Deborah (Exum) Jones (abt. 1665 - aft. 1730)

Born about 1665 in Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Descendants

Died after 1730 after about age 65 in Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Biography

Deborah Exum was born about 1665, Isle of Wight, Virginia, she died after 1730, Isle of Wight, Virginia.^[1]

Deborah is named "daughter Deborah Jones" in her father William Exum's 1700/1 will ("D. December 8, 1700. R. February 10, 1700/1"), her mother is Jane Wills.^[2][3][4]

According to Wikipedia, Deborah Exum is the mother of Col. Edward Jones. ^{[citation needed]}

Marriage

Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800, by Blanche Adams Chapman, page 26:

• Jones, Edward and Deborah Exum daughter of William Exum, 1700. W. & D. B. 2, p.436. W. B. 3, p. 210 ^[5][6]

Note: In the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800, there was only one marriage for Edward Jones, plus there wasn't any records mentioning a Jane Harris or a Mary Batt.

Research Note

Kathryn Gearhart, book: Allied Families Early Virginia Jones Families, 2009: She lists this genealogy:

Rowland Jones s/o Rev. Rowland Bartholomew Jones (1598-1665) and spouse: Alice.

That Rowland Jones was the brother of Quaker Siblings: Edward Jones and Susannah Jones Bressie.

That this Edward Jones of the Bruton Parish in County of Yorke (will written Oct 1690, proved Nov 1690) and Spouse Mary [no surname]

had son Edward Jones who married DEBORAH EXUM, d/o William Exum.

and that their son Edward Jones married the daughter of John Sugars. That in John Sugars will he mentions daughter Abigail Jones, giving her the land upon which Edward Jones lives. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Repository: #R1 Text: Record for Edward Jones & Deborah Exum
2. ↑ Probate record index, page 60, Virginia, Isle of Wight County Records, 1634-1951 (posted by FamilySearch, courtesy of Isle of Wight Circuit Court)
3. ↑ Isle of Wight County Records, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol 7, No 4 (Apr 1899) pg 253 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1919740?seq=61#metadata_info_tab_contents
4. ↑ The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers Vol I-IV, EXUM FAMILY, Vol 1, https://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=12944, ancestry.com, accessed 14 June 2019
5. ↑ Chapman, Blanche Adams, Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800, p. 26
6. ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A history of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including abstracts of the county records, VOLUME 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=v0WAVoRaAaYC&q=exum#v=snippet&q=exum&f=false pg452
7. ↑ https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/early-virginia-jones-families/

• http://familytrees.genopro.com/612629/DaneseScommegna/default.htm?page=Exum-Benjamin-I01669.htm

Also See:

• Wikipedia contributors, "Nathaniel Macon," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel_Macon&oldid=897574481 (accessed June 14, 2019).

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Linda Plummer for starting this profile.

• Thank you to Michael Thomas for creating WikiTree profile Exum-31 through the import of Cyndie-ancestors_2013-12-29.ged on Dec 29, 2013.