William P Jones (abt. 1777 - abt. 1840)

Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Marriage 1.2 Census/Residence 1.3 Family 1.4 Letters/Bible Records from Edwards Heirs 1.5 Chancery Court Cases 1.5.1 Chancery Court 1.5.1.1 Journal of Thomas Edwards 1.5.2 Chancery Court Case- Jopling vs Jones et al 1.5.3 Chancery Court Case - William McDaniel versus heirs of George McDaniel 1.5.4 Exr of Robert Robinson versus William Jones 2 Sources

Biography

Marriage

Marriage of William P. Jones and Lucy Edwards^[1]

Date: 20 Nov 1802

Place: Amherst County, Virginia, USA

Marriage Bond^[2]

Know all men by these presents that we William Jones & Mr Edwards - are held & firmly bound unto James Monroe Esquire the Governor of Virginia for the time being and to his successors in office for the use of the said - Commonwealth in the sum of one hundred fifty dollars to which payment will and truly to be we bind ourselves jointly and severally firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals & dated this 20 day of Nov 1802. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage entered in shortly to be held and solemnized between the above bound Wm Jones & Lucy Edwards (spinster) now if there should be no legal cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force & virtue.
[Signed] William Jones
Teste [Signed] William Edwards

Marriage Consent^[3]

This is to certify that I have given my consent to Mr William Jones to get marriage license to marry my daughter Lucy Edwards. Given under my hand this 20th day of November 1802.
[Signed] Thomas Edwards
Test.
[Signed] William Edwards
[Signed] Lewis Padgett
[Signed] Mr William F Crawford Clerk of Amherst

Census/Residence

1810 United States Federal Census:
Amherst, Virginia, United States^[4]

Category	Number	Name
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10	1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44	1	William P Jones
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10	5
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44	1	Lucy Jones
Number of Enslaved Persons	1

1820 United States Federal Census:
Northern District, Bedford, Virginia^[5]

Category	Number	Name
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10	4
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over	1	William P Jones
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10	4
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15	1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25	2
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over	1	Lucy Jones

1830 United States Federal Census:
Bedford, Virginia^[6]

Category	Number	Name
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14	1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	3
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59	1	William P Jones
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49	1	Lucy Jones

1840 United States Federal Census:
Huntington, Gallia, Ohio
Household of William P. Jones ^[7]

Category	Number	Name
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	2
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29	1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69	1	William P Jones
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59	1	Lucy Jones

Family

Wesley Wood married Mary Jones on 29 February 1825 in Bedford County, Virginia. William P. Jones gave consent as the father of Mary. M. Turner was surety.^[8][9]

Lucy, William and their daughter Elizabeth are mentioned in the biography of Samuel Ewing^[10]

It was not until the 14th of August 1832, when Samuel Ewing was 35, that he married. Samuel married Elizabeth JONES, daughter of William P. and Lucy (EDWARDS) JONES, recent arrivals in Gallia County from Bedford County, Virginia where Elizabeth was born 10 December 1807. They were married by Reverend David SMITHER.

Letters/Bible Records from Edwards Heirs

The Edwards Heirs was an organization of Edwards who all tried to prove descendancy from the Robert Edwards who held the land where Trinity Church in New York is now located. Many families sent copies of letters and bible records to support their claim. There were three separate published claims from the family of Thomas Edwards.

Published in Volume 1, #10 issue (October 1925) as sent by Nola P. Cooke^[11]

......Thomas Edwards was the son of Joseph Edwards, and Thomas Edwards settled and married three times in Amherst County, Virginia, eight miles from the city of Lynchburg, Va., and raised six sons and six daughters, of whom all are dead but two, Caroline and Minerva.
The sons of Thomas Edwards were:
Dr. William Edwards, who died without issue
John M. Edwards, married Mary S. Rucker, of whom Elizabeth Burnet is a granddaughter.
James B. Edwards went to St. Louis, from where we had no tidings.
Barnette Edwards died without issue.
Dr. Vincent A. Edwards died in South Carolina leaving four children, one of whom is James B. Edwards, of Lynchburg (now deceased).
Dr. Gustavus A. Edwards resided in Lynchburg, Va., and died in 1865, leaving four boys and four girls, all of who lived in Lynchburg, Va., except John Edwards, who lived in Tennessee, now dead, and his brother Joseph Edwards, who died in St. Louis.
The names of the daughters of Thomas Edwards are:
Lucy, who married a Jones and moved to Ohio;
Rhodea married and lived in Lynchburg, Va., and died leaving one daughter.
Caroline married and lived in Lynchburg;
Elizabeth married James Smith Walker, died and left eight living children. James B. Edwards married one of them, Elizabeth, her daughter. Vincent Barnette Walker is a son of Elizabeth and James Smith Walker, and married Louisa J. Kendall, of Paris, Tenn.

