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"Rose Hill," the home of John Grahame (1760-
1833) near Frederick Town; buried in All Saints'
Parish Cemetery, Frederick Town. LAND: at least
22,824 acres in Frederick and Allegany counties,
plus one-half undivided interest in 1,300 acres in
Loudon County, Virginia.
JONES, EDWARD (?-1697). IMMIGRATED: by
1671. RESIDED: in Cecil County. MARRIED first,
by 1682, Mary, widow of William Brockhurst.
MARRIED second, Dorothy. CHILDREN. DAUGH-
TER: Elizabeth (?-1716), who married in 1701
James Harris (1682-1743). PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: An-
glican, North Sassafras Parish, Cecil County. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1679.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter, 1671; chirur-
geon, 1678; attorney, admitted to Cecil County
Court, 1688. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERV-
ICE: Lower House, Cecil County, 1686-1688; As-
sociators' Convention, 1689-1692; Grand Com-
mittee of Twenty, 1690-1692; Lower House, Cecil
County, 1692-1693. OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES:
justice, Provincial Court, 1694-1697. LOCAL OF-
FICES: deputy surveyor, Cecil County, 1678; jus-
tice, 1685-1686, 1688-1692, 1694; coroner, 1687,
1689; North Sassafras Parish Vestry, 1693-1697.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: his "factious
and turbulent spirit" brought his dismissal from
Cecil justiceship in 1686; active supporter of the
Protestant Associators' Revolution, 1689. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least
500 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated
June 15, 1697, in Cecil County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: TEV, £420.9.8, plus debts worth 13,533
pounds of tobacco (including 6 slaves and books).
LAND: ca. 500 acres.
JONES, JOHN (1668-1731). BORN: on Septem-
ber 24, 1668, in Somerset County. NATIVE: second
generation. RESIDED, probably on ''Jones' Choice"
on the north side of Little Mony Creek, Somerset
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: William
Jones (?-ca. 1690) of Monie, who immigrated in
1665, in the Manokin section of Somerset County
in June 1666, a planter; justice of Somerset County.
1676-1687. MOTHER: Margaret (?-1683), who
immigrated with her husband in 1665. STEP-
MOTHER: by 1689 Jane. She married second,
George Bozman, and third, Luke Valentine (?-
1713). BROTHERS: William (1666-1722), who
married Catherine (last name unknown); Daniel
(1680-1720), who married Susannah Covington;
George (1678-1702); and Robert (1681-1723),
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who married Sarah (last name unknown). SIS-
TERS: Margaret (1671-?); Elizabeth; Mary (1670-
1677); and Ann (1675-?). MARRIED Elizabeth (?-
1754), daughter of Robert Collier (?-ca. 1702)
and wife Elizabeth Dashiell (ca. 1655-1723). Her
brothers were Thomas; James (1679-?), who
married Mary Betts (1687-?); Robert; and George.
Her sisters were Ann (1676-?), who married
Leonard Jones, Jr.; Sarah; Jeane (Jane) (?-ca.
1726), who married Richard Phillips (?-ca. 1727);
and Katherine (1792/93-?). CHILDREN. SONS:
Robert; William; George; Thomas; Benjamin;
James; and Mitchell (?-1749), who married Mary
(last name unknown). DAUGHTERS: Margaret, who
married Charles Ballard, son of Charles Ballard
(ca. 1670-ca. 1724/25); Elizabeth, who married
John Jones; and Eleanor, who married John
Leatherbury (?-1754). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protes-
tant. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: probably planter,
appraiser. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Somerset County, 1704-1707, 1719-
1721/22. LOCAL OFFICES: commissioner for Som-
erset County appointed under the Act for Ad-
vancement of Trade and Erecting Ports and Towns
in the Province of Maryland, April 1706; justice,
Somerset County, in office 1715/16-1731 (quo-
rum 1725-1731). MILITARY SERVICE: captain, ca.
1720. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: 350 acres in Somerset County (inher-
ited from his father). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
bought 120 acres in Somerset County, 1716; pat-
ented 50 acres in Somerset County with Thomas
Dashiell, 1725. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: in 1731,
inventory made December 15, 1731, in Somerset
County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £371.19.9
(including 6 slaves, plated valued at £4.5.0, and
a "sloop and her appurtenances"); FB, £336.0.3.
LAND: 520 acres in Somerset County. IDENTIFI-
CATION PROBLEMS. There were four men named
John Jones alive in Somerset County during this
time period. However, only John Jones, son of
William Jones (?-ca. 1690) of Monie, was found
to have the qualifications necessary to serve from
Somerset in 1704 and again in 1719.
JONES, JOHN COURTS (1754-1802). BORN: on
September 11, 1754, in Prince George's Parish,
Prince George's County. NATIVE, at least fourth
generation. RESIDED: at "Cedar Point," Nanje-
moy Parish, Charles County. There is some evi-
dence of a short residency in Lower Potomac
Hundred, Frederick County, in 1776. FAMILY
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