The Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on The Genealogy of Esther Jones

The Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on The Genealogy of Esther Jones by Francis James Dallett, F.G.S.P. Introduction 1- T IS A FACT of life that the Smiths and the joneses of the Englishspeaking world are, for sheer numbers, often hard to distinguish one from another. Pages of the surnames in twentieth century telephone books are the contemporary reflection of the columns of entries in eighteenth century fax lists and nineteenth century vital statistics, all of which indicate how easily the Smiths and the joneses "get lost in the shuffle." The problems inherent in fleshing out the career of the distinguished eighteenth century Scots-born Philadelphia architect-builder, Robert Smith (1722-1777) are a case in point. It has taken four decades for a documented biography of Smith which even begins to understand his scope to emerge. This is now in the writing under the aegis of architectural historian Charles E. Peterson, FAIA, of Philadelphia. As Robert Smith's "papers" have not survived, research in primary sources, hundreds often consulted to produce a few meagre facts, has been a slow and painstaking business. The work of Mr. Peterson, and of others stimulated by him, indicates that Smith, he of the common, hence difficult, surname, probably had the most influential architectural practice in pre-Revolutionary America. A native of Dalkeith, Midlothian, Robert Smith arrived in Philadelphia in 1749. As co-builder of the Second Presbyterian Church, as architect-builder of the Christ Church steeple, of the dormitory for the College and Academy of Philadelphia on whose Hall he also worked and for whose founder, Benjamin Franklin, he designed a residence, as architect of the first Nassau Hall at Princeton and of its companion president's house, of the Anglican churches of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, and of Zion Lutheran Church, all in Philadelphia, of the East wing of the Pennsylvania Hospital, of Carpenters' Hall, and of the city's vast Walnut Street Prison, Smith undertook domestic, educational, ecclesiastical, commercial and public commissions and 307 308 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine worked as far afield as Rhode Island and Virginia. Among other memberships, he was elected, in 1769, to his most prestigious affiliation, the American Philosophical Society.' Research in Scottish sources, which continues, has produced some meagre information on Robert Smith's parentage and immediate family circle. As complicated as the uncovering of Smith's professional career in America, and of establishing his modest antecedents in Scotland, has been the search for the "family identity" of Smith's wife, Esther Jones (1724-1783), now known to be a second and third generation American. What information has been previously recorded is the result of the research of Beatrice B. Garvan and has come largely from records of the Society of Friends. Study of the genealogy of Esther Uones} Smith has been immeasurably advanced by her birthright membership with the Quakers whose congregational records are the most complete of any American religious denomination. What has not been realized by Robert Smith researchers is that during the past one hundred years and more considerable investigation into the genealogy of the Jones family, now found to be that of Mrs. Smith, has been carried out by descendants of four of her siblings and by descendants of two uncles, without, however, any of these branches of the same original stock realizing they were related to the families of the others. An ancestral aunt who bore the virtually anonymous name of Esther Jones was there in family records but was not known to have married the colonial architect Robert Smith. Of them all, only descendants of the one branch to which William Jones (1761-1831) belonged, even realized that he at least among their kindred achieved a national reputation as Secretary of the Navy and acting Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of James Madison, and then returned to Philadelphia as the first, but inefficient, president of the Second Bank of the United States before more successful service as Collector of Customs. William Jones, son of Captain Henry Jones, was the nephew of Mrs. Robert Smith.2 In her important biographical sketch of Robert Smith in Philadelphia Three Centuries of American Art (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), Beatrice B. Garvan correctly identified Esther Jones, the Quaker bride of the Scottish-born master carpenter-turned-architect as the Esther Jones, received in 1743 with a brother Joseph and their father Samuel Jones by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on certificate from Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in Lancaster County. In reporting that Esther Jones married Robert Smith on 23 December 1749 (a ceremony "out of unity" with Friends which resulted in Esther's loss at the Family of Mrs. .Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 309 time of membership in that Society), Mrs. Garvan gives, however, the date of the Friends' meeting at which the marriage was reported back and not the date of the ceremony itself; that, and the place, have not yet been discovered. Mrs. Garvan's description of Samuel Jones as an "Irishman" bears some explanation but is in essence correct and, as she wrote, he was a farmer prior to 1743 when he moved to Philadelphia.4 Other details of the life of Samuel Jones as recorded by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends were known to Mrs. Garvan but not included in her concise catalogue account of Robert Smith. Further biographical information on builder Smith's father-in-law, on Mrs. Smith's interesting brothers and sisters and other members of the family, both of earlier and later generations, has remained in limbo, since unsuspected, amongst "all those Joneses" in the records of other Friends' meetings: Chester, Concord, New Garden, Leacock, Sadsbury—and Gwynedd. Facts in print in Jones genealogies of 1924 and 19515 and in the Pennsylvania Archives, the significance to the Smiths of the story told in Captives' Mansion, a popular "biography" of a Lancaster County house which was published as recently as 1973,6 to say nothing of such primary sources as Samuel Jones's will and the documents signed by Robert Smith to guarantee the debt of his wife's brother, have also waited for the present essay. It was the discovery of a manuscript genealogy,' composed prior to 1826 by the Honorable "Mr. Secretary" William Jones, and copied in that year for his first cousin once removed, Sarah (Slaymaker) Duffield, by her daughter, Sophia S.L. Duffield (later Mrs. William Brown Mcilvaine),8 which has been the key to the entire family history of the wife of Robert Smith. Also important as evidence is the will of Philadelphia Quaker merchant George Aston (ca. 1745-1814), who, like William Jones, was a nephew of Esther ( Jones) Smith. Aston, a son of Esther's sister, Hannah (Jones} Aston, helpfully named many cousins as legatees, among them Mrs. Mary Marache, daughter of Robert and Esther Smith.9 TABLE #1 C.,k) Francis Jones (b. perhaps ca. 1660; d. post 1717) From Ireland to bounds of Redstone Meeting, Pembrokeshire, Wales, ca. 1708; thence to Philadelphia 1711, to Chester ca. 1713; in 1715 to jurisdiction of Duck Creek Monthly Meeting in Little Creek Hundred. Kent County, Delaware and found there until 1717. Not further traced. = [?Rachel Newton, b.1662, Corbally, Queens County, Ireland], who seems to have moved with him from Ireland to Wales and thence to Philadelphia in 1711 and to have been included when the move of Francis Jones's "family" is referred to, but it is only known for certain that she was alive in 1710 when her son Samuel married at Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire Samuel Jones (1688-1767) = (1) ca.1710, Hannah Lloyd (d. ank 1743) = (2) 1744, Amy (Liberty) Lawrence, widow (ca.1695-1783) See Table #2 !Wm+ Francis Jones (1690-1739) From Ireland to Wales with parents' family, ca. 1708 and with them to Phila., 1711 and Chester 1713. Settled Gloucester County, N.J. and in 1719 Constable for Gloucester town; 1719/20, Overseer of Highways; in 1726 settled at the Gap, Sadsbury Twp., Chester (later Lancaster) Co., IPa. and immediately licensed as Innkeeper; owned "Gap Plantation" (property later the "White Chimneys" farm of his greatniece, Faithful (Richardson) Slaymaker) ca. 1715, Jane (di 764), widow of Matthew Medcalf, of Gloucester, NJ. She = ca. I 741 (3) Isaac Taylor, jr., of Chester County, Pa. Henry Jones (1693-after 1734) Ireland to Wales to Phila. with family; = ( I ) ca. 1716, Duck Creek, Del., "out of mtg.," Loveday Archer (d. 1717) (2) 1730, London Grove Mtg., Chester Co., Pa. Eleanor Parke (b.1684), wid. of James Lindley Jonas Jones (1695-?), perhaps did not emigrate 1 George Jones (b.1717), = Elizabeth Lindley (his stepsister) NV josepii Jones John Jones James Jones Thomas Jones Samuel Jones Sarah Jones Rachel Jones Francisiones = Sarah Jones (d.post 1752), (1733/44th son; (1734-post (d.frost 1774), (1725-post post 1773) eld. son; of farmer & tanner alive Salisbury 1787) , moved to 1773), moved of Salisbury Twp.; 1753 Orange County, Gap Plantation to Md., NE. probably later of & York Co., Pa. N. C. & S.C. = Betty Woodnut Fairfax County, Va. = Jane = (I) Ann..._.& Note: Further details on most persons shown in this selective genealogical table, will be found in the fuller (2) Deborah published Jones genealogies by Albert Brill Russell and Carroll Brewster Jones. TABLE #2 Samuel Jones (1688-1767) From Ireland to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales ca. 1708; thence to Philadelphia 1711, to C nester 1713, to the Gap, Sadsbury Twp., Chester (later Lancaster) County 1722, back to Philadelphia 1743, thence to Gwynedd in Whitemarsh Twp., Phila. County where died. Farmer, then shopkeeper. Justice of the Peace. Quaker. = (1) 1710, at Haverfordwest. Hannah Lloyd (d. ante 1743) = (2) 1744, Amy (Liberty) Lawrence, widow (ca. 1695-1783) I Francis Jones Mary Jones (1712-after (1714-?) may have 1766) = (1) 1732 d. young or Lawrence may have Richardson moved to (2) Thomas S.C. & Ga. Green 3 chn. (families of Slaymaker & Duffield) chn. (families of Green, Way & Clemson) Rachel Jones (1716-after 1766) — 1736 Isaac Stephens (c1.1757), yeoman, 01 Gloucester Co., N. J. 5 chn. (families of Stephens & Saunders) Hannah Jones (b. 1718) = Peter Aston of ester Co., Pa. & Maryland at least 3 chn. (families of Aston, Warder & Madeira) Samuel Jones (1720-after 1766); no further information Joseph Jones (1722-after 1766) = 1745 Ann Lawrence Joiner of Phila., said to have moved to N.C. ESTHER Jones (1724-1783) =1749 Robert Smith (17221777) rchiged 5 chn. (families of Smith, Holton, Marache, Duncan, Miles, Cowell & Williams) He Jones (1727-1778) 1758 Rebecca Forrester (c1.1775) Shipmaster or Phila. 8 (or 9) din. (families of Jones, Brearley Clarke & Smith) 312 The Pennsylvania Gerualogical Magazine Samuel and Hannah (Lloyd) Jones and their family Esther {Jones} Smith was the daughter of a Quaker, Samuel Jones (1688-1767),10 birthplace unknown, but a resident of Ireland prior to his removal to Haverfordwest, in Pembrokeshire, Wales in about 1708.11 At the same time, Samuel's parents, Francis and [? Rachel (Newton)] Jones, with several sons, also moved from Ireland to the jurisdiction of Redstone Meeting in Pernbrokeshire. 12 Married in 1710, at Haverfordwest,13 to Hannah Lloyd (d. ante I743)," Samuel Jones brought his wife to Philadelphia in 1711, his parents again making a similar move with at least two other sons, Francis and Henry." The first of Samuel and Hannah's eight children, Mary, wrongly believed by her descendants to have been born at sea,16 was born in Philadelphia in 1712 and recorded by Friends.17 In 1713 Samuel Jones was given a certificate by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to remove to Chester "for the better accommodation of his trade."18 (We do not yet know that original calling; Jones soon took to farming and, ultimately, to shopkeeping which may have been a return to his early work.) The second child, Francis, born in 1714 according to William Jones' account based on a record made by Samuel Jones himself,19 escaped the vital statistics kept by the Meeting but the next three, Rachel (1715 or 1716), Hannah (1718) and Samuel (1720) were all recorded by Chester Monthly Meeting" which Samuel Jones served as Overseer in 1716 in company with John Wright.21 Both men would soon move to Lancaster County, Wright going all the way to the banks of the Susquehanna where he founded Wright's Ferry. Samuel and Hannah (Lloyd) Jones took their family to live in Sadsbury Township in western Chester County (it fell into Lancaster County at the 1729 partition) and there Samuel was taxed in 1722. 