Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph JONES
Cedar Grove, the birthplace on August 23, 1749 of Joseph Jones, son of Thomas Jones, grandson of Abraham Jones, and great-grandson of Peter Jones, and son-in-law of Abraham Wood. Joseph Jones, a gallant soldier in the Revolutionary War, rose from colonel to brigadier general and finally to major general, and died at Cedar Grove on February 9, 1824.
Joseph Jones was born 23 August 1749 in Petersburg, Virginia, the son of Thomas Jones (d. 1773) and Lucy Watson Jones. He was elected vestryman of Bristol Parish in 1773. Jones served as a captain in the Revolution, became a colonel in the Virginia militia in 1784, promoted to brigadier general in 1784, and elected major general in 1803. He served in the House of Delegates in 1787, and as a postmaster and collector of the port for Petersburg. He married first Ann Call (1761-1778) and had one child, and he married second Jane Atkinson in 1780 and had 10 children. Jones died 9 February 1824 at "Cedar Grove," his home in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
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