 [1743] - 1823
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| Name |
John JONES |
| Born |
[1743] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
20 Mar 1775 |
Hallowell, Lincoln, ME  |
| Residence |
17 Jul 1777 |
Hallowell, Lincoln, ME |
| Residence |
1782 |
Castine, Hancock, ME |
| Residence |
3 Jul 1783 |
Castine, Hancock, ME |
| Residence |
10 Jun 1784 |
Passamaquoddy, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB |
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| Residence |
1800 |
Augusta, Kennebec, ME |
- John Jones
in the 1800 United States Federal Census
Name: John Jones
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Augusta, Kennebec, Maine
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 7
Year: 1800; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 7; Page: 287; Image: 170; Family History Library Film: 218677
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| Residence |
1810 |
Augusta, Kennebec, ME |
- John Jones
in the 1810 United States Federal Census
Name: John Jones
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Augusta, Kennebec, Maine
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 3
Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 4
Number of Household Members: 6
Year: 1810; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 662; Image: 00654; Family History Library Film: 0218682
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| Residence |
1820 |
Augusta, Kennebec, ME |
- John Jones II
in the 1820 United States Federal Census
Name: John Jones
[John Jones II]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Augusta, Kennebec, Maine
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 4
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 7
1820 U S Census; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Page: 565; NARA Roll: M33_35; Image: 107
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| Died |
16 Aug 1823 |
- The History of Augusta, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
by James W North
1870 Augusta
p 110
[John Jones biography]
...died Augusta 16 August 1823
ae 80
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| Person ID |
I49037 |
4 February 2018 |
| Last Modified |
7 Nov 2019 |
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| Documents |
 | St Andrews Rural 1805
A look at the families living on the Penobscot Association Grant in the rural part of St Andrews, New Brunswick, around 1805. |
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| Notes |
- Early NB Probate: Nil
Old Soldiers: Nil
Hallowell 1777: Nil
Soldiers Sailords Patriots Revolutionary Maine: John Jones r Hallowell named a Tory. Town Records p 13
Pownalborough 1766: Nil
ECW: John Jones Maine St Andrews
- Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
Name JONES, JOHN
Year 1784
County Charlotte
Microfilm F1024
See petition of BROWN, TITUS
All names on this petition : 3
. ARNOLD, AMOS
. BROWN, TITUS
. JONES, JOHN
Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
Name JONES, JOHN
Year 1806
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4171
See petition of GERRISH, MOSES
All names on this petition : 4
. CUNARD, THOMAS
. GERRISH, MOSES
. