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466. Captain Jonathan Bangs, born 16 July 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.); died 09 November 1728 in Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He was the son of 932. Edward Bangs and 933. Rebecca Hobart. He married 467. Mary Mayo 16 July 1664 in Eastham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
467. Mary Mayo (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born Abt. 1645 in Barnstable, Massachusetts; died 26 January 1710/11 in Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of 934. Samuel Mayo and 935. Thomasine Lumpkin.
Notes for Captain Jonathan Bangs:
Captain Jonathan Bangs was born at Plymouth, Mass., 1640, m. lst, July 16, 1664, Mary Mayo, dau. of Capt. Samuel and Thomasine (Lumpkin) his wife. . . . Captain Jonathan Bangs m. 2nd "Sarah" who d. June, 1719, aged 78, and he m. 3rd. Mrs. Ruth Young of Eastham, in 1720, daug. of Daniel Cole of Eastham. He died at Brewster, Nov. 9, 1728. He probably settled there about 1694, inheriting his father's lands between Santucket river and Namskeket. He was a Selectman of Eastham three years and in 1674, '76 and '82, '83, '87 and '88 he was Deputy to the Old Colony Court: and, in 1692, Representative to the General Court at Boston. He was a military man and capt. of Militia, and he always had the term "Capt." applied to him, while a shipmaster was not so often called captain. For him many other appellations were preferred to that of captain, such as "Mr." or "Dea." or "Esq."
History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, Dean Dudley, self-published, Montrose, Massachusetts, 1890.
from the Old Burial Ground see photo in scrapbook:
HERE LYES BURIED
ye BODY OF CAP't
JONATHAN BANGS
AGED 88 YEARS
DEC'D NOVEMBER ye
19th 1728
The marker is set in a large granite monument along with very similar markers for his two wives Mary Banges (1711) and Sarah Banges (1719). The 'e' was dropped from Banges for Capt. Bangs. All three markers are held in place with large bolts.
In 1658, at age eighteen, he became an ensign of a military company, his father gave him a horse with equipment. In 1670, he is recorded as a sergeant; in 1675 a lieutenant; and again in 1690 an ensign. The title of captain is on his tombstone in the old burying ground at Brewster. Johnathan inherited his father's lands between Sautucket river and Namskeket. He was a Selectman of Eastham three years and in 1674, '76 and '82, '83, '87 and '88 he was Deputy to the Old Colony Court; and, in 1692, Rep. to the General Court at Boston. He was also some time Town Treasurer of Eastham. Was Deputy (of Eastham) for Several Years, and representative for many years. [Freeman 1:639] Captain Jonathan Bangs' seal was a Moor's head couped at the shoulders, having on it a cap of maintenance, etc., as described in the sketch of Edward Bangs, the pilgrim. This was the Bankes crest as blazoned by Burke in his heraldry of the Commoners of England. (History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, Dean Dudley, 1896) Marriage: Will of John Sunderland [MD 17:99]: "The ...daughter of my wife...Mary, wife of Jonathan Bangs" Marriage: Shurtleff 8:56 (Records of Eastham): "Jonathan Banges and Mary Mayo were marryed the 16th day of July, 1664." Also contains burths of children Edward, Rebeckah, Jonathan, and death of Jonath. Intention(Mrs.Ruth Young): MD 28:111
Bibliography: Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy. The New England Historical and Genealogical register Volume 8. A Comprehensive History of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans by Rev. Enoch Pratt. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 14 and 79. New England Family History by Henry Cole Quimby.
CAPTAIN JONATHAN BANGS (1640-1728) a Legislator and Farmer was born in 1640, at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married Mary Mayo on the sixteenth day of July 1664, at Eastham, Massachusetts.
Jonathan was four years of age when, in 1644, his father's family moved to Nausset, Massachusetts.
In 1658, at the age of eighteen, Jonathan became Ensign of a military company, his father supplying him with a horse and equipment. In 1670, he is recorded as a Sergeant. In 1675, he is called a Lieutenant. Again in 1690, he was an Ensign. And he is called by the title of Captain on the stone marking his grave in the old burying ground at Brewster, Massachusetts.
In the civic affairs of Eastham, Massachusetts, in 1658, Jonathan was made a rate-maker for the term of one year, beginning with 1659. He was appointed, in 1670, to act in the matter of "Pine Knots." He was elected by the freemen of Eastham to be their Selectman, in 1674, for three years. They also elected him to be their Deputy to the Old Colony Court at Plymouth, serving as such in the years 1676, 1682, 1683, 1687, and 1688. In 1676 he was empowered to act for the town in reference to a misunderstanding between Eastham and other towns on the Cape growing out of the war.
Jonathan was appointed the whole and sole executor, who, it would appear, was somewhat of a favorite with his father, from whose hands he received a good share of his landed estate, which was considerable, he having been of that favored number called Purchasers or Old Comers. His father undoubtedly resided with Jonathan the last years of his life.
In 1692, Jonathan must have been one of the foremost citizens of Eastham, for under a new charter and authority from the new governor of the United Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies, Sir William Phipps, Ensign Bangs understanding that all power residing originally in, and being derived from the people, and that all the magistrates and officers of government, are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them, was elected one of the two Representatives to serve the town of Eastham in the General Court held at Boston. To have been selected one of the first Representatives of the town under that new charter, must have been an honor in those days.
The last public service by Captain Jonathan, of which record has so far been found, was in 1706, when he was one of four appointed from Harwich to meet a like number selected from Eastham to settle the bounds between the two towns, "the matter being in controversy." The agreement was signed and sealed on the sixteenth day of October, in the fourth year of the reign of our Gracious Lady, Queen Anne.
