unknown
Jones Family
Virginia - South Carolina
m.
b. ?
d. *
her father: unknown
her mother: unknown
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Benjamin Jones |
b. 1700? | d. ? Ware Shoal, SC | m. Elizabeth Crain |
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Although I was hopeful that the
Benjamin Jones still listed here has a documented relative, I
have not been able to find the immigrant ancestor to date.
Much research still remains to be done and we are hoping
that DNA testing can close in the possible relatives.
There are numerous Jones families, some in Delaware actually
move further south into South Carolina but they don't seem to
connected the my family.
The John Jones family was one of a
couple of hundred immigrants that were brought to Pennsylvania
by William Penn.
John Jones and Ann James were both baptized in the Welsh Tract
Baptist Church in upper Delaware which was then
Pennsylvania. John on December 4, 1736 and Ann James on
September 3, 1737.
John Jones and several other members of the church were given a
letter to them dismiss them from the Welsh Neck Church as they
made plans to start a new colony.
Records for any family of this era a
difficult to find and confusing to interpret. The
one document that cements many of the children to John Jones is
a will by his father David Jones on August 1748. This
multi-page document I have extracted the pertinent
connections.
In the will
"David Jones of Pencader
hundred in ye County of New Castle upon Dellaware
Yeoman being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory ... Do
make & ordain this my last Will & testament....I give
and bequeath to Esther
my dearly beloved wife one third...to my son Morgan Jones ... ten pounds...and land
and plantation where Thos. Nelson lately lived..to my son James Jones the
land and Plantation where he now liveth... ten pounds to Esther daughter of John Jones...
to my Son John Jones ye
sum of five pounds besides ten pounds that I ordered my son
Morgan to pay... to my Son
Daniel Jones ye land and place where I now live...unto my Son David Jones ye
new plantation on ye south end of my land... upon Condition the
his sister Jane shall
live along with him while she continues unmarried..to my daughter Rachell Williams
the sum of ten pounds besides ten pounds ordered... her husband Richd. Williams...
I give to each of George
Browns Children (a suspected marriage to a deacsed
daughter) Thomas Brown... John
Brown...William Brown...George Brown... when they
arrives to full age.. I give and bequeath to my grand Son Benjm. Jones son of
John Jones the land and improvements thereon Christiana
Creek in White Clay Creek Hundred where widow Helpatrick now
liveth to be delivered him when he arrives to ye age of twenty
five years to him and his assigns forever, But if he dies
before he arrives to good age ye said land and premises shall be
for ye use of his brother
Enoch Jones his heirs and assigns forever to be
delivered him when he arrives to ye age of twenty-five
years.
(signed
and
sealed)
David Jones.
1736, Sept 30 - Benjamin Jones files
for a Land Grant for 550 acres in Craven Co., S. C. [SC Archives
and History, Series 213019, Vol. 0041, page 00140, Item
000] This is probably
not for my Benjamin since he is projected to be too young if
he is born in 1724 and unlikely to have the money or political
clout to get a Land Grant of this size. The question
still remains as to whether it could still be relative, say
the brother or unidentified son of David Jones in Delaware who
died in 1748.
1737 - A group of Delaware
Baptists were given a large tract of land on the Pee Dee River
to settle and establish a new church on the perimeters of known
civilization about 60 miles north of Charleston called Welsh
Neck or Jame's Neck. Rev. Phillp (1701-17540 who married
Elizabeth Thomas, became the first minister of the Pee Dee
church. They shortly move the community further
upstream to be about 135 miles north of Charleston.
M637
Roll: 11 Page: 436
Ninety-Sixth Dist. | . | Free M+16 including hd. of household |
Free M-16 |
Free
Female |
Other | Slaves |
Abbeville | Jones, Adam Cr., Esq. | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 |
Abbeville | Jones, Adam Cr., Jr. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Laurens | Jones, Benjamin | 4 | - | 5 | - | 6 |
Laurens | Jones, Benjamin | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
Spartanburg | Jones, Benj. | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Union | Jones, Benjamin | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 |
Orangeburg | Jones, Benjamin | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - |
p. 437
Laurens
Jones,
John
2
3
4
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Laurens
Jones,
Thomas
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Laurens
Jones,
Thomas
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