The Jones family story is a bit muddled. The available resources are inconsistent with spouses and children.
First Generation
1.
Robert had three other sons: John, who married Jane Garnford, believed to be Margaret's sister, Symon, died young, and Silvanus.
There were four others with the Jones surname in Caversham.
[1] Roger, whose son Thomas settled at Hingham about 1636.
[2] Richard, whose son Richard also settled at Hingham about 1636.
[3] Lewis
[4] William
Robert had three other sons: John, who married Jane Garnford, believed to be Margaret's sister, Symon, died young, and Silvanus.
There were four others with the Jones surname in Caversham.
[1] Roger, whose son Thomas settled at Hingham about 1636.
[2] Richard, whose son Richard also settled at Hingham about 1636.
[3] Lewis
[4] William
Robert Jones had the following child:
Second Generation
2. He died on 20 Apr 1688–27 Jan 1691/2 at the age of 92 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America. 1–2 Robert Jones was born about 1596 in Caversham, Berkshire, England. He married Margaret Garnford on 30 April 1621 in Caversham. Margaret probably died before the family ventured to New England.
Robert married 2nd, possibly, the widow ________ [Alexander] Curtis, the mother of two girls, Elizabeth and Jane, prior to departing for America. Robert, his wife, children and step-children arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay about 1636.
The family removed to Rehoboth in 1644, but returned to Hingham later on.
Elizabeth and Jane Curtis gave their step-father, Robert Jones of Hingham, power of attorney on 4 December 1646 to handle a legacy left them by their grandmother, Jane Alexander of Reading, Oxfordshire.
Robert's second wife died by 1660. He married for a 3rd to to a woman named Elizabeth, who bore him two children.
Jones lived in Hingham Center "over the river" near Turkey Hill. Robert, his son Joseph and Joseph Jr. were the only Joneses taxed at Hingham in 1680-81.
Robert Jones, planter, made his will on 20 April 1688. He named his sons Joseph, John and Benjamin the Elder; daughter Sarah Belknap, step-daughter Jane Collier; children of his son Robert, deceased; son Benjamin the Younger and wife Elizabeth. The will was proved 27 January 1691/2.
Elizabeth died on 25 September 1712.
Robert married 2nd, possibly, the widow ________ [Alexander] Curtis, the mother of two girls, Elizabeth and Jane, prior to departing for America. Robert, his wife, children and step-children arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay about 1636.
The family removed to Rehoboth in 1644, but returned to Hingham later on.
Elizabeth and Jane Curtis gave their step-father, Robert Jones of Hingham, power of attorney on 4 December 1646 to handle a legacy left them by their grandmother, Jane Alexander of Reading, Oxfordshire.
Robert's second wife died by 1660. He married for a 3rd to to a woman named Elizabeth, who bore him two children.
Jones lived in Hingham Center "over the river" near Turkey Hill. Robert, his son Joseph and Joseph Jr. were the only Joneses taxed at Hingham in 1680-81.
Robert Jones, planter, made his will on 20 April 1688. He named his sons Joseph, John and Benjamin the Elder; daughter Sarah Belknap, step-daughter Jane Collier; children of his son Robert, deceased; son Benjamin the Younger and wife Elizabeth. The will was proved 27 January 1691/2.
Elizabeth died on 25 September 1712.
Robert Jones and Margaret Garnford had the following children:
Robert Jones and _________ Curtis2 were married in 1634–1635 in Caversham, Berkshire, England.1–2
Robert Jones and _________ Curtis had the following child:
Robert Jones and Elizabeth [Jones]22 were married circa 1661 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America.1–2
Robert Jones and Elizabeth [Jones]2 had the following children:
Third Generation
3. She died on 18 Apr 1689 at the age of 59 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts. 1,3
Sarah Jones and Samuel Belknap/Beltoft1 were married circa 1652 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.1,3 He died on 11 Nov 1701 at the age of 73 in Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts. 3 Samuel was baptized 16 March 1627 in North Weald, Essex, England, parents Abraham and Marie. [The name in the entry appears to be Immannuel, but there is no record of Abraham having a son Immannuel.]
Samuel may have spent time in Easthampton, Long Island as one of that name owned land there on 5 July 1653. He was in Salem by August of that year when the eldest of the Belknap children was born.
Belknap had a house in Salem on land lying between the present Essex St. [near the corner of Beckford St.] and the North River. He sold land on 20 February 1665/6 to Edward Gaskyn. He was of Malden in 1671 and took the oath of allegiance at Haverhill on 28 November 1677. In 1696 Samuel conveyed land to sons Ebenezer and Abraham.
The aforementioned pedigree charts and IGIs give Samuel's death as 11 November 1701. The Belknap article says he was alive as late as 31 August 1731 according to one of the recorded deeds. If so, Belknap would have been about 103. It is possible, but would more likely be his son Samuel.
Samuel may have spent time in Easthampton, Long Island as one of that name owned land there on 5 July 1653. He was in Salem by August of that year when the eldest of the Belknap children was born.
Belknap had a house in Salem on land lying between the present Essex St. [near the corner of Beckford St.] and the North River. He sold land on 20 February 1665/6 to Edward Gaskyn. He was of Malden in 1671 and took the oath of allegiance at Haverhill on 28 November 1677. In 1696 Samuel conveyed land to sons Ebenezer and Abraham.
The aforementioned pedigree charts and IGIs give Samuel's death as 11 November 1701. The Belknap article says he was alive as late as 31 August 1731 according to one of the recorded deeds. If so, Belknap would have been about 103. It is possible, but would more likely be his son Samuel.
Samuel Belknap/Beltoft and Sarah Jones had the following children:
Sources:
1. John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins (not recorded, Madison, WI, 1990), 205-208.
2. Ethel Farrington Smith, "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and Her People: Jones," article, NEHGS, American Ancestors (www.americanancestors.org : accessed 27 June 2017), Robert Jones family, p. 121-123; citing prior publication in NEHG Register (April 1989).
3. Simmons Family, Roy W. Simmons online [http://www.storycapsule.com/simmons/familytree/pedigree.php], accessed 29 Oct 2009.
4. Henry Wyckoff Belknap, "The English Ancestry of the American Belknaps," article, NEHGS, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org : accessed 8 July 2011), Belknap family; citing prior publication in NEHGS Register (January and April 1914).
5. DP 84/1/1, St. Andrew Church Baptisms: 16 March 1627/8, St. Andrew Parish, North Weald, Essex, England.
6. "Vital Records of Salem, Mass.," database, Massachusetts Vital Records Project (http://ma-vitalrecords.org: accessed 14 July 2011), Belknap Salem births; citing Salem, Mass. vital records.
7. Topsfield Historical Society, Vital Records of Haverhill, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849: Vol. I (Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1910), ; digital images, Internet Archive, archive.org (http://www.archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofha00have#page/n5/mode/2up : accessed 14 July 2011.
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