22 In Sadsbury, just west of what was and still is called the Gap, the break in the hills which enclose the Great Valley to the east and the Pequea Valley to the west, the last three children were born, Joseph (1722), Esther (24 of8 month—October-1724) and Henry (1727).23 At this early period, Friends at the western edge of Chester County came under the care of Concord Meeting, to which Samuel Jones presented a certificate from Chester for himself and his wife in 1722;24 in 1724 he requested a transfer to New Garden Meeting and that was accepted in 1725.25 By 1732 the Joneses were members of Leacock Meeting, one of several components of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting organized in 1737,26 and there Mary Jones, the eldest daughter, was married in 1732 to her first husband, Lawrence Richardson?' The Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 313 marriage of Rachel, in the first month of 1736, to Isaac Stephens from Newton in Gloucester County, New Jersey, was, however, celebrated at New Garden Meeting. Turning to the family record of William Jones, "Copied for Mrs. Sarah Duffield by S.S.L. Duffield, jany. 2d. 1826," we have the following account in the words of the family's most important personality at the beginning of the nineteenth century: my Grand Father Samuel Jones . . settled in the upper part of Old Chester County now a part of Lancaster County at the 48 , mile stone on the Lancaster Road. The original patents stand in his name for the tract taken up by him which extends for two miles along that road and the two story log house which he built and in which all (sic!) his children were born still exists and is a short distance in the rear of Amos Slaymaker's Tavern near the said 48 mile stone. He was a very respectable and intelligent Farmer who came at a very early period from Haverford-West in South Wales. I am not certain but believe his wife Hannah came with him from Wales. I can just remember him and recollect to have heard him spoken of as a man highly esteemed in his neighborhood where he was in the Commission of the Peace under the proprietary government. My Father was his youngest child Henry and his daughter Esther was the Grand Mother of my Cousin Isabella Evans. His son Joseph emigrated with his family to North Carolina from this place about the year 1768 and his son Francis settled in South Carolina and from thence in Georgia where they left numerous families. A son of the latter a very respectable friend from the State of Ohio visited me in this City about 13 years since." Samuel Jones was indeed commissioned Justice of the Peace for the newly erected county of Lancaster on 8 May 1729, and received new commissions on 25 January 1736/7, 22 November 1738 and 4 April 1741.29 His brother, Francis Jones junior (1690-1739), was an innkeeper on the property joining Samuel's immediately to the east and Samuel served as his executor." (Francis Jones's 300 acre tract was inherited by his eldest son, John, who, deep in debt, saw it taken over by the court and sold in 1745 to Lawrence Richardson, the husband of Francis Jones's niece, Mary, the eldest daughter of Samuel jones.31 This Francis Jones-Lawrence Richardson property later became White Chimneys, house of Faithful (Richardson) Slaymaker and the subject of the book, Captives' Mansion, although the precise details of the descent of the land appear here for the first time.) Details of the Proprietary patents to Samuel Jones remain to be 314 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine recorded. Beyond those, however, Esther (Jones} Smith's father purchased 250 acres in Leacock Township on 28 October 173432 and, after his return to Philadelphia at the end of 1743, sold, in March, 1744, 243 acres in the same place, a further 55 acres in April that year and yet another tract in October, 1744.34 In the last conveyance he was joined by a second wife. Mrs. Garvan's sketch of Robert Smith speaks of Mrs. Samuel Jones's last illness—she was carried away by "rheumatism"—at a date after her daughter Rachel's marriage in 1736 and before Samuel Jones mentioned her demise at Salsbury Monthly Meeting on 9 of 9 month 1743.35 The move to Philadelphia coincided with the acquisition of a second wife, Amy (Liberty) Lawrence (ca. 1695-1783), born in England,36 the widow of Joshua Lawrence, a Philadelphia Quaker. 37 Their marriage, shortly before 28 of 5 month ( July) 1744,38 "contrary to the discipline" of Friends,"—the Joneses tended to select their own mates in their own fashion—was an action which did not cause Samuel Jones, Quaker worthy that he was, revocation of his membership in the Society. In 1745 Samuel Jones's son Joseph Jones he who would settle in North Carolina—married in Meeting Samuel's stepdaughter, Ann Lawrence.39 Among the witnesses who signed the certificate was Esther Jones. Then, in 1749, Esther herself married, becoming the bride of the rising young "House Carpenter," Robert Smith, a marriage not performed. in Meeting as Mrs. Garvan has indicated.4° Esther Smith's father and stepmother, Samuel and Amy Jones, moved to Whitemarsh Township in Philadelphia County, within the bounds of Gwynedd Friends' Meeting:" There, describing himself as Shopkeeper, Jones wrote his will in 1766, naming seven living children including his daughter Hester, there had been no issue of the second marriage. The will, proved on 27 June 1767, has not been examined but Jones had been plagued with debt and his estate may have been sma11. 42 The widow, Amy Jones, returned to Philadelphia where she died.' At the time of the death of Samuel Jones, his daughter Mary had long been the widow of Lawrence Richardson (died 1748) and was remarried to Thomas Green of Salisbury Township in Lancaster County. She had three children by her first marriage, Joseph Richardson, John Richardson and Faithful,45 who in 1754 hid become the wife of Henry Slaymaker the patriot squire at the Gap and with him was painted by Hesselius.46 The Slaymakers were the forebears of the notable Lancaster County family whose story is told in -Captives' Man- Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 315 sion. By her second marriage, Mary Jones was the mother of two daughters,'" Hannah Green (the future Mrs. Joshua Way) and Susanna Green (who would marry John Clemson).48 All of Mary Jones's progeny then lived in Lancaster County but several descendants would move westward in the state and others established themselves in Philadelphia and in other parts of the country. Mary (Jones) Richardson Green's great-grandson, Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888) was the founder of Clemson University." Rachel ( Jones) Stephens, second daughter of Samuel Jones, lost her husband Isaac before her father died." Her children and grandchildren, Stephenses and Saunderses, were prominent rural citizens of Gloucester County, New Jersey, and spun off branches which also settled in Philadelphia.51 Like the posterity of Mary Jones, that of Rachel Jones included both Friends and non-Friends. Hannah Jones, the third daughter, about whom little is yet known, married Peter Aston,52 a convert to Quakerism, son of George Aston a member of Assembly