Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Isaac S. Jones (b. 1832 - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-51547

Joshua Chapel Trustee, Free Black
Kent County, Maryland

Biography:

                Isaac S. Jones was a free black from Kent County and a trustee to Joshua Chapel.1 Brother to Marshall J. Jones (also a trustee to Joshua Chapel), Isaac was born in 1832.2

               In 1860, Isaac applied for his certificate of freedom, which described him as five feet and seven inches tall with light complexion and a small scar on his upper lip.3 He married Eliza Jones, born about 1842, on May 6, 1868 by Reverend Joseph Elbert.4 Reverend Joseph Elbert was a Methodist Episcopal Minister and lived next to Samuel Gleaves just north of Corktown on the 1877 map.5 In 1870, Isaac S. Jones was considered a free laborer and U.S citizen with $200 real estate and $100 personal estate.6

               At this point, there is no record of when Isaac S. Jones’s died.


1. Kent County Circuit Court (Land Records), Charles W. Jones et al. to the Church Extension Society, 1869-1871, MSA CE 57-14,  JKH Liber 8, Folio 281.

2. U.S Census Bureau (Census Records, MD), Isaac S. Jones, 1870, p.70, Kent, 2nd Election District, SCM 7255, MSA SM 61-274; Kent County Circuit Court (Certificates of Freedom), 1852-1864, C1034, Isaac S. Jones, Maryland State Archives.

3. Kent County Circuit Court (Certificates of Freedom), 1852-1864, C1034, Isaac S. Jones, Maryland State Archives.

4. Kent County Circuit Court (Marriage Record), 1865-1888, C1085, Isaac S. Jones, Maryland State Archives.

5. Ancestry.com, United States Federal Census, Delaware, Kent County, Dover, p.70; U.S Census Bureau (Census Record, MD), Joseph D. Elbert, 1860, p.64, Kent, 2nd Election District, SCM 7222-2, MSA SM 61_212; Kent County Circuit Court (Miscellaneous Maps and Plats) MSA C2124-17, p.1, 1877 Kennedyille- Second District.

6. U.S Census Bureau (Census Records, MD), Isaac S. Jones, 1870, p.70, Kent, 2nd Election District, SCM 7255, MSA SM 61-274.

 

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Researched and written by Kathy Thornton, 2012.
 
 


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