Thomas Fones

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name: Thomas Fones
aka: [Thomas Fownes]
sex: male
access: public
summary: London apothecary at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey, son of Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He married Anne Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop, the future governor of Massachusetts, at Groton, Suffolk, in 1604/5, and after her death Priscilla, widow of Bezaleel Sherman; he died in 1629. Probably the father of Elizabeth (Fones) Feake.
died
date: 15 Apr 1629
place: London, England
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-winthrop-papers, book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
note: "He died April 15, 1629" (Winthrop Papers 1:88 n. 27, citing Muskett). The Frost Genealogy has April 16 (p. 350) and April 25 (p. 347). London is where he lived and kept his shop; the place of death is not stated.
spouses
id: anne-winthrop-1586
basis: documented
confidence: proven
sources: [book-winthrop-papers, book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
married
date: 25 Feb 1604/5
place: Groton, Suffolk, England
basis: documented
confidence: proven
sources: [book-winthrop-papers]
note: Adam Winthrop's diary: "The xxiijth T[homas] F[ones] came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth. and they departed toward London the xxvijth day of February 1604" (Winthrop Papers 1:88).
name: Priscilla (Burgess) Sherman
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
note: Daughter of John Burgess, D.D., and widow of Bezaleel Sherman.
married
date: 28 Aug 1621
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]

Father of Elizabeth (Fones) Feake: a London apothecary, "Son of Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey" (source, 1:88 n. 27).

His letters to Anne Winthrop during their engagement, about 1603, survive among the Winthrop papers: "Long looked for comes at last, so sayth our english Prouerb ... Ah how Impatient is loue of delayes if the sight of a poore letter bring such Joy how far wold yt exceed to touch that hand that wrote yt" (source, 1:149-150). He came to Groton on 23 February 1604/5, married Anne there on the 25th, and took her to London on the 27th (1:88). Their second daughter, Elizabeth, was born in January 1609/10 (1:104); another daughter, Martha, married her cousin John Winthrop the Younger. Anne died in 1618 or 1619, and in 1621 he married Priscilla, widow of Bezaleel Sherman (source, p. 350). He wrote often to his brother-in-law John Winthrop and to his nephew John Winthrop Jr. in the 1620s, and died in April 1629, ten days before his daughter Elizabeth's marriage to Henry Winthrop.

The Frost Genealogy prints a long Fones pedigree "of Saxby," back to about 1400 (pp. 349-350); the Winthrop Papers give his father only as "Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove," and the longer pedigree is not used.

Research: The Long Island Quaker families of the Frost line.

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name: Thomas Fones
aka: [Thomas Fownes]
sex: male
access: public
summary: >-
London apothecary at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey, son of Thomas Fones of Dedford
in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He married Anne Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop, the future
governor of Massachusetts, at Groton, Suffolk, in 1604/5, and after her death Priscilla, widow of
Bezaleel Sherman; he died in 1629. Probably the father of Elizabeth (Fones) Feake.
died:
date: 15 Apr 1629
place: London, England
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-winthrop-papers, book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
note: '"He died April 15, 1629" (Winthrop Papers 1:88 n. 27, citing Muskett). The Frost Genealogy has April 16 (p. 350) and April 25 (p. 347). London is where he lived and kept his shop; the place of death is not stated.'
spouses:
- id: anne-winthrop-1586
basis: documented
confidence: proven
sources: [book-winthrop-papers, book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
married:
date: 25 Feb 1604/5
place: Groton, Suffolk, England
basis: documented
confidence: proven
sources: [book-winthrop-papers]
note: 'Adam Winthrop''s diary: "The xxiijth T[homas] F[ones] came to Groton and was maried to my daughter Anne the xxvth. and they departed toward London the xxvijth day of February 1604" (Winthrop Papers 1:88).'
- name: Priscilla (Burgess) Sherman
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
note: Daughter of John Burgess, D.D., and widow of Bezaleel Sherman.
married:
date: 28 Aug 1621
basis: compiled
confidence: probable
sources: [book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy]
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Father of Elizabeth (Fones) Feake: a London apothecary, "Son of Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove,
co. Worcester, apothecary in London at the sign of the Three Fawns in the Old Bailey"
([source](/files/sources/book-winthrop-papers/), 1:88 n. 27).
His letters to Anne Winthrop during their engagement, about 1603, survive among the Winthrop papers:
"Long looked for comes at last, so sayth our english Prouerb ... Ah how Impatient is loue of delayes if
the sight of a poore letter bring such Joy how far wold yt exceed to touch that hand that wrote yt"
([source](/files/sources/book-winthrop-papers/), 1:149-150). He came to Groton on 23 February 1604/5, married
Anne there on the 25th, and took her to London on the 27th (1:88). Their second daughter, Elizabeth,
was born in January 1609/10 (1:104); another daughter, Martha, married her cousin John Winthrop the
Younger. Anne died in 1618 or 1619, and in 1621 he married Priscilla, widow of Bezaleel Sherman
([source](/files/sources/book-frost-1912-frost-genealogy/), p. 350). He wrote often to his brother-in-law John
Winthrop and to his nephew John Winthrop Jr. in the 1620s, and died in April 1629, ten days before his
daughter Elizabeth's marriage to Henry Winthrop.
The Frost Genealogy prints a long Fones pedigree "of Saxby," back to about 1400 (pp. 349-350); the
Winthrop Papers give his father only as "Thomas Fones of Dedford in Bromsgrove," and the longer
pedigree is not used.
Research: `research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md`.