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Descendants of Thomas Jones

Generation No. 2

2. AMBROSE² JONES (THOMAS¹) was born August 10, 1756 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died June 12, 1833 in Malone, Morgan Co., Kentucky. He married MARTHA CRAIG December 30, 1784 in Greenbrier Co, VA, Rev John Alderson, Virginia Marriage Records, page 613, daughter of WILLLIAM CRAIG and ELIZABETH NICKELL. She was born August 10, 1766 in Monroe County, Virginia, and died October 22, 1849 in Morgan Co, KY.

Notes for AMBROSE JONES:
Ambrose fought in the Revolutionary War. He served at Valley Forge.
From " Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files" Vol. II F-M by White
Abrose, Martha, W9083 Cont Line (VA), sol was b 10 Aug 1756, he enl in Augusta Co, VA and he appl 19 Jul 1821 Floyd Co, KY, sol m Martha Crage or Craig 30 Dec 1784 in Greenbrier C., VA and she was b 10
Aug 1766, sol d 12 Jun 1833, wid appl 30 Jan 1840 Morgan Co kY, children were; William b 23 Oct 1785, Priscilla b 18 Feb 1787, Nancy b 17 Mar 1790, Jienny b 3 May 1792, John b 24 Nov 1793, Richard b 8 Jn 1795, Barbary b 19 Apr 1797, Sinthy b 13 Jun 1799, James b 24 Oct 1801, and Ambrose b 31 Dec 1803, the son John was living in Morgan Co, KY in 1840 and in 1845 sol's daughter Polly James was mentioned."

According to Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants by Bockstruck, 1996, "Jones, Ambrose, Va, Private, 22 Apr 1784, 100 acres."

Revolutionary War info:
Pvt in Capt Granville Smith's Co., Col. Wm Grayson's Regiment of Continental Troops. Commencement of pay 7-19-1777; time of service 2 mo. 11 d; time of subsistence 10 weeks, 11 d; pay per month $6 2/3. Appointment and enlistment 10-1-1777. 5-2-78 at Valley Forge, sick in camp. Became Corporal and pay increased to $7 1/3 mo. He also served under Col. Nathaniel Gist to about 4-79.

Ambrose was one of the early Baptist preachers ordained in 1811 and a member of South Fork Baptist Church at Malone, KY.

from "Historical Sketches" by Joe Nickell Published June 12, 1997 in
"Licking Valley Courier", West Liberty, KY :

AT VALLEY FORGE. Ambrose Jones, the progenitor of Morgan County's Jones
family, was a Revolutionary War soldier who served with George Washington at
Valley Forge. Born Aug 10, 1756, in Virginia, at the age of 21 in 1777,
Ambrose Jones volunteered in Augusta County for three years' service in the
Virginia Continental Line. He began as a private, serving in Captain T.
Belle's and Captain Granville Smith's companies in the regiment by Col.
William Grayson. He was promoted in Oct 1778 to corporal.

His military records show that, in the interim, in April 1778, he was among
those 'sick in camp' at Valley Forge. He had served at the Pennsylvania
encampment with Washington during the ill-fated winter of 1777-78 when a
lack of quartermaster supplies--food and clothing--caused many casualties
due to starvation, sickness, and cold. On Dec. 23, 1777, General Washington
wrote: "We have this day no less than 2,873 men in camp unfit for duty
because they are barefoot or otherwise naked......Numbers are still obliged
to sit all night by the fires."

Ambrose Jones also served at White Plains, NY, and he was at Camp
Middlebrook during the winter 1778-79. In 1780 he participated in the
defense of Charleston, SC, when he was taken prisoner by the British.
According to a biographical sketch of Jones by Georgia Franklin Taylor (a
descendant), he "made his escape and reached home eighteen days before the
expiration of his enlistment.

Following the war, Ambrose Jones married Martha Craig who was ten years his
junior, having been born August 10, 1766. The couple were married in
Linville Parish Baptist Church in Greenbrier Co., VA (now West Virginia), on
December 30, 1784. This was just after Jones received (in April of that
year) a Virginia Land Office military warrant for 100 acres of land "in
consideration of his Services for three years" (the document read) "as a
soldier in the Virginia Cont. line. As early as 1809 he and his family had
moved to the area of eastern Kentucky that would later become Morgan County,
when the then Floyd County court appointed him to help mark a new road in
the county.