At Plymouth, on the seventh day of July 1680, eight men, including Jonathan, signed a document agreeing that all the tract of land known as Satucket, bought by them, would be equally divided.
Jonathan, for the period in which he lived, must have had considerable wealth, especially in land, for besides a large inheritance from his father, mainly in that part of Eastham which in 1694 was incorporated into Harwich, he was one of the "original Proprietors" or land owners of Truro, and also possessed property in what now remains of Eastham and in Orleans.
Jonathan's older brothers John and Joshua were married but left no descendants. He had three wives and twelve children. He was a prominent man in his day, and he settled finally in Harwich. Jonathan at the age of eighty-eight died in1728, at Harwich.
More About Captain Jonathan Bangs:
Burial: Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts
Notes for Mary Mayo:
From Mayflower Families Source Records, Scituate and Barnstable Church Records page 600. Mary daughter of Samuell Mao and Samuell the son of Samuell Mao were Babtized Febru. 3, 1649.
From Genealogies of Mayflower Families, First Settlers of Eastham, Mass. page 886. Jonathon Bangs, married Mary Mayo, July 16, 1664; children Edward, born Sept. 30, 1665; Rebeckah, born Feb 1, 1667; Jonathon, born April 30, 1670, died May 11, 1670; Mary, born April 14, 1671; Jonathon, born May 4, 1673; Hannah, born March 14, 1676; Thomson, born May, 1678; Samuel, born July 12, 1680; Merrie, born Jan. 7, 1682; Elisabeth, born May 15, 1685; Sarah, born Aug, 1689, probably 1687; Lydia, born Oct. 2, 1689.
From History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America by Dean Dudley page 22
Mary Mayo was a twin to Samuel Mayo, both baptized together 3 February 1649/50 at Barnstable, Massachusetts. Their sister Elizabeth married Reverend Samuel Treat of Eastham in 1674.
More About Mary Mayo:
Baptism: 03 February 1649/50 (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 19.)
Burial: Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts
More About Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo:
Marriage: 16 July 1664, Eastham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Children of Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo are:
i. Rebecca Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 01 February 1666/67 in Eastham, Massachusetts.
ii. Jonathan Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 30 April 1670 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died 11 May 1670 in Eastham, Massachusetts.
iii. Mary Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 14 April 1671 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; married Thomas Nickerson.
iv. Jonathan Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 04 May 1673 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died February 1736/37 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; married (1) Elizabeth Unknown; married (2) Experience Berry.
233 v. Hannah Bangs, born 14 March 1675/76 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died 1715; married John Crosby Abt. 1703.
vi. Tamsin Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 05 May 1678 in Eastham, Massachusetts; married Joseph Burgess; born Abt. 1675 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
vii. Captain Samuel Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 12 July 1680 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died 11 June 1750 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; married Mary Hinckley 13 January 1705/06 in Harwich, Massachusetts.
More About Samuel Bangs and Mary Hinckley:
Marriage: 13 January 1705/06, Harwich, Massachusetts
viii. Mercie Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 07 January 1681/82 in Eastham, Massachusetts.
ix. Elizabeth Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 16 May 1685 in Eastham, Massachusetts.
x. Sarah Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 02 August 1687 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died 02 April 1759 in Truro, Massachusetts; married Benjamin Collins 08 January 1706/07 in Truro, Massachusetts; born 06 February 1686/87 in Eastham, Massachusetts; died 23 December 1756 in Truro, Massachusetts.
Notes for Benjamin Collins:
Benjamin, was, a flourishing and quite extensive, farmer, in those days, owning hundreds of acres of wood, meadow and high marsh lands. He cultivated mostly corn, some wheat, oats and flax. He was baptized as an adult on the eleventh day of October 1724. His children, listed in the order of their birth, were baptized a week later on the eighteenth day of October 1724.
Benjamin purchased a three-year-old Slave boy named Hector from Lieutenant Jonathan Paine on the seventeenth day of October 1726, and had him baptized by Reverend John Avery.
Benjamin at the age of sixty-nine died on the twenty-third day of December 1756, at Truro, Massachusetts. On the second day of June 1753, being under bodily weakness but of perfect mind and memory, signed his will by mark. His Will was proved on the sixteenth day of March 1757.
Bibliography: Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of His Descendants by Evelyn Rich of Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Smith and Rachel Amy Bryant by Tenney Smith. Joseph Collins of Eastham and three Generations of his Descendants by Stanley Newcomb Collins, Jr. A Comprehensive History of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans by Rev. Enoch Pratt. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 79 and 83.
More About Benjamin Collins and Sarah Bangs:
Marriage: 08 January 1706/07, Truro, Massachusetts
xi. Lydia Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 02 October 1689 in Eastham, Massachusetts; married Shubael Hinckley 1712; born 01 May 1689.
More About Shubael Hinckley and Lydia Bangs:
Marriage: 1712
xii. Edward Bangs (Source: Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, (published by the author in Montrose, MA, 1896), page 22.), born 30 September 1665 in Brewster, Massachusetts; died 22 May 1746 in Eastham, Massachusetts; married (1) Ruth Allen 1691 in Eastham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; born in Chilmark, Massachusetts; died 22 June 1738 in Brewster, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; married (2) Ruth Mayo 16 January 1738/39; died 17 August 1747 in Eastham, Massachusetts.
More About Edward Bangs and Ruth Allen:
Marriage: 1691, Eastham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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