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John Jones was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Revolutionary War Service Declaration
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2 - John Jones' Declaration, January 15th, 1833: Age 77 years, eleven months and thirteen days; in 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement, or settlement, on the Great Kanawha in Greenbrier County now Kanawha County, seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants; they were driven back in the spring of 1774 by the Indians to the settlements on Muddy Creek; volunteered in 1774 under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle to build a fort on Muddy Creek; in the fall of 1774 he volunteered under Captain Arbuckle, who raised a company to go with Lord Dunmore against the Indians; the company joined the division of the army under General Lewis; was in the whole of the battle of Point Pleasant, October 10th, 1774. In September, 1776, enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt. M. Arbuckle; marched to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, about 150 miles west of the inhabited country; other officers were First Lieut. Andrew Wallace, Second Lieut. William Woods, Ensign John Gallegher; they erected a fort at the mouth of the Great Kanawha (point Pleasant); here they were reinforced by Capt. McKee of Botetourt, First Lieut. William Moore, Ensign James Gilmore; Indians attacked and were repulsed and turned towards Donally's Fort in Greenbrier; in 1778 declarant was employed as an Indian spy; William and Leonard Morris, deceased, were spies with him; William Arbuckle (then of Mason County) was also in Dunmore's campaign.
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley's:
- Vol. 2 - John Levecy and ____, his wife, only daughter and issue of James Campbell, vs. John Morris--O. S. 24; N. S. 8--Bill filed 7th October, 1800). In February, 1773, James Campbell, father of oratrix, went into the County now of Kenhawa County and made an improvement on the Kenhawa, sowing a large quantity of apple seed. The same year John Morris cleared a tract opposite James on a creek called Napper's Creek, which he sold to a person of the same name. The Indian War of 1774 prevented James from making any further improvements, and in 1775 John claimed James' improvement. James died intestate previous to 1779 and John got a patent from the Commissioners and has sold a part to William Droddy, who has sold to John Reynoids. Peter Shoemaker deposes, 18th January, 1804, in Adams County, Ohio. In February, 1773, he started from Muddy Creek in Greenbrier County for the Kenawha in company with James Campbell, James Pauley, and Walter Kelly, and went as far as Gauley River, where Walter Kelly turned back. The others went on to what is now the mouth of Campbell's Creek, where Campbell made a tomahawk improvement. John and William Morris were brothers. The Indians shot deponent at Powell's Valley. Deposition of John Jones, a settler, as to Walter Kelley, Knapper (Napper), Thomas Alsberry, William Feamster. Thomas Alsberry says he forted (fought?) with John Morris all during the Indian War. They were greatly harassed by the Indians. About Conrad Yoacum. George Lee (See?) deposes in Kenawha, that he came to the country in 1774. John Morris was then with him as a soldier under Mathew Arbuckle. Curtis Alderson testifies in Botetourt, 20th May, 1802. In 1713 John Alderson, Joseph Carroll, William Morris, John Herd and deponent set out from Shenandoah County for New River below the falls, in search of vacant land, and went down as far as James Burnsides's on Greenbrier, when they were joined by Archd. Taylor, Philip Cooper and Walter Kelly, and all together arrived at New River 6th April, and made improvements and set out to return home, and at Gauley they met James Campbell, Peter Shoemaker and James Polly; William Morris and deponent went back with them. James Campbell died in fall of 1777.
- Vol. 2 - Edgar vs. Donnelly--O. S. 215; N. S. 76--Leonard Morris deposes, 1814; He was at William Mann's on Kenawha in 1776 when Archer Mathews and Andrew Donnally bought the bottom from John Prior. John Jones was present, assisting to drive cattle to Point Pleasant. John Hansford deposes; has known the land 25 years. Edmond Jones had been living in the neighborhood 23 years; son of John Jones, and is 23 years old 2d of last April. William Jones has known the bottom 26 years. Levi Morris, brother of Benj. deposes. Above four depositions taken 1813. Benj. Morris deposes 1813; Levi Morris deposes 1813; John Jenkins deposes 1813. Patent 21st March, 1792, to John Jones, assignee of Andrew Donnelly, 359 acres in Kenawha County. Certificate of settlement by John Prior in 1776. Ditto by John Hicks, 200 acres in Montgomery County, on New River by settlement in 1774.
