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- JERSEY SETTLERS: Vol. II, page 401:
Entire Genealogy of Jones Family.
William Jones, son of Lane Jones and Anne Barber Jones, m. Phoebe Brown, daughter of Zachariah Brown.
note: Phoebe Brown disputed - looks like she was Phoebe Courtney.
(see webpage: My Curtis and Courtney Families:
http://www.old-new-orleans.com/Curtis_and_Courtney.html
This site is tracking Phoebe and her 2nd marriage to Curtis, which the Jersey Settlers, stated that wife of William Jones remarried Curtis.
Curtis:
My 5-g-grandparents, were Richard and Phoebe COURTNEY CURTIS, Sr. Richard Curtis was of Welsh descent. H. Married (1) Martha "Phoebe" Courtney in about 1747, in Half Moon Swamp, Onslow County, NC; (2) Hannah SWAYZE, 1782, Cole's Creek, Jefferson County, MS.
He was born 2/6/1727/28; at age 11, Baltimore, MD,1738, orphan; bound until age 21 to William and Hannah Curtis Courtney; William Cook died before 1739 Hannah married Robert Courtney on 10/2/1739; Richard was bound to Robert and Hannah Courtney until age 21. He was in Onslow County, NC by 1747; 1754-1766, moved to Pee Dee, SC, to a Welsh community near the mouth of the Black River, about 60 miles north of Charleston, SC.
He fought in the American Revolution in SC; in 1780, fled his Tory neighbors. He and family went by wagon to Holston River, TN. They went by flatboats to the Natchez District of the Mississippi Territory, then under Spanish rule. There were 3 boats in the party. In boats 1 & 2: Richard Curtis, Sr., wife, two brothers, William and Benjamin Curtis, and their wives, Richard Curtis, Jr. and his wife, John Courtney and John Stampley and their wives, John Jones and his wife and others. In the 3rd boat were travelers who had joined the Curtis party. They were attacked by Cherokee, all of the people in the 3rd boat were either killed or captured.
They landed at Boyd's Creek (later renamed Cole's Creek) on March 1, 1781. Richard Curtis, Sr., died on 11 20/1784, Cole's Creek, in what would later become Jefferson County, MS.
also see:
The Olney Connection
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=olney&id=I131534
Richard Curtis, Sr. was born in 1728 but the place of birth is unknown. Richard was bonded to Robert Courtney in Baltimore Co., Md. in 1739.Robert moved his family to Onslow Co., NC in 1744 where he died in 1751. Meanwhile, Richard married Robert's daughter, Phoebe, after the death of her first husband, William Jones. William and Phoebe had one son, John Jones.
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