GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
2834
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-3054)
Name
Jonathan Remington
Gender
Male
Lived
b. 1677-07-27 d. 1745-09-20 (old)
Linked Sermons
Sermon on Romans 11:36
(autograph: Yes )
- dedicatee
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:11
(autograph: Yes )
- dedicatee
Associated Places
Source of Data
Catherine Evans
Biographical Sources Consulted
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 8, p. 51.
Other note
May be the "Remington" named in George Curwen Papers, Sermons 1700-1717, Vol. 2: MSS 45. Jonathan Remington was born in Cambridge to Captain Jonathan Remington (d. 1700) and Martha Belcher Remington (d. 1711). He graduated from Harvard in 1696, and was a resident tutor and fellow there from 1703-1711. He was then the Deputy to the General Court at Cambridge, MA; the Judge of Court of Common Pleas, 1715–33;
Judge of Probate for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1725–45; Justice of Superior Court, 1733–45. He married Lucy Bradstreet (1680-1743), and had three daughters who survived to majority.
GEMMS record created
July 26, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024