SELECTED DESCENDANTS

1. THOMAS MINER / MINOR was born in Chew Magna, county of Somerset, England on 23 April 1608.

3. CLEMENT MINER[2] was baptized on 4 Mar 1638 in Hingham, MA, son of Thomas Miner and Grace Palmer.

24. JOSEPH MINER[3] was born on 6 Aug 1666 in New London, CT, son of Clement Miner and Frances Burcham.

82. JOSEPH MINER Jr.[4] was born on 3 Mar 1689/0 in New London, CT, son of Joseph Miner and Elizabeth Comstock.

240. JESSE MINER[5] was born 13 August 1716 in New London, CT, son of Joseph Miner and Grace Turner

620. TURNER MINER[6] was born on 12 November 1738 in New London, CT, son of Jesse. On 23 Jan 1760, he married Rebecca MOORE, daughter of Joshua Moore Jr and Elizabeth Grant of New London (now Waterford). They had 14 children recorded in New London (3A:33). He died on 23 Apr 1802 and was moved to Cedar Grove Cemetery in New London after it opened in 1851. He is located in 4th of 8 rows of moved graves placed to west of office building.
Latitude: 41.36651, Longitude: -72.12413       Google Map
She died on 28 Feb 1835 in Vernon, CT and is buried in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, CT.

1790 census - Waterford, CT: 2-2-4 (with son Jesse)
1800 census - New London: 00001-00001-00

1324. TURNER MINER[7] was born on 2 Dec 1764 in New London, CT, son of Turner. He was baptized on 14 April 1765 at First Church of Christ in New London. He went to East Haddam, CT from New London, and on 18 Sep 1788 at the Millington Church in East Haddam (v2p178), he married Mary SPENCER, daughter of General Joseph Spencer and Hannah Brown. (Hannah was the widow of Capt. Daniel Southmayd.) They lived west of the Millington Green Cemetery with the house (still standing in 2006) north of the road and a 40 acre farm to the south separated from the cemetery by a brook. They had 11 children recorded in Millington, CT (East Haddam 2:178). She died on 30 July 1825.

He married second with Catherine SEYMOUR on 24 Nov 1829. They were in Auburn, Cayuga Co, NY in 1830 and Skaneateles, Onondaga Co, NY in 1840. He died on 7 Aug 1840 and was buried in Thorn Hill Cemetery, Spafford, NY.
Latitude: 42.89779, Longitude: -76.34221       Google Map
She died on 23 Sep 1865 and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Skaneateles, NY.
Latitude: 42.94310, Longitude: -76.44060       Google Map

1790 census - East Haddam, CT: 1-2-1 (extra boy?)
1800 census - East Haddam, CT: 32010-20010-00
1810 census - East Haddam, CT: 12301-20101-0
1820 census - East Haddam, CT: 000202-01201-0200
1830 census - Auburn, NY: age 6x
1840 census - Skaneateles, NY: age 7x

More on this family at Stephen Pegler's page.

2575. JARED SPENCER MINER[8] was born on 8 July 1789 in East Haddam, CT (v2p178), son of Turner Miner. Baptized on 8 Nov 1795. He married Caroline BROCKWAY, daughter of Ezra Brockway and Margaret Banning, on 11 February 1813 in East Haddam. Caroline died on 2 January 1820, and was buried in Joshuatown Cemetery in Haddam, CT.

Jared married second with Elenora Young SNOW, and they had a son, Jared S Miner. Jared died on Nantucket Island, MA on 20 July 1827. Elenora married Edmund Cooper of North Kingstown, RI, son of Gilbert, on 10 June 1829. They lived in North Kingstown where she died on 28 October 1853 and was buried in the graveyard of the Old Baptist Church.
Latitude: 41.59304, Longitude: -71.49098       Google Map

1820 census for Lyme, CT gives 100010-20010 for Jared which conflicts with the existence of a second son, Charles, for whom I have found no information beyond the entry in Sidney Miner's compilation¹⁰.
1850 census for North Kingstown, RI gives Ellenora Cooper, age 56.

JARED S. MINER[9] was born on 3 March 1823? on Nantucket, MA, son of Jared Spencer Miner. He married Sarah Sherman RATHBUN, daughter of Nathan Dawley Rathbun and Martha Taylor Adams, in November or December 1851 in North Kingstown, RI. She is a descendant of Thankful Miner. He was farming in Exeter in 1860. He paid taxes from 1868 through 1877 in North Kingstown where he was a laborer probably at the mills. He died of consumption in Lafayette, RI on 9 November 1877, and she died on 17 May 1892.
Both are buried in Lot F of Elm Grove Cemetery in Allenton, RI.
Latitude: 41.54965, Longitude: -71.4643       Google Map

1850 census - North Kingstown, RI: age 26, laborer
1860 census - Exeter, RI: age 37, farmer
1870 census - North Kingstown, RI: age 47, laborer
1880 census - North Kingstown, RI: Sarah age 48, keeping house

JOSEPH EBENEZER MINER[10] was born on 30 June 1852 in North Kingstown, RI, son of Jared S. Miner. He married Louisa Ann TUCKER, daughter of John Aldrick Tucker and Harriet Newell Pike, on 9 December 1873 in North Kingstown, RI, and they had 4 children. He started life as a weaver in North Kingstown (1870) and lived in Ashaway, RI by 1877. He became a railroad engineer for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad for over 40 years. They moved to Stonington, CT about 1878 and to New London by 1900. He died in New London, CT on 30 June 1926, and she died there on 12 December 1951.
Both are buried in Jordan Mutual Cemetery in Waterford, CT along with their adult children and their wives.
Latitude: 41.3445, Longitude: -72.1410       Google Map
Louis was buried near his aunt, Sarah Maria Tucker-Lucas, in Lot 532 of Elm Grove in RI.

1870 census - North Kingstown, RI: age 18, weaver
1880 census - Stonington, CT: age 29, RR fireman
1900 census - New London, CT:age 47, mechanic
1910 census - New London, CT: age 57, machinist
1920 census - New London, CT: age 67, night watchman
1930 census - Noank, CT: Louisa

Primary reference is the Barbour index to CT vital records before 1850 which is stored at the CT State Library in Hartford, CT and also available on microfilm and as a series of softbound books put out by the Genealogical Publishing Co.

Additional sources are town records, federal census reports and obituaries.

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Updated 29 August 2025. Please send any additions or corrections to Peter Miner: wandaandpete@yahoo.com