from Chester County (the Aston land lay in Cain Township just west of the present Downingtown)" and Hannah and Peter settled somewhere in Maryland.54 They had at least three children, George Aston (ca. 1745-1814)," who requested and got membership with Friends in Philadelphia in 1787,56 married Sarah Parrish" but had no issue; Peter Aston, a Philadelphia merchant like George, and a member of the Philadelphia.Society for Promoting Agriculture (1785),58 one of whose children, Ann, became the wife of Jeremiah Warder, jr., an "eminent" merchant;59 and Mary Aston, who married a John Madeira and had a large family of ten offspring, some of whose descendants lived in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.60 Esther Jones, who was buried 16 July 1783 by Friends," and Robert Smith had five children: John Smith (born ea. 1751; died ca. 1804), enrolled at the Academy of Philadelphia in 1760-65,62 elected to the Carpenters' Company in Philadelphia in 1779,6.3 who may or may not have had a wife Elizabeth, buried in St. Peter's Churchyard;" Mary Smith (born ca. 1753; died 13 August 1834, aged 8 0,65 who married ( I) 22 February 1770, First Reformed Church, Philadelphia, William Holton,66 and (2) 12 May 1787 at Gloria Dei Church there,67 Solomon Marache," and had issue by both husbands); James Smith {alive, and in Guardianship, in June, 178469 Henry Smith (born ca. 1762, a seaman who was lost on the schooner Hester off the Delaware Capes about January, 1780, then aged 18);" and Hester Smith, who married William Williams, carpenter-architect of Philadelphia71 and is the subject of current investigation by Dr. Margaret 3 16 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine B. Tinkcom. At present, the only living descendants of Robert and Esther ( Jones) Smith who have been identified are in the line of Mary (Smith) Holton Marache. Of the four sons of Samuel and Hannah Jones, Francis was said by his own nephew, William, to have settled in South Carolina and then Georgia. This statement is probably correct, but it must be kept in mind that this Francis' namesake first cousin, Francis Jones, Jr., son of Samuel's innkeeper brother Francis of the Gap, went, with his wife Sarah (née Jones, his first cousin, daughter of his uncle Henry!)'2 to Baltimore County, Maryland by 1752,73 then, with certificate, from East Nottingham Meeting in Chester County, to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange County, North Carolina in 1754/ 1 755,74 and, in 1772/1773 moved again with wife and children to Bush River Monthly Meeting in Newberry County, South Carolina." Perhaps William Jones confused his uncle Francis with his uncle's first cousin of the same name. Francis, son of Samuel and brother of Esther, does not seem to be named in the will of his father and there is no Friends' record either disowning him or transferring him, which rather suggests an early death. Samuel Jones the younger, Esther Smith's second brother, born in 1720, appears to be the man of the name who, on 30 of 6 month 1758, was dismissed by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting "for accepting an officer's commission in the army."76 His movements after the probate of his father's will, in which he was named, have not yet been traced but promise to be interesting. Joseph Jones, the third brother, is of considerable importance to us, since, at his marriage to his stepsister in 1745, he was a Philadelphia joiner:" Was he a member of the Carpenters' Company? To his marriage came as "family" witnesses, his father, his stepmother Amy, his sister Esther (the future Mrs. Robert Smith), brothers Samuel, jr. and Henry, and three others. These warp a Sarah Brown, Hannah (Chalkley) Finney (daughter of Thomas Chalkley of Chalkley Hall, Frankford, by his wife Martha Brown who was probably the sister of witness Sarah Brown) and Martha Chalkley (James) Browne, niece of Mrs. Finney and granddaughter of Mrs. Chalkley. 78 If not representatives of the side of the bride, Ann Lawrence, these three Quaker ladies may have been kin of the groom's deceased mother, Hannah Lloyd, first wife of Samuel Jones. All that our poor joneses and Smiths need is to be allied to not only Browns but Brownes! Joseph Jones, joiner, is stated by his nephew William Jones to have gone to North Carolina "about 1768." It can be observed only that he Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 317 disappears from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting records (a "Samuel Jones, son of Joseph," who died in 1756 and a Joseph, who died in 1763 aged seven could be his sons)" and research is needed to trace his later movements. It would be worth knowing if he continued a career as a cabinetmaker in North Carolina. We come, finally, to the eighth and youngest of the joneses, Esther Smith's brother Henry Jones (1727-1778)," a Philadelphia mariner who joined the Shipmasters' Society in 1766.81 It was for this brotherin-law that Robert Smith stood bondsman on a large note in 1763, details of which appear below. Henry married, on 3 January 175882 at a place not determined and outside his Meeting, 83 Rebecca, daughter of William and Susanna (Lownes) Forrester." Their family of eight (or nine?)85 children included Robert Jones (1758-1802),86 a how carpenter of Southwark in 178881 and certainly his uncle Robert Smith's namesake, and two prominent seafaring sons: William Jones (17611831), the Secretary of the Navy, and Commander Lloyd Jones (1768-1820) , U.S.N.89 Lloyd Jones, the naval officer nephew of Esther ( Jones) Smith, was the ancestor of Philadelphia lawyer Uselma Clarke Smith from whose heirs the Historical Society of Pennsylvania purchased forty years ago a large collection of manuscripts of the Jones family, others being added by the gift of other members of the family. Essentially the correspondence and personal papers of Commander Jones and of his more famous brother, Navy Secretary William Jones, the Uselma Clarke Smith Papers provided a major source for the 1972 biographical article on William Jones already cited." Chaotically organized to begin with, they contain genealogical notes made by U.C. Smith and other members of the family late in the nineteenth century and early in the twentieth which are based on original documents in the Collection but which misread, misinterpret and fancify the facts in those documents. The original manuscripts have been recently examined by the present contributor for his article on the family of Eleanor Young, wife of Navy Secretary William Jones. That lady, niece by marriage of Mrs. Robert Smith, was the fourth great grandaunt of the Princess of Wales, the former Lady Diana Spencer, who has many Philadelphia ancestors.91 