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- From: Jeff Duvall
Subject: Re: CADWALLADER JONES
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:00:40 -0500
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Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones (b. ca. 1652/3 d. aft. 1694/5) is a bit outside the time limits for this list, but some of what follows does relate to pre 1600 issues so I thought I'd go ahead and respond to the list just in case anyone else is interested in the subject.
There are several well-documented sources for information on this Cadwallader Jones. Perhaps the most important are a series of articles which appeared in *The Virginia Genealogist* in the mid-1990s beginning with Henry G. Taliaferro's "Who Was Catherine, The Wife of Colonel Cadwallader Jones of Virginia?" (vol. 38, no. 3, July-Sept, 1994). Taliaferro makes a very persuasive case for dentifying Jones' wife Catherine as Catherine DEBNAM, daughter of William and Catherine Debnam and widow of Robert Taliaferro. This is of particular interest since another
daughter of William and Catherine Debnam is thought to be Mary, wife of Maj. Lawrence SMITH (a descendant of William I "the Lion" of Scotland).
While it is true that Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones was the son of merchant/planter named Richard Jones (d. 1652/3) , his mother is known to have been Frances BALDWIN (ca. 1614-1668), who's first husband was Col. Richard TOWNSHEND/TOWNSEND (ca. 1606-1650/1). Another useful source with all the details about the Townshend/Baldwin marriage, etc., is the entry on the Townshends in Jester & Hiden's *Adventurers of Purse and Person.* Anyone inetersted in the life and career of Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones should also check out *William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World,
1676-1701* (Chapel Hill: 1963) which includes several letters detailing Jones' activities and a 1922 article, "Western Explorations in Virginia Between Lederer and Spotswood" which was published in the *Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography* (vol. 30).
Finally it is believed (although I'm not sure how well documented this is) that Richard Jones (d. 1652/3) was indeed the son of an earlier Cadwallader Jones (d. 1672) of Greenham, in the parish of Ashbrittle, co. Somerset who
first shows up in 1642 as the Collector General of Customs under Charles I in 1642/3. Since this Cadwallader JONES is known to have married Anne BLUET sometime between 1643 and 1646, however, an unknown first wife must have been the mother of Richard JONES (d. 1652/3). As a result,
descendants of Lt. Col. Cadwallader JONES of Virginia do not share the royal descent mentioned below. It is also probably worth noting that the only documented child of Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones and his wife Catherine (Debnam) is their daughter Frances who married Robert SLAUGHTER, Jr., of
Essex County, Virginia.
Finally, there are some interesting clues which might lead to information on the ancestry of both of Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones' parents. Frances BALDWIN is know to be the sister of a Robert BALDWIN of Great Stoughton,
Huntingdonshire (as well as William of Glapthorne/Glassthorne, Northants.)
-- perhaps descended from a 16th century couple named John BALDWIN and Agnes GODFREY of Great Stoughton. There is also a claim that the elder Cadwallader JONES "belonged to the family of Rhirid Flaidd" -- according to an article on the JONES family in the NEHGR in July 1959.
Hopefully this will be of some help...
Jeff Duvall
jeffery@iquest.net
or
jduvall@iupui.edu
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