Person:Phineas Jones (4)

Connecticut Marriages As found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, Vol 4, Rev. Frederick W. Bailey, 1898; 2nd Church of Killingworth, org. 18 Jan 1738 Phinehas Jones & Hannah Turner m. 30 May 1785 by Rev. William Seward

Killingsworth, Middlesex Co., Conn. until 1800. The 1790 Census of Middlesex Co., Killingworth Town., CT shows a Phinehas Jones: 1 FWM of 16 & up including heads of households, 2 FWM under 16, and 1FWF (book, FHC, Roswell, GA) Comment: I do not think Peter was born until 1802, so Stephen would account for one child, but the second one is unknown at this time. Same finding in the online 1790 census at Ancestry. Another Phinehas Jones is found in Middlesex Co. but in Saybrook Twp, page 90. This one is a family of 1 FWM of 16 and up and 3 FWF. This also does not fit.

MILITARY SERVICE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR REVOLUTION LISTS & RETURNS, 1781 A Return of the Recuits to fill the Conn't Line of the Army . Source: CT Historical Society, 1909

Mens Names Towns to which they Belong

Joseph TEAL Killingworth William POUST Killingworth Eli KELLEY Killingworth Nathaniel CHITTINDAN Killingworth Samuel LYNDE Jur Say Brook Puryer REEVES Say Brook Zebelon THOMPSON Say Brook Benj'n DOTY Say Brook Park TOBY Say Brook Jonathan WARD Killingworth Joel ISBELL Killingworth Joseph WHITLEY Say Brook Cornelus CHAPMAN Say Brook James GRANT Say Brook Chester BUSHNELL Say Brook Amos STEVENS Say Brook Richard DONE Say Brook George BUCKINGHAM Say Brook George HARRIS Say Brook Solomon GOFF Say Brook David HAINS Say Brook Jude PRATT Say Brook Gideon BUCKINGHAM Say Brook Ruben BUSHNAL Say Brook Jese GRAHAM Say Brook Benj'n WILCOCKS Say Brook John BUCLEY Say Brook Cornelius TEIGH Say Brook Joel DONE Say Brook John GRISWOLD Killingworth Joner CHESTER Killingworth Lymon ISBELL Killingworth John WRIGHT Killingworth Henery STEVENS Killingworth Solomon CHITTINDAN Killingworth Paul PIRSON Killingworth

Phinehus JONES Killingworth ****

Caleb ELIE Killingworth Joel GRIFFEN Killingworth Nathan PERSON Killingworth Joseph BUELL Killingworth Josiah CHATFIELD Killingworth Isaac TURNER Killingworth (comment: related to Phineas' wife?) Constant BUSHNEL Say Brook

Middletown March 7th 1781 John BALL, Lieut, & Recuiting Officer of the 4th Conn't Reg't

Also, on 16 March 1781, Phineas received a bounty for enlisting of 30 pounds. (From the CT Historical Society.)

A search for records at the National Archives, Wash., DC, in March, 2003 by Barbara McCoy found the following records pertaining to Phineas' service in the Revolutionary War. Service Record: 1 Connecticut Regiment, 2nd Formation, 1781. Phineas Jones, Baldwin Co (Company), Col Zebulon Butler's Regiment, arrangement 1783. Date of enlistment: Feby 22, 1781. Term: 3 years. Vol. 1, page 173. Card number 37152439. 1626-A is written above Phineas' name. The next Jones is 1626-B. It also says Number of personal papers herein is 0. (Comment: Notice that this is not the 4th Reg't as that of Lt Ball above, but the first Reg't.)

