Prettyman (Purteman) Jones

Family/Spouse: Charlotte (..) Jones. Charlotte was born in 1816; died after 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~angelasattic/ALL/pafg175.htm#5873

Thomas married Susannah Montgomery about 1807. Susannah was born in 1795 in Pennsylvania, Somerset Co, Pennsylvania; died on 12 Oct 1853 in White Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45212448/person/24107762312/media/5?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum


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
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45212448/person/24107762312/media/5?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum

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]

Notes:

Mitch Jones' Notes Via: Deborah Watson Stubbs.

Notes for ANN ROGERS: .

Ann left few records. There were many possibilities for her surname including Ingram and Prettyman. The conclusion is Rogers. John Rogers in his will of Oct 6, 1794 mentions "my well beloved children that are married and left me heare after mentioned I gave and bequeathe Eatch of them one shilling sterling and no more that is to say Ann Jones & Comfort Fisher& Rachel Warren & Polla Marvel, Thomas Rodney, and William Rodney. The witnesses to the will were David Marvel, Thomas Rodney, and William Rodney. The were all neighbors of John Rogers and the Joneses. There was one farm between John Rogers and the Joneses, and it is only logical in that period of time that Ebenezer would marry the daughter of a neighbor. Another point indicating Ann was the daughter of John Rogers is that two of her sons named their first born sons John R. Jones. This is even more important when we consider that three other daughters of John Rodgers named sons John. Orpha Marvel names a son, John Rogers Marvel; Leah Marvel had a son, John R. Marvel; and Levina marvel named her first child, John Marvel. .

There is another mention of Ann Jones in the records. On April 26, 1798 "Annis Joans and part of her family" was issued a passport "to pass and Repass unmolested to her former place of Residence over the Indian Line on Purpose of Taking away her Stock and taking care of the Grain now a Growing on Said place." We believe this is a misspelling of her name because as we later see her sons, Ebenezer, Prettyman and Zachariah, also had been removed from Indian lands..
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45212448/person/24107762316/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum

Notes:

Buried:
Inscription:
In Memory of
Col THOMAS JONES
Who departed this life
On the 24th March 1808,
In the 85th year of his Age.
He served his country with fortitude,
Bravery, and honor during the
Revolution, and since the peace
has been in the constant exercise
of various civil officers with reputation
to himself and utility to his fellow citizens.

Thomas married Elizabeth Prettyman in 1745 in Sussex Co, Delaware. Elizabeth (daughter of John Prettyman, III and Mrs. Elizabeth (..) Prettyman) was born in 1726 in Pennsylvania, Sussex Co, Delaware; died in 1795 in Sussex Co, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 6 Oct 1794

Notes:

Will:
will of Oct 6, 1794 mentions "my well beloved children that are married and left me heare after mentioned I gave and bequeathe Eatch of them one shilling sterling and no more that is to say Ann Jones & Comfort Fisher& Rachel Warren & Polla Marvel, Thomas Rodney, and William Rodney. The witnesses to the will were David Marvel, Thomas Rodney, and William Rodney.
(see notes of daughter Ann)
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/45212448/person/24107762316/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum

John married Comfort Prettyman in 1759 in Dagsboro, Sussex Co, Delaware. Comfort (daughter of Thomas Prettyman and Elizabeth Inloe) was born in 1741 in Sussex Co, Delaware; died on 28 Jan 1797 in Sussex Co, Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]