Person:Joseph Jones (68)

JOSEPH JONES emigrated from Pennsylvania* to Hamilton county in the year 1791, and was still a resident of this county at the time of his death, January 22, 1815 [sic; should read 1814]. He was married to Miss MARY COVALT, daughter of Captain Abijah [sic] COVALT, in September of 1792. They had twelve children: EVAN W., Isaiah, Jonathan, Sarah, Joseph, Nancy, Joel, Mary, Reason, Elizabeth H., Ephraim C., and Sidney. Of these only three are now living--Mary, Reason, and Elizabeth H. Mary married David VHORIS [sic], and is a resident of Iowa. Elizabeth married William C. WYCOFF and lives on the old home [place], and has her brother living with her. Their children are Ada, Laurinsky, Verner E., and Clarence C. Only Ada is living. Mrs. MARY JONES died December 8, 1851, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. Mr. and Mrs. WYCOFF and Mr. JONES are all members of the Baptist church. --Henry A. and Kate B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cleveland: L. A. Williams, 1881; reprint, Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1974), 400.

• Daughter MARY M. VORHIS said in the 1880 census that her father was b. in Wales and her mother in NJ.
• Daughter ELIZABETH said in the 1880 census that her father was b. in England and her mother in NJ.
• An 1887 published biography of Jotham C. Thompson, Champaign Co., IL, has that JOSEPH JONES was a native of Wales.

COVALT's Station. The first settlers upon the present soil of Anderson township were probably ABRAM or ABRAHAM COVALT and companions, who pushed up the Little Miami in 1790 or 1791, and established a station on Round Bottom to protect themselves, about twelve miles from the mouth of the river, as it runs. This was known as COVALT's Station, and was considered important enough in 1791 to secure a garrison of twenty soldiers from Fort Washington.** --Ford, History of Hamilton Co., OH (1881), 246. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/histhc/242.htm Was JOSEPH JONES part of that garrison of 20 soldiers? He married MARY COVALT the following year.

• In 1789, Fort Washington was built to protect early settlements located in the Symmes Purchase. The fort was located near modern-day Cincinnati and was used to protect settlers of that city in its early years. Josiah Harmar described it as "one of the most solid substantial wooden fortresses . . . of any in the Western Territory." The stockade's walls were two stories high with blockhouses located at each corner. The fort was named in honor of President George Washington. In 1790, Harmar used Fort Washington to launch an expedition against Native Americans in northwest Ohio, especially the Miami Indians, whose principal city was Kekionga (modern-day Fort Wayne, Indiana). The fort would serve similar purposes for the remainder of the 1790s until the United States military abandoned it in 1803.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/places/fwashing.shtml http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/pictures/fwashing.shtml

The family of a descendant of son Jonathan has the tradition that JOSEPH JONES was a soldier at the fort [Fort Washington on the Ohio River]. Excerpt from History of Hamilton Co., OH (1881), p.246: "This was known as COVALT's Station, and was considered important enough in 1791 to secure a garrison of twenty soldiers from Fort Washington." http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/histhc/242.htm

see also Ohio Indian Wars, http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=527 JOSEPH JONES was likely with the Pennsylvania militia that was sent to southwest Ohio.

The Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File online from the Pennsylvania State Archives states "that duty after November 1783* is not considered Revolutionary War service" so our JOSEPH JONES would not be included in this file. http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp

• The Revolutionary War officially ended Sept. 3, 1783, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris and England recognizing the United States' independence.

1790 Washington Co., PA, census index: see Allegheny & Fayette counties 1790 Westmoreland Co., PA, census index: no JONES names 1790 Allegheny Co., PA, census index, portion taken from Washington: JONES, Epm [Ephraim?], Jno [Jonathan?], Thomas, Thos 1790 Fayette Co., PA, census index, Washington: JONES, Benjamin, Ignatias, John, Margaret

In 1790, the Pennsylvania militia had 500 troops at Fort Washington commanded by Captain Faulkner. --The Military History of Ohio (New York: H. H. Hardesty, 1886), 124 Richard M. Lytle, The Soldiers of America's First Army: 1791 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004), 78; see Faulkner's Pennsylvania Militia Company, 1791, pp.193-94; Enlisted Personnel, All Commands, p.301+ (p.53, p.113, Captain William Faulkner; also p.76, p.78, p.132 Capt. Faulkner & Lieut. Farrell; Captain Faulkner received rations for his officers and 45 men) This book is available in the Wichita State Univ. library, E83.79 .L98 2004 In July 1792, "Captain William Faulkner, an officer in the army at Fort Fayette, owned a house in the town of Washington [Washington Co., PA] where he and his wife lived and operated a tavern." William Hogeland, The Whiskey Rebellion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 119