Pension Records: The record shows Service- Conn. Jones, Pheneas or Phinehas and number S. 43707 His application is from the State of Pennsysvania, Bradford County. "On this eighteenth day of April, 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally apprears Phineas Jones aged fifty eight years, resident in Columbia Township in Bradford County in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United Stqtes in the Revolutionary War." That he the said Phineas Jones enlisted in February 1780 in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Caleb Baldwin in a regiment commanded by Colonel Herman Swift of the Connecticut Line that he continued to serve in the said corps about two years and ten months in the service of the United States, until December, 1783 when he was discharged from service in the City of New York and that he was in a ___________________ at King's Bridge (?). And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to subscribed and declared, before me, the day and year aforesaid John McKern(?), Judge of Common Pleas, Bradford County and State of Pennsylvania The signature of Phineas Jones is also on the document. He spells his name Phinehas Jones, however. Another document indicates the application is INVALID. (See further pension info from 1820 after move to NY)

Benson, Rutland Co., Vermont (1810 Census) Columbia, Bradford Co., Penn., 1810-1820 Cayuga Co., New York, 1820-1828

His widow Eunice (second wife) listed in 1830 census in Cayuga County.

Served as private in Revolutionary War. Lost an eye in the war.

(Above info provided to Amy Swensrud by Sherry Warden about 1971.)

1800 U.S. Census, CT, Middlesex, Killingsworth (Ancestry.com) Phinehas Jones is listed with males one under 10, one 10-15, one 16-25, and one 26-44. Females are one under ten and one 26-44.

1810 U.S. Census, VT, Benson, Rutland Co, roll 65, p 36 Ancestry.com Phineas Jones Males: two under 10; one 10-15; one 16-25; one 45 and over. Females: two under 10; one 10-15; one 16-25; two 26-44.

From the 1812 Taxables of Columbia Township, Bradford Co., PA taken from Clement F. Heverly's Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford Co., Pa.,1800-1825, Vol II, 1915, is a listing for Phineas Jones. This is found at Http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabradfo/1812colu.htm. Stephen is also listed as are Asa Jones, Sheldon Gibbs, Samuel Lamphere and Levi Lamphere.

From the Columbia Township section of the following work:  ?HISTORY OF SEVEN COUNTIES presented by the Elmira Weekly Gazette". It is an ?Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO?S AND CITIES.? Written expressly for the Gazette Company, Elmira, N. Y. Copyright 1885.From AN OUTLINE HISTORY of Tioga and Bradford Counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO'S AND CITIES" The early settlers were John Ballard, Nathaniel Ballard, Nathaniel Morgan, David Watkins, Oliver Canfield, Joseph Batterson, Jeremiah Chapman, Aaron Bennett, Samuel Lamphere, Phineas C. Morgan, Solomon Soper, William Rose, James Morgan, Elnathan Goodrich, Charles Keys, David Palmer, Ebenezer Baldwin, Abraham West, Calvin Tinkham, Carter Havens, John Bixby, Nathaniel Barrett, Samuel Baldwin, Asa Howe, Comfort Peters, Sheldon Gibbs, Phineas Jones, Rev. Joseph Beeman, David R. Hazewell, John P. Gurnet, William Furman, Reuben Nash, Jacob Miller, John Lilly, Michael Wolfe, Oliver Besley, George Moore, Darius Sherman, John McCelland, Asa Bullock, Joseph Gladding, Vial A. Bullock, Thomas Munroe, Henry Harris, Levi Cornell, Peleg Peckham, Kingley Peckham, John Calkins, Moses Calkins, A. M. Wright, Richard Doty, David Watson, Samuel Ingalls, Samuel Hurlburt, Murray Ballard, Ezra Wright.

From the History of Bradford Co. 1770-1878, The Reverend Mr. David Craft, Columbia Township as found at www.rootsweb.com/pabradfo/craft/columdc.htm. : Comfort Peters settled on the Pettibone farm the same year, and Sheldon Gibbs came in 1809 to the same neighborhood. Both of these men were basket-makers, and peddled their wares through the country round a bout, even as far away as Oswego. For this reason the road on which they lived was called Basket street, and still rettains its early cognomen, and is the road leading from C. H. Ballard's to Austinville. Phineas Jones came in about the year 1808. He was a brother of Mrs. Comfort Peters, and came from the same locality. He removed in 1818 into central New York.

From PIONEER AND PATRIOT FAMILIES OF BRADFORD CO, PA, 1800-1825, by Clement F. Henerly, Vol 11, Towanda, Bradford Star Print, 1915, Roswell, GA FHC collection, page 226. "Jones----Asa, Phineas and Stephen Jones settled in Columbia in or before 1812. Phineas was a brother of Mrs. Comfort Peter (p 142). The families sold in 1818 and removed to Central New York."

