- ↑ Harris, William Thaddeus. Notes on the Danforth Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Oct 1853).
"Jonathan Danforth, third son of Nicholas Danforth, was born at Framlingham, in Suffolk, England, 29 Feb 1628, and came to New England with his father in 1634. He was one of the first settlers of Billerica, in 1653; was the first Captain of the town; Representative in 1684; Town Clerk twenty years; and one of the most eminent Land-Surveyors of his time. He married, 22 Nov 1655, Elizabeth, daughter of John Poulter, and had eleven children, of whom six were sons; but only two of them (Jonathan, born in 1656, and Samuel, born in 1666) left issue. He died 7 Sept 1712, aged 84, leaving a widow, who was a second wife."
- ↑ Farmer, John. An historical memoir of Billerica, in Massachusetts: containing notices of the principal events in the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the town, from its first settlement to 1816. (Amherst, N.H.: R. Boylston, 1816)
15.
"He [Jonathan Danforth] was born at Framingham[sic], in the county of Suffolk, in England, 29 February, 1627..."
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