GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF THE JONES FAMILY Transcribed by Thomas Walter Duda Transcriber's note: The source page numbers and footnotes are enclosed in brackets. Notes by the transcriber are enclosed in braces. Parenthetical remarks are those of the author. Footnotes are made part of the text. Footnotes and transcriber's notes are clearly identified as such. Periodicals are enclosed in underscores, '_' while books are enclosed in double underscores. Source: WATSON, Mrs. Walter A., editor under the direction of Wilmer L. Hall. __Notes on Southside Virginia__ by Walter A. Watson. Originally published as __Bulletin of the Virginia State Library__, Volume XV, Nos. 2-4 (September 1925). Richmond: 1925. Reprinted, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore: 1977. ISBN 0-8063-0741-2. No copyright notice was given in the reprinted edition. pp. 165-171. States mentioned are Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Counties mentioned: Tennessee: Robertson, Wilson Virginia: Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Nansemond, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince George and Richmond Surnames mentioned: Atkinson, Baker, Booth, Bragg, Camp, Cox, Brown, Campbell, Epes, Fletcher, Fitzgerald, Giles, Goode, Hardaway, Harris, Harvie, Holland, Jones, Lee, Mann, Mettaur, Nicholson, Osborn, Patterson, Pryor, Rhodes, Rivers, Robertson, Royall, Ruffin, Scott, Shore, Stokes, Sturdevant, Thweatt, Towns, Ward, Wylie [p. 165] JONES Taken from letter written by Mrs. Kitty Jones, Blackstone, Va., October 26, 1888: "My Aunt, Mrs. James Jones, gave me all the information I have as regards Dr. Jones himself or his family; therefore I think it must be authentic. Mrs. Jones stated [p. 166] that three brothers, named, respectively, Peter, William and Richard Jones, came from Wales to this country. "Peter settled in Dinwiddie County near or on the spot where Petersburg now stands. The place was called Peter's house, afterward Peter's town and then Petersburg. I think there is a statement something like this in Howe's History of Virginia [footnote: cf Howe, Henry, "Historical Collections of Virgina," 1845, p. 243]. "I have often heard my father say his family came from Wales. "William Jones took up the land on what was then called the Indian Trail, afterward the Namozine Road, from near Mr. J. N. Vaughan's farm to Dennisville. William Jones died unmarried and his property was diverted from the Jones family. "Richard Jones, the grandfather of Dr. James Jones, settled in Nottoway Co. about a mile east of the Court House, where still may be seen the family burial ground with a number of tombstones. "Major Richard Jones, his son, was thrice married; first, to Mary Robertson, of Amelia County, a near relative of old Dr. William H. Robertson, of Amelia. Dr. James Jones was the only son of this marriage who lived to years of maturity; one other died in infancy and there were a number of daughters, most of whom married and moved to Tennessee or Alabama. "Major Jones then married a widow, Nicholson, who was Elizabeth Fletcher, a sister of old Captain James Fletcher of this county (Nottoway). There were two sons of this marriage, Richard and Nathan. "Richard (our father) married Elizabeth Epes. Nathan died when about ten years old. {Transcriber's note: for a continuation of the JONES/EPES line, see the Jones family Bible record online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm} "Neither Dr. Jones's grandfather, father nor himself had any middle name. "Major Richard Jones married the third time a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, widow of Dr. Archibald Campbell, and mother of Dr. Archibald Campbell of "Blendon", Nottoway Court House." I copied the following from Mrs. Catherine Jones's Bible some years ago at "Homestead," Nottoway; it was probably Dr. Jones's Bible: James Jones and Catherine Harris were married 10th Sept., 1797. Note: The following styles itself to be "an exact copy of a register kept by my father Richard Jones on one of the blank leaves of the New Testament by Burkett": Richard Jones was married to Mary Robertson December 14th, 1769. [p. 167] Elizabeth Jones, daughter of these, was born Dec. 7th, 1770. James Jones, son, was born Dec. 11th, 1772. Mary Epes Jones, daughter, was born Aug. 16th, 1777. Richard Jones, son, was born Aug. 8th, 1780, died Oct. 8th, 1781. Martha Ann Jones, daughter, was born Dec. 26th, 1784, died 179-. Caroline Jones, daughter, born 1787, died 1794. Mary Jones, wife of Richard Jones, died 1784. James Jones entered