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Fairbanks, Nathan Jr.[1]

Male Abt 1760 - 1825  (~ 65 years)


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  • Name Fairbanks, Nathan 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born Abt 1760  Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened of Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1825  Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2027  USA
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2015 

    Father Fairbanks, Nathan,   b. 6 Aug 1704, Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jan 1777, Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Mary,   b. 1738, < New Hampshire, United States > Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Aug 1807, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Married Abt 1758  of Westmorland, Cheshire, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1122  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sheldon, Clarissa,   b. 1772, Berlin, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1859, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)  [2] 
    Married 21 Sep 1794  Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Fairbanks, Lucius,   b. 1795, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Fairbanks, Susan,   b. 1796, Walpole, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Fairbanks, Rhoda,   b. 1 Oct 1797, Weston, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1881, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     4. Fairbanks, Hiram G,   b. 1798, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1850, Placerville, Stanislaus, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)
     5. Fairbanks, Clarissa,   b. 1799, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Fairbanks, Sheldon,   b. 9 Jul 1801, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Mar 1868, Augusta, des Moines, Iowa, United States, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     7. Fairbanks, Almon,   b. 1802, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1840, Manchester, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     8. Fairbanks, Alexander Holton,   b. 8 Sep 1807, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1886, Bureau, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     9. Fairbanks, Vernon,   b. 1809, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1830  (Age 21 years)
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2021 
    Family ID F1179  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [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 79 (under father) & page 133-134.
      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.

      In the records of the First Church of Westmoreland is the following record, which probably refers to her (Mary): "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.

      page 133:

      97. NATHAN FAIRBANKS, of Lawrenceburg, Ind.
      (39), Nathan V, John IV, John III, John II, Jonathan I.

      Born about 1759 or 1760. He lived in Westmoreland, N. H., after the death of his father, where he bought a farm, situated on the bank of the Connecticut River, partly in Westmoreland and partly in Walpole, the house being in the latter town. He lived there until 1817 or 1818. A part of the farm is still known as the Fairbanks meadow. Soon after selling his farm in Feb. 1817, he, with all his family, except Susan, who had married James Martin, removed to western New York, where they remained until the fall of 1821, when they settled in Lawrenceburg, Ind., where he died in 1825.

      He married, Sept. 21, 1794, Clarissa, daughter of Amasa and Sybil (Holton) Sheldon, who was born in Berlin, Mass., 1772; died in Lawrenceburg, in 1859. She was a descendant of the Sheldons of Deerfield, the most noted of the defenders of their homes against the Indians, and builders of the Old Indian House in Deerfield. In this house, Feb. 29, 1704, her great-great-grandmother was killed by the bullet of an Indian, which was fired through the door and passed through her neck. The old house is not now standing, but the door is preserved in the rooms of "The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association of Deerfield," and is one of the most valued of its possessions.

    2. [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 133.