Richard Jones

Not the same as Richard Jones, of York County, VA

”One of these agents of the pre Commonwealth Virginia merchants was a certain Richard Jones. His record so far as it has been exhumed is scant enough. He seems to have been the son of an Exeter merchant named Cadwallader Jones who described himself as a Somersetshire man (as was Fielding's Tom Jones, though the name indicates an origin in Wales).”

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https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/early-virginia-jones-families/

Jones North of the James River

York County

Richard Jones, d. 1653, Merchant of London

Richard Jones may have first come to Virginia in 1635 aboard the Thomas and John. Richard was a merchant in Eastcheap, London, Middlesex. He married the widow of Richard Townshend. She was the daughter of Francis Baldwin and Mary Langhorne and sister of Robert Baldwin of London, and William Baldwin of Northamptonshire.

Richard Jones, merchant, died before 1653 as a deed issued in March of that year and recorded in Gloucester County, notes the land of Mrs. Frances Jones relict of Mr. Richard Jones, deceased.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113573034/richard-jones

Richard Jones was born in England, possibly in London. How or when he came to America is unknown. Richard married in Virginia, around 1651, Frances Baldwin Townsend, the widow of Richard Townsend. They had one child, a son who was named Cadwallader. Richard was dead by December 28, 1653, when William Baldwin executed power of attorney for his "well beloved sister, Mrs. Frances Jones, Widow".

Richard Jones was called, "late of London, merchant, deceased", in a deed dated 1681, from Cadwallader Jones of Virginia and John Jeffreys of London, Esq., to Sir Robert Jeffreys. John Jeffreys is identified as a grocer and Alderman of London since 1661, and called "undoubtedly a kinsman of Cadwallader Jones".

Richard Jones ydna Group 5 on FTDNA https://www.familytreedna.com/public/jonessurname?iframe=ycolorized , married Lady Jeffries of the Manor of Ley and settled in Devonshire, England, had been a merchant in London. They had five sons, Cardwallander, William, Richard, Abram and Frederick. The first four sons came to Virginia at an early period of the settlement of that colony, leaving Frederick, the youngest, with their parents in England. History of the Jones Family, by Col. Cardwallander Jones

That Richard Jones was in the Virginia 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. (1)

Family

The son of Cadwallader I, and his 1st wife (see note 1)

Married 1) ? 2) Frances Baldwin.

Children of Richard and ?

1. i. Richard Jones ~1640 in VA. [NO]

Children of Frances Baldwin:

1. ii. Cadwallader Jones, born about 1652. "1680, Cadwallader a Lt. Col. in the Stafford militia." 1681, Cadwallader “in Virginia”.
2. iii. Elizabeth Jones, born ?. Elizabeth married Thomas Hansford, born ~1646, 3rd s/o John, “First native Martyr to American Liberty”, executed after Bacon’s Rebellion. [NO]

Brief Biography

• from 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.

In the last half of the seventeenth century, it was the practice of English merchants engaged in the tobacco trade, as in the eighteenth century it was the practice of Scots merchants, to send out to Virginia their sons and other promising young kinsmen as their factors. Some returned to England and subsequently became principals of London and Bristol mercantile houses, but others remained in the colony and founded families.

One of these agents of the pre Commonwealth Virginia merchants was a certain Richard Jones. His record so far as it has been exhumed is scant enough. He seems to have been the son of an Exeter merchant named Cadwallader Jones who described himself as a Somersetshire man (as was Fielding's Tom Jones, though the name indicates an origin in Wales). 1

Cadwallader Jones, of Rock Hill, North Carolina in A Genealogical History, on page 73 stated:  There were in Virginia two Jones families, both of Welsh extraction and related in the old country -one known as the Robert Jones and the other as the Peter or Cadwallader Jones family who came to Virginia with two brothers. (1)

