Grace SMITH

____ - 28 Dec 1673

  • BIRTH: Halifax, England
  • DEATH: 28 Dec 1673, Dedham, Suffolk, MA
Family 1 : Jonathan FAIRBANKS
  • MARRIAGE: 20 May 1617, Halifax, England
  1.  John FAIRBANKS
  2.  George FAIRBANKS
  3. +Mary FAIRBANKS
  4.  Jonas FAIRBANKS
  5. +Susan FAIRBANKS
  6.  Jonathan FAIRBANKS


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[5128] "Fairbanks Marriages in the Parish of Halifax"
Hiram Francis Fairbanks
NEHGR, v60, p153 (Apr 1906)
"Jonathan Fayrbanke to Grace Smith (Warley), 20 May 1617.
(This is the marriage of Jonathan Fayrbanke who came to New
England in 1633 and settled in Dedham in 1636...)."

"English Ancestry of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham, MA"
Clarence Almon Torrey
TAG 37: 65-72 (Apr 1961)
"Jonathan Fayrbank and Grace Smith (Warley) were married
May 20, 1617, at Halifax, Yorkshire, England. At the time of his
marriage he was probably about twenty-two years of age, hence
born in or about 1595. His ancestry has long been sought."

"Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America"
Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles
Boston, MA; 1897; p31

"Genealogy, descendants of William and Dorcas Fallass"
Alexander, Lura F.
L.F. Alexander; Kansas City, MO; 1929
"JONATHAN FAIRBANKS, b. before 1600, came from Sowerby, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, England, to New England in 1633; d. 5 Dec., 1668.
He m. 20 May, 1617, Grace Smith of Warley, in Halifax Parish. She d. in
1678. He settled in Dedham, Mass., building in 1636 the house which is
said to be the oldest inhabited dwelling house in the U.S."

"Pioneers of Massachusetts"
Pope, Charles Henry
Boston, MA; 1900
"FAIRBANK, FAIRBANCK, FAIRBANKS, FAIRBANCKE, Jonathan, Dedham, propr.
23 (1) 1636-7, adm. chh. 14 (6) 1646. Town officer. Wife Grace; ch. John, George,
Jonas, Jonathan; Mary adm. chh. 11 (10) 1640 ,(m. 1, Michael Metcalf, 2, Christopher
Smith,) Susan, (m. 12 (8) 1647, Ralph Day). He d. 5 Dec. 1668; his will prob. Jan. 26,
folg., mentions all the above-named and some of their children. The widow d. 28 (10) 1673.
[Reg.XIX, 32.] See will of George Fairbanke of Sowerby in Halifax, Eng., dated
May 28, 1650. [Reg. VII, 303.]."

"New England Marriages Before 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"FAIRBANKS, Jonathan (1629-1665) & Grace SMITH; ?Warley, in Eng, 20 May 1617;
Halifax, Eng; Dedham"


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