Unfortunately, the Jones items in the U. C. Smith Papers include but two Robert Smith documents: a bond and a warrant of 13 July 1763, executed to secure a debt of £1200 owed by Henry Jones—the mariner brother of Mrs. Smith—to merchants Conyngham and Nesbitt of Philadelphia, who were probably Captain Henry Jones's em- 318 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ployers. "Robert Smith of the District of Southwark in the County of Philadelphia Carpenter" was one of two bondsmen on this occasion.92 The William Jones genealogical narrative copied in 1826 for Mrs. Duffield names but one of Esther (,Janes} Smith's grandchildren: "my Cousin Isabella Evans." It is not yet known whether this is a reference to Isabella (Holton) Duncan, daughter of Mary (Smith) Holton Marache—if so, Isabella had made a second marriage by 1826 to a Mr. Evans—or whether Isabella Evans was a daughter of either John Smith or Hester (Smith) Williams, other children of Robert and Esther. William Jones obviously named her as the member of the Robert and Esther Smith clan with whom he had the closest relations. What a pity he did not list all the other descendants of Robert and Esther (Jones} Smith alive in 1826! NOTES I 2 3 4 5 6 7 A sketch of Robert Smith appears ih Dictionary of American Biography: 17 (New York, 1935): 335, written by Colonel C. P. Stacey. Charlels g. Peterson is the author of "Carpenters' Hall," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 43, Pt. 1 (1953); 96-128, a major portion of which is Appendix I, Notes on Robert Smith, pp. 119-123. See also Beatrice H. Garvan, "Robert Smith (1722-1777)," Philadelphia Three Centuries of American An (Philadelphia Museum of Art Bicentennial Exhibition catalogue, 1976); 31-32. In 1982, in connection with the "Robert Smith Celebration" organized by Peterson in Edinburgh and in Dalkeith (in whose St. Nicholas kirk a memorial tablet to- Smith was erected), Dalkeith town councillor David R. Smith published an illustrated booklet, Robert Smith 1722-1777: Dalkeith to Philadelphia. The recently issued Macmillan Encyclopedia carries a sketch of Smith and an account of his life and work will appear in the forthcoming Biographical Dictionag of 'Philadelphia Archikcis of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Francis James Da lest, "Captain Peter Young, His Wife and Descendants: Further Philadclphia Roots of The Princess of Wales," The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine: 33 (1984): 190-193, 201-202 (notes 89, 92); hereinafter PGM. This article extracts, with a few corrections, information from standard accounts of William Jones in DAB: 10 (New York, 1928): 205, John H. Frederick, comp.; Edward K. Eckert, "William Jones: Mr. Madison's Secretary of the Navy," Pennsylvan2a Magazine of History and Biography: 96 (1972): 167-182, hereinafter PAIHB, and Kenneth Brown, "The William Jones Papers," PMHB: 66 (1942): 479482. William Wade Hinshaw, Engclofredia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2 (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1938): 567. The certificate of removal was granted by Laycock (sic Leacock) Preparatory Meeting of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting on 7 of 9 month 1743 and received by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 24 of 12 month 1743. CGSP; Ph.1F.9: 120. Cited in Hinshaw: 2:568. Albert Brill Russell, The ones Family Five Generations from Francis Jones of Pembrokeshire, Wales, to Richard Mott Jones, of Penn Yarm, New York (n.p., n.d. but 1924). Carroll Brewster Jones, Jones and Related Families (pot, ptd., Miiford, N. H., 1931); hereinafter CBJ. The first work, of which a copy is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, forms the basics for the second, not found in Philadeiphia libraries, but the latter presents much new in Carroll Brewster Jones, a lavoier in Marcellus, Mich., descends from Esther (Jones) Smith's uncle, Henry Jones (1693-after 1734) and his first wife, Loveday Archer, married in 1716 in Kent County, Del. S. R. la maker II, Captives' Mansion (New York, Harper & Row, 1973). Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Useirna Clarke Smith Collection (Ms. #1378), Box B, "Jones Family Letters, Lloyd Jones Letters, Misc.," Folder 1824-1829, manuscript_ docketed 'Very important Jones family record 1688 to 1829." Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 319 8 Jones Family Record is signed "Copied for Mrs. Sarah Duffield by &SI,. Duffield jan.y. 2d. 1826." Sarah Slaymaker was born in 1771 and died (not in 1804 as shown on chart in Slaymaker, Captives' Mansion: 2) 8 July 1852, aged 81, in Philadelphia and was buried in ground of Third Presbyterian Church. Pennsylvania Historical Survey Work Projects Administration, Index to Registration of Deaths CiOP of Philadelphia 1803-1860: 604 (hereinafter IRE)), where she is named incorrectly as "Susan." She married William Bryant Duffield, A. B. 1786, A. M. 1789 and M.D. 1790, University of Pennsylvania, born 4 February 1770 in Philadelphia; died there 24 Apr. 1841 and was buried in Third Presbyterian Churchyard. He was a physician at Strasburg, Pa. before retirement to Philadelphia. Persifor Frazer, ed., rsity of Pennsykania. Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College . . 1749-1893 Unive (Philadelphia, 1894): 26. IRD: 8, 604. Both husband and wife left wills in Philadelphia; W.B.D. is #73 of 1841, Will Book 14: 574; S.D. is #239 of 1852, Will Book 28: 315. Neither of these has as yet been examined. The Duffield? daughter, Sophie` Si., married 23 September 1829, at Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, The Reverend William Brown Mcilvaine (1807-1892), an 1825 alumnus of Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian cleryyman at East Library (Pittsburgh), Pa., who died at Peoria, Illinois. CGSP: Ph.5P, Third Presby-terian Church, Phila. Baptisms, Marriages, Gravestone Inscriptions 1775-1888: 143. Princeton Theological Semina7 General Catalogue (Philadelphia, 1894): 61. 9 In addition to naming his sister, his deceased brother, twelve nephews and nieces, his paternal first cousin Esther Aston wife of Joshua Phipps, his "cousin" (details of relationship, unfortunately, not stated) Hannah Evans widow of John Evans and mother-in-law of the noted silversmith Samuel Williamson, Aston made bequests to his cousin Hannah Way, widow of Joshua Way and daughter of his uncle Thomas Green, deceased (and to two of Mrs. Way's daughters), and to his "Cousin Mary Marache, wife of Solomon Marache" (and to her daughters, Isabella Duncan and Rebecca Miles). Philadelphia Will Book 5: 391, #1 of 1815. Research has proven that Thomas Green was the second husband of the testator's maternal aunt Mary (Jones) Richardson Green and Marry Marache the daughter of his maternal aunt Esther ( Jones) Smith. 