Frances Williams

That Richard Jones was in the colony in 1651 appears only from the fact that in that year he married the widow of a Virginia planter - but before December 1653 he was dead, leaving a son and heir who also was named Cadwallader Jones. Richard Jones' widow now established herself on the plantation in the neck between upper Machotic and Chotank creeks, then in Westmoreland, but soon to be included in Stafford, which she had patented in 1650; and there her son by her second marriage grew up. (2)

Family

Frances was a descendant of Henry Mackworth, of Mackworth and Empingham son of Thomas Mackworth, Esq. and his wife Alice Basynges (born about 1385)

Her 9th great grandson was Conrad Nicholson (Jr.) ‘Nicky' HILTON Born: Dallas 1926 Died: 1969 Los Ángeles

Richard Townsend and Frances Baldwin had sons Francis and Robert. Francis died without heirs. Robert had two daughters and a son [who seems to have died young].

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113573492/frances-williams

Frances Baldwin was born in England, sister of Robert Baldwin of London and William Baldwin of Glapthorne, Northamptonshire. The names of her parents are unknown. [SIC]. She married, in England, Richard Townsend, and traveled with him to Virginia in 1635 or sooner. Townsend died before February 7, 1650/1, when "Mrs. Frances Townshend, Widdow" patented 2200 acres on the south bank of the Potomeck River at Chotank, now in King George County. Frances married, second, Richard Jones, who was dead by December 28, 1653, when William Baldwin executed power of attorney for his "well beloved sister, Mrs. Frances Jones, Widow".

After the death of Richard Jones, Frances married for the third time, Robert Williams. This was about 1660. The date and location of Frances' death are unknown, she possibly died on the plantation at Chotank about 1670.

Notes

While it is true that Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones was the son of merchant/planter named Richard Jones (d. 1652/3) , his mother is known to have been Frances BALDWIN (ca. 1614-1668), who's first husband was Col. Richard TOWNSHEND/TOWNSEND (ca. 1606-1650/1). Another useful source with all the details about the Townshend/Baldwin marriage, etc., is the entry on the Townshends in Jester & Hiden's *Adventurers of Purse and Person.*

Anyone inetersted in the life and career of Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones should also check out *William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World, 1676-1701* (Chapel Hill: 1963) which includes several letters detailing Jones' activities and a 1922 article, "Western Explorations in Virginia Between Lederer and Spotswood" which was published in the *Virginia Magazine of History and Biography* (vol. 30). (1)

Notes

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-05/...

Perhaps there was something in the genes. Margaret de Basing's granddaughter, Alice (de Basings) Mackworth, widow of Thomas Mackworth, was implicated in another murder in 1445. As with the Pashley Case, this second murder was also motivated by the desire to secure an inheritance -- Alice and her son Henry Mackworth arranged the murder of her nephew, the illegitimate son of Sir John de Basings (d. 1444/5) of Empingham, which is how Empingham passed into the hands of the Mackworth family. The Basings/Mackworth murder is covered in S.J. Payling's "Murder, Motive and Punishment in Fifteenth-Century England: Two Gentry Case-Studies," The English Historical Review, vol.113, no. 450 (Feb. 1998), 1-17. I believe both murders are also mentioned in Blore's coverage of the de Normanville and Mackworth families (Margaret de Basings was a de Normanville and the heiress of Empingham) in his history of Rutland. The Pashley murder case is the subject of Nigel Saul's "Murder and Justice, Medieval Style: The Pashley Case, 1327-8," *History Today* (August, 1994), 30-35. The Virginia immigrant, Mrs. Frances Baldwin Towns(h)end Jones Williams is a descendant of Alice (de Basings) Mackworth

References

1. "Genealogies of Virginia Families," from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1981. Page 193. < AncestrySharing >; < AncestryImage >
2. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2001-01/...
3. WESTERN EXPLORATIONS IN VIRGINIA BETWEEN LEDERER AND SPOTSWOOD A Chapter from Landmarks of Old Prince William By Fairfax Harrison. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 30. Virginia Historical Society. Page 323.
4. page 424 of Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011. Douglas Richardson
5. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 9 edited by William Glover Stanard Page 174 GoogleBooks
6. Duvall, Jeffrey A. “Murders, Mistresses and More: Further Thoughts on the Ancestry of Frances (Baldwin) Townshend-Jones-Williams,” The Virginia Genealogist (April-June 2006)
   1. ”The head of the family in 1613 was a John Baldwin of Great Stoughton (grandson of John Baldwin and Agnes Godfrey) and his wife Catherine Macworth, but there is no way of knowing just how my Frances and her two brother were exactly related to this couple. ” https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/3z...
7. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1328...
8. ”Brayton, The ancestry of Frances (Baldwin) Townshend-Jones-Williams, part II.” The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 49, Number 3, Whole Number 195 (July-September 2005) Falmouth, Virginia, John Frederick Dorman, 2005.
9. http://www.wargs.com/other/hilton.html