Ahnentafel #134 - Jonathan Janes

Jonathan Janes

Born: March 12, 1713 in Lebanon, Connecticut
Died: after 1783

Buried: Unknown

Married: Irene Bradford, March 18, 1735 in Lebanon, Connecticut

Occupation: probably a farmer

Religion:  Baptized in the Lebanon First Congregational Church June 7, 1713, owned covenant Jan. 9, 1737 and was admitted to the church January 31, 1742. 


He moved his family to Brimfield, Massachusetts in 1751 according to the baptismal records of his children.  He and Irene were admitted to the Brimfield Congregational Church in December 1751.  The oath for membership is found in the church records:

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, being Called of God into ye chh. state of ye Gospel, Do, first of all, confess our Selves unworthy to Be soe highly favored of ye Lord, & admire ye free & rich grace of His, which triumphs over soe great unworthiness, & then with an Humble reliance on ye aid of grace therein promised for them, that in a sense of their Inability to do any good thing, Do humbly wait on him for all, we thankfully Lay hold on his Covenant and would choose ye things yt please Him.

We declare our serious Belief in ye Xn religion as contained in ye Sacred scriptures, heartily resolving to conform our Lives unto ye rules of ye holy religion as long as we Live.

We give up our Selves to ye Lord Jehovah, Father, Son & Holy Ghost, & vouch him to be our God, Father & Leader, & receive him as our portion forever.

We give up our Selves to ye Blessed Jesus, who is ye Lord Jehovah, and adhere to him as ye Head of his people in ye covenant of grace, & Rely on him as our Prophet, Priest & King, to bring us to eternal Blessedness.

We acknowledge our everlasting obligation to glorify our God in all ye duties of a Godly, Sober & righteous life, & very particularly in ye chh. state, and a Body of people associated for an obedience to him in all ye ordinances of ye Gospel.

We Desire, & intend, & engage to Walk together as a chh. of Jesus Christ, in ye faith & Order of ye Gospel soe far as we shall have ye same revealed unto us, Conscientiously attending ye Public worship of God, ye sacraments of ye New Testament, ye Discipline of his kingdom & all his holy institutions in common with one another, & watchfully avoiding sinful stumbling Blocks & Contentions, as becomes a people whom ye Lord hath Bound up together in ye Bundle of Life.

Att ye same time do we allsoe present our offspring with us unto ye Lord, purposing with his help to do our Part in ye method of a religious Education yt they may be ye Lord's.

And all this we Do, flying to ye Blood of ye everlasting covenant for ye pardon of our many errors & praying yt ye glorious Lord who is yt Great Shepherd, will prepare and strengthen us for every good Work to do his will, to whom Be glory forever.  Amen.

In such terms, as definite as those times required, did the fathers of this church express their faith.  [Brimfield, Massachusetts Church records]

On September 12, 1757 the congregation voted to allow the women to sit with their husbands.

The women petitioned the church elders on March 12, 1759:

We ye Petitioners, Do send greeting to ye Honorable town for several Reasons.  We do humbly beg leave of your Honors that you would give us ye place over ye women's Staires to build a pew upon our own cost.  One reason we give is that We are Soe crowded at Sundry times that we Cant hardly get a seate to set in, & ye other Reason is that Whereas there is a Pew on ye other side, we think reasonably that it will beautifie ye house.

In 1761, a petition was presented from the inhabitants of the south-east part of the town, to be set off as a separate district.  The west line of the district petitioned for, was the present town line of Holland.  Its north line began at Joseph Davis',(1) and ran east to the Quinabaug.  The limits petitioned for, included the Janeses.(2)  The reason assigned in the petition, was the inconvenience of attending meeting on Sabbath.

1) The Joseph Browning place.

2) Elijah the father of Cyrus, and occupying the same place.  William, living where Wm. J. Sherman now lives, and Jonathan residing on Parson Allen's place, all sons of William Janes, who came from Lebanon.

Though they failed in their petition, they began to hold meetings in that part of the district, and to procure preaching, they sought assistance from the town.  This church became the Monson Congregational Church.

1783 Jonathan age 70 & Irene age 68 were dismissed from the Brimfield Church in order to join the Monson church.  It may have been closer to where they lived.  Monson is about six miles west of Brimfield. 

