Person:Jonas Fairbanks (5)

Jonas Fairbank emigrated to New England in 1633 and was in Lancaster with his family by 1657. Jonas was killed, with his son Joahua, by Indians in the attack on Lancaster, at a time when the settlement was made up of only 50 families.

In 1652 he was fined for wearing great boots before he was worth 200 pounds, which was contrary to the sumptuary regulation of the government of Massachusetts ordered in 1651.

1. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1994)
   256.
2. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1994)
   256.

   "Killed by the Indians"

3. ↑ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America
   38.
4. ↑ Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W.J. Coulter, 1890)
   16.

   Victims of the Massacre of February 10, 1676.
   Jonas Fairbank
   Joshua Fairbank, son of Jonas, aged fifteen years.

5. ↑ Crane, Ellery B. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907)
   3:111.

   Jonas Fairbanks, s/o Jonathan, b. England, signer of Covenant in Dedham 7 Dec 1659 and called one of "Fathers of the Town", but was living in Lancaster by 1657 [sic], one of 50 killed in attack by 500 Indians under King Philip on town of Lancaster along with son Joshua, m. 28 May 1658 Lydia Prescott.