Jonathan Fairbanks (1594 – December 5, 1668) was an English colonist born in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England who immigrated to New England in 1633. Around 1636 Fairbanks built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts which is today the oldest surviving wood framed house in North America.
Proof that the house was built in 1636 is shown by the year painted on the chimney.
Read more about Jonathan Fairbanks: Settlement in New England, Conversion To Christianity
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)