The WEEKS Family

HISTORY OF HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND WYOMING VALLEY

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
By: Henry Blackman Plumb, 1885, 498 pp.
Robert Baur, Printer and Stationer, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Website Compiled By: James H. Culbert


THE WEEKS FAMILY
CONTAINED IN THE HANOVER GENEALOGICAL TABLES TO 1830, pp. 484 - 485

This page last updated: 11 Jul 2009

Note: Additions to the information found in Plumb's History of Hanover are shown below in red text.

Jonathan WEEKS came from Fairfield, Connecticut to Wyoming with his wife, Abigail, and two sons, Jonathan and Philip, in 1762-63; escaped the massacre of 1763; Philip and Thomas, his sons, came to Wyoming in 1769 with the first two hundred in the second attempt to settle the land; the father, with Jonathan and Bartholomew and two daughters, came soon afterward; in the battle of 3 Jul 1778, seven persons went out from his house to the battle - Philip, Jonathan, and Bartholomew, his sons, Silas BENEDICT, who married his granddaughter, Jabez BEERS (probably the father of Philip's wife), Josiah CARMAN, another relative, and Robert BATES, a boarder; the whole seven lay dead on the fatal field that night.  His children were:

Jonathan WEEKS 2 (Jonathan 1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming first in 1762-63; and finally in 1769-70; resided in Wilkes-Barre; married [blank]; was slain in the massacre of 3 Jul 1778.  They had (the family of Jonathan is uncertain):

Philip WEEKS 2 (Jonathan 1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming first in 1762-63; and finally in 1769 with the first two hundred settlers; resided in the lower part of Wilkes-Barre on or near the present STURDEVANT place; married Abigail BEERS; was killed in the Wyoming Massacre of 3 Jul 1778, being called back out of the river by the promises of the Indians to spare his life, but as soon as he got out of the water they fell upon him with spear and tomahawk and killed him at the water's edge; they knew him; his house was about a mile below their town of Maughwauwama on the elevated flats or terrace.  They had:

Thomas WEEKS 2 (Jonathan 1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming with the first two hundred settlers in 1769; was not in the Wyoming Massacre; married [blank]; lived in Wilkes-Barre near his brother Philip's place; was made guardian of Philip's children in 1788.  The names of his children are uncertain, but they are supposed to be:

Philip WEEKS 3 (Philip, 2 Jonathan 1) was born in Wilkes-Barre about 1774; was four years old when his father was killed in the massacre; his mother married Ishmael BENNETT, and about 1788 removed to Hanover, where Philip, Hulda, and Luther grew up; Philip married 1st, Amelia DURKEE, daughter of Captain DURKEE, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre; removed to Oquago about 1804; married 2nd, [blank] CAMPBELL.  They had a number of children, but their names are not known.


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