Footnote.com: browse Pennsylvania Archives, Series 6, Vol. V Washington Co., Militia, 1790-1800 (86 page images); county formed March 28, 1781, from Westmoreland Private JOSEPH JONES, p.564, in Sergeant Abner Braddock's Detachment, Spring 1791 Westmoreland Co., Militia, 1790-1800 (188 page images); county formed Feb. 26, 1773, from Bedford Allegheny Co., Militia, 1790-1800 (98 page images); county formed Sept. 24, 1788, from Washington & Westmoreland Fayette Co., Militia, 1790-1800 (16 page images); county formed Sept. 26, 1783, from Westmoreland All 388 pages for these four counties in southwest PA have been individually searched and the only JOSEPH JONES recorded is the one in Sergeant Abner Braddock's Detachment, Washington Co., PA, militia, who served three months, April 16--May 24, 1791. Washington Co., PA, was also the home of Captain William Faulkner who commanded the Pennsylvania militia troops at Fort Washington, OH, in 1790.

1792 March 21: "Captains of the six rifle companies to be raised in Pennsylvania were Edward Butler (Allegheny Co.), John Guthrie (Westmoreland Co.), Richard Sparks (Allegheny Co.), William Faulkner (Washington Co.), Uriah Springer (Fayette Co.), and John Cooke (Northumberland Co.)." Alan D. Gaff, Bayonets in the Wilderness (Norman, OK: Univ. of OK Press, 2004), 36 Martha Reamy, Abstracts of South Central Pennsylvania Newspapers, Vol. 2, 1791-1795 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007), 21-22, Pennsylvania Herald & York General Advertiser

See website, Papers of the War Department 1784-1800, http://wardepartmentpapers.org/index.php See Record Group 94, Post Revolutionary War Papers, National Archives and Records Administration

1791 Dec. 29, extract of a Circular Letter from the Secretary of war to the Lieutenants of the Counties of westmoreland allegany and washington in Pennsylvania. NARA Record Group 46, 2nd Cong, Senate, Sec Treas Reports

1792 Nov. 24, from Richard Harrison relating, among other things, the pay due to sundry absentees of the Pennsylvania militia roughly March 1790 to Dec. 1791.* NARA Record Group 233, 2d Cong, Sec Treas Rep, Vol II, III, IV

• If we could see this document, would it list the name of "our" JOSEPH JONES?

1792 Sept., JOSEPH JONES md. MARY COVALT, Hamilton Co., OH. --LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index), Batch 6020645, Film 1621557, sheet 38

1792 Sept., Joseph JONES, b. ca. 1773, possibly Bedford Co., PA, md. Mary COVALT, Hamilton Co., OH. --LDS Ancestral File by Roger Calvin Covalt

ca. 1795, JOSEPH JONES md. MARY COVALT, of Hamilton Co., OH. --LDS IGI, Film 2034689

In 1808, when Sycamore township included Symmes . . . its tax duplicate contained the following names: (The original is no longer in existence, having been destroyed in the courthouse fire; this list was transcribed and published by Mr. Olden): [names include] JONES, JOSEPH; Jones, William. --Henry A. and Kate B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cleveland: L.A. Williams, 1881), 447-48. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Hamilton/HamiltonChapXXXVI.htm

1810 Hamilton County Tax List, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohhamilt/census1810tax.html#J JONES: James, John, Jonathan, Phillip, Thomas, Wm., Isaac, Isiah.

JOSEPH JONES, Hamilton Co., OH, died Jan. 24, 1814, Symmes Twp., Hamilton Co., OH. PA resident. Widow, MARY, pension R 5725.* Service in PA and Indian Wars. Reference: Index of Pensioners in National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 38, p.575 (Dec. 1951). 56th N.S.D.A.R. Report. --The Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1929), 193; page image from Ancestry.com

• There are only two pieces of paper in this file, the cover sheet and a typed copy of two letters written from the pension office in DC to a Joseph Cox in Cincinnati, dated April 9 and Oct. 9, 1851, referring to the receipt of "the application of Mary Jones widow of Joseph, under the Act of July 7, 1838" stating that "it appears that her husband's services, if any, were rendered in the campaign against the Indians after the close of the Revolution" and "that from the statement made of the service of soldier, it was and is presumed that he served in the Indian War only [word underlined], after the close of the Revolutionary War." Mary's pension application is NOT included in this file. Mary Jones died Dec. 8, 1851.

