Person:Jonathan Danforth (10)

Watchers
  • F.  Samuel Danforth (add)
  • M.  Dorothy Shed (add)
m. 5 Aug 1714
  1. Jonathan Danforth1736 - 1802
  • HJonathan Danforth1736 - 1802
  • WLydia Read1736 - 1769
m. 22 Apr 1759
  • HJonathan Danforth1736 - 1802
  • WMiriam Cowee1748 - Bet 1806 & 1832
m. 13 Sep 1770
Facts and Events
Name Jonathan Danforth
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Jun 1736 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 22 Apr 1759 Warren, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lydia Read
Marriage 13 Sep 1770 Warren, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Miriam Cowee
Death[2][3] Feb 1802 Williamstown, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
    p. 55.

    DANFORTH, Jonathan, s. Samuel Jr. and Dorothy, June 14, 1736.

  2. Reynolds, Cuyler. Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs: a record of achievements of the people of the Hudson and Mohawk valleys in New York state included within the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub., c1911)
    Vol. 1, p. 222.

    Captain Jonathan Danforth, s/o Samuel Danforth and Dorothy Shed, b. Billerica 14 Jun 1736, d. Williamstown Feb 1802, m. (1) Warren 22 Apr 1759 Lydia Reed, m. (2) 13 Sep 1770 Miriam Coowie.

  3. Danforth, Keyes. Boyhood reminiscences : pictures of New England life in the olden times in Williamstown. (New York: Gazlay Bros., 1895)
    p. 51.

    "My grandfather, Jonathan Danforth, went from Billerica to Western, now Warren, Worcester County, when a young man, settled there and married Lydia Read. ... After the death of his first wife he married Miriam Cowee of Western. In 1775 he moved with his family to Williamstown ... My grandfather died in 1802 ..."