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 1762

• Timothy b. 1762 md. (--?--) Pearce
• David b. 1764
• Phebe b. 1766
• Timothy b. 1768, d. before 1779
• Susanna b. 1770
• Irene b. 1774
• Jemima b. 1776
• Timothy (2nd) b. 1779

Jonathan b. 1/28/1739, d. 3/16/1752 age 13
Irene b. 4/5/1741, d. 1743, age 2
Eliphalet b. 2/23/1743, d. 1836 md. Alfleda Lyon ca. 1768

• Lucinda b. 3/11/1769, d. 7/12/1843 md. Zephaniah Gibbs 12/20/1787 
• Martha Gibbs b. 1788, d. 1866 md. Dyer Carpenter 
• Elfleda Gibbs
• Alfred Gibbs
• Cynthia Gibbs
• Lucinda Gibbs
• Armeda Gibbs
• Roxylena b. 11/29/1770 md. Edwin Fox 1789 
• Nancy Fox
• Guerdon Fox
• Henry Fox
• Horatio Fox
• Royal Fox
• Amanda Fox 
• Eliza Fox
• Alvin Fox
• John Fox
• Samantha Fox
• Fidelia Fox 
• Marsilvy/Marsilva b. 6/14/1772 md. Benjamin Eastman
• Eunice Eastman
• Mary Eastman
• Fidelia Eastman
• Roxylena Eastman
• Roswell Eastman
• Hiram Eastman
• Emily Eastman
• Elizabeth Eastman
• Susan Eastman
• Mason Eastman
• Alfred b. 3/7/1775 md. 1) Mary Warren 1794 & 2) Alice Cross 1800
• Eliza
• Adrian
• Benjamin
• Alvin
• Alfred
• Adaline
• Walter b. 2/17/1778, d. 7/24/1827 md. Cynthia Richards 1802
• Maria
• Alphonzo
• Arethusa
• Lucius
• Parthena
• Edwin
• George
• Almarin b. 5/11/1781, d. 5/5/1813 after being blown up at Fort York in the War of 1812 md. 1) Polly Fay 1803 
• Elfleda
• Emeline
• Mary
• Diantha
• Louisa
• Bradford b. 5/6/1784, d. ca. 1863 md. Sarah Gibbs
• Irving
• Elbridge
• Nancy
• Almarin
• Eron
• Sarah
• Mary
• Edward
• Edgar
• Sally b. 12/1/1788, d. 6/16/1863 md. Abijah Richards
• Ann Richards
• Eliza Richards

Irene b. 7/30/1745, d. 1819 md. David Anderson 1766

• Tirzah Anderson b. 1767
• Elizabeth Anderson b. 1769
• Irene Anderson b. 1771
• Lucy Anderson b. 1774
• John Anderson b. 1779
• Lyman Anderson b. 1789