In 1810, he and Martha were "received by letter" into membership in what
later became known as the South Fork Baptist Church. The following year he
was ordained "to the work of the ministry" by that ecclesiastical body. In
1817, probably due to age (he was then 61), he was "exempted from future
county levies" by the county court. And by the early 1820's Jones had
applied for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier, appearing before the local
court as the law required. His petition was granted and he was awarded $8
per month, beginning on November 2, 1825. After Morgan County was formed
(from portions of Floyd and Bath counties) in 1823, Jones was named in a
couple of court orders to help view certain road changes. He and Martha had
10 children.

Buried at South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery in Malone. A white marble
military marker was placed at his grave in a DAR ceremony in 1957.

Ambrose Jone's Pension FileAMBROSE JONE'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION FILE
PENSION FILE: AMBROSE JONES

Ambrose Jones was born August 10th 1756
Martha Jones was Born August 10th 1766

William Jones was born October 23rd 1785
Priscilla Jones was born February 18th 1787
Nancy Jones was born March 27th 1790
Ginny Jones was born May 3rd 1792
John Jones was born November 24th 1793
Richard Jones was born June 8th 1795
Barbary Jones was born Aprile 19th 1797
Sinthy Jones was born June 13th 1799
James Jones was born October 24th 1801
Ambrose Jones Junior was born Dec 31 1803

Ambrose Jones and Martha Craig was
married Dec 30 1784

Fineartte June 12, 1845

Dear Sir,

      I am requested to write
to you by some of the heirs of Ambrose
Jones who say that they are entitled to
a considerable sum of money and
perhaps some land, for the military
services of Ambrose Jones. I can
not at present get any satisfaction
as to when or in what capacity
Ambrose Jones served, but under-
stand that he was a revolutionary
soldier. His heirs represent to me that
one of his children Polly Jones who is
the principal legatee has appointed
an attorney (w. Gardner Tanton I believe)
to present the claims and to get all
that is due, under the will of Am-
brose Jones. The heirs intend to contest
the payment of the money to Polly Jones and
I request you not to pay over to Polly
Jones or her attorney anything in right
of Ambrose Jones until her right to it is
established by a legal proceeding. The heirs
are about instituting a suit for the pur-
pose of trying the validity of the will of Am-
brose Jones to pay the claim in question
to Polly Jones. For the purpose of com-
mencing these proceedings and describing
the subject matter properly, I have to request
you to furnish me a statement of what ser-
vice Ambrose Jones rendered to the United
States? What amount of money or land appear
to be due to him or his heirs? Is the half pay
of his widow payable to his heirs? (she died
about a year since.)
If you have the means of giving this
information it will render great ser-
vices to the heirs of Ambrose Jones and
any costs attending it I will sent
at a moments warning. And if
these is as they represent a sum of
money due and unpaid, you will
please enter a caveat or have the
payment of it stopped until it can
be judicialy investigated.

            I am
            your
most
humble servant
John Wilson

Hon. P.L. Edwards
Coms. of Pensions

The deposition of John Jones a resident of Morgan County Ky taken
this 30th day of January 1840 to be used as evidence in ______
the application of Mrs Martha Jones for a pension under the act of
Congress passed July 7th 1838.
Deponent being Forty-five years old deposeth and saith that
he is the Son of Ambrose Jones deceased & Martha Jones the applicant.
That he knew his Father the said Ambrose Jones was a pensioner
on the note of the Kentucky agency at the time of his death and that
he died on the twelfth day of June Eighteen hundred and thirty
three & that his Mother the aforesaid Martha Jones had remained
a widow ever since to the present period and he further
saith that he has been this day shown his fathers
family record which is in the handwriting of William Jones and ___
____ and was in his Fathers possession before his death
and has been in the possession of John Jones the deponent
ever since his fathers death. the said record is in the family
bible and marked A. and makes it part of his deposition and
further saith note. his
John X Jones
mark
Witness
S R Turner JPMC

State of Kentucky
Morgan County Sct.
      The foregoing declaration of Mrs. Martha
Jones and the deposition of John Jones were severely sworn to
and subscribed before me Samual R Turner Justice of the
Peace in and for the County of Morgan and State aforesaid
And I certify the said Marhta Jones is consequence of old
age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court. And
that the said John Jones is a man of good Moral Char-
acter and a person of truth and Veracity.
Samual R Turner JPMC

State of Kentucky
Morgan County Sct

      On this the 30th day of January 1840
Personally appeared before me Samuel R. Turner a Justice of the
peace in and for the County of Morgan and the State of aforesaid Martha
Jones a resident of the County of Morgan and the State of Kentucky
aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress
]passed July 7th 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and
pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of Ambrose
Jones late a pensioner on the roll of the Kentucky agency. She further
declares that she was married to the said Ambrose Jones in the
County of Greenbrier in the State of Virginia on the Thirtieth
day of December Seventeen hundred and Eighty four(1784) by
the Rev John Alderson a Baptist Preacher being first announced
three times at Church before the marriage took place. The her
husband the aforesaid Ambrose Jones died on the tweloth day of
June Eighteen hundred and thirty three(1833) that she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage
took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred
and ninety four Niz at the time above stated she would
wish further to add to this deposition the certificate
of Rev? John Alderson also the certificate of the clerk of Greenbrier County Virginia stating the
copy of John Alderson certificate to be filed in his office and further saith note.
her
Witness Martha X Jones
S.R. Turner JPMC mark

Virginia
      Greenbrier County Clerks Office ____
I John Mathews Clerk of County Greenbrier aforesaid do
hereby certify that in Examining the Records and files in
my Office among other things I find the following Cer-
tificate of the Marriage of Ambrose Jones to Martha Crage
_____
      "This is to Certify that these were _____in Marriage
1784 December 30th Ambrose Jones with Martha Crage
by one John Alderson
I do therefore certify that the above is a true copy of the
certificate of the marriage of Ambrose Jones to Martha Crage
taken from the Records of files in my office that it doth not
appear whether the marriage aforesaid was ____ by the
authority of a license Issued from this office in by ______
______ of which was Legal.
In testimony whereof I have herein to
let my name and Affixed the Seal
of my Office this the 7th day of June
1839 in the 63rd year of the Com=
=monwealth
Teste
John Mathews CGC

Greenbrier County
I Henry Eustine a Presiding Justice of the Peace in and
for the County of Greenbrier Aforesaid do hereby Certify
that the Attestation of John Mathews to the above Certificate
is in true form of Law
Given under my hand and Seal the
7th day June 1839
Henry Eustine

Schedule

District of
On this day of 1821
Personally appeared in open court
made such by the state of Kentucky
being a court of record ^ for the said lenient
Ambrose Jones aged about Sixty years
resident in Floyd County in said Circuit
who being first duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath declare
that he served in the revolutionary
war as follows- In the 16th Regiment
first commanded by Col Grason + next by
Col Nathl Gist in Capt Thomas Bills
Company of ____ commanded by Capt Robin
Blackenridge in the Virginia line
his original declaration was dated
about June 1818- He cannot
recollect precisely the time of his
enlistment but served three years

And I do solemnly swear that I was a
resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and
that I have not since that time by gift
sale or in any manner disposed of
my property or any part there of
with intent thereby so to deminish
it unto being myself within that
provisions of an act of Congress
entitled "an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land + navy
service of the United States in the
Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day
of March 1818 + that I have not, nor
has any person in ___ for me any

property or securities contracts or debts due to
me nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the schedule here to
annexed and by me subscribed-
Farming House
I have 4 head of horse beasts worth $125
8 head of Cattle 48
5 head of sheep 5
I own 30 head of Hogs 25
10
House furniture __ 5___
218
He is a farmer when able to
follow that ___ufcaton but has
not been able to labour at any
thing for the last 7 years he has
had much impaired his sight
He has a wife + 2 children reside
with him. His wife is old and infirm
and able to do best very little- one of
his sons is 18 years old + is healthy the
younger is 16- and is addicted to
fits is unable to labour + is rather
an incumbrance than a benefit
Ambrose Jones
Sworn to and declared on the
seventeenth day of July 1821
before me Eli Shortridge on the circuit
Judges for the state of Kentucky residing in
the county of Floyd. Given under my
hand + seal
E Shortridge

I William Jas Mayo clerk of Floyd Curcuit Court
do hereby cerify that the forgoing oath
and the schedule thereto ____ are
truly copies from the records of said Court
+ do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court that the total
____ in value of the property
exibited in said schedule is
278 dollars.
      the Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand + affixed
the seal of said Court on
this seventeenth day of July 1821
            Will Jas Mayo
            Clerk of the Court for County
            + curcuit of Floyd

                                    Pension Office
                                    June 18, 1845

Sir,
      In answer to your letter of the 12th
___ in the case of Martha Jones, Widow
of Ambrose Jones, I have to inform you
that he was a penioner under the Act of
March 18, 1818 and the note of the Kentucky
Angency at $8 per month. His widow was
pensioned under the Act of July 7th 1838
at $80 per annum, commencing on the 4th
March 1836 and terminating on the 4 March
1841 and again under the Act of March
3 1843 at the same rate of pension, com-
-mencing on the 4 March 1843 and ending
4 March 1844
      If you mite address a letter to P.
Hagner Esq. Third Auditor of the Treasury
he mite inform you to then the pension
has been paid and what partial is yet due.
Mr Jones was not entitled to Bounty Land.
John Wilson Esq.
Fincastle
VA

                        Harrodsburg Ky February 3d 1840
Sir
      I herewith transmit the paper of Mrs
Martha Jones for a pension, which I should be
pleased to hear from when convenient.
            Your Obt Servt
                  Chr Chism

Col I L Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City

Declaration
Morgan County and enlistment
on this 1st day of November 1825
personally appeared Ambrose Jones in open court
being made so by the laws of the state and having power t fine
being a court of record for the circuit of Mor-
gan resident in the county of Morgan state of
Ky formerly a resident of Floyd county the
]said county of Morgan being cut of off Floyd
county and composing a part of Floyd county
until the year 1822-aged 75 or there
about who being first duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions made
by the acts of congress of the 18th march 1818
and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said
Jones enlisted for the term of three years some
time in the year-to the best of his the said Jones
recollection in the year 1777 but he has no
data to refer to fix the precise date but thinks
it was about a year before the battle of
Monmouth in that he enlisted in the state
of Virginia county of Augusta in the company
commanded by Captains Thomas Bell and
Mortty after he joined the Army he was transfered
to captain Robert Brecinridges company both
of which companies belonged to the regiment com
manded by Colonel Grayson his given
name not recollected it being -the 16th Virginia
regiment in the line of the state of Virginia
on the Virginia continental establishment. That
he continued to serve in the said corps until he was
taken prisoner at the siege of Charleston South Car

olina by the British when that place was
taken by them that he escaped from the British
and arrived at home eighteen days before the
time of his enlistment had expired that he ob
tained a regular discharge from Colonel Posey
in Haunton Virginia which has been lost
that his name has not been placed on the pension
list that his original declaration is on file in
the war department
      And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May
1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citi
zen of the United States on the 18th day of March
1818 and that I have not since that time by gift
sale or in any manner disparcel of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby so to
diminish it as to being myself within the provisions
of an act of congress entitled an act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Rev
olutionary war passed on the 18th day of march
1818 and that I have not nor has any one in
trust for me any property or rewrites contracts
or debts due to me nor have any income other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto
annexed and by me subscribed
            Schedule
150 acres of third rate land worth about $150
one home                  50
5 cows 18
20 hogs 20
5 sheep _5_
$243

his
Ambrose X Jones
mark
That since the exhibition of my first schedule

the following changes have been made in my
property. The mare mentioned in the former
in conjunction with her colt
schedule valued at $40 dollars I exchanged for
to one John Howerton
another mare which mare I exchanged for
to one Richard Ferguson
the horse I now own mentioned in the present
schedule the colt I disposed of in part pay
for the land mentioned in the present schedule
That by profession he is a farmer that he has
to depend for a support upon his own labour
with the means mentioned in the annexed
schedule that his family consists of himself and
his wife Martha Jones aged 56 years very much
afflicted with some disease of a Rheumatic character
that by violent pains she has last the use of one
of her eyes and is unable to ___ or do any labour
of that kind only being able to sew and knit
a little and is not able to do much towards
the labour necessary in the family and is unable
to support himself that he himself is unable
to labour for a support being nearly overcome by
old age and various infirmities and is not able
to support himself without assistance from his
country or being a burden upon his friends
and relatives.
___Morgan--Circuit Sct
I James G Hazelrigg clerk of the Morgan Circuit Court
do hereby certify that the forgoing Oath and the schedule hereto
annexed are truly copies from the record of the said Court
and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said
Court that the ___ assessment in value of the property
exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Two hundreds
and forty three dollars. In Testimony where of I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
there being no seal of office ___ my seal
On this 2nd day of November 1825
James G. Hazelrigg
Clerk of the Court of Maorgan Circuit
Court

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress of the 3d of March 1843 grant
ing pensions for one year to certain widows
who have service pensions under the act of July 7th 1838
State of Kentucky\
Morgan County Sct\
On this 13th day of May 1842 personally app
eared before the _____ a Justice of the
peace in and for the County aforesaid Marth
a Jones a resident of said county of Morgan
and state of Kentucky aged 77 years who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth on
her oath make the following Declarations in
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress passed on the
3rd day of March 1843 granting pensions
to widows of persons who served during the
] Revolutionary war. that she is the widow
of Ambrose Jones who was a private in
the army of the Revolution the regiment she
does not now recollect and that she received
an annual pension of $80 ___ under the
act of July 7th 1838 she further ____ she
is still a widow.
her
Martha X Jones
mark

Subscribed and sworn to the day and date above written
Uriah Cottle. jpmc
I also certify that I am personally acquainted with
Martha Jones Wm Cottle jpmc

State of Kentucky sct\
Morgan County \
      I John W Hazelrigg clerk of the court
for the county saforesaid do certify that Uriah
Cottle whose name is to the fore fowing
certificate is his won had rite + the signature
is genuine and that he is a duly qualified and
acting Justice of the peace for the County of Morg
an State aforesaid + that full faith and
credit should be given to his acts or such
Given under my hand
and seal of office this
24th day of May 1843
Jn W Hazelrigg clerk of
Morgan County Court

According to Jack R. Dennis, Ambrose's body was moved from Old Caney Cemetery to South Fork as requested by Custer Jones. I'm trying to find out who Custer Jones is/was.

Linville Baptist Church:
CHURCHES:

SMITH'S AND LYNVILLE'S CREEK

A church called Smith's and Lynvill's Creek Church, afterwards called Smith's Creek, is said to have been constituted in 1756. (The Minutes of the Philadelphia Association show that the church was organized August 16, 1756, with eleven members, and that Elder John Alderson was its first minister.) The church united with the Philadelphia Association in 1762. David Benedict's history states that there were some Baptist families in this place as early as 1745, some of whom went as far as Oyster Bay on Long-Island to be baptized by a proper administrator, probably because he removed here from that place.

A later church called Smith's Creek was organized by members of the Whitehouse Church, in 1774 (see Shenandoah County).

The Linville-Smith Creek Baptist Church was established about 1756 by
Rev John Alderson SR in what is now Rockingham Co VA. I think it is
near Harrisonburg. The son of Rev John Alderson, SR was John Alderson,
JR. He was the pastor of the Greenbrier Baptist Church established in
1781 near present day Alderson.

More About AMBROSE JONES:
Burial: South Fork Cemetery, Morgan County, Kentucky
Event 1: Unknown, Three years in Revolutionary War
Event 2: Unknown, buried Southfork Cemetery, Malone, KY

Notes for MARTHA CRAIG:
Can't find a stone for her at the cemetery, but it is assured that she was buried at South Fork.

More About MARTHA CRAIG:
Burial: South Fork Church Cemetery, Index, Morgan County, Kentucky

More About AMBROSE JONES and MARTHA CRAIG:
Marriage: December 30, 1784, Greenbrier Co, VA, Rev John Alderson, Virginia Marriage Records, page 613

Children of AMBROSE JONES and MARTHA CRAIG are:

3.	i.	WILLIAM³ JONES, b. October 23, 1785, Greenbrier County, VA; d. May 14, 1852, Morgan County, Kentucky (Possibly Carter County).
4.	ii.	PRISCILLA JONES, b. February 18, 1787, Southwestern Virginia; d. 1805, Morgan County, Kentucky.
5.	iii.	NANCY JANE JONES, b. March 17, 1791, Floyd County, Kentucky; d. 1839, Morgan County, Kentucky.
6.	iv.	JENNY "JUNE" JONES, b. May 03, 1792, Floyd County, Kentucky; d. Unknown, Unknown.
7.	v.	JOHN JONES, b. November 24, 1793, Floyd County, Kentucky; d. November 24, 1866, Jones Creek, Morgan County, Kentucky.
8.	vi.	RICHARD JONES, b. June 08, 1795, Kentucky; d. Unknown, Unknown.
9.	vii.	BARBARY JONES, b. April 19, 1797, Morgan County, Kentucky; d. 1861, Morgan County, Kentucky.
10.	viii.	CYNTHIA "SMITHIANE" OR "SMITHY" JONES, b. June 13, 1799, Kentucky; d. Abt. 1850, Morgan County, Kentucky.
11.	ix.	JAMES JONES, b. October 24, 1801, Kentucky; d. Unknown, Unknown.
12.	x.	AMBROSE JONES, b. December 31, 1803, Kentucky; d. Bef. September 05, 1846, Morgan County, Kentucky.

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