| 8. | Ebenezer Jones was born before 3 Jan 1746 in Worcester, Maryland; was christened on 3 Jan 1746 in St. George's Protestant Episcopalian Church, Worcester, Maryland (son of Col. Thomas Jones and Elizabeth Prettyman); died on 26 Dec 1796 in Blount Co, Tennessee. Other Events and Attributes:
- Property: 16 Mar 1776, Sussex Co, Pennsylvania (Delaware); "Jones First Choice"
- Residence: Between 1787, Augusta Co, Virginia; tax list
Notes:
Ebenezer Jones
Research by Mitch Jones' Via. Deborah Watson Stubbs on WorldConnect.
Ebenezer was baptized at St. Georges's Protestant Episcopalian Church which on the church records is listed Ebenezer of Thomas Jones b. Jan 3, 1746/47. The next record of Ebenezer is also in the St. George Church records which lists his son's birth and baptism as Prettyman son of Ebenezer and Ann Jones b. Feb 22, 1772 and baptized Dec 6, 1772.
On Mar 16, 1776 Ebenezer was granted 100 acres of land on the north side of Sheeppen Branch in Sussex County, PA (DE). The 100 acres was called "Jones First Choice", and adjoined a tract of land he lived on. On Jan 19 1780 Ebenezer purchased for 30 pound 70 acres from Robert Ingram, and on Jan 20, 1780 he purchased 76 acres of "Good Hope" from his father for 50 pounds.
It is apparent that Ebenezer and his family moved from Sussex County in 1786 for in that year he sold all his land. On Feb 4 1786 Ebenezer of Sussex, DE, Planter, sold to John Darby 76 acres of land called "Good Hope" and 100 acres of "Jones First Choice" on the north side of Sheeppen Branch for 200 pounds. Also on the same day Ebenezer and Ann his wife sold to John Darby for 50 pounds the 70 acres he had purchased from Robert Ingram. Another indication that he moved in 1786 is that he is on the 1784 and 1785 Tax lists of Dasborough Hd, Sussex Co, but he is not on the 1787 Tax List which is the next surviving list.
We do not know why Ebenezer moved from Sussex county but it is only reasonable to assume that he moved to acquire better land and to improved his family's economic conditions. One writer wrote that, "most Delawareans felt that the end of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain would bring prosperity. Instead they encountered frustrations, disappointments, and hardships. Paper money declined in value in relation to specie until 1785, when the state called in the paper money issued in the past and redeemed it at the rate of seventy-five to one in new bills. Clashes between political parties intensified, resulting in both verbal and physical abuse."
Between 1786 and 1796 the only references to Ebenezer are found in August County, Virginia. At this period of time the classic migration pattern from Delaware to the present states of Georgia, Kentucky, North & South Carolina, and Tennessee was to go north to Pennsylvania and down the Valley of Virginia. Augusta County is in the Valley of Virginia and would have been a logical stopping place on the way South. Ebenezer is found on the 1787 Tax list in Augusta County, Virginia with no white males between ages of 16-21, two horses, and two cattle. He is listed on Jan 21 1789 List of Insolvent for Taxes of 1787 as Ebinezer Jones gone to Kentucky and owning two horses. Also on this list were Jobe Ingram, Samuel Gillaspy, Henry Null, and Abraham Ingram. He is also on the Mar 18 1790 Insolvent's list for 1788, and is listed as Ebenezer Jones moved to Carolina with 1 slave and 7 horses. Other names on the list were Abram, Job, and Uriah Ingram.
In the Blount County, Tennessee Court Minutes we see an inquest was held about the death of Ebenezer Jones. He was found dead on Dec 26, 1796, and having with him, a gun and an ax. He died having a claim of 320 acres of land, a house, six head of cattle, and other property.
It is probable that Ebenezer and his family moved to Tennessee from Augusta County, Virginia. At the Treaty of Dumplin Creek in 1785 the Cherokee's agreed that the boundary between the Whites and the Indians would be the ridge dividing the water of Little River and the Tennessee River, and agreed to the cession of all the lands south of the French Broad and Holston Rivers, east of that ridge. The Dumplin Creek Treaty along with the great land grab of the 1780's by North Carolina's Legislators combined to open large areas of good rich land at very cheap prices to settlers. This opportunity for cheap land was a magnet drawing people into the area that would later be Tennessee. It was especially easy for settlers to move by way of the valley system that extended from Pennsylvania through Virginia into present day Tennessee. This was a much easier and more natural route into Tennessee that crossing the mountains while traveling from East to West. Blount County, Tennessee was at this time still a frontier area. Peace with the neighboring Indians was achieved only a few months before Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796. Consistent with the frontier conditions is that homes in the area were of log construction, and that our Joneses were farmers.
St. George's Chapel and Church, Indian River, Sussex Co. DE Microfilm, FHL, Salt Lake City, UT, p. 14.
Blount Co, TN Court Minutes, Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Vol 1, A-C, p. 30 .
Sussex Co, DE Wills A97/3 & AA94/114.
St. George's Chapel, FHL, p 60.
Sussex Co, PA (DE) Surveys, FHL, SLC, UH, Microfilm, pp 313-314.
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Christened:
Research by Mitch Jones' Via. Deborah Watson Stubbs on WorldConnect.
Ebenezer was baptized at St. Georges's Protestant Episcopalian Church which on the church records is listed Ebenezer of Thomas Jones b. Jan 3, 1746/47
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Residence:
Ebenezer is found on the 1787 Tax list in Augusta County, Virginia with no white males between ages of 16-21, two horses, and two cattle.
Ebenezer married Ann Rogers in 1771 in Indian River, Sussex Co, Delaware. Ann (daughter of John Rogers and Comfort Prettyman) was born in 1753 in Sussex Co, Delaware; died in 1804 in Blount Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1820 - 1862 (41 years)