Solomon b. 6/20/1748, d. 4/4/1812 md. Beulah Fisk 1780

• Nathan b. 1781 md. Celinda Dexter 
• Orestes
• Laura
• Henry
• Beulah b. 1784
• Pardon b. ca. 1788, d. 1870
• Henry b. 10/18/1792 md. Fanny Butler 
• Helen
• Henry
• Lorenzo b. 9/18/1801 md. Elvenah Cooper 1833 
• Emeline
• Mary
• Henry
• Elvenah
• Almira
• George
• Corinna
• David
• Edgar
• Ellie
• Polly 
• Lorinda
• 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 
• Annie Skinner
• Mary Skinner 
• Hiram Skinner
• Charles Skiner b. 1811, d. ca. 1813
• Merilla Skinner 
• Horace Skinner 
• Daniel Skinner 
• Roxey Skinner
• Annie Skinner
• Abigail Skinner b. 1821, d. 1848 
• Charles b. 6/5/1779, d. 1785 age 6
• Annie b. 10/10/1782 md. Thomas Shepherd 1804 
• Susan Shepherd
• Rachel Shepherd
• John Shepherd
• Lydia Shepherd
• Thomas Shepherd
• Jeremiah b. 1/2/1785 [1784?] md. Sarah Allen 
• Alice
• Levi
• Ira
• Annie
• Henry
• Charles b. 3/14/1785, d. 8/18/1785 5 months
• Daniel b. 9/25/1789, d. 1868 md. 1) Hannah Lathrop 1811 & 2) Mary Powell 1814 
• Elkanah
• Hannah
• Chester
• Albert
• Charles
• Fanny
• Mary
• Ira b. 4/30/1794 md. 1) Precinda Wright & 2) Carolin Breese 
• 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, d. 1834 md. 1) Catharine Barnard 1802, 2) Mary Brown 1813 & 3) Eunice Patridge 1823 - she moved to California
• Frances b. 1804, d. 1808, age 4
• Sarah b. 1805, d. 1822, age 16
• Charles b. 1806, d. 1856 - never married 
• Jonathan b. 1808, d. 1808, 9 weeks old
• Frances (2nd) b. 1814, d. 1847
• Henry b. 1816, d. 1873 md. Caroline Meigs, 1843 moved to California 
• Horace b. 1824, d. 1862 md. Julia Hall 1852 - moved to California
• Joseph b. 1826, d. 1868 - moved to California
• Catharine b. 1828, d. 1829 age 1 year 
• Lewis b. 1830, d. 1845 age 15
• Abby b. 1832, d. 1833 age 1 year
• Cynthia b. 7/8/1783 md. 1) Ebenezer Marvin 1802, 2) Jabez Penniman 1836
• Ebenezer Marvin b. 1804, d. 1872 md. Ann Gelston 1826
• George Marvin b. 1807, d. 1850 md. Jeannette Morrison, 1833
• Julia Marvin b. 1811, d. 1892 md. Benjamin Smalley ca. 1828
• Jonathan Marvin b. 1822, d. 1891 md. Elizabeth Ware 1848
• Ruby b. 5/9/1785, d. ca. 1855 md. 1) Ethan Hubbard  1803 & 2) Asaph Morgan ca. 1811
• George Hubbard b. 1805, d. 1850 md. MaryPerry
• Charlotte Hubbard b. 1806 md. Charles Hall 1821
• John Hubbard b. 1807
• Martha Hubbard b. 1809
• Sarah Morgan b. 1812, d. 1834 age 22
• Frances Morgan b. 1815, d. 1861 md. Irad Day 1847
• Jonathan Morgan b. 1819, d. 1861 md. Mary Eastman, 1846
• Charles Morgan b. 1824, d. 1875
• John Morgan b. 1826, d. 1826
• Martha / Patty b. 7/2/ 1787, d. 1859 md. 1) William Foot 1805 & 2) William Wilkins 
• William
• Mary Foot b. 1807, d. 1808
• Elizabeth
• Martha / Patsy Foot b. 1807, d. 809
• Jonathan
• Jonathan b. 3/23/1789, d. 7/13/1816 age 27
• Gershom b. 10/3/1790, d. 1801 age 11
• Henry b. 6/1/1792 md. Betsy Allis 
• Jonathan
• William
• Henry
• Julia
• George
• Martha
• Julia
• Frances
• Julia b. 10/15/1794 md. Jason Pierce 
• Charles Pierce
• Frances Pierce
• Cynthia Pierce
• Margaret Pierce
• Edward Pierce
• Jason Pierce
• Mary Pierce
• Esther Pierce
• Julia Pierce
• Charlotte b. 5/22/1796, d. 1801 age 5
• Louis b. 2/6/1798, d. 8/9/1865 md. Abbey Allyn 1821 
• Thomas
• Martha b. 1824, d. 1845 age 20
• Henriettab. 1827, d. 1842 age 14
• Mary b. 1829, d. 1878 md. Abram Baldwin
• Frederic b. 1832, d. 1853 age 21
• Elizabeth b. 1833, d. 1852 age 19
• Edward b. 1836, d. 1873
• Dwight b. 7/31/1801, d. 1878 md. Jane Allyn 1828
• Frances b. 6/24/1802 md. Luther Conklin 
• Luther Conklin
• Jonathan Conklin
• George Conklin
• Dwight Conklin
• J. Frances Conklin
• Frances May Conklin
• Lewis Conklin

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

Revised 12/22/2025