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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Jonas Weed |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Bef 1610 |
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| Emigration[1] |
1630 |
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| Residence[1] |
1630 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
18 May 1631 |
Admitted freeman. |
| Residence[1] |
1635 |
Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
Bef 1637 |
to Mary _____ |
| Residence[1] |
1642 |
Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Will[1] |
26 Nov 1672 |
Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[1] |
Bef 5 Jun 1676 |
Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
5 Jun 1676 |
£116 9s. 6d., including £58 in real estate. |
| Probate[1] |
7 Nov 1676 |
Will proved. |
"The lack of any record of Jonas Weed between 18 May 1631 and 29 March 1636 may indicate that he had returned to England for part of this period. However, the clear record that he was in Wethersfield very early in 1636, and probably late in 1635, would indicate that he had already sold any land he might have had in Watertown, and could well have received a houselot and other grants of land during his stay there. Savage divided this Jonas into two men, a father at Watertown and Wethersfield, and a son at Stamford, but the records are consistent with the assumption that only one Jonas Weed was present in New England during these years."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Jonas Weed, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
III:1956-59.
ORIGIN: Unknown.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Member of Watertown church prior to 29 March 1636, when he was dismissed from that church in order to form a new church at Wethersfield [CCCR 1:2].
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 0MBCR 1:366].
BIRTH: By 1610 based on date of freemanship. (When John Winthrop Jr. treated Jonas Weed in 1669 he gave his age as seventy [WMJ 884], but this seems inflated.)
DEATH: Stamford between 26 November 1672 (date of will) and 5 June 1676 (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date.
- Jonas Weed, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:451.
Jonas Weed, the freem. of 18 May 1631, of wh. nothing more is told, exc. by Bond wh. discov. from Trumbull, Col. Rec. I. 2, that he had been dism. from the ch. of Watertown to that of Wethersfield, but the date in Bond, p. 963, 29 May 1635, is by me confidently read 29 Mar. 1636. Of course he came in the fleet of 1630, and by Bond's reasonab. conject. in the ship with Sir Richard Saltonstall. I find a Jonas, perhaps his s. at Stamford 1669, then seek. to be made freem. of Conn. but he is accomp. in the same good purpose by JOHN wh. may be gr.s. of the first Jonas. Mr. Judd enlarges our acquaint. with him by tell. that he was of Stamford 1642, until he d. 1676, his inv. being of 5 June in that yr. He made his will Nov. 1672, nam. four s. John, Daniel, Jonas, and Samuel, four ds. May, w. of George Abbot; Dorcas Wright, w. of James; Hannah, m. 5 Jan. 1670, Benjamin Hoyt; and Sarah. His wid. Mary, d. early in 1690, at least her inv. was brot. in 10 Mar. of that yr.
| The Winthrop Fleet (1630)
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| The Winthrop Fleet brought over 700 colonists to establish a new colony at Massachusetts Bay. The fleet consisted of eleven ships: the Arbella flagship with Capt Peter Milburne, the Ambrose, the Charles, the Mayflower, the Jewel, the Hopewell, The Success, the Trial, the Whale, the Talbot and the William and Francis.
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| Sailed: | April and May 1630 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England
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| Arrived: | June and July 1630 at Salem, Massachusetts
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| Previous Settlers: | The Higginson Fleet (1629)
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