Children:
David b. 12/25/1736 md. Jemima Vorce 1765

• Timothy md. ? Pearce
• Bradford

Jonathan b. 1/28/1739, d. 3/16/1752 age 13
Irene b. 4/5/1741, d. 1743
Eliphalet b. 2/23/1743, d. 1836 md. Elfleda Lyon 

• Lucinda b. 3/11/1769, d. 7/12/1843 md. Zephaniah Gibbs 12/20/1787 children: Martha, Elfleda, Alfred, Cynthia, Lucinda & Armeda
• Roxylena b. 11/29/1771 md. Edwin Fox 1789 children: Nancy, Guerdon, Henry, Horatio, Royal, Amanda, Eliza, Alvin, John, Samantha & Fidelia
• Marsilvy b. 6/14/1774 md. Benjamin Eastman children: Eunice, Mary, Fidelia, Roxylena, Roswell, Hiram, Emily, Elizabeth, Susan & Mason
• Alfred b. 3/9/1776 md. 1) Mary Warren 1794 & 2) Alice Cross 1800 children: Eliza, Adrian, Benjamin, Alvin, Alfred & Adaline
• Walter b. 2/17/1779, d. 7/24/1827 md. Cynthia Richards 1802 children: Maria, Alphonzo, Arethusa, Lucius, Parthena, Edwin & George
• Almarin b. 7/11/1781, d. 5/5/1813 after being blown up at Fort York in the War of 1812 md. 1) Polly Fay 1803 children: Elfleda, Emeline, Mary, Diantha, Louisa
• Bradford b. 5/6/1784, d. ca. 1863 md. Sarah Gibbs children: Irving, Elbridge, Nancy, Almarin, Eron, Sarah, Mary, Edward, Edgar
• Sally b. 12/1/1788, d. 6/16/1863 md. Abijah Richards, children: Ann, Eliza

Irene b. 7/30/1745
Solomon b. 6/20/1748, d. 4/4/1812 md. Beulah Fisk

• Nathan md. Celinda Dexter children: Orestes, Laura, Henry
• Pardon
• Henry b. 10/18/1798 md. Fanny Butler children: Helen, Henry
• Lorenzo b. 9/18/1801 md. Elvenah Cooper 1833 children: Emeline, Mary, Henry, Elvenah, Almira, George, Corinna, David, Edgar, Ellie
• Lorinda
• Beulah
• Polly
• Lucretia

Daniel b. 3/17/1751, d. 3/20/1809 md. Annie Saunders 1776

• Rachel b. 5/2/1777, d. 9/14/1849 md. Oliver Skinner 1795 children: Annie, Mary, Hiram, Charles, Merilla, Horace, Daniel, Roxey, Annie, Abigail
• Charles b. 6/5/1779, d. 1785 age 6
• Annie b. 10/10/1782 md. Thomas Shepherd 1804 children: Susan, Rachel, John, Lydia, Thomas
• Jeremiah b. 1/2/1785 md. Sarah Allen children: Alice, Levi, Ira, Annie, Henry
• Charles b. 3/14/1787, d. 1801 age 14
• Daniel b. 9/25/1789, d. 1868 md. 1) Hannah Lathrop 1811 & 2) Mary Powell 1814 children: Elkanah, Hannah, Chester, Albert, Charles, Fanny, Mary
• Ira b. 4/30/1794 md. 1) Precinda Wright & 2) Carolin Breese children: Philena, Ursula, Daniel, Oliver, Precinda
• Irene md. ? Allen
• Lydia b. 2/1799 md. ? Cook

Mary 
Jonathan b. 1/8/1756, d. 6/29/1825 md. Patty Plympton 1780

• Horace b. 9/17/1781 md. 1) Catharine Barnard 1802, 2) Mary Brown  1813 & 3) Eunice Patridge 1823, children: Frances, Sarah, Charles, Jonathan, Frances, Henry, Horace, Joseph, Catharine, Lewis, Abby
• Cynthia b. 7/8/1783 md. Ebenezer Marvin children: Ebenezer, George, Julia, Jonathan
• Ruby b. 5/9/1785 md. 1) Ethan Hubbard & 2) Asaph Morgan children: George, Charlotte, Martha, Jonathan, Frances, Charles
• Martha b. 7/2/ 1787 md. 1) William Foote & 2) William Wilkins children: William, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Jonathan
• Jonathan b. 3/23/1789, d. 7/13/1816 age 27
• Gershom b. 10/3/1790
• Henry b. 6/1/1792 md. Betsy Allis children: Jonathan, William, Henry, Julia, George, Martha, Julia, Frances
• Julia b. 10/15/1794 md. Jason Pierce children: Charles, Frances, Cynthia, Margaret, Edward, Jason, Mary, Esther, Julia
• Charlotte b. 5/22/1796
• Lewis b. 2/6/1798, d. 8/9/1865 md. Abbey Allyn 1821 children: Thomas, Martha, Henrietta, Mary, Frederic, Elizabeth, Edward
• Dwight b. 7/31/1801 md. Jane Flynn
• Frances b. 6/24/1802 md. Luther Conklin children: Luther, Jonathan, George, Dwight, J. Frances, Frances May, Lewis

Abigail b. 1/24/1759, d. 2/12/1759
Ann b. 12/12/1761, d. 10/27/1779 age 17