WILL OF THOMAS FONES. Father of Elizabeth Fones who married William Hallett. (source: NEHG Vol 50 pg 397, 398. Verbatim includes note.):

THOMAS FONES citizen and apothecary of London, 14 April 1629, proved 29 April 1629. Have disposed, by Acts executed in my life time, the greater part of my personal estate to and among my children and to the use and benefit of my wife. I commit the tuition &c. of my son Samuel, during his minority, unto his uncle John Wynthropp of Groton, Suffolk, Esq., John White of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., and James Thurlby citizen and grocer of London. The tuition of my daughter Elizabeth and Martha I do commit unto my said loving brother John Wynthropp until they shall marry or attain their full age of one and twenty years. The tuition of my youngest daughter Mary Fones I commit unto my loving wife her mother. And I do make my said wife Priscilla Fones and my said brother John Wynthropp the executors. Ridley, 28.

[The above testator married Priscilla widow of Bezaleel Sherman of Ipswich and daughter of John Burgess S.T.P. She afterwards became the wife of the Revd Henry Painter. This family will be found referred to in the Life and Letters of John Winthrop. See also N.E.H. and G. REG. for 1856. Mr. Fones died the day after making his will. The following three wills relate to the family of the wife of our Revd John Sherman. My friend Lt Col. Vivian gives us, in his Wisitations of Cornwall, a pedigree of the Launce family, to which Mrs. Sherman belonged, and shows the connection of that family with the Darcy family of Dartford, Kent, not of Essex Co., as has been thought. H.F.W.]