Hampden Sidney College June 8, 1788; began medicine with Jo. Mettaur [footnote: John Peter Mettaur; cf Johnston, George Ben, "A Sketch of Dr. John Peter Mettaur of Virginia."], Prince Edward Co., May 1793; then eight weeks with Dr. George Brown in Baltimore; Philadelphia (Dec.) Read medicine with Jno. Patterson, Nottoway, 1794; Scotland, 1795, in ship "Bowman"; graduated Edinburgh, June, 1796, and returned November, 1796. Dr. Jones died 25 of Apr. 1848 -- nine o'clock Tuesday A.M. [footnote: see account of Dr. James Jones, p. {Transcriber's note: the page references were omitted from the footnote; they are pp. 23-28}] Frances Harris died 1776, age 41. William Harris died 1797, age 73. Mary Harris, died 1798, aged 18. Ann Osborn died 1799, age 30. Hamlin Harris died 1801, age 31. Susan Ruffin, 1825, age 61. Elizabeth Jones, died 1831, age 72. Sarah S. Fletcher, died 1855, age 86. Mrs. Catherine Jones, died 1860, age 88. Died at his late residence in Nottoway on August 30th, Dr. John Patterson in the flower of his age. (Signed) Walter A. Watson March 8th, 1896. The following is taken from a letter written to Judge Watson Feb. 25th, 1897, by Mr. Flournoy Rivers, Pulaski, Tenn.: "In 1805 Richard Jones died in Robertson County, Tenn., testate, leaving wife, Martha, and children. His wife Martha was the daughter of Rowland Ward (died 1800 in Amelia County) and Rebecca his wife (died in Davidson County, Tenn., 1805.). "Richard Jones and Martha Ward married in Amelia county in November, 1774. "Richard Jones with a brother, Peter, came to Tennessee from Amelia County as did the Ward mother and children. Peter Jones died in Wilson county, Tenn., 1811. "Among other children of this Richard and Martha Jones, a daughter, Dorothy Chamberlain Jones, became the wife of [p. 168] "John H. Camp, June, 1808; and in October 1808 the widow Martha married John H. Camp's father, Captain John Camp. "Dr. John H. Camp and wife were my great grand-parents." Francis Jones, of Brunswick, who married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Thweatt, of Dinwiddie, was elder brother of Mr. B. C. and G. W. Jones. He was father to Rev. T. T. Jones, George Jones, who married Dr. Pryor's daughter, and William Jones, the Republican politician of Brunswick. _Richmond Enquirer_, February 1, 1848, contains notice of the death of John Winston Jones at his home in Chesterfield. Towns [footnote: George Washington Bonaparte Towns], the then Governor of Georgia, was a son-in-law, and the _Macon Journal_ notices his having been called to Virginia to attend Jones's bedside. _Richmond Enquirer_, March 31, 1848. -- John W. Jones: Resolutions offered at county court at Chesterfield by Holden Rhodes, Esq. _Richmond Enquirer_, Feb. 4, 1848: Resolutions in legislature on death of John W. Jones, offered in Senate by Judge Cox [footnote: James H. Cox] and in the House of Delegates by Lewis E. Harvie. Washington, Sept. 12, 1917. Had lunch with Congressman Wm. A. Jones, of Richmond County, and E. E. Holland, of Nansemond County, today and talked with Jones about his kinsfolk on his father's side. He said Gen'l. Jos. Jones of "Cedar Grove," Prince George County, in the suburbs of Petersburg, was his great-grandfather and married an Atkinson. He established his grandfather at "Bellevue" on the Appomattox River in Chesterfield. His grandfather married a Lee of Westmoreland. His father, Judge Thos. Jones, of Richmond County, was born at "Bellevue," went to school at the "Wigwam" in Amelia and at Chapel Hill, N.C.: waited upon Dr. Theodorick Pryor when he married an Atkinson at "Olive Hill" in Chesterfield. Jones said, as a youngster during the last year of the war, he was at "Bellevue," then the residence of his cousins, when General Lee dined there. One purpose Gen'l Lee had in going was to see an oil painting of his father Gen'l Henry Lee, which Jones says is still there in possession of some maiden cousins of his, and is believed to be the only portrait extant of "Light Horse Harry. " [footnote: At this time (1925) there is still an old portrait at "Bellevue" in the possession of a member of the family, Miss Margaret Jones, thought by some to be a pastel, by others perhaps the work of St. Memin. This, however, is not the only portrait extant of General Henry Lee; there is also in existence an oil painting by Stuart; a copy by W. L. Sheppard is in the Virginia State Library.]