Jonathan Turner, my eighth great grandfather, was born on this date in 1646, in the Scituate Settlement of Plymouth Colony, the oldest of thirteen children born to John Turner and Mary Brewster, and their first son.
Jonathan's grandfather, Humphrey Turner, had been a tanner, and was one of the early Scituate settlers, one of only 17 organizers of the church at Scituate in 1634/5. This occupation carried through three generations to Jonathan.
Jonathan's mother, Mary Brewster was the granddaughter of William Brewster of Mayflower fame.
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Jonathan married first Martha Bisbee of Scituate in 1677. The couple had five children:
Deborah, b. 1678
Jemima, b. 1680
Isaac, b. 1682
Keziah, b. 1685
and
Jonathan, b. 1687
He married a second time to Mercy Hatch, also of Scituate, around 1690. Together, they had six children:
Mercy, b. 1690
Ruth, b. 1693/4
Ignatius, b. 1697/8
Martha, b. 1700 (my 7th great grandmother)
Jesse, b. 1704
and
Mary, b. 1706
His third marriage was to Lydia Hayden of Braintree, a widow who was raising four daughters on her own. They had no children together.
Jonathan died on April 18, 1724, in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Photo credit:
"Shoemaker," Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Summer 2007, Goods, by J. Hunter Barbour. (http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/trades.cfm)
"Shoemaker," Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Summer 2007, Goods, by J. Hunter Barbour. (http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/trades.cfm)
"Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor," By William Halsall (http://www.artcom.com/Museums/vs/mr/02360-38.htm) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Ancestry.com. Genealogical Dictionary of New England
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Deane, Samuel. History
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Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 20 Sep 2014), memorial page for Humphrey Turner (1593-1672), Find A Grave Memorial no. 21760860, citing Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
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