"… By trade, the Benjamin who married Ann Prior was a cooper, as appears from record quoted; … Children of Benjamin and Ann (Prior) Jones, of Somers, Conn., their children being the fourth generation: …"
Somers (then East Enfield) was incorporated from Enfield in 1734. It remained in Massachusetts until 1749 when it, along with the Towns of Suffield, Enfield and Woodstock, was annexed by Connecticut.