Notes

• from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2001-01/... Finally it is believed (although I'm not sure how well documented this is) that Richard Jones (d. 1652/3) was indeed the son of an earlier Cadwallader Jones (d. 1672) of Greenham, in the parish of Ashbrittle, co. Somerset who first shows up in 1642 as the Collector General of Customs under Charles I in 1642/3. Since this Cadwallader JONES is known to have married Anne BLUET sometime between 1643 and 1646, however, an unknown first wife must have been the mother of Richard JONES (d. 1652/3). As a result, descendants of Lt. Col. Cadwallader JONES of Virginia do not share the royal descent mentioned below. It is also probably worth noting that the only documented child of Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones and his wife Catherine (Debnam) is their daughter Frances who married Robert SLAUGHTER, Jr., of Essex County, Virginia.
• Richard Jones of Welsh extraction, married Lady Jefferies of the manor of Ley, and settled in Devonshire England, had been a merchant of London. They had five sons. The first four came to Virginia at an early period of the settlement of that colony, leaving Frederick, the youngest with his parents in England.
• According to "Cadwallader Jones, A Genealogical History," Richard Jones was Welsh and married Lady Jeffreys, of the Manor of Ley in Devonshire, England.  Richard Jones, a merchant in London, married Lady Jane Jeffreys and was the brother-in-law of Alderman Jeffreys, grocer of London.  However, the Jeffreys did not control the Manor of Ley. 
• Richard and Jane were the parents of Cadwallader, Peter, Richard, William, and Abraham Jones of Virginia and possibly Frederick who remained in England. 
• Information re Jones family taken from "A Genealogical History", pp 36 and 37 by Colonel Cadwallander Jones, printed by Ye Bryan Printing Company, Columbia, South Carolina, in year of our Lord MDCCCC and "A Lost Arcadia" or "The Story of My Old Community" pp 166 and 177, by Walter A. Clark, August GA Chronicle Job Print 1909 and from information written by Cornelia Ellet Carswell Walker, 1st wife of Little H. Walker. This information was in the posession of Ellect Carswell Walker their son, on March 4, 1956, who resided at 1325 Glenn Ave., Augusta, GA

timeline

1601, Richard born in England. A Richard Jones is age 22, single, at the 1623-24 muster. Richard, a merchant of London, together with John Jeffires of London owned the manor of Ley, in the parish of Beerfereis, Devon. 6/15/1659, a letter from Capt. Richard Longman, merchant in London to Mr. Richard Jones in Virginia: “ … I was very glad to heare of your safe arrivall, thoughe wth a long and tedious voyage. I am sorry to heare of ye losse of yor sonne & of yor servants; blessed be God yt you was soe well your self, for I did very much fear it having so long a passage. … My wife & all my family desire kindly to be remembered to you & Mrs Jones & soe doth your assured friend. /s/ Richard Longman”. (S Tyler’s Qrtly Hist. & Gen. Mag., 1920, P272. 6/29/1659, “Mr. Richard Jones for 28 hhd. Received from “William & John” and “Thomas & Ann” ships containing about 10,938 lbs. of tobacco.” (S) Economic History of Virginia, Bruce, 1896, P338. [See CD for copy of this bill.] Bef.4/10/1667 Richard died. “ … entering an order against Mr. John Roberts, guardian of Mistress Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, deceased, to deliver his ward’s estate in kind to Thomas Hansford as intermarrying with the said Elizabeth.” (This is Richard Jones, of York County, VA)

Family notes: • Multiple “Jones” persons are found in the lists of living and dead for Jamestown, including a Richard Jones listed 2/16/1623 as having died since “April last”.

Posted by Bond0007 at 9:42 PM

Links

• http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/04/bell-1432.html
• http://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/early-virginia-jones-families/ Early Jones Families of Virginia

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77054081

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• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 21 2020, 18:57:49 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 9 2021, 18:05:10 UTC
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Richard_Jones_%2864%29

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This seems incorrect

Husband of Ann (Jefferies) Jones

Their children were ...

• 1. Cadwallander Jones
• 2. Elizabeth Jones and
• 3. Peter Jones, Sr. (m. Margaret Lewelyn Wood)