Pension Records, cont. On 11 Nov 1820, Phineas' application for a transfer is approved. He submits a deposition of his assets as follows: " Real Estate purchased ten acres a log hut on it purchased for two hundred dollars on the pledge of gov't 18 March 1818 he has no deed, it is __________ forfeit by the Contract -- Personal Property: 40 sheep 2 lambs, 4 store swine, 1 cow, 1 span old horses, 1 one year old colt, 1 plow, 1 broken chain, old harness for horses nearly worn out, utensils for cooking. His occupation farming broken by infirmity lost the sight of one eye in the army. Family consists of Wife Eunice aged 41 years, weakly Betsey 17 years, robust Samuel 15 years, puny Sophia, feeble 11 year old Eunice, 9 year old feeble Benjamin, 5 hardy Oliver, 1 year fuba (?). Sworn to, and declared, on the fifth day of July before me Hohn Grover one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas." The court said the value of his property was $56.10. A continuation of his property is on another page. It includes: 1 pot, 1 dish kettle, 1 tea kettle, 1 spider, 1 2 quart kettle, 1 iron crane, 2 pewter platters, 1d. tea pot, 3 d. old basins, 1 set old knives & forks, 6 spoons old. Debts due to P. Jones - 1 $50. note due next February. Debts due from P. Jones to 1 Note to Green J. Preston - $14.21 1 Note and _____ to Jabez Carter - $16.00 to Peter Bankson - $10.12 John Hooker - $6.00 Judgement in favor of Channery Langdon (__) - $32.50 d. __ d__ Hawkins - $7.80 John Jakeway for Doctoring - $1. Augustus H. Herris - $2.63 Abhm Kent - $5. Finally, another paper numbered 9750 at the top states " From Pennsylvania to New York, Phineas Jones" Then it reads "Columbia in the state of Penn who was a private in the reginment commanded by Colonel Swift of Cont. Army for the term of 3 yrs 1781. Certificate of Pension issue the 24 of April 1819 and sent to John McHean, Esq, Athen, Pa. Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 $84.49; semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $48.00 = $132.49. 10 mo. 13/30 - 4/31. " On the side it says "Notification sent 11 Nov 1820 to James Glover, Auburn, NY." Aaron McIntyre - $18. Total: $113.83

Pennsylvania Archives Records of his Revolutionary War Service: (online at www.iarchives.com)

1. Series 2, Vol. XIII, p. 114: " Alphabetical List of the Soldiers of the Revolution". Phineas Jones is listed. 2. Series 2, Vol. XV, p. 696: "Lists of Persons Pensioned by the United States, Residing in Pennsylvania, who Served in the War of the Revolution." Phineas Jones is listed

From Ancestry.com: New York Pensioners, 1835 New York Pensioners, 1835 Name: Phineas Jones Rank: Private County: Cayuga CO. Annual Allowance: 96 00 Sums received: 997 06 Description of service: Connecticut line When placed on the pension roll: 24 Apr 1819 Commencement of pension: 18 Apr 1818 Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks: Transferred from Bradford county, Penn. Died September 6, 1828.

Source Information: Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.

Description: New York soldiers covered under various pension acts during the early nineteenth century

Of interest: The 1830 Census for Cato, Cayuga, NY shows Asa Jones (son of Jonathan Jones, b 1770), Enice (sic) Jones (2nd wife of Phineas Jones, and an Ira Jones (unknown).

Death: New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 Name: Phineas Jones Event: Died Year: 1828 County: Cayuga Province: New York Source: The 1841 Pensioners List, New York State - Excerpts Publication info: Albany, NY [ND] Page: 119

Source Information: Ancestry.com. New York Genealogical Records, 1675-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: For individual sources please see the source information listed with each record. Many of the source documents are available in the Genealogical Research Library collection or at the Family History Library.

Please note: The original data

1. ↑ Killingworth Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   2:94.

   JONES, Phinehas, [s. Jonathan & Deborah], b. Jan. 20, 1760