Captain Jonathan Remington, I
1640 - 1700 (60 years)-
Name Jonathan Remington Title Captain Suffix I Born 28 Feb 1639/40 Rowley, Middlesex, MA 
[1] Gender Male Died 21 Apr 1700 Cambridge, Middlesex, MA [2, 3] Buried Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, MA Person ID I02861 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father John REMINGTON, I, b. Between 1599 and 1608, Yorkshire, England , d. 8 Jun 1667, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA (Age ~ 68 years) Mother Elizabeth Unknown, b. Abt 1605, England , d. Abt 22 Dec 1657, Rowley, Essex Co., MA (Age ~ 52 years) Married Abt 1623 England Notes - This marriage is listed in "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" ( by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1985), which gives Elizabeth's year of death as 1657, and the years of births of their oldest known children as 1629/1630.
Family ID F01078 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Martha Belcher, b. 26 Jul 1644, MA , d. 16 Jul 1711, Cambridge, MA (Age 66 years) Married 13 Jul 1664 Cambridge, Middlesex, MA [2] Children 1. Martha (1) Remington, b. 18 Feb 1666/67, Cambridge, MA , d. 23 Apr 1669, Cambridge, MA (Age 2 years)2. Jonathan (1) Remington, b. 17 Mar 1668/69, Cambridge, MA , d. 16 Apr 1669, Cambridge, MA (Age 0 years)3. Martha (2) Remington, b. 28 Oct 1674, Cambridge, MA 4. Jonathan (2) Remington, II, b. 27 Jul 1677, Cambridge, MA , d. 20 Sep 1745 (Age 68 years)5. Samuel Remington, b. 11 Jul 1679, Cambridge, MA , d. 3 Jun 1680, Cambridge, MA (Age 0 years)6. Anna Remington, b. 30 Jan 1680/81, Cambridge, MA 7. Joseph Remington, b. Abt 1683 8. Elizabeth Remington, b. Abt 1685 9. Sarah Remington, b. 10 May 1688, Cambridge, MA 10. John Remington, b. 6 Apr 1689, Cambridge, MA , d. 6 Apr 1689, Cambridge, MA (Age 0 years)11. Mary Remington, b. Abt 1690, d. 3 Dec 1690, Cambridge, MA (Age ~ 0 years)Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F01080 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - (If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and/or to other sources as noted herein.)
His birth record at Rowley, MA, says "last day 12m 1639." At this time March was the first month of the year.
Jonathan settled at Cambridge, MA, where he was quite prominent in public life and military affairs. At various times he was Selectman, Town Clerk, and Treasurer. He was a captain in command of a military company during the winter and spring of 1675/76, and was active in the Indian War in 1689 at Groton, and in 1691 at Wells. He served with the Cambridge men under Capt. Davenport and in the Narragansett Campaign, King Philip's War, and was at the Great Swamp Fight. In the following winter, he was active in the command and supply of some of the garrisons in the interior towns. (see "New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register," Vol. 42, p. 96 and Vol. 8, pp. 317-320)
From 1682 until his death on 21 April 1700, he was proprietor of the original Blue Anchor Tavern at Cambridge, which he bought from his brother-in-law Andrew Belcher, Jr. His widow, Martha (Belcher) Remington, continued to run the tavern and inn until May of 1705. Jonathan Remington left a large family, among whom was Jonathan, born 27 July 1677, who graduated from Harvard in 1696 and was a professor there from 1703 to 1707 (see "New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Register," Vol. 46, pp. 5 & 6 and Vol. 8, pp. 317-320). Later he was Judge of the Probate Court for over forty years and was very highly esteemed for his learning, ability, and high character.
One online family tree also has a Joseph & Elizabeth among his children (no source noted). I have included them here simply because there is space and therefore children may have been born during those years.
Jonathan & Martha probably had a daughter named Mary who died 3 Dec 1690 (Cambridge VRs).
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