 Abt 1765 - Bef 1812 (~ 47 years)
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| Name |
Benjamin J. JONES |
| Suffix |
(Rev) |
| Birth |
Abt 1765 |
Granville/Bute County, NC  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Bef 4 May 1812 |
Jackson County, GA |
| Notes |
- THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONTAINS NUMEROUS INCONSISTENCIES THAT NEED TO BE VERIFIED
Oliver S. Jones, Oliver Jones' grandson, stated in a memoir written in 1917: "My paternal grandfather, Benjamin Jones, was a son of Thomas Jones who came from Scotland in the year 1755. Benjamin Jones was a sixteen-year-old boy when the war for liberty ended; he was a soldier and present at the surrender of Cornwallis. He married Mary E. Fowler, Scotch-Irish girls, about 1791. To this union was born four sons and one daughter - Nathan, Thomas, James, Smith and Matildy (Matilda)"
Sometime after the end of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jones and his son Benjamin, along with brother James, and probably other family members, migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia from Wilkes County, North Carolina. We are not certain when Benjamin and his father arrived, but Thomas Jones was on the 1785 tax list for Wilkes County (later Warren County) as paying only a toll tax. Benjamin was probably on 20 years old and not required to pay a poll tax, based on Oliver Jones' account of his age at Yorktown. However, no positive proof of his service in the Revolution has been found.
In 1786, Benjamin and his father, Thomas, were living on the Long Creek, a tributary of the Ogeechee River, in Wilkes County, Georgia, an area that in Dec. 1793 became Warren County. Apparently, Benjamin did not own any land since the 1793 tax records show that, while he lived in the county (Wilkes Co., GA Tax Digest for 1793, Blair, p 278). He probably lived with his father or Nathan Fowler, who in 1793 became his father-in-law, and helped on the farm.
In 1793 the list for the Wilkes County Militia included:
1. Benjamin Jones
2. Adam Jones (Jr.?)
3. Zephania Fowler
4. Hillery Fowler, and
5. William Smith.
Thomas, Adam, and James Jones and Nathan Fowler were not listed, probably because they were too old.
The early Jones' in this part of Georgia were active in the affairs of the Long Creek Church in Warren County. There were a number of Jones' who were early members of this church, including a Thomas Jones, Sr. and Jr. Early church minutes show both Thomas and Mary Jones and Benjamin as original members of the church. Adam Jones, Sr., pastor of the church from 1807 to 1825, was also an original member. On Feb. 20, 1790, however, John and Adam Jones, Jr. were excommunicated by the church for dancing and keeping bad company.
In 1801, both Thomas and Benjamin were still on the Warren County tax list. However, in 1801 Benjamin is also on Capt. Burge's Mulberry Fork District tax list in Jackson County (Jackson Co. GA Tax Digest p. 26, 64)
In 1803 Benjamin is in Capt. Sparke's district, paying only a poll (op. cit., p. 54) He is listed next to land owned by Nathan Fowler, his father-in-law, and he and Mary were probably living with him.
The 1804 tax list for Capt. Sparke's district shows Benjamin and Nathan Fowler with the same tax number living on the Appalachee River with two other Fowler sons-in-laws, Willis Rowland and John Beauchamp.
(Research): Some claim Tybitha Fowler to be wife of Benjamin Jones. No proof has been found. It is likely that she cared for children upon the death of her sister, Mary Eliphalett Fowler.
Jackson County George Deed Book F, 1812-1818, Page 19
"The Second or 1807 Land Lottery of Georgia" by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Page 78
"for keeping rude company"
Church minutes reveal that" Benjamin Jones, who had formerly been excommunicated, came forward and made his acknowledgements for immoral conduct and gave satisfactory relation of his being reclaimed, he was received in full fellowship, he then applied for a letter of Dismission which was granted"
Reel 47, Minutes of Long Creek Baptist Church, Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA
With a pardon in hand, he probably then joined a church in Jackson County
"Gone to Georgia" by Wm. C. Steward, Page 104
Jackson County, Georgia DB-D, Page 223
Inventories, Appointments, Returns and Sales - Jackson County, GA - 1800-1832, Page 338
Jackson County Georgia Deed Book F, Page 18
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| Person ID |
I7733 |
Johnson & Hanson |
| Last Modified |
12 Apr 2005 |
| Family |
Mary Eliphalett FOWLER d. Bef 6 Mar 1811, Jackson County, GA |
| Marriage |
1793 |
Wilkes County, GA |
| Children |
| | 1. Margaret (Matilda) JONES, b. 1797 d. Carroll Co., GA |
| | 2. James B. JONES, b. Abt 1798, Warren Co., GA |
| | 3. Smith JONES, b. 11 Jan 1803, Jackson County, GA |
| | 4. Nathan JONES, b. Abt 1804, Jackson County, GA |
| + | 5. Thomas Benjamin JONES, b. 8 Nov 1806, Jackson County, GA d. 13 Jun 1880, Carroll County, GA (Age 73 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2878 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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