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Sources:
Henry Adams of Somersetshire England and Braintree Mass.
Publication: 1927: New York, 170 p, by J.G. Bartlett
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Mother: ELIZABETH COPLEDIKE |
_Anthony CONNEY ____________+
| (1350 - ....)
_Robert CONEY ___________|
| (1397 - ....) |
| |_Daughter of John FRISKNEY _+
| (1360 - ....)
_Geoffrey CONEY ______|
| (1420 - ....) m 1442 |
| | _John DIGBY ________________
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| |_Daughter of John DIGBY _|
| (1400 - ....) |
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|--Roger CONEY
| (1450 - ....)
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| _WILLIAM COPLEDIKE ______|
| | (1402 - ....) m 1423 |
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|_ELIZABETH COPLEDIKE _|
(1423 - ....) m 1442 |
| _THOMAS HAWLEY _____________+
| | (1370 - ....)
|_ELINOR HAWLEY __________|
(1400 - ....) m 1423 |
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Mother: Ann ESTES |
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_Abraham ESTES "the Immigrant"_|
| (1647 - 1720) m 1682 |
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_Abraham ESTES Jr.___|
| (1697 - 1759) m 1715|
| | _Robert BROCK _______
| | | (1640 - ....)
| |_Barbara BROCK ________________|
| (1667 - 1720) m 1682 |
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|--Samuel ESTES
| (1725 - 1791)
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| _(RESEARCH QUERY) ESTES _______|
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|_Ann ESTES __________|
(1696 - 1735) m 1715|
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Mother: Hester DAVIS |
"According to The National Cyclopedia of American Biography,
Joseph Jones attended law school in England, was admited to the
Inner Temple in London in 1749, the Middle Temple in 1751, and
to the Bar on June 21, 1751. He returned to the colonies where
he practiced law in Fredericksburg for 20 years. In 1754 he
became deputy attorney for the king, a position he held for 20
years as deputy royal attorney.
Documents in the U.S. Senate Library used to compile Jones'
Congressional Biography say his public service career began in
1772 with his election to the Colonial House of Burgesses. He
was sympathetic to the Colonies as evidenced by his election as
chairman of the Committee for King George County in 1774 and
subsequently on the second Virginia Committee on Safety, in all
the Virginia Revolutionary Conventions and in the House of
Delegates.
In the Convention of 1776 he was member of the committee that
framed the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the state
constitution. He was elected to the Continental Congress of
1777-1778 but withdrew to accept an appointment as Judge of the
Virginia General Court. He resigned that two years later to
return to service in Congress, 1780-1786. He declined to seek
re-election in 1786 and was reappointed Judge on November 19,
1789 and held that office until his death. Toward the close of
the war, he was commissioned a Major General of the Virginia
militia.
According to his Congressional Biography, he authored one bill
in Congress which rebuked his native home state of Virginia for
its hard-line attempt to abolish the Northwest Territory. He was
viewed as a contributor of sound fiscal policies for his state
and Congress. He had many close friends in Congress and was in
frequent correspondence with Presidents Washington, Jefferson
and Madison (his letters were published by the U.S. State
Department in 1889, W.C. Ford , editor). Both The National
Cyclopedia and Dictionary of American Biography say he played a
role in shaping his nephew James Monroe who became the 5th
President of the United States (George Morgan, "The Life of
James Monroe," 1921, p. 14). He also has letters that were
published in "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," Vols. I, 3,
4,5,6,and 9,(authors: Jeff and Julian P. Boyd) by Princeton
Press.
Joseph Jones shows up in numerous legal proceedings of old
Virginia. Among them:
Apr. 12, 1750-received 175 acres of land in Northhampton NC from
Walter & Benjamin Morrell;
Feb. 19, 1752-received 50 acres in NC from William Lucas;
Mar. 12, 1752-sold 50 acres in NC to Lewis Joyner;
Apr. 9, 1752-sold 175 acres to Richard Kello;
Feb. 9, 1757-received 100 acres on Round Hill, NC from John Exum
(near Vasser, Jesse Jones);
Dec. 5, 1758- guardian of Elizabeth Taliaferro on her father
Francis death,(p. 73 of Spotsylvania County);
Jun 13, 1759-sold 160 acres at Round Hill to William Spivey;
July 6, 1761-administrator of the estate of Moses Standley (p.
