Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Samuel Jones
MSA SC 3520-16773

Biography:

Samuel Jones enlisted in Captain John Hoskins Stone's First Company as a sergeant, part of the First Maryland Regiment, on January 24, 1776. [1] However, Jones later was a lieutanent in the Third Maryland Battalion in Charles County of the Maryland Flying Camp in July 1776. [2] Hence, he did not fight in the Battle of Brooklyn with his former soldiers-in-arms of the First Maryland Regiment. Considering that the First Company recruited from Charles County, it is evident that this man is the same as Jones who enlisted in the First Company.

In December 1776, he becme fiirst lieutenant in the Third Maryland Regiment. [3] Nine months later, he was promoted once more. He stayed within the same regiment, but became a Captain. [4] Before his resignation in February 1780, Jones fought in the battles of Germantown (1777), Brandywine (1777), and Monmouth (1778). [5]

His life story after 1780 is not known. However, in 1827, his daughter, Lillias M. Jones, living in Charles County, received a warrant for two hundred acres of "vacant land" west of Fort Cumberland in Allegheny County and he was dead. [6] Ultimately, Jones's fate is not known.

- Burkely Hermann, Maryland Society of the Sons of American Revolution Research Fellow, 2016.

Notes

[1] Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Archives of Maryland Online vol. 18, 5.

[2] Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Archives of Maryland Online vol. 18, 31; Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the U.S. Army Vol 1 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903), 325.

[3] Heitman, 325; Service Card of Samuel Jones (Third Maryland Regiment), Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, Record Group 93, roll 402. Courtesy of Fold3.com.

[4] Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Archives of Maryland Online vol. 18, 127, 128, 220, 310, 311, 316, 319, 324, 325, 406; Service Card of Samuel Jones (Third Maryland Regiment); S. Eugene Clements and F. Edward Wright, The Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War (Silver Spring, MD: Family Lien Publications, 1987), 166, 185, 205; Service Card of Samuel Jones (Fourth Maryland Regiment), Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, Record Group 93, roll 404. Courtesy of Fold3.com; Service Card of Samuel Jones (Seventh Maryland Regiment), Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, National Archives, NARA M881, Record Group 93, roll 407. Courtesy of Fold3.com. This means that he was not a private in the Maryland Line or a militia substitute.

[5] Heitman, 325; Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution Archives of Maryland Online vol. 18, 127; Robert K. Wright Jr., The Continental Army (Washington, D.C.: Center for Military History, 1983), 278.

[6] Journal of the House of Delegates 1827 December 31-March 16 Archives of Maryland Online MSA SC 3200, Early State Records, 336, 525.
 

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