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troit and was taken into the family of General McCoombs. Three years later she married Peter Malott and settled first on Grosse Isle and then at Ivingsville, Ontario. The marriage was a most happy one and their many descendants are among the most prosperous and respected citizens of that community. Peter Malott died in 1815 and Mary or 'Aunt Polly' as she was familiarly known still longing to see her people, set out in 1817 to visit Virginia. She crossed the lake to Cleveland and went the rest of the way on foot. A remark- able family reunion thus occurred after a separa- tion of forty years. On her return two of her brothers accompanied her as far as Cleveland, all on horseback.

It is now the custom of the Jones family to hold its reunion every third year with the Malotts at Kingsville, Ontario.

Returning to the further experiences of Jacob Jones, Sr., after the capture of his children, he moved his family to a safer position on Cheat river, but he, himself served in the militia on the frontier until the close of the Revolutionary war, when the militiamen were replaced by regulars. For some time afterward he lived on Cheat Bot- [Cheat Bottom]