. W. A. W. (Walter A. Watson) [p. 169] Peter Jones, died in 1799; married Sarah Tanner, and had issue: I. Elizabeth Jones, married May 25, 1780, Littleberry Royall. II. Peter Jones; owned land in Dinwiddie; he settled in Lunenburg County. III. Archer Jones. His father left him "My Homestead," 2500 acres, also 2200 acres near "Butterwood." He married Nov. 28, 1793, his cousin Frances Branch Scott, daughter of James Scott, and had issue: 1. Archer Jones, married Sarah Scott, daughter of his uncle, Samuel Scott. 2. Frances Scott Jones, married (1) Dandridge Epes (2) --- Shore and had issue by both. 3. Sally Tanner Jones, married Edwin G. Booth, Sr., and had issue. 4. Branch Osborne Jones. IV. Robert Jones, died in 1804. His father gave him 650 acres near the mill. He married, Jan. 5, 1783, Ann, daughter of Rowland Ward and had issue: 1. Rebecca Jones, married, May 1840, David C. Jones. (David Jones married, I think, the second time). 2. Mary Ann Jones. 3. Sarah Tanner Jones, married, Aug. 1811, Daniel Hardaway, and they were parents of Horace Hardaway and Mrs. Maria J. Fitzgerald. 4. Elizabeth Royall Jones, married, Nov. 1815, Thos. Goode. 5. Maria W. Jones, married, July 1820, Thos. Wylie. 6. Edward Henry Jones. His father gave him 100 acres in Dinwiddie. 7. Seth Jones, married, Feb. 1816, Maria Hardaway. 8. Robert B. Jones. 9. Richard Sam'l. Jones, of "Horsepen Plantation." 10. William W. Jones, married, Jan. 1828, Prudence Mann. V. Batte Jones, married Feb. 11, 1777, Margaret, daughter of Rowland Ward, and had issue: 1. Peter Branch Jones (800 acres on Little Nottoway). 2. Martha Jones. 3. Sarah Jones. 4. Rebecca Jones. 5. Margaret Jones. [footnote: The above was sent to Judge Watson by some one, name unknown, but seems to have been worked out in careful detail.] [p. 170] The following Jones genealogy was taken from a letter written by Mr. William Clayton Torrence: Daniel Jones (son of Col. Richard Jones, of Amelia) died in Amelia County in 1772. He married (probably a Miss Sturdevant) and had issue: 1. Richard Jones. 2. Edward Jones. 3. Daniel Jones. 4. Sarah Jones. 5. Mary Jones. 6. Martha Jones. 7. Rebecca Jones. 8. Elizabeth Jones. 9. Prudence Jones. Daniel Jones, Jr., of "Mount Airy", son of Daniel Jones, married Catherine Crawley Ward. He died in Nottoway County (date unknown at present). Daniel and Catherine Jones had issue: first, Patrick Jones, of "Braggs"; second, Gen. Jones, of "Mount Airy," who married Betsy Fitzgerald, only daughter of Francis Fitzgerald, of "The Castle," by his marriage with Mary Epes, sister of Captain Jack Epes and sister of Mrs. William Fitzgerald, of "Leinster"; Daniel and probably others. The names of these children are proved: Geo., by Nottoway County tax books in Auditor's office, Richmond; Daniel, by deed quoted in Jones letter as of record in Nottoway; Patrick, by deed in Amelia 1812 or 15 from Catherine Fitzgerald, Sr., to her son Patrick Jones. The land conveyed by Catherine Fitzgerald was part of the tract formerly conveyed by Daniel Jones the elder to his son Daniel Jones the younger. The Nottoway tax books show also that the widow of Daniel Jones married Fitzgerald. There is a tradition that Patrick had two children, Ann and Catherine, and than Ann was the Ann Jones who married William Bragg. The Lewlyn Jones who married Prudence Ward was son of Peter Jones, of Lunenburg Co., and Jane Stokes. Prudence Ward was the daughter of Roland Ward, Jr., who was son of Roland Ward and his wife Rebecca, daughter of Col. Richard Jones, of Amelia. Daniel Jones first married a Miss Baker and had children of that marriage, among them Littleberry Jones. He then married Catherine Crawley Ward, widow of Colonel Benjamin Ward, of "West Creek." There were several children of this marriage, among them George and Patrick Jones. He lived at "West Creek" after his marriage with Mrs. Ward. Daniel Jones, of "Mount Airy," was the owner of the old mill and ditch site and was the father of Dr. George Jones (father of B. Cralle Jones, William and Mrs. Ward) who lived at Wm. Cralle Jones's place; Patrick Jones, who lived at Dr. J. C. Bragg's place; Fanny, who married Francis Fitzgerald, the clerk {Transcriber's note: Francis Fitzgerald was Clerk of Nottoway County}; Louisa, who married another son of Captain William Fitzgerald, of "Leinster," Dr. John Fitzgerald. Dr. Bragg's father married a daughter of Patrick Jones; Dr. Austin Watkins married his widow. [p. 171] E. G. Booth, Sr., married a sister of Archer Jones, as also did Dandridge Epes. Samuel Jones, of Powhatan County, was a nephew of William B. Giles. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Thomas Walter Duda TOM_DUDA@delphi.com **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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