John Downing1 
b. 10 April 1684, d. 14 February 1766
John Downing|b. 10 Apr 1684\nd. 14 Feb 1766|p10113.htm|Capt. John Downing Esq.|b. 1659\nd. 16 Sep 1744|p10108.htm|Susanna Miller|d. 31 May 1733|p10109.htm|||||||John Miller|b. s 1639\nd. b 18 Apr 1720|p10112.htm|Hannah Chater|b. 7 Aug 1644|p10110.htm|
4th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
6th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Fairfield and Allied Families
John Downing was born on 10 April 1684.1 He was the son of Capt. John Downing Esq. and Susanna Miller.1 He married first Elizabeth Harrison on 26 November 1706.2 He married second as her second husband Sarah Little Thing on 10 April 1742.2 Col. John Downing died on 14 February 1766 in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, at age 81.3 He was buried in Newington Cemetery, Newington, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.4
John Downing was a captain, colonel, Royal Councillor and distinguished citizen of Exeter and Newington.1
John Downing was a captain, colonel, Royal Councillor and distinguished citizen of Exeter and Newington.1
Additional Data
In 1715 John Downing and his father Capt. John Downing were both original members of the Newington Church.5,2
In 1720 "Capt. John Downing Esq. and his son John Downing" each had a fifty acre grant in Arundel, York County, Maine.2
John Downing was named in his father John Downing's will dated 23 February 1743/44 and with his brother Richard Downing, was executor.2
In 1720 "Capt. John Downing Esq. and his son John Downing" each had a fifty acre grant in Arundel, York County, Maine.2
John Downing was named in his father John Downing's will dated 23 February 1743/44 and with his brother Richard Downing, was executor.2
Child of John Downing and Elizabeth Harrison
- Mary Downing2 b. 31 Aug 1707
Citations
- [S909] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Miller, of Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 604, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Miller (1939).
- [S869] Charles Thornton Libby, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928), 204.
- [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 15: 173.
- [S1185] Find A Grave, online <http://www.findagrave.com/index.html>.
- [S761] NEHGR, 22: 297.