Chancery Court Cases

Chancery Court

Estate of Thomas Edwards^[12] Thomas Edwards died intestate and his estate was the subject of two separate Chancery Court Cases in Amherst, Virginia. The first was filed by Elizabeth Edwards as the widow of Thomas Edwards against the administrator of the Thomas Edwards estate - Gustavus A. Edwards.
The second case was filed by Gustavus A. Edwards against the other heirs of Thomas Edwards. That case is:

Gustavus A. Edwards versus
William Jones and Lucy his wife
John M. Edwards
James B. Edwards
William W. Edwards, James B. Edwards, Martha Edwards and Mary Edwards (the last four children and heirs at law of Vincent Edwards deceased)
the children of Elizabeth Walker deceased formerly Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Ann Fretwell an infant under the age of twenty one years by James Fretwell her guardian
Caroline J. Edwards
James Beck & Minerva his wife
Nancy Edwards a person of unsound mind

Journal of Thomas Edwards

Thomas Edwards kept a journal in which he recorded gift of property made to his children. This journal is one of the exhibits in the Chancery court case of Gustavus Edwards versus Jones et al (This is the court case in which Gustavus sued the rest of the heirs to Thomas Edwards claiming he had a deal with Thomas Edwards to inherit the land.)^[13]
Place: Amherst, Virginia

1802-To Lucy Jones - when you married W. Jones

1 Negro girl named Lealy when you married W. Jones - $400
1 Gray Mare - $100
1 Featherbed and furniture - $40
1 Cow - $15

1805 To John M. Edwards - when you left me

1 Negro girl named Fellis when you left me - $400
1 Sorril Horse - $100

1805 - To Dr. William Edwards - when you became of age

1 Negro named Stephany(?) when you became of age - $400
1 Horse - $100

1807 - To James B. Edwards - when you left me

1 Sorrel Horse when you left me - $100

1812 - To Vincent A. Edwards - when you went to S Carolina

1 Negro Named George when you went to S Carolina - $400 / one horse - $100

1812 - To Elizabeth Walker - when you married James S. Walker

1 Negro Girl Named Jude when you married James S. Walker
$400
1 featherbed and furniture - $40
1 Sorril mare - $100
1 Milk cow - $15

1816 - To Gustavus A. Edwards

1 Horse: bay- $100

(Later entries have been crossed out and a note added from "Higginbotham Deposition")

1819 - To Barnett Edwards - when you left me

1 Negro Named Parkes when you left me - $400
1 Sorrel Horse - $100
1 featherbed and furniture - $40
300# Pork when you left me - $15

1829 - To Caroline J. Edwards

one horse given to you - $100

1832 - To Minerva R. Beck

One Negro Boy Stephen given to you - $400

Chancery Court Case- Jopling vs Jones et al

In 1818, George McDaniel gave William P. Jones $1500 to purchase land in Bedford, VA for the benefit of William's wife and George's grand-daughter Lucy Edwards Jones. Jones bought the land, but the deed was made in the name of George McDaniel as he did not want the land to be used for the debts of William P. Jones. The land was later sold by Jones and the purchaser sued to get the deed in his name. He sued all of the heirs of George McDaniel. Those heirs all agreed that the land was meant to go to Lucy as her share of the estate of her mother (Winnifred McDaniel).^[14]
Filed 1838
Bedford, Virginia, United States

James W Joplin versus
William P. Jones & Lucy his wife
George McDaniel
John McDaniel
Daaniel L. Burford and Ruth his wife
George Tinsley
Matilda McCulure
Anderson Tinsley
Alexander Tinsley
Merritt M. White and Judith his wife
Judith Bailey
Ambrose Rucker
Willam Ware and Rosa his wife
Dabney Ware and Lucinda his wife
Frances Tyree formerly Francis McDaniel
John Mahone and Lucy his wife
Philip Burford and Ann his wife
James Tinsley and ??? his wife
Norman McClure
Joseph McClure
Harriet McClure
Ambrose L. Rucker and Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth McClure
Martha Jones formerly McClure

