Comfort was born January 20, 1768, in Worcester County, Maryland (land that became part of Sussex County, Delaware). [1] She was the youngest daughter and eighth child of Jones-19593|Ebenezer Jones and Rogers-7774|Ann Rogers. [2]
Ebenezer Jones was born in January 1746, in Worcester County, Maryland on land that became Sussex Co., Delaware after the Mason-Dixon Line survey. He was the son of Thomas Jones and his wife, Elizabeth (Prettyman) Jones. His mother was the daughter of [[Prettyman-86 | John Prettyman III], making Ebenezer a cousin of the large Prettyman family of Sussex County. "Ebenezer, [son] of Thomas Jones," was baptized January 3, 1747, at St. Georges' Protestant Episcopal Church, near Lewes, Delaware.[1] He grew up on a farm just one mile from that of John & Comfort (Prettyman) Rogers, who had a daughter Ann, born ca. 1756. Ebenezer Jones and Ann Rogers were married in 1771 in Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. They had the following children:[2] 1. Prettyman JONES b: 22 Feb 1772 in Dagsboro HD, Sussex Co., DE. 2. Ebenezer JONES b: ABT 1774 in Sussex County, DE. 3. Comfort JONES b: ABT 1775 in Sussex County, Delaware. 4. James R. JONES b: ABT 1779 in Sussex County, Delaware. 5. Zachariah JONES b: ABT 1781 in Sussex County, Delaware. 6. Thomas JONES b: ABT 1788 in Iredell County, North Carolina.
GENEALOGY NOTE: The following quotation is from the extensive Jones/Prettyman... family genealogy by D. Mitchell Jones. Alas, the entire genealogy was taken off the web after his death in the mid-2000s. As Mitch always allowed other genealogists to cite his work generously, I have copied this citation verbatim to "keep it alive". His work was very-well sourced but alas, those were not copied. Added by Snow-2128 | Chet Snow April 29, 2015. Please do not delete.
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Thank you to Snow-2128 | Chet Snow for researching this biography, adding the cited passage and sources, April 29, 2015.
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