Information on John Jones
Family Group Record FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19
Husband's Name
John JONES (AFN:RSZC-60) Pedigree
Born: 28 Jan 1755 Place: , Culpepper Co., Va
Died: 7 Jan 1838 Place: Pratt, Kanawha Co., Wv
Buried: Place: , Pratt, Kanawha, West Virginia
Married: 1794 Place: Greenbriar Co., Va
Father:
Mother:
Wife's Name
Frances MORRIS (AFN:RSZC-75) Pedigree
Born: 1773 Place: , Kanawha Co., Wv
Died: Place: Kanawha Co., Va
Buried: Place: Kanawha Co., Va
Married: 1794 Place: Greenbriar Co., Va
Father: William MORRIS (AFN:FW8N-KS) Family
Mother: Elizabeth STIPPS (AFN:FW8N-L0)
Children
1. Sex Name
M Gabriel JONES (AFN:RSZC-9H) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1793 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
2. Sex Name
F Nancy JONES (AFN:RSZC-CT) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1795 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
3. Sex Name
M William JONES (AFN:RSZC-BN) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1798 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
4. Sex Name
M Thomas JONES (AFN:RSZC-D1) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1800 Place: <, Fayette Co., Va>
5. Sex Name
M Levi JONES (AFN:RSZC-F6) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1800 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
6. Sex Name
F Frances JONES (AFN:RSZC-GC) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1804 Place: <, Fayette Co., Va>
7. Sex Name
M Edward JONES (AFN:RSZC-HJ) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1805 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
8. Sex Name
M Benjamin JONES (AFN:RSZC-JP) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1810 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
9. Sex Name
F Cynthia JONES (AFN:RSZC-KV) Pedigree
Born: Abt 1812 Place: , Kanawha, West Virginia
10. Sex Name
F Frances JONES (AFN:1N5F-1KD) Pedigree
Born: 1797 Place: , Of Kanawha, West Virginia
11. Sex Name
M Hillery JONES (AFN:RSZC-L2) Pedigree
Born: 1792 Place: , Fayette Co., Va
Died: Place: , Fayette Co., Va
Buried: Place: , , Fayette, Virginia
References
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of John Jones W7920
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia Kanawha County, to wit–
On this 15th day of January 1833 personally appeared in open court before Lewis Summers Judge of the Circuit Superior court of Law & Chancery for the County of Kanawha afores’d John Jones a resident of the said County aged seventy seven years eleven months & thirteen days, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832–
That in the year 1773 he and two others commenced an improvement or settlement on the great Kanawha river in the County of Greenbriar [sic: Greenbrier] & State of Virginia (now Kanawha County) [now in West Virginia] about seventy miles west of the frontier inhabitants of the State of Virginia but in the spring of 1774 they were driven from their [illegible word] & compelled by the incursions of the indians, to take refuge among the inhabitants of Greenbriar County on Muddy Creek – that he immediately volunteered as a soldier under Capt. Mathew Arbuckle, to aid in building a fort [Fort Arbuckle] on Muddy Creek, & to guard the inhabitants against the incursions of the indians– That afterwards in the fall of the year 1774 he volunteered under the same Capt Arbuckle, who raised a company to march against the western Indians in lord Dunmores campaigne. That Capt. Arbuckle’s company joined the division of the Army under the command of General Lewis, and marched with that division of the army to the mouth of the great Kanawha river at Point Pleasant, where a severe engagement ensued between a part of the army of Gen’l Andrew Lewis and a large body of Indians. This applicant entered into the battle at its commencement and continued without interruption in the middle of the engagement until its termination fighting from sunrise until late in the evening, before the Virginia forces succeeded in routing their savage adversaries– This bloody and hard fought battle took place on the 10th of October 1774–