60 of Spotsylvania County Records);
Dec. 3,1764-co-administrator of the will of Robert Duncansom (p.
62 of Spotsylvania County Records);
In 1767, a friendly suit was brought by Joseph Jones, guardian
of John, Lucy Mary, and Nicholas Taliaferro, infants against
Gen. Wm Woodford, execr of Nicholas Battaile. It was decided
that the infants were entitled to two hundred pounds each under
the will of their grandfather, Nicholas B, after the death of
his daughter, Elizabeth. Joseph Jones was uncle by marriage to
the infants who were 14, 12 and 10 respectively.
Mar 21, 1771-named as husband of Mary Hardin Taliaferro's
daughter, Mary Taliaferro Jones, in Mary Hardin Taliaferro's
will (P. 458, Spots Co.);
Feb. 16, 1774-received land in the probating of Spence Monroe's
will (Wills of Westmoreland County);
Mar. 4, 1779-bought interest of Wm. Woodford in "The Fredksbg
Brewery" with Geo. Thornton (Joseph lived in King George County
at this time);
Jul. 13, 1779-Jones, Fielding Lewis, James Taylor, Jr. and
George Taylor sold 798 acres called "Long Branch, NC" to John
Taliaferro of King George County for 9 pounds per acre (Geo.
Thornton, Chas. Washington, Fras.Thornton, Rd. Brooke);
Oct. 19, 1780-Executor of John Lewis estate.
In October 1780, James Madison was asked to draft the letter to
accompany the report and justify American claims. The free
transit of the Mississippi was important as it provided the only
feasible means of export for the produce of most of the vast
lands west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi.
Virginia claimed much of this land, and it was natural that
Madison, a Virginian, would see free transit as essential.
Madison, however, would support the free transit of the
Mississippi throughout his career -- long after Virginia had
given up her claims and new states had been formed west of the
Appalachians.
The cession [an act of ceding or surrendering] of state claimed
lands west of the Appalachians was a related issue. Virginia had
well established claims for what are now Kentucky and West
Virginia. Additionally, Virginia claimed the Northwest Territory
on the basis of the startlingly successful expedition of George
Rogers Clark into that territory. There was general agreement,
perhaps, that the lands, as they became populated, should be
formed into new states. However, conflicting claims of state
governments,Revolutionary War veterans who had been promised
land, and land companies swirled around these lands and made
settlement difficult.
George Mason, Madison and, Joseph Jones, another Virginia
delegate, produced a plan for Virginia's cession of the
Northwest Territory. Virginia would renounce its claims
dependent upon Congressional acceptance of its conditions:
recompense for the Clark expedition; recognition of claims of
veterans; disavowal of claims based on purchases from the Native
American nations. and that the ceded lands be a common fund for
benefit of the United States. Virginia agreed in January, 1781,
but Madison was initially unable to secure agreement by
Congress. The matter dragged on for several years,but was
finally resolved along the lines of the Virginia proposal:
Thus important foundations were laid: the principle of cession
of Western lands for the common good had been agreed to by all
the states and the idea of new, fully equal states acceding to
the union of the original thirteen opened the way for, in
Jefferson's famous phrase, the "empire of liberty" to spread
across the continent (Ketcham, page 100)".
Cong. Joseph Jones was a prolific writer. One of many letters he
wrote from his homes/estates of Yellow Creek and Spring Hill may
have played a pivotal role in the early days of the nation in
1783. By that time, active hostilities in the Revolutionary War
had been over since 1781 and Commissioners Franklin, Jay and
Adams were negotiating the final treaty in Great Britain. Even
without a war, Congress decided to retain the Continental Army
as long as the British remained in New York. Headquartered at
Newburgh, NY, the army had not been paid since the early days of
the war in 1774. Major mutinies had occured in 1780 in
Connecticutt and 1781 by Pennsylvania and New Jersey Troops.
Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates had been associated with the earlier
uprisings and still sought to replace General George Washington.
