Person:Frances Jones (19)

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Frances Orlando Jones
b.10 Apr 1710 New Kent, Virginia, United States
d.9 Jul 1785 New Kent, Virginia, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 31 Jan 1701/02
  1. Lane Jones1707 - 1750
  2. Frances Orlando Jones1710 - 1785
Spouse and Children
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m. 22 Jul 1730
  1. Bartholomew Dandridge1737 - 1785
  2. Anna Maria Dandridge1739 - 1777
  3. Martha Dandridge1731 - 1802
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Name Frances Orlando Jones
Gender Female
Birth[1] 10 Apr 1710 New Kent, Virginia, United States
Marriage 22 Jul 1730 New Kent Co., Virginiato John Dandridge
Death[1] 9 Jul 1785 New Kent, Virginia, United StatesChestnut Grove Plantation
Reference Number? Q5478762?


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Frances Jones Dandridge (April 10, 1710April 1785) was the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States. She was born in New Kent County, Virginia. Her father Orlando Jones and maternal grandfather Colonel Gideon Macon served on the House of Burgesses in Colonial Virginia. Her parents were prosperous Virginia landowners.

Her mother Martha Macon died when she was six and her father remarried before his death. She was then raised by her stepmother Mary Elizabeth Williams Jones and later her new husband John James Flourney. A few years after having herself emancipated at the age of sixteen, Frances married John Dandridge—a prominent planter, Colonel in the local militia, and Clerk of Courts—on July 22, 1730 in New Kent County, Virginia. The lived at the Chestnut Grove plantation and a house in Williamsburg and had eight children.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Frances Jones (colonist), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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