Samuel Frisbee Jones
BIRTH date unknown, Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
DEATH 15 May 1827
BURIAL Saint John Street Cemetery, Monticello, Sullivan County, New York, USA
[no photograph]
aged 50 years
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Monticello was founded by Samuel Frisbee Jones and his brother John Paul Jones. They were natives of the town of Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut, where their father, Samuel Jones, was a farmer. He was a patriot of 1776 and served in the Revolutionary army as an ensign. While his sons, Samuel F. and John P. were young, he removed to Lebanon, Columbia County, where he died in 1836, aged 84 years.
--Quinlan's History of Sullivan County, page 548. Also Republican Watchman, Feb. 20, 1914
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Samuel F. Jones was the first postmaster and one of the first Judges of the County Court of Sullivan. He was also elected Supervisor for several terms. Unfortunately he was convivial in his tastes and habits, and in the end gave free indulgence to his appetite for spirituous liquors. His real estate gradually passed into the hands of his brother. He became poor and died in the prime of his life. His wife survived him until June 21, 1832. They left two children, a son and a daughter. The latter was living in Port Jervis several years since. Henry, the son, an amiable and inoffensive man, died, August 24, 1838, at the age of 33 years.
--Excerpts from Quinlan's History of Sullivan County, pages 551 and 552
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Age and date of death taken from Gertrude Barber gravestone transcriptions in 1930.
Parents: Samuel Jones unknown–1836: Parthenia Jones unknown–1824
Spouse: Rebecca Jones unknown–1832
Siblings: John P. Jones 1778–1858: Polly Younglove Jones Tilden: 1782–1860
Children: Henry A. Jones 1805–1838
