Hi everyone, I've been looking everywhere for where I can find articles from The American Genealogist and also from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
There are two articles from those respective magazines I would like to find, about the debate over the parents of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham Massachusetts. There is a 1961 article in The American Genealogist, volume 37, by Clarence Almon Torrey titled "The English Ancestry of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham, Massachusetts" that asserts Jonathan's parents were George Fairbanks and Mary Farrar of the village of Heptonstall, Yorkshire.
Then there's an article by Joseph and Ruth Fairbanks and and James Swan Landberg in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 116 from 2012, titled "Jonathan Fairbank of Dedham, Massachusetts, and his family in the West Riding of Yorkshire."
The gist of the 2012 article is that a clothier named George Fairbanks of the village of Sowerby a few miles from Heptonstall, a copy of whose will was sent to "his loving cousin Jonathan Fairbanks in New England" was actually the elder half brother of Jonathan of Dedham, and that he was described as a cousin because the two weren't very close. That doesn't make much sense to me since in his will this George (who had no wife or children) calls his siblings siblings and his cousins cousins, and also the writing on the back of the copy of the will that addresses "his loving cousin Jonathan" is different from the handwriting used in the will itself, implying George isn't the one who wrote it, so I don't know why the scribe would bother referring to the allegedly estranged half brother as a cousin rather than acknowledge him as a sibling.
Anyway, I'd like a chance to read these two articles and see what the competing evidence is, but I can't find the publications anywhere online.
