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Owen Brewster

Ancestry of
Owen Brewster

54th Governor of Maine

    William Jones

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    • 6th Great-grandfather of Owen Brewster — 9th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 266 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1624 
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    • Death Date:
    • 17 Oct 1706 
    • Death Location:
    • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 4 Jul 1659 
    • Marriage Location:
    • London, England 
    • Children:

      • Hannah Jones

      Isaac Jones

      Elizabeth Jones (Ahnentafel No:133 )

      Sarah Jones

    • Notes: 

    • Some published sources claim that Lt. Gov. William Jones may have been the son of Col. John Jones, the Regicide, executed 16 OCT 1660. No evidence was given to support this claim and more recent publications do not even acknowledge it.

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  • Sources for William Jones

    • 3 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1908, Vol. 39, p. 209.
    • 4 Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, p. 131.
    • 5 Jacobus, Donald L., The Genealogy of the Booth Family: Booth Families of Connecticut for Six or More Generations, Pleasant Hill, Missouri: Eden C. Booth (1952), 5.
    • 6 Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 165.
    • 7 Morgan, Nathaniel H., Morgan Genealogy: A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and His Descendants; From 1607 to 1869, Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1869), 25.