Capt. Jonathan BANGS

Jonathan married Mary MAYO on 16 Jul 1664 in Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Dea. Samuel MAYO and Thomasin LUMPKIN) was born about 1645; was christened on 3 Feb 1649/50 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 26 Jan 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt. Edward BANGS was born on 30 Sep 1665 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 22 May 1746 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Rebecca BANGS was born on 01 Feb 1667 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Jonathan BANGS was born on 30 Apr 1670 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 May 1670 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Mary BANGS was born on 14 Apr 1671 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Jonathan BANGS, Jr. was born on 04 May 1673 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died between 03 Feb and 06 Mar 1736 in Harwich, Massachusetts.
6. Hannah BANGS was born on 14 Mar 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
7. TamsonThomasine BANGS was born on 05 May 1678.
8. Capt Samuel BANGS was born on 12 Jul 1680 in Harwich, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jun 1750 in Harwich, Massachusetts.
9. Mercy BANGS was born on 07 Jan 1682; died on 27 Mar 1747 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA.
10. Elizabeth BANGS was born on 16 May 1685.
11. Sarah BANGS was born in Aug 1687; died on 02 Apr 1759 in Truro, Massachusetts.
12. Lydia BANGS was born on 02 Oct 1689; died on 18 May 1715 in Harwich, Massachusetts.

Jonathan married Sarah ? after 1711. Sarah was born about 1641; died on 11 Jun 1719; was buried in Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Ruth COLE in 1720. Ruth (daughter of Daniel COLE and Ruth CHESTER) was born on 15 Apr 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 15 Dec 1694 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 19 Oct 1677

Notes:

Excerpts from Genealogical Records: Pilgrim Genealogies and Histories: He arrived at Plymouth in 1623 in the "Ann." He was made a freeman 1633, and removed to Eastham in 1644 with the planters of that town, where he served as a Grand-Juryman, overseer of the Board. He was a Deputy to the Colony Court for four or five years. The first vessel built in Plymouth was a barque of 40 or 50 tons, and Edward Bangs had charge of the construction.

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Edward Bangs, one of the seven who began the settlement at Nausett in 1645, came over from England in the Ann in 1623, a fellow passenger with Nicholas Snow. At this period he was about thirty-two years of age, but whether a married or single man is not positively known. In the beginning of the year 1624, it having been decided to allow each person who came over in the first three ships, one acre apiece to be laid out near the settlement as possible, for planting land, which each was to use for seven years, the records show that "Bangs" was assigned four acres "towards Eel River," while Nicholas Snow was allowed the use of one acre. From this fact, it has been supposed Mr. Bangs was a married man with children at this early date. Mr. Bangs is mentioned in the records as being of John Jenney's company, which numbered thirteen persons, and to which "the twelfth lot" of cattle fell at the division, May 22, 1627. to this company "fell" says the record, "the great white back cow, which was brought over with the first in the Ann." both Bradford and Morton say the first neat cattle were brought over in the year 1624....

Mr. Bangs was the first treasurer of Eastham, after the settlement in 1645. He was a surveyor of highways in 1647, 1650 and 165, and perhaps a deputy to the court in 1652, which year he was also of the Grand Inquest. In 1657 he was allowed "to draw wine" and strong water at Eastham, with instructions not to sell to the Indians. In 1658, he agreed to find "2 horses and 2 men for the country's service," upon the town providing "sufficient furniture for them." In 1659, he "promised freely" to find "a man and horse with complete furniture, for the term of one year for the country's service." Upon an order of the court to appoint overseers of the poor, with Nicholas Snow and Richard Higgins, he was appointed for Eastham in 1659. After this he took but little interest in public matters.

Whether Mr. Bangs was more than once married, it is impossible to determine. His wife, in 1651, was called Rebecca. If she were his only wife, she was a daughter of Robert Hicks, who died at Scituate in 1647, as he mentions his grandson, John Bangs, in his will, which would indicate that John Bangs' mother was a daughter and that she had been or was the wife of Edward Bangs.

Mr. Bangs died at Eastham, about the last of February in the year 1677-8, at the age of about 86 years, leaving no wife. HIs will, a lengthy document, in which he makes known his age, bears date Oct. 19, 1677. It was presented for proof at Plymouth, March 5, 1677/8, Mr. John Freeman and Mr. Thomas Crosby upon oath, testifying as to its being his last will.

Edward Bangs, son of John and Jane Bangs was born at Chichester or Chester, England and baptized on 28 October 1591. He died at Eastham in February 1677/8. He came to Plymouth in July 1623 on the ship Anne which had sailed from England in April of that year. Most of those passengers on the Anne probably had been on the ship Paragon which had attempted the voyage the year before but turned back because the ship was leaky. It is presumed Edward's wife came with him and probably two children. In any case they were not living on 22 May 1627. His second Wife was a daughter of Robert Hicks probably Lydia and they were married about 1633/4. She died soon after the birth of her son John, for John Bangs married about 1537/7 for his third wife Rebecca. She may have been the daughter of Edmund Hobart of Hingham and sister of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham.

Edward Bangs was active in the life of the Plymouth Colon serving on various committees such as those to fix boundaries and in January 1637/8 helped fix the limits of John Alden's land at Duxbury. In 1640 with Thomas Prence, Miles Standish, John Winslow and others he measured a meadow at Green's harbor. In 1633 he became a freeman. He contributed to the building of a bark and subscribed a sixteenth part with ten men while three men subscribed an eight part each. In 1643 with Thomas Prence, Nicholas Snow and others he viewed the land which they settled in April 1644, then called Nauset and later called Eastham. He was the first Town Treasurer and remained so for 19 yers. On 22 June 1651, stating he was a yeoman, he sold his land t Plymouth. To meet Eastham's quota of soldiers he furnished a man and horse at his expense for two years. Of the children of Edward and Rebecca Bangs, Rebecca married Jonathan Sparrow at Eastham on 28 October 1654. She was born about 1635 and died at Eastham, Massachusetts. before 1667.

Edward married Rebecca HOBART between 1635 and 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Possibly the daughter of Edmund Hobart of Hingham and sister of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hinghm

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Richard Bangs of Norwich, Norfolk County, England

John married Jane CHAVIS on 30 Jan 1586/7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Margaret DEWEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]