Henry Jones
BIRTH 22 Jun 1767
Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 18 May 1852 (aged 84)
Amissville, Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Jones Family Cemetery, Meadow Grove Plantation
Rappahannock County, Virginia, USA
Henry Jones was a very large land owner on Little Battle Run which shortly before his death amounted to a total of 1,022 acres.
Like many farmers in Culpeper County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Henry Jones was a slave owner. Although the plantation system and slavery had been introduced during the early seventeenth century, the slave population in much of the Piedmont region, where Meadow Grove Farm is located, did not increase significantly until the latter half of the eighteenth century.40 slaves, 19 of which were adults and that five were mulattoes.The 1850 census records paint a clearer picture of the size, activities, and workers on Henry Jones’s farm. Farm schedules from the 1850 census list Henry Jones as the owner of sixteen horses, twelve milch cows, eleven working oxen, thirty cows, 100 sheep, and 100 swine. He harvested 1,800 bushels of wheat, 60 bushels of rye, 2,000 bushels of Indian corn, 700 bushels of oats, and 50 pounds of tobacco. In addition, Jones’s farm also produced wool, Irish potatoes, butter, flax, and beeswax. According to farm schedules, which list neighboring farmers, Henry Jones’s plantation was one of the largest in terms of size (1,300 acres) and value ($25,000). The majority of the farms in Rappahannock County at that time were between 100 and 500 acres.
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