Jonathan Fairbank

- 1668

• Name	Jonathan Fairbank
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Dec 1668	Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I30664	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Fairbank,   b. Abt 1560, of Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England d. Between 4 Aug 1625 and 7 Aug 1625 (Age ~ 65 years)
  Family ID	F7143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grace Smith,   b. Abt 1597   d. 28 Dec 1673, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
  Marriage	20 May 1617	Halifax, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. George Fairbanks,   b. Bef 28 Nov 1617   d. 10 Jan 1682, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 64 years)
  Family ID	F7138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was long believed to have been a son of George Fairbanks and Mary Farrer, but in 2012 Ruth Fairbanks Joseph and James Swan Landberg (citation details below) argued convincingly that he was in fact a son of George Fairbank's brother John Fairbank, and that this resolved several long-standing difficulties in Fairbank/Fairbanks genealogy. He and his family arrived in New England sometime before spring 1637, settling at Dedham. The home that was built for them there still stands and is, under the name "The Fairbanks House," open to the public, claimed as the oldest standing timber frame house in America.

  
  

• Sources

  [S594] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett 1832-1892 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S4950] Ruth Fairbanks Joseph and James Swan Landberg, "Jonathan Fairbank of Dedham, Massachusetts and His Family in the West Riding of Yorkshire." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 166:165, 2012.