Birth year is an estimate.
Neither his origins nor his ultimate destiny are known. He was of Salem,MA when he married Elizabeth Cole there on Nov 20,1701. From a handwritten manuscript, handed down through the family and written about the 1840s, 1850s, from a previous manuscript, date unknown. In it is stated that Simon Jefferds, striken with great grief after his wife died, is said to have left his children with their maternal grandmother, Sarah (Davis) Cole, wife of Abraham Cole. Simon left for Virginia soon after his wife’s death, leaving the children in the care of their Grandmother Cole. According to family tradition, Simon married again, and died there. It should be noted that “Virginia” in those dats included what is now West Virginia, as well as other westward territory.
Nothing more is known of him. His story has been thoroughly researched, to no avail except that the name "Simon Jeffreys/Jeffries/Jeffers" is found several times in the historical record of Virginia of the mid to late eighteenth century.
Children: Samuel Jefferds, Sarah Jefferds Adams, and two infant children who died young.
Neither his origins nor his ultimate destiny are known. He was of Salem,MA when he married Elizabeth Cole there on Nov 20,1701. From a handwritten manuscript, handed down through the family and written about the 1840s, 1850s, from a previous manuscript, date unknown. In it is stated that Simon Jefferds, striken with great grief after his wife died, is said to have left his children with their maternal grandmother, Sarah (Davis) Cole, wife of Abraham Cole. Simon left for Virginia soon after his wife’s death, leaving the children in the care of their Grandmother Cole. According to family tradition, Simon married again, and died there. It should be noted that “Virginia” in those dats included what is now West Virginia, as well as other westward territory.
Nothing more is known of him. His story has been thoroughly researched, to no avail except that the name "Simon Jeffreys/Jeffries/Jeffers" is found several times in the historical record of Virginia of the mid to late eighteenth century.
Children: Samuel Jefferds, Sarah Jefferds Adams, and two infant children who died young.
Birth year is an estimate.
Neither his origins nor his ultimate destiny are known. He was of Salem,MA when he married Elizabeth Cole there on Nov 20,1701. From a handwritten manuscript, handed down through the family and written about the 1840s, 1850s, from a previous manuscript, date unknown. In it is stated that Simon Jefferds, striken with great grief after his wife died, is said to have left his children with their maternal grandmother, Sarah (Davis) Cole, wife of Abraham Cole. Simon left for Virginia soon after his wife’s death, leaving the children in the care of their Grandmother Cole. According to family tradition, Simon married again, and died there. It should be noted that “Virginia” in those dats included what is now West Virginia, as well as other westward territory.
Nothing more is known of him. His story has been thoroughly researched, to no avail except that the name "Simon Jeffreys/Jeffries/Jeffers" is found several times in the historical record of Virginia of the mid to late eighteenth century.
Children: Samuel Jefferds, Sarah Jefferds Adams, and two infant children who died young.
Neither his origins nor his ultimate destiny are known. He was of Salem,MA when he married Elizabeth Cole there on Nov 20,1701. From a handwritten manuscript, handed down through the family and written about the 1840s, 1850s, from a previous manuscript, date unknown. In it is stated that Simon Jefferds, striken with great grief after his wife died, is said to have left his children with their maternal grandmother, Sarah (Davis) Cole, wife of Abraham Cole. Simon left for Virginia soon after his wife’s death, leaving the children in the care of their Grandmother Cole. According to family tradition, Simon married again, and died there. It should be noted that “Virginia” in those dats included what is now West Virginia, as well as other westward territory.
Nothing more is known of him. His story has been thoroughly researched, to no avail except that the name "Simon Jeffreys/Jeffries/Jeffers" is found several times in the historical record of Virginia of the mid to late eighteenth century.
Children: Samuel Jefferds, Sarah Jefferds Adams, and two infant children who died young.
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