Jonathan Fairbanks

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Jonathan Fairbanks was born in 1595 in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He first built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts which is today the oldest house in North America. He had "long stood off from the church upon some scruples about public profession of faith and the covenant, yet after divers loving conferences..., he made such a declaration of his faith and conversion to God and profession of subjection to the ordinances of Christ in the church that he was readily and gladly received by the whole church."^[1]

He is an ancestor of Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush^[2]. He is also an ancestor of William Howard Taft^[3], Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks^[4] and the father and son Governors of Vermont Erastus Fairbanks and Horace Fairbanks^[5].

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Will Of Jonathan Fairbanks, 1668

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^ Lockridge, Kenneth (1985). A New England Town. New York: WW Norton & Company, 31. ISBN 0-393-95459-5.
^ Lineage as follows: Jonathan (b. 1595) to his son Jonathan (b. 1628) to his son Jeremiah (b. 1674) to his daughter Mary who married Richard Bush and together had Timothy Bush (b. 1728). The lineage continues with Timothy's son Timothy Bush, Jr. (b. 1761) to his son Obadiah Newcomb Bush(b. 1791) to his son James Smith Bush (b. 1825) to his son Samuel P. Bush (b. 1863) to his son Senator Prescott Bush to his son President George H. W. Bush who is George W. Bush's father.
^ Lineage as follows: Jonathan (b. 1595) to his son George (b. 1619) to his daughter Mary who married Joseph Daniels and together they had a son Eleazer (b. 1681). It continues through his son David to his daughter Cloe who married Seth Davenport and together had a child Anna. Anna married William Torrey whose son Samuel had a daughter Louisa. Louisa married Alphonso Taft and together they had President William Howard Taft.
^ Lineage as follows: Jonathan to his son Jonas to his son Jabez to his son Joshua to his son Luther to his son Luther to his son Loriston Monroe who was the father of Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks.
^ Lineage as follows: Jonathan to his son John to his son Joseph to his son Joseph to his son Ebenezer to his son Joseph to his son Governor Erastus Fairbanks to his son Governor Horace Fairbanks.