... [Mrs.] Rachel Jones and her sister Sarah were daughters of Elisha Thomas, who was the second minister at the Welsh Tract Church. He was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and came to America in 1701. He died November 7, 1730, and is buried at Welsh Tract. [Mrs.] Rachel Jones, August 18, 1740, purchased from Naphtaly Johnson 63 acres and 23 perches of land with the mills and other improvements, recently known as the Dean Wollen Company Mills near Newark and they were in her possession until December 8, 1748. [Mrs.] Rachel Jones married secondly Rev. David Davis, fifth minister at the Welsh Tract Church. He was born in 1708 in the County of Pembroke, Wales, came to America in 1710, and died August 19, 1769. They had children, Rees, Jonathan, John, Susanna, Mary and Margaret, who except John and Margaret married into the families of Miles, Bonham, Bentlet and Parr. John supplied the pulpit for a time after his father's death, but in 1770 removed to Boston. ...