A letter from Joseph Jones to Washington alerted the future
first President that his troops were near revolt and military
coop over Congress' failure to pay any back wages for the
militia's successful Revolutionary War against Britain. Gen.
Washington gave what may have been his best and most famous
speech at Newburgh on March 15, 1783 and the uprising was
officially over (Source: Sons of the American Revolution).
April 15, 1788 - Joseph Jones of King George County to William
Bankhead of Westmoreland County certain lot and improvements in
the Town of Fredericksburg now in the occupation of James Munroe
and Doctor Lawrence Brooke. Witness; John Chew, Jr.; William
Wiatt and Thomas Cochran.
1791-1797 - Joseph Jones in Fredericksburg Tax Records for one
tithable.
May 17, 1800 - Joseph Jones sold his interest in Brewery Lott
No. 272 to John Lewis of Fredericksburg. Witnesses were William
Pearson, George Rothrock, Josa Ingham.
Joseph Jones is also mentioned in the SC Gazette: April 1901, p.
141; July 1901, p. 243; June 1902, pp. 175-176:
JONES, Joseph, (uncle of James Monroe), a Delegate from
Virginia; born in King George County, Va., in 1727; member of
the colonial House of Burgesses;served on the committee of
safety in 1775; delegate to the State constitutional convention
of 1776; served in the State house of delegates in 1776, 1777,
1780, 1781, and 1783-1785; Member of the Continental Congress in
1777 and 1780-1783; appointed judge of the Virginia General
Court January 23, 1778, and resigned in October 1779;
reappointed to the same court November 19, 1789; member of the
State convention in 1788 which ratified the Federal
Constitution; major general of State militia; died in
Fredericksburg, Va., October 28, 1805.
3/28/1795: The will of Joseph Jones, Esq., is listed on pages
437-438 of Will Book G, Loudoun County, VA: "Wholly reconciled
to the will of God, I Joseph Jones of the Town of
Frederickburg being sound and disposing mind and understanding
do make this my last Will and Testament revoking all other Wills
by me heretofore made.
I give and devise unto my son Joseph Jones and his heirs and
assigns all me estate real and personal. In case he shall dye
before he arrives at lawful age, or being of lawful age shall
dye without a child or children to inherit the estate hereby
given to him.
It is my Will that the same shall after his death be divided
between the children of my late sisters Ester TYLER and
Elizabeth MONROE now living allowing my nephew, Col. James
Monroe, the first choice.
If my son Joseph should dye before lawful age, I release to
Dr.Tyler the interest that shall have accrued on his bond to me.
James Monroe by agreement between us is to have a moiety of the
land I purchased from Col. Charles Carter in Loudoun and my
other Executors on settlement, and division of the Tract are to
convey to him a right to the moiety which may be allotted to him
the Deed for the whole being made to me from Col. Carter.
I appoint Dr. James Tyler and Joseph Jones, my son, Executors of
this my Will in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal the 28th day of March, 1795. James Monroe was involved
in proving the will in Court in Loudoun County on January 18,
1806.
Joseph Jones died on Saturday, October 26, 1805 (based on
obituary). His obituary ran in many Virginia Newspapers
(Virginia Herald, Fredericksburg on 10/29/1805); (The Enquirer,
Richmond on 11/5/1805); and (Petersburg Intelligencer,
Petersburg on 11/1/1805). The obituaries were identical (long
version follows): "On Saturday last, about 11 o'clock, departed
this life,after an illness of about three weeks in this town,
the Honorable Joseph Jones, one of the Judges of the General
Court of Virginia, aged 78. In the character of this truly
excellent man were combined the tender sensibilities and
enobling virtues of the human heart-with strong powers of mind,
his judicial conduct was regarded as the most upright and
praiseworthy--Frank,affable, humane and benevolent, he
imperceptibly won the affections of his acquaintance--He was
stedfast in principle, sound in judgement, and faithful in
friendship; but friendship is unable to delineate character
which panegyric could scarcely pourtray.--By the unrelenting
hand of death, the public and society have sustainedan
irreparable loss; but he whose demise is so sincerely lamented
and sensibly felt, is now supremely happy; placed above the
reach of every earthly woe, and rejoicing among the spiris of
the just made perfect.