This applicant further states that about the middle of September 1776 he enlisted as a regular soldier under Capt Mathew Arbuckle at the mouth of the great Kanawha river, then Greenbrier County and about one hundred & fifty miles west of the inhabited part of that County. The other officers of Capt. Arbuckle Company the applicant believes were Andrew Wallace first Leiutenant, William Woods 2nd Lieutenant & John Galligher ensign – That the soldiers composing that Company erected a fort at the mouth of said Kanawha river [Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant], and continued there during the [words illegible] of the year 1776 and until the close of the year 1777, when this applicant received a written discharge from Capt. Arbuckle, and returned to the inhabited part of the County of Greenbrier– That he hath lost or mislaid said discharge so as to be unable to produce the same. That after he enlisted as afores’d this company of Capt. Arbuckle was reinforced at their station at Point Pleasant afores’d by the company of Capt. [William] McKee, which marched as the applicant believes from the County of Bottetourt [sic: Botetourt] Virginia. The other officers of that company were, he believes, William Moore & John Moore 1st & 2nd Lieutenants & James Gilmore ensign. The company of Capt McKee continued at Point Pleasant until the discharge of the applicant– During the period of his service at Point Pleasant, an attack was made upon the fort at Point Pleasant – by a body of Indians who being compelled to abandon the attack directed their march to Donnally’s fort situate about one hundred & fifty miles in the interior of the State and on the frontier of the inhabited part of the County of Greenbrier [near present Frankford] – Ascertaining that the Indians were marching against that part of the County, two bold and daring soldiers dressed in the savage costume, made their way through the wilderness, and apprised the inhabitants of their danger barely in time to save them from total extermination.
That after the discharge of the applicant as afores’d and his return to the inhabited part of the County of Greenbrier at the close of the year 1777, he was at the beginning of the year 1778 employed and he believes under the authority of the State of Virginia as an Indian Spy, at the rate of one dollar per day, but without rations clothing or munitions of war, the applicant furnishing these for himself. That the distance he was employed to act as a spy was between sixty & seventy miles, & immediately west of the inhabited part of the County of Greenbrier afores’d – That he continued to act as a spy for the period of two years beginning as afores’d in the early part of the year 1778 and quitting at the beginning of the year 1780– That William Morris Leonard Morris and John Patterson were spies with him during the same period, the two first of whom died in the County of Kanawha, and whether the latter still survives is unknown to the applicant. This applicant resided in the County of Greenbrier from the year 1773 until the establishment of the County of Kanawha out of the western part of it [in 1788], since which time until the present period he has resided in the County of Kanawha– He has no record of his age, but is satisfied it is correctly given as herein before stated – He cannot state with precision the character of his engagements under Capt. Arbuckle, whether he belonged to the Virginia Continental line State volunteers or Virginia Rangers. He knows however that in Lord Dunmores expedition he was a volunteer, and that when he engaged as afores’d, in 1776 a second time in the service and was stationed at Point Pleasant, it was under the authority of the State of Virginia, & the applicant has always believed that he was a regularly enlisted soldier, and perhaps as a ranger. He never was drafted, or acted as a substitute. This applicant refers to Major. John Hansford as the person in his neighborhood most capable of attesting the truth of this declaration, & with confidence appeals to him and all who know him for evidence of his character for honesty & veracity. There is but one person living within the knowledge of the applicant who can personally attest as of his own knowledge the truth of any part of this declaration respecting the services performed– He is a very feeble and aged man who resides in this State in the County of Mason by the name of William Arbuckle [pension application R241], & who was in Lord Dunmores expedition. To procure this testimony would be very inconvenient to the applicant as well as to the witness & the difficulty of doing so The labor and suffering which it would inflict on himself as well as the witness have induced an abandonment of the attempt.
The applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state –
Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year first afores’d
[signed] John Jones
[The following report is by US District Attorney Washington G. Singleton who investigated many pensioners in present West Virginia, as detailed in my transcription of the pension application of David W. Sleeth (S6111). Singleton wrote “Entitled” on the cover of Jones’s report.]
