Person:Gabriel Jones (7)

Will Abstract

The will of Captain [Gabriel] Jones is dated September 3, 1776, and was probated October 20, 1777. (W. B. B, pp. 229-233).

A brief description follows: 1. To daughter, Ann Jones, six negroes and reversion of slaves I claim in possession of Mrs. Waller, grandmother of said Ann. 2. To wife Martha and her four children, Robert, Gabriel, Francis Slaughter, and Mary residue of my estate to be divided by executors as directed. 3. In case all children should die, estate to be divided between my four sisters, Lucy Poindexter, Betty Green, Jane Gray, and Dorothy Johnston. 4. Property devised to my wife is only for life; after her death to be divided between her four children. 5. Stock of horses, hogs, cattle, etc., and debts that can be collected to be applied to the payment of my debts; if same not sufficient, some of my slaves to be sold. 6. To my four children: Robert, Gabriel, Francis Slaughter, and Mary, money derived from the sale of my lands on the Ohio.

7. If my wife should remarry, she should take her part, sell the rest of the land, and divide it among the children.

Executors - friends - James Green and John Gray (brothers-in-law)

THE DESCENDANTS OF GABRIEL JONES OF ESSEX AND CULPEPER COUNTIES, VIRGINIA. by Mildred Conway Jones

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   Gabriel Jones, Jr. (1. Gabriel) (circa 1740 - 1777) m. in 1762, 1. Mary Ann Waller, daughter
   of Colonel William Waller (1714 - 1760) and Mrs. Ann (Stanard) Beverley of Spotsylvania
   County, and in 1766, 2. Martha Slaughter, daughter of Robert Slaughter ( - 1769) and
   Mary Smith, of Culpeper County.
   As has been previously mentioned, Gabriel Jr.’s father gave him land and slaves
   preceding his marriage to Mary Ann Waller (D. B. D, p. 28). Evidently the young couple
   lived on this land in the Little Fork of the Rappahannock, and after his wife’s death Gabriel
   disposed of the property, for in 1765 there are deeds recorded, showing that he sold 560 A. of
   land to John Macganine and Joseph Amiss.
   Nothing further is known of Mary Ann Waller, except that of this marriage there was
   one daughter, Ann Jones. Apparently she died soon after the birth of her daughter; because on
   June 21, 1766 (D. B. E, p. 196) there is a record of a tripartite marriage agreement between
   Gabriel Jones, Jr., James Slaughter, and Martha Slaughter, the marriage to take place shortly.
   Gabriel and Martha Slaughter Jones apparently lived in another section of the county,
   because in 1767 they sold the remaining 200 A. (part of the grant to Gabriel, Gent., by the
   Right Hon. Lord Fairfax) belonging to his father; and in 1768 William Fitzhugh, Fielding
   Lewis, Charles Washington, and others sold to Gabriel Jones, Jr., 695 A., part of a tract called
   Mount Poney near Col. Slaughter’s mill on Mountain Run. (D. B. E, p. 593) This tract is
   described as being the home of Gabriel Jones at the time and was in the general vicinity of
   the town of Culpeper.
   
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