" Go aged sage and repose thy head, In peaceful slumbers with
the honor'd dead; Go gentle spirit and ascend above, Go dwell
with Saints in everlasting love. Thy toils now o'er thy debt of
nature paid, Receive this tribute to thy sacred shade; Go, reap
with them an everlasting crown, Fair Heaven's reward to virtue
and renown."
(Many accounts of Joseph Jones confused Congressman Joseph Jones
with another Joseph Jones who lived at Dinwhildie who was also a
member of the Virginia Convention and a major-general of the
militia.)
There appears to have been some kinship between Joseph Jones and
John Winston Jones of Virginia (son of Alexander Jones who
married Mary Ann Winston; other siblings included Eliza Jones
and Gustavus Jones). John married Harriet Bouisseau of Virginia
and they had 3 children: Mary Jones (married George W. Towns who
became Governor of Georgia); James B. Jones (married Ann Crawley
Winston) and Alex Jones. John Winston Jones was active in
Virginia politics and was elected Speaker of the 28th Congress
in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1840's.
More About CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH JONES, CONGRESSMAN:
Appointed: Bet. January 23, 1778 - October 1779, Judge, General
Court of Virginia17
Membership: 1788, Virginia State Convention which ratified
federal constitution18,19"
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume II, I--Fathers of the
Revolution: Joseph Jones
son of James Jones, a building contractor, was born in King
George county, Virginia, in 1727, and was an influential member
of the house of burgesses from King George county in the
assemblies of 1772-1774, and 1775, and was also a member of the
committee of safety in 1775, and of all the conventions of 1774,
1775 and 1776. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress,
1777-78 and 1780-83. He was judge of the general court, 1778-79,
and was reappointed November 19, 1789. He was a member of the
conventions of 1788, and served in the Virginia state militia as
majorgeneral. He was frequently a member of the house of
delegates, and through his opposition the proposition of the
legislature to revoke the release given to the United States of
the territory northwest of the Ohio river, was rejected, and the
legislature was induced to conform to the wishes of the Federal
Congress. His sister, Elizabeth, married Spence Monroe, and
became the mother of James Monroe, president of the United
States. Mr. Jones died in King George county, October 28, 1805.
His letters have been recently published by Worthington C. Ford,
and show him to have been a man of decided ability and
originality.
_(RESEARCH QUERY) JONES _
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_(RESEARCH QUERY) of Spots Orange VA JONES _|
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_James JONES "the Immigrant"_|
| (1695 - 1744) m 1726 |
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|--Joseph JONES of Hanover
| (1727 - 1805)
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| _Joshua DAVIS Sr.___________________________|
| | (1667 - 1703) |
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|_Hester DAVIS _______________|
(1700 - ....) m 1726 |
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Father: Abel Theophilus NORWOOD Mother: Catherine E. WILLIAMS |
This is probably A. S. - Alexander S. Norwood, son of Abelt T. &
Catherine E. Williams. He m. Catherine Andrews b 1826. James &
L.E. Andrews? her brothers?
[S818]
_Theophilus NORWOOD II_+
| (1725 - 1792) m 1749
_Samuel NORWOOD Sr.______|
| (1753 - 1817) m 1785 |
| |_Margaret DAWSON ______+
| (1725 - 1765) m 1749
_Abel Theophilus NORWOOD _|
| (1800 - 1838) m 1821 |
| | _Abel WADDELL _________+
| | | (1737 - 1798) m 1762
| |_Martha "Patti" WADDELL _|
| (1768 - 1838) m 1785 |
| |_Rachel STANDARD ______+
| (1744 - 1826) m 1762
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|--Alexander S. NORWOOD
| (1825 - ....)
| _David WILLIAMS _______
| | (1724 - 1766)
| _Membrance WILLIAMS _____|
| | (1752 - 1802) |
| | |_Catherine_____________
| | (1728 - 1800)
|_Catherine E. WILLIAMS ___|
(1802 - 1836) m 1821 |
| _William BROWN Sr._____+
| | (1720 - ....)
|_Ann (Nancy) BROWN ______|
(1755 - ....) |
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