Person:Elizabeth Jones (288)

From Jones Family of Long Island, pg 140: Elizabeth was unmarried; lived and died in Newburg, Orange Co.

Will Oct 1st, 1822, prob June 5, 1824: To Elizabeth Jones, my brother's daughter, I give my best bed and silver when she arrives at age of 18 years; to Abigail Jones, daughter of Walter Jones, of Long Island, my gold beads. To Phebe Hornbeck, Merinda Wood and Esther Young, small legacies. To my sister, mary Hull, the remainder of my estate. Two years' interest of the money she has at her death she directs to be used in purchasing a library for the benefit of persons who are deprived of attending Christian worship, the books to be marked with my name, and put in the dwelling of my sister Mary, etc., and to remain in her care for her life, and after to be under the care and direction of the New Jerusalem Church. Executors, Solomon Thorne, of Newburg, and Henry I. Hornbeck, of Montgomery, Orange Co., Witnesses, Jonathan Thorne, John T. Birdsall and Simeon Wood.

1.   Jones, John Henry. The Jones family of Long Island: descendants of Major Thomas Jones (1665-1726) and allied families. (Tobias A. Wright, 1907)
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