10 Jones Family record gives Samuel jones's date of birth as 10 of .5 month (then July) 1688. His will was proved 27 June 1767. Philadelphia Will Book 0: 150, #95 of 1767+ Owing to the temporary closing of the Register of Wills Record Room, the will has not yet been examined, the abstract in CGSP only having been used. The original file may contain additional information. 11 Certificate of removal to Pennsylvania given Samuel Jones and wife on 21 of 7 month 1711, by the Mens Meeting at Haverfordwest, states that "about 3 years past he came over here from Ireland 2 years of which time wch time he lived with his father . . after wch by ye consent of his parents . married." CGSP: Ph.1F:5, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Records Certificates of Removal 1681-4 738: 72. CGSP: Ph. 1F:8, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Records Abstracts of Minutes, Vol. 2, 1707-1730: 217. Cited in Hinshaw: 2:567. How long Jones had been in Ireland is not known, He could have been a native or he and the other joneses may have only lived there a few years before their move, a possible return, to Wales. The meeting records of Haverfordwest, which probably exist, should be searched for further information. 12 The similar certificate given "ffrancis Jones and his ffamily" to carry to Pennsylvania, dated 17 of 6 month 1711, at Mens Meeting at Redstone, also says that "about three years ago they came over here to Pembrock Sheire from Ireland." CGSP: Ph1F:5: 72; CGSP: Ph1F:8:217. Hinshaw: 2: 567. Mrs. Francis Jones is said to have been Rachel Newton and she appears to be the same person as Rachel Newton, born 9 of 8 month 1662 at Corbally, Queens County, Ireland, daughter of Jonas Newton, an English Friend settled in Ireland and son of Thomas and Jane Newton, which Jonas married at Friends' Meeting in Bristol, England 26 of 1 month 1649, Jane Urin (daughter of John Urin of Kinsale, Ireland). Jonas and Jane (Urin) Newton had two children born in Bristol, then removed to Corbally where four more children, including Rachel, were born, settling finally at Oki Booley, County Wexford, Ireland, where five further children were born. CBI 13-16. 13 The intentions of Samuel Jones and Hannah Lloyd to wed were made known at Redstone Monthly Meeting, Pembrokeshire, 20 of 8 month 1710 and the marriage was allowed at the same meeting on 17 of 9 month 1710. The couple lived in that part of Haverfordwest called Jamestown. CLY: 18. 14 Hannah (Lloyd) Jones had not long been dead of rheumatism when on 9 of 9 month 1743 Sadsbury Monthly Meeting gave her widower his certificate for Philadelphia. CGSP: Ph.1 F:: 166. 15 See note 12. Sons Francis and Henry, under age at the time, were not specifically named 320 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine butappear later in Friends' records in Pennsylvania. See notes 30 and 72. There is no indication that Jonas Jones, born in 1695, emigrated or that he even reached maturity. 16 CGSP: Gilbert Cope Collection, Gen.Co.9:46: 121. Gilbert Cope points out that Mary was born after her parents' arrival in Philadelphia. 17 Flinshaw: 2: 584. The date, 25 of 3 month 1712, is confirmed in Jones Family Record. 18 Application of Samuel Jones, 27 of 1 month 1713, approval 25 42 month 1713, signing of certificate, 29 of 3 month 1713. CGSP: Ph.lF:8: 260, 261, 265. 19 Jones Family Record gives the date as 10 of 5 month 1714. 20 CGSP: Des1F, Chester & Concord Meeting Records, Delaware (formerly Chester) County: 48, give the dates as 23 of 7 month 1715, 25 of 9 month 1718 and 29 of l month 1720. Jones Family Record says Rachel born in 1716, Hannah born 15 (and not 25) of 9 month and agrees on date of Samuel. 21 CGSP: Gen.Co.9:46: 139. 22 Ibid. 23 Joseph Jones born 4 of 9 month 1722, Esther Jones born 24 of 8 month 1724, Henry Jones born 18 of 1 month 1727. Jones Family Record. 24 The Chester Meeting certificate for Jones and wife was produced at Concord on 2 of 2 month 1722. CGSP: Gen.Co.9:46: 139. 25 Concord Meeting's certificate of 7 of 10 month 1724 was presented to New Garden on 11 of 7 month 1725. Ibid.: 121. 26 J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, Histog of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1881): 240. 27 The marriage took place on 21 of 2 month 1732 and the certificate was signed by, inter alia, Samuel Jones, Hannah Jones, Francis Jones, Reachel Jones, Esther fvfecalfe (stepdaughter of the bride's uncle, innkeeper Francis Jones, jr.) and Margaret Miller. CGSP: Gen.Co.9:46: 139. Esther Medcalf(e) married Nathaniel Newlin at Sadsbury Meeting on 3 of 1 month 1734/5. Ibid. 28 Isaac Stephens, of Newton (near the present Haddonfield), Gloucester (later Camden) County, New Jersey and Rachel Jones declared their intentions at New Garden Meeting 27 of 10 month 1735. Ibid. The ceremony took place at Leacock Meeting on 3 of I month 1735/6 in presence of Samuel Jones, Hannah Jones, Mary Ric n, James Stephens, Jane jones (aunt, wife of Francis Jones, Jr.) and many others. CGSP: Ch.11F.3, New Garden Monthly Meeting 18024861 Abstracts of Minutes, which has, however, also copies of eighteenth century marriage records at end, unpaged. 29 Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seri 9: 770-771. Hereinafter PA. 30 The movements of Francis Jones, Jr. From Ireland to Pembrokeshire, to Philadelphia and Chester, thence to Gloucester County, N.J. and then to the Gap, with the full texts of his will and application for tavern license are given, in Russell: 9-12 and further information on his wile Jane (.__..) Medcalf Jones Taylor, three times married, in the same source at p_age 13. Omitted there is record of the certificate from Haddonfield Meeting presented at New Garden by Francis on 9 of 5 month 1726. CGSP: Gen.Co,9:46: 121. A plan of the Francis Jones house, where he kept tavern, and a picture of that dwelling, which forms the rear portion of 'White Chimneys, appears therein as Appendix VI. In White Chimneys: 14 appears the statement that Francis Jones had first settled in Bristol, near Philadelphia, where he prospered as a soapmaker." I cannot verify this curious statement. 31 The 300 acre "Plantation known as the Gap" was attached in November, 1744 in the suit of James Morris against John Jones for a debt to Morris of .065 and two smaller obligations. It passed at Sherifrs sale of 7 November 1745, for £411, to Lawrence Richardson Lancaster County Deed Book B: 313. The tenant at the time was Isaac Taylor, who in about 1741 had become the third husband of John Jones' mother, Jane, the widow of Francis Jones, Jr. Russell: 13. 