Chancery Court Case - William McDaniel versus heirs of George McDaniel

Notice to appear published in Lynchburg Virginian
15 June 1832
Amherst, Virginia, United States

William McDaniel versus:
Nelson Dawson & Dabney Ware Executors of George McDaniel
James Tinsley Sr & Lucy his wife
Edward & Robert Tinsley Executors of David Tinsley
Ambrose Rucker
William Ware & Rosamond his wife
George H. Buford
Anderson Ware & Cinthia his wife
John Edwards
William Jones & Lucy his wife
William Tyree & Frances his wife
Alexander Tinsley
Anderson Tinsley
Thomas Clement & Rose his wife
Merrit M. White & Jusy his wife
John Mehone & Lucinda his wife
Wiatt Baily & Dolly his wife
Robert Tinsley Administrator of George M. Tinsley
Mildred Tinsley Admr & Joseph Tinsley Administrator of Banister Tinsley
James Tinsley Sr
Benjamin Norvell admr of Spencer Norvell
John Ware
Thomas N Eubank administrator of Hill Carter
Nelson C. Dawson administrator de bonis non of George McDaniel
John McDaniel

Exr of Robert Robinson versus William Jones

Exr of Robert Robinson versus William Jones - Case #1807-018^[15]
Below is an abstract of the papers in the case file.

31 December 1807
Deposition of William Edwards
In Lynchburg, in the company of Robert Robinson and William P Jones, a conversation took place between Robert Robinson and William P Jones about a bond that Robinson held on Jones. The bond was for 10 pounds and Robinson acknowledged a payment by Jones of five pounds in front of William Edwards and agreed to enter a credit on the bond.

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage: "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901"
   citing Record number: 5;
   FamilySearch Record: 6JZQ-PQCD (accessed 6 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G9XF-NHTW Image number 00448.
2. ↑ Marriage Records of Amherst, Virginia
3. ↑ Marriage Records of Amherst, Virginia
4. ↑ 1810 Census: "United States Census, 1810"
   citing Page: 276; Affiliate Publication Number: M252;
   FamilySearch Record: XH23-PS4 (accessed 6 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GYB8-PJ9
5. ↑ 1820 Census: "United States Census, 1820"
   citing Page: 42; Affiliate Publication Number: M33;
   FamilySearch Record: XHLC-Y76 (accessed 6 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YYT-98CJ
6. ↑ 1830 Census: "United States Census, 1830"
   citing 136, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 194; FHL microfilm 29,673.
   FamilySearch Record: XH54-L5R (accessed 6 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YYD-9ZJW Image number 00277.
7. ↑ United States Census, 1840: "United States Census, 1840"
   Image path: United States Census, 1840 > Ohio > Gallia > Huntington Township > image 3 of 10; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YY5-7YG (accessed 6 March 2023)
8. ↑ Hinshaw, William Wade, and Thomas Worth Marshall. 1936. Encyclopedia of American Quaker genealogy Volume 6. Ann Arbor, Mich: Edwards Bros.
9. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HVSP-346Z : 6 August 2020), Mary Jones in entry for Westly Wood, 1825.
10. ↑ Ewing, Nancy Hanks, and Barbara Ewing Powell. 1995. James Ewing, pioneer. Newman, Calif. (27631 Fig Lane, Newman 95360): B.E. Powell. https://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/books/JamesEwingOfPocahontas/jasbook_Vol2/Jas1721v2Ch10.htm
11. ↑ Leonard, F. Elwood. 1982. Edwards heirs. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah.
12. ↑ Amherst County (Va.) Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery Records, Edwards v. Jones et.al., File Box 22
13. ↑ Amherst County (Va.) Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery Records, Edwards v. Jones et.al., File Box 22
14. ↑ http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=019-1838-047 Citation Virginia Chancery Records - Bedford County VA. Case 1838-047
15. ↑ Amherst County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1779-1912. Exr of Robert Robinson versus William Jones, 1807-018. Local Government Records Collection, Amherst Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.