1814 April 6, At a Court of Common Pleas, Book 1, p.245: JOSEPH JONES decd. MARY JONES admx. Bond $700. Sec Richard Shouard & James Ross. Apprs: Thomas Edwards, Alexr Eason, Aaron Boram. --Abstract of Book 1 & Book A, Probate Record 1791-1826, Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati: Hamilton County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1977), p.245 of Book 1 is part of the record for the Court of Common Pleas, session dated April 6, 1814; the next session of this Court is dated June 9, 1814; therefore, JOSEPH JONES d. in 1814 and not 1815 as other records state.

Union Cemetery records, Symmes Township, Hamilton Co., OH, Section 2, Lot 53, Space 4, records have his date of death as 1815, but should read 1814.

Henry A. and Kate B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cleveland: L.A. Williams, 1881; reprint, Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1974), 400, has his date of death as January 22, 1815, but should read 1814.

(Note that Joseph and Mary's 12 children are named in the same sequence in the 1881 history and in the following lawsuit, with the exception of son Joseph who brought the suit. Therefore, I have listed them in the same order regardless of available dates of birth.)

1830 August 10, Court of Common Pleas, Book 3, p.70: Joseph JONES [son of Joseph and Mary] vs MARY JONES wid, EVAN W. JONES, Isaiah Jones, Jonathan C. Jones, Sarah Jones, Nancy Watts, John W. Watts, Joel L. Jones, Mary M. Jones, Reason L. Jones, Elizabeth H. Jones, Ephraim Jones, Sidney Jones, heirs JOSEPH JONES, petn for partition; Alexander Botkin aptd grdn ad litem for minors; shf ordered by oaths Jacob Felter, Richard Botkin, John Short, freeholders in vicinity said land, to make partition; dower wid MARY JONES to be set off.

1830 September 18, Book 3, p.112: Joseph JONES [son of Joseph and Mary] vs MARY JONES wid, EVAN W. JONES, Josiah Jones, Jonathan C. Jones, Sarah Jones, Nancy Watts & John W. Watts, Joel L. Jones, Mary M. Jones, Reason L. Jones, Elizabeth H. Jones, Ephraim Jones & Sidney Jones, heirs JOSEPH JONES decd petn for partition; land aprd at $10/A cannot be partitioned; sale ordered.

1830 November 20, Book 3, p.125: Joseph JONES [son of Joseph and Mary] vs MARY JONES wid, EVAN W. JONES, Josiah Jones, Jonathan C. Jones, Sarah Jones, Nancy Watts, John W. Watts, J. L. Jones, Mary M. Jones, Reason L. Jones, Elizabeth H. Jones, Ephraim Jones & Sidney Jones, heirs of JOSEPH JONES, petn for partition; sale 9 November 1830 to Joseph JONES [son of Joseph and Mary] for $466.90 confirmed; shf's deed ordered. --Abstract of Book 3, Probate Record 1829-1834, Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati: Hamilton County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1981). Note that in 1830, only one JONES daughter was married.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois (Chapman Brothers, 1887): Dec. 6, 1857, at the age of twenty-four [Jotham C. Thompson] was united in marriage with Miss NANCY A. JONES, the youngest child in a family of nine. The names of her parents were JONATHAN C. and NANCY (COCHRAN) JONES. Her father was of Welsch descent although born in Ohio, and her Mother who was of Irish descent, was also a native of the Buckeye State. Her father was the son of JOSEPH and MARY (COVALT) JONES, Natives of Wales. Her mother was the daughter of Ephraim Cochran [should read John Cochran], a native of Ireland. Mrs. Thompson on the Welsh side is a descendant of Lord Griffith and only three generations removed. --transcription courtesy Michele Houchens, e-mail, March 10, 2004

See Joseph and Mary Jones in Nancy Ranck's file at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nranck/colt-p/p796.htm

1. ↑ Abstract of Book 1 & Book A, Probate Record 1791-1826, Hamilton County, Ohio. (Cincinnati, OH: Hamilton County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1977).

   p.245 of Book 1 is part of the record for the Court of Common Pleas, session dated April 6, 1814; the next session of this Court is dated June 9, 1814; therefore, JOSEPH JONES d. in 1814 and not 1815 as other records state.

2. ↑ Henry A. and Kate B. Ford. History of Hamilton County, Ohio. (Cleveland: L.A. Williams, 1881; reprint, Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1974)
   400.

   has his date of death as January 22, 1815

3. ↑ Union Cemetery records, Symmes Township, Hamilton Co., OH
   Section 2, Lot 53, Space 4.

   records have his date of death as 1815