32 Lancaster County Deed Book A: 3b. 33 Lancaster County Deed Book B: 393. 34 Lancaster County Deed Books H: 304 and M; 220. 35 See note 4. 36 Amy Liberty was received by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 31 of 6 month 1722 by certificate from Market Street Monthly Meeting of Hartford (sic Hertford), England dated 20 of 9 month 1719. Hinshaw: 2: 581. 37 Joshua Lawrence was reported married to Amy Liberty on 26 of 8 month 1722. Hinshaw: 2: 577. The will of Joshua Lawrence$ of Philadelphia, scrivener, dated 4 .july 1741/2, was Farni0 col Mrs. Robert Smith: A cornmentag on Genealogy of Esther Jones 32 I proved 24 Aug. 1743. He named his wife Amy and children Ann, William and Amy. Philadelphia Will Book G: 62, Papers #36 of 1743. 38 Hinshaw: 2: 561. 39 The marriage took place on 24 of 8 month 1741 Hinshaw: 2: 568. The recorded certificate, in the records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, at the Friends' Historical Library, Swarthmore College, has been copied and the names °fail the witnesses thus secured, too Joseph Jones is shown as joiner. 40 Hinshaw: 2: 368. 41 The certificate from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting dated 27 of 8 month 1749 was received at Gwynedd 28 of 9 month 1749. CGSP: Mo2F:3, Abstracts of Minutes of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting 1714-1801: 1474 Samuel Jones represented Gwynedd at Quarterly Meeting 1753. lb d., 163. 42 The will, dated 6 June 1766, named his second wife and all his children but Francis. As was stated above, this information is from an abstract. The executors were William Strowd (sic Stroud) senior, and William Lawrence, Jones' stepson. The witnesses were the testator's son Joseph and his wife Ann and Sarah Roberts. In 1762 Nathaniel Newland (Newlin), evidently he who had married the stepdaughter of Siirnuel's brother Francis, Jr., complained through the Overseers of his Meeting, Plymouth, to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, of the debt owed him by Samuel Jones and the suit dragged on for months. CGSP: Mo2P3: 223. 225. 43 "Amey" Jones was given certificate on 26 of 2 month 1782 by Gwynedd to Philadelphia Northern District Meeting and was there buried 21 of 8 month 1783 aged "about 88 years," CGSP, Mo2F:3: 382, CGSP: Ph.16.F, Northern District Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Marriages 1772-1901, Birth, Death, Burials 1772-1882: 145. 44 Lawrence Richardson died intestate in 1748. COM): La8A, Index to Letters of Administration Lancaster Co. Penna. 1730-1830, nap. CGS?: Gen,Co.9:46: 139. Cope says Mary Uones) Richardson Green died 8 of 3 month 1760 but the abstract of her father's will indicates she was alive in 1766. 45 CGSP: Gen.Co.9:46: 139. 46 Slaymaker, Captives' Mansion, 1. See Appendix V. 47 The will of Thomas Green, of Salisbury Township, dated 4 Dec. 1790 and proved 1 Mar. 1791, names both daughters and sons-in-law. COW: La :1, Lancaster County, Pa. Abstracts of Wills 1721-1820: 360-36 L 48 D. Herbert Way. Descendants of Robert and Hannah Hickman Way of Chester County Pennsylvania (Woodstown, N.J., 1975): l: 73. Raymond Martin Bell, Frank R. Baird and Margaret 5. Ward, The Clemson Family of Pennsylvania (Washington, Pa., 1971, duplicated): 2. 49 Bell, Baird and Ward: 2. 50 The will of Isaac Stephens, of Deptford, Gloucester County,NJ. yeoman, dated 25 July 1757, was proved 10 Aug. 1757. It named testator's wife Rachel ;rid children John, Isaac, James, Sarah and Rachel, an under age. Isaac Stephens was co--owner of a house in Wilmingrton, Del. in addition to his Gloucester County farm. New ferny Archives, 1st Ser. 32:307. Hereinafter NJA. 51 The Stephens children were all lames of an uncle, Henry Stephens, in 1763 at which date Sarah was already the wife of ohn Saunders. NJA, 1st Ser. 33: 408. Rachel married Thomas Saunders, of Deptford, in 1768 and her brother Isaac married Sarah Woolston in 1772. ibid., 22: 358, 383 The late Louis Irving Reichner of Philadelphia and New York and the late Mrs. Branton Holstein Henderson, of Rosemont, Pa. were descendants of Rachel (Jones) Stephens. 52 CGSP: Gen.Ro. 44, Sophie Selden Rogers Genealogical Notes: 487. For relations on the Jones side of his family named in the will of their son, George Aston (ca. 1745-1814), see footnote 9. 33 Futhey and Cope: 466. 54 CGSP: h.161F: 25. George Aston was, described at his marriage as "son of Peter & Hannah, of Maryland, both deed," His father is surely the Peter Aston, shopkeeper in Second Street, Philadelphia, bankrupt in 1751, a situation which would have dictated a move to Maryland, Pennsylvania Gazette, 23 Apr. and 16 May 1751 carries notices to his debtors. 53 George Aston died 21 Dec. 1814 aged 69 years. CGSP: Ph.16.F: 266. 56 Aston was received on request at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 28 of 12 month 1787 and on 26 of I month 1798 granted a certificate to Philadelphia Northern District Monthly Meeting. Hinshaw: 2: 455, 322 57 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine The marriage of Aston to Sarah, daughter of John Parrish of Philadelphia and his deceased wife Ann, took place on 1 of 8 month 1797 at Northern District Monthly Meeting. CGSP: Ph.16.F: 25. Sarah (Parrish) Aston died 21 of 4 month 1812 aged 52 years. Ibid., 261. 58 Peter Aston joined the Agricultural Society on 2 May 1785. Rodney H. True, Sketch of the His A99) of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (Philadelphia, 1935): 26. He was listed in the 1790 Census as a merchant living in North Water Street, East side, between Market and Race Streets. Heads of Families 1790 Pennsylvania (Washington, G.P.O., 1908): 218. 59 Peter Aston and his wile Elizabeth (both deceased by 1805 when their daughter Ann was married), had issue a child who died 4 of 4 month 1793, Elizabeth who died 13 of 10 month 1793 aged 9 months, George Aston, Jr., named in his uncle George's will and Ann, who married 14 of 2 month 1805, Jeremiah Warder, Jr. CGSP: Ph .16F: 35, 159, 164. 60 The will of George Aston names all ten. The daughter Hannah Madeira married Samuel Gormly, in Sept. 1830, at Chambersburg where others of the Madeira family lived. CGSP: Gen.Ro.44: 487. 61 "Esther Smith, widow of Robert, aged 58 years." CGSP: Ph.17F:1: Southern District Monthly Meeting Phila. Pa. Births & Burials 1772-1869 Marriages 1773-1867: 22. Robert Smith had been buried there 11 of 2 month 1777, aged 55. Ibid., 14. Settlement of the estate of Robert Smith, late of the District of Southwark, Carpenter, deceased, was announced by John Smith, administrator, and Hester Smith, administratrix. Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 April 1777. 