John Jones Pensioner receives $80—
I the undersigned John Jones haveing been called on by W. G. Singleton agent of the War Department, for [illegible word] of my services [two illegible words] in the war of the Revolution give the following to wit – I shall be 80 years old the 2 February next and a native of Culpepper County, & settled in Kenhawa in the year 1770 — In the year 1777 I volunteered under Capt. Matthew Arbuckel for one year at Point Pleasant and remained at that station for the whole year, at the expiration of which I got my discharge which I lost or mislaid – there were two companies at the Point Capt. McKees & Capt. Arbuckels.
In the summer of 1779 I was commissioned an Indian Spy; – I suppose my commission was signed by the Governor, but of this I am not certain. I think it had a seal to it – dont remember by whom it was signed – I Spyed from Green-brier to Gauley river to the mouth of 20 mile creek [Twentymile Creek].
I reported to Capt. Arbuckel at Muddy creek Fort – was in this service at least six months between the years of 1777 & 1779 I was volunteer at Muddy Creek Fort under the same Genl. Arbuckel for four months. Some two or three years after I was a Spy. ( I am not possitive as to when.) I aided in building a blockhouse [one or two illegible words] Kenhawa at the mouth of Hughes Creek. was in this service 3 or 4 months. this latter service was done under the direction George Clendening [sic: George Clendenning] County Lieut. this ended my service. Benj. Smith wrote my Declaration. In witness of all which I hereto subscribe my name. Jany 9, 1835
Witness [signature illegible]
(Signed) John [his X mark] Jones
A Copy W. G Singleton Jany 11, 1835
NOTES:
On 16 Mar 1838, William Richmond, pension application S9088, certified the service of John Jones.
Frances Jones applied for a pension in Kanawha County VA on 21 March 1838 when she was 78 years old and had lived in that county for two years. She declared that she married John Jones in Culpeper County VA on 17 Nov 1775, and that in the following spring she emigrated to Greenbrier County. She stated that her husband enlisted with Capt. Arbuckle during a visit to Point Pleasant, and that they both remained there until the fall of 1777. After her claim was apparently rejected she applied directly to Congress, which passed a bill in her favor 3 Mar 1839.
http://revwarapps.org/w7920.pdf
- Kegley, F. B. (Frederick Bittle). Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest, the Roanoke of Colonial Days, 1740-1783, with Maps and Illustrations. (Roanoke, Virginia, United States: The Southwest Virginia Historical Society, 1938)
pg. 660.
THE SETTLEMENT ON KANAWHA, JOHN JONES’ DECLARATION‘
John Jones—Kanawha (W. Va.), January 15, 1833. Born February 2, 1756.
In 1773 he and two others settled on Great Kanawha, and next spring driven back to Muddy Creek by Indians. Built fort there under orders from Capt. Mathew Arbuckle. Was in the battle of Point Pleasant.
In the middle of September, 1776, enlisted as regular soldier under Capt. Arbuckle. First Lt. Andrew Wallace, Second Lt. William Wood, Ensign John Gallagher. Served at Point Pleasant to close of 1777. The command was reinforced by Botetourt men under Capt. McKee, Lieutenants William and John Moore, and Ensign James Gilmer. An attack by the Indians was repulsed and the savages then turned to Donally’s Fort in Greenbrier. Two bold and daring soldiers, dressed in Indian costume, made their way thither and appraised the settlers of their danger in time to save them from extermination.
Was employed as Indian scout in 1778-9 over a distance of 60 to 70 miles west of the inhabited section of country. William and Leonard Morris and John Petterson were scouts with him. Applicant mentions William Arbuckle, then at Ft. Mason.
- Find A Grave.
Pvt John Jones, Sr
Birth 28 Jan 1755
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
Death 7 Jan 1838 (aged 82)
Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Burial: Pratt Cemetery
Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45367004/john-jones
- Wikitree.com.
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