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left fatherless at an early age. The mother after- ward married Samuel Lewellyn and lived in Lou- don county, Va., until about 1770 when they went across the mountains and settled on Cheat river and established the old Lewellyn ferry in Monon- gahela county, where the Pennsy1vania railroad now crosses the river.

JACOB JONES. Jacob Jones, born in 1732 and left fatherless al- most from his birth, was adopted by a wealthy planter near Wilmington and lived with his foster parents until he became of age. In his early man- hood he married Dinah, or Diana, Stanton, a young lady of the same neighborhood, three years younger than himself. Jacob, always fond of hunting and "a dead shot" early developed those pioneer traits which distinguished his career. Some time after his marriage he moved to Va., near where his step-father, and his mother, re- sided and about 1770 moved with them into the wilderness across the Alleghany mountains- Un- like his step-father, he settled on the west side of the Monongahela river on Dunkard Creek, near the present town of Pentres, W. Va. This was known then as the Indian side of the river and