62 oh n, son of Robert Smith, was enrolled from July 1760 until Apr. 1765. University of Pennsylvania Archives, Ms. 1559, "College Tuition Book from 1758 (sic) 1769." This is actual iy the tuition book of the Academy of Philadelphia, 1757-1769. 63 Information supplied by Charles E. Peterson, AAIA. 64 "Elizabeth, wife of John Smith," born ca. Feb. 1751, died 29 Aug. 1793 aged 42 years, 6 months. William White Bronson, The Insctiptions in St Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia (Camden, NJ., 1879): 369. The burial register adds nothing more. One John Smith married Elizabeth Thomas 31 Jan. 1780 at Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA, 2nd Ser. 9: 593. 63 The funeral of "Mrs. Mary Marache," who died in her "82d year, ,, was held from the residence of her son-in-law, j.[ohnj V.[an Hist] Cowell, S.W. corner Seventh and Chestnut Streets. PONISOPI 'S American Daily Advertiser, 14 Aug. 1834. Cowell (1785-1864) had married in 1823 Hannah Marache (1795-1869). 66 The German pastor rendered the bride's name as "Schmidt." PA, 2nd Ser. 9: 681, 712. 67 Ibid., 404, 441. 68 Mary was the second wife of Solomon Marache, a native of Curacao who had settled in New York by 1749. His in career as store and boardinghouse keeper, shipowner, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Population Company formed in 1792 to develop land in the Lake Erie region, as owner of 800 acres of land in Westmoreland County, Pa., as Treasurer in 1808 of the Bustleton and Smithfield Road, and as a founder in 1773 of Mikveh Israel Synagogue and its Treasurer until 1785 (after which he seems to have chosen the Christian faith of his wife) is chronicled in Edwin Wolf, II and Maxwell Whiteman, The Histog of Me Jews of Philadelphiafrom Colonial Times to the Age ofjackson (Philadelphia, 1957): 166, 175, 343, 398, 431. See also Malcolm H. Stern, First American Jewish Families (Cincinnati, 1960): 184. A miniature of Marache survives and is shown in Hannah R. London, Miniatures of Early American Jews (Springrfield, Mass., 1953): 13-14. This may be the only surviving portrait ofa member of Robert Smith's immediate family; perhaps, however, a companion picture of Mary (Smith) Holton Marache can be found. 69 Philadelphia City Archives, Orphans Court of Philadelphia, 11: 420, #221 of Court held on 17 June 1782 Petition of John Smith et al., children of Robert Smith, deceased. This invaluable document was found by the present author in May 1981 and then added to the Charles E. Peterson file on Robert Smith and his family. 70 Ibid, 71 William Williams, House Carpenter, purchased the present 423 Spruce Street, hiladelphia on 21 Jan. 1792 from his 11rother-in-law, John Smith, administrator of Robert Smith. On 30 November 1821, Elizabeth Mow (sic Elton ?), late Williams, administrator of William Williams, sold the property. Philadelphia Deed Book IH-1.; 370, 72 Francis Jones, third of the name in succession, born 20 of 6 month 1725, Chester County, Pa., son offrancis, jr. and Jane (-) Jones, married his first cousin, Sarah Jones, born either 6 of 11 month 1732 of 6 of 1 month 1733/4, in London Grove Township, daughter of Family of Mrs. Robert Smith: A Commentary on Genealogy of Esther Jones 323 Henry and Elenor ) Jones. CGSP: Gen.Co.9:46: 138. 73 Ibid. The first two children, Rachel and Francis (IV) were born in Baltimore County in 1752 and 1753. The third, Samuel, was born in Orange County, N.C. in 1755 as were the nine younger children. 74 CGSP: Ch.23F.4, Womens Minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, Vol. I 1730-1778: 192-193. Hinshaw: 1: 401, 75 Hinshaw: 1: 402, 1033. 76 Ibid., 2: 568. 77 See note 39. 78 For these relationships see Hinshaw: 2: 484 and Martha (Brown) Chaikley's will in Philadelphia Will Book j: 161, #99 of 1749/50. 79 Hinshaw: 2: 584. Could the Ann Jones, buried 30 of 3 month 1797, aged 71, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting be Ann (Lawrence) Jones? Ibid., 583. If so, she did not go to North Carolina. 80 Henry Jones was born 18 of I month 1727, and, according to genealogical notes made by a member of the Uselma Clarke Smith Family, died 19 July 1778, 81 An Act for incorporating the Society formed for the Relief of Poor, Aged and Infirm Masters of Ships, Their Widows and Children . and a List of the Members' Names (Philadelphia, 1827): 26. 82 The date of marriage is in the Jones genealogical notes in the Uselma Clarke Smith Papers. The church record.of the marrige has not yet been found. 83 Hinshaw: 2: 568. Henry Jones was disowned for marrying contrary to discipline, 84 Jones genealogical notes, Uselma Clarke Smith Papers, A large body of eighteenth century manuscript material on the Forrester and Lownes families is part of the collection. 85 The Uselma Clarke Smith genealogical notes give the children as Robert (born 27 Oct. 1758; died 9 Mar. 11302), William (born 29 Mar, 1761; died 6 Sept. 1831), Samuel (born 19 Mar. 1763; died 21 Sept. 1766), Henry (born 22 Aug, 1765; died young), James (born 20 June 1767; died 10 July 1767), Lloyd (born 15 June 1768; died 20 May 1820), and Sarah, no dates, said to have married a Colonel David Breathy. To these may be added a son, who died 23 of 8 month 1769 aged 5 months, and, seemingly, a daughter Mary, who died 2 of B month 1758, aged 5 weeks. CGSP: Ph.lE3, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Records, Marriages 1672-1871. Births and Deaths 1720-1876: 128. However, the date of Mary's birth conflicts with that ascribed to Robert. The same Meeting record gives 22 not 21 Sept. 1766 as date of death of the son Samuel and supplies Henry's date of death in 1769. 86 According to the Uselma Clarke Smith record, Robert Jones married twice, first to a Charlotte and secondly to Mary Cox, of Freehold, New Jersey. However, Mary Cox was the first wife, married 4 Mar. 1770, First Baptist Church, Philadelphia (PA, 2nd Ser. 8: 754) and Charlotte Grage Baker, the second, married 8 Dec. 1785, Christ Church, Philadelphia (Ibid., 141). Charlotte Grage (Baker) Jones died 17 Nov. 1794. Robert Jones' administration is #55 of 1802, Philadelphia Administration Book K: 98. 87 Contemporary deed in Uselma Clarke Smith Papers. 88 See note 2. 89 Lloyd Jones, who joined the Shipmasters' Society in 1795 and was sometime in the China Trade, married 1 Oct, 1792 Elizabeth Loxiey, of Philadelphia, born 9 June 1770; died 4 Mar. 1863. They had eight children. Extensive correspondence of Jones and his wife and numerous documents concerning his maritime and business career are in the Uselma. Clarke Smith Papers. 90 See note 2. 91 Daliett, op. cii., and same author, "The Inter-Colonial Grimstone Boucle and His Family," The Genealogist (New York), 2, No. 1 (Spring, 1981), 74-114, 92 Uselma Clarke Smith Papers, Box D-46.