Jones, Abner (1792-1853)

Name:

Jones, Abner (1792-1853)

Title:

Member, Society of Friends

Born:

07/14/1792

Birthplace:

Weare, NH

Died:

04/04/1853

Death Location:

Lynn, MA

Residence:

Weare, NH 1792, 1815, 1820
Great Falls, NH 1826, 1830, 1832
Lynn, MA 1840, 1850, 1853

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clockmaker 1815-1835
Machinist 1850, 1853

Father:

Jones, Joseph (1760-18 )

Mother:

Gove, Ruth (1758-1823)

Spouse:

Phebe Breed (1793-1865), August 3, 1815, Weare

Children:

William Breed, born January 28, 1817, Weare
Rebecca Gove, born September 5, 1819, Weare; died July 31, 1871, Amesbury, MA
James Lewis, born September 12, 1826, Great Falls, NH
George Henry, born March 18, 1832, Great Falls, NH

Notes:

Arlene Bizlewicz, "Seminar...The Learning-Sharing Experience, Part II," NAWCC Bulletin, April 1983, 233.

"Family Records, Friends Records, Dover, New Hampshire Monthly Meeting," The New Hampshire Genealogical Record , 6(January 1909)1, 90.

William H. Gove, The Gove Book. History and Genealogy of the American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves. (Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley, 1922), 76.

David Hewett, The Music Valley Antiques Market," Maine Antiques Digest, May 2000.

William Little, The History of Weare, New Hampshire. 1735-1888. (Lowell, Massachusetts: S. W. Huse & Co., 1888), 172, 185, 540, 543, 664, 669, 925.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks & Clockmakers. (Exeter, New Hampshire: Adams Brown Company, 1976), 108-109, 322-323.

"Rare New Hampshire Tall Clocks," Maine Antique Digest, February, 2002.

Death Records, City of Lynn, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives