Purinton, Jonathan (1732-1818)

Name:

Purinton, Jonathan (1732-1818)

Title:

Member, Society of Friends
Selectman, Kensington, NH 1761

Other Names:

Purington, Jonathan

Born:

01/02/1732

Birthplace:

Kensington, NH

Died:

02/09/1818

Death Location:

Lynn, MA

Residence:

Kensington, NH 1776, 1790, 1800, 1810
Lynn, MA 1816-1818

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Clockmaker

Father:

Purinton, Elisha (1698-1751)

Mother:

Swett, Phoebe (1702-1737)

Relations:

Grandparents: James Purinton (c.1663-1718; b. England-possibly; settler in Hampton, NH, then including Kensington)
Parents: Phoebe Snow and Elisha Purinton (blacksmith and gunsmith; clockmaker)
Sibling: Elisha Purinton, Jr. (1736-1816); clockmaker, gunsmith, and blacksmith

Spouse:

Chase, Elizabeth (1733-1817), March 31, 1756, Amesbury

Children:

Chase, born April 27, 1757, Kensington; died 1826
James, born 1759; died 1764
Mary, born 1762; died 1851
James, born January 26, 1764, Kensington; died September 6, 1817, Point Harmer, OH; clockmaker; married 3 times; moved to Marietta, OH, 1816
Theodate, born 1766; died 1853
Elizabeth, born 1769; died 1863

Notes:

Damon Purinton Collins, Nathan Purinton and His Descendants, 1812-1985. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1986), 14-15.

Brooks Palmer, "The First New Hampshire Clockmakers," Antiques, 54(July, 1948)1, 36-37.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks & Clockmakers. (Exeter, NH: Adams Brown Company, 1976), 84-85, 328, 334.
Roland D. Sawyer, "Views and Reviews...Of Old Rockingham," "History of Earlier Hampton and its Daughter and Neighbor Towns," The Hampton Union and Rockingham County Gazette, Hampton, NH, February 21, 1958?

Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts To the End of the Year 1849. Volume II. Deaths. (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1905), 571.