Russell Taylor Jones, Sr

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A008144

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JONES, RUSSELL Ancestor #: A062570
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Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: CIRCA 1745 NORTH CAROLINA
Death: ANTE 3-3-1828 FRANKLIN CO GEORGIA
Service Source: NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #7, ROLL #S.115.102
Service Description: 1) PROVIDED SUPPLIES

COMMENTS (Overview)

1) FIRST WIFE, ANN BEASLEY, IS MOTHER OF ALL CHILDREN. SEE DATACF 11/2015.

RESIDENCE
1) County: WILKES CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA

SPOUSE
Number Name
1) ANN BEASLEY
2) SARAH X

Child [Spouse #] Spouse
DUDLEY [1] CLARISSA BEALL
ELIZABETH [1] CHARLES SORRELLS
THOMAS [1] MARGARET CONNELLY
RUSSEL [1] SOPHIA HARRIS
JAMES [1] EASTER HOLMES Lt James Jones m Esther Jones

• Military_service: American Colonies, United States of America - 1776
• Military_service: United States - 1812-1815
• Residence: Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America - 27 August 1772
• Residence: Franklin, Georgia, United States - 1 December 1827
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From: Betsy Collins / Kerry Morgensen / WiKiTree
Son of Phillip Jones and Rebecca (Cherry) Jones
Husband of Nancy Ann Beasley — married 1769 in Albemarle, Virginia
Husband of Sarah (Kees) Jones — married Apr 1809 in Franklin, Georgia

Descedants:
Father of Russell T Jones, Dudley Jones, Lewis Jones, Mary (Jones) Daniel, Thomas Jones, William Jones, Amelia Jones, Elizabeth (Jones) Sorrells, Annie (Jones) Cleveland and James L. Jones

Russell was born about 1745 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He passed away in 1828 in Franklin County, Georgia. He is buried at Jones Cemetery, Endicott, Franklin Co., GA.[1]
He lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina first and then moved to Franklin County Georgia.
He was a revolutionary soldier in the Continental Light Dragoons and upon the Certification of Col. Leonard Marbury received discharge and county land in Georgia, April 23, 1785.
He is in the list of certified troops in Knight's Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers, also on page 178 in Georgia DAR Historical Collections, Vol. 1.
Russell Jones and wife Sarah signed deeds to land in Franklin County GA in 1811.
He was a member of Ordinary 1801 of Franklin County.
His will was recorded in Franklin County, Georgia Dec 21, 1827, and probated March 3, 1828. Also filed in Jackson County Georgia, page 152-4 Book A.

NOTE Georgia districts were presided over by a board of auditors to hear all claims for public service, to fix prices for various supplies and services and to issue, in payment of just claims, indented certifications signed by two auditors and countersigned by their Secretary.
Russell Jones was one of the auditors for the counties of Burke, Lincoln, Wilkes, and Rutherford Counties, also Morgan District after 1782.

In 1789 Russell Jones had 19 slaves. His son, Dudly Jones, had 3 slaves.
Russell was a Senator from Franklin county in 1796, Justice of Inferior court 1796-1799, and listed among the Franklin County Academy commissioners of 1797-1825. 2

RUSSEL JONES, the youngest son, valiantly served in the War of Revolution, was later granted land in Franklin Co, GA, as a war veteran, removing to Wilkes County about 1788 and later to Franklin County, where he lived until 1828, loved and respected by all his fellow citizens. He left a large family of sons, daughters and grandchildren in Northeast GA. One son, RUSSEL JONES, of Jackson Co, GA, was designated by an act of Georgia Legislature of 1824, in chartering "The First School For Girls in Georgia" as the first named member of the Board of Trustees for that pioneer institution...the JONES FAMILY, experiences a sense of modest pride in having such a distinguished honor as the chairmanship of the first Board of Trustees of the earliest female institution of higher learning ever chartered in Georgia, come to the grandson of PHILIP JONES.

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RUSSELL JONES left a will, written 21 December 1827, and probated 3 March 1828, Franklin County, Georgia [Ga. Archives Franklin Co. Loose Estate Papers, RG159-2-1, Bx 5, Folder 160, Location 1750-05]. It names wife, SARAH; sons-in-law, CHARLES SORRELLS, ALLEN DANIEL, and BENJAMIN CLEVELAND; daughters, AMELIA ALLEN, deceased, POLLY DANIEL; granddaughter, NANCY HOOPER; sons, RUSSELL, DUDLEY, deceased, LEWIS, THOMAS, JAMES, and WILLIAM; children of daughter, POLLY DANIEL, except WILLIAM DANIEL, deduction from Oliver Powell's share; wife and son, RUSSELL, excrs. Wits. Gray Allen, Hugh A. Thompson, and Russell T. Jones.
per B at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/collaborate/L4J2-JRJ

Russell Jones was a revolutionary soldier in the Continental Light Dragoons