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- [S16] Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897, Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, A.M., Late Counsellor at Law, (Boston: The American Printing & Engraving, Company, 1897), reprinted by the Fairbanks Family in America 1991 3rd ed.., page 57 (under father) & page 79-80.
39. NATHAN FAIRBANKS, of Swansey, New Hampshire.
(17), John IV, John III, John II, Jonathan I.
Born in Wrentham, Mass., August 6, 1704. He settled in that part of the Province of New Hampshire which is now Cheshire County. But it is not definitely known when he left Mass. In deeds of land made by him he was described in 1730, as of Wrentham, and in 1750 as of a place called Upper Ashuelot (now Keene), in the Province of New Hampshire. See Suffolk, Mass. Deeds, vol. 46, page 183, and vol. 78, page 139. In 1735 he sold land at Upper Ashuelot to Nathan Blake of Wrentham, and he was then of the same Wrentham.
He was a soldier in the Colonial Wars, serving first, while a resident of Wrentham, in Capt. Samuel Wright's company from June 10, to Oct. 29, 1725. After his removal to Ashuelot he, being on the frontier, served in the companies of Capt. Josiah Willard, Jr., in 1748-50, and in Capt. Elisha William's company in the Crown Point expedition of 1755. In one instance his name is spelled "Nathl." in the War rolls. See Colonial War Rolls.
In 1752, he was living in Upper Ashuelot, and four years later in Hinsdale, N.H. He bought land in Swanzey, of Abner Osgood, in 1763, and was then described as of Winchester. He sold this land in 1766.
He died Jan. 14, 1777, in Swanzey, and Samuel Wires of Walpole, N. H., was appointed to administer upon his estate, Dec. 31, 1777. Mr. Wires' wife was a sister of John Burt, who married Susan Fairbanks, daughter of Nathan. After the death of Samuel Wires, Nathan Fairbanks, Jr., was appointed guardian of his five small children. Petition filed in Cheshire, N. H. Probate Court, Jan. 19, 1802.
From the records of deeds made in 1766, we learn that his wife's name was Mary, but no record has been found of their marriage.
In the records of the First Church in Westmoreland is the following record, which probably refers to her: "Mrs. Fairbanks died Aug. 31, 1807." It seems probable that she was living with her son Nathan, as there is no record of any other Mrs. Fairbanks being in Westmoreland at that time.
They had, perhaps, other children of whom no account has been obtained. There is an obscure tradition that there were three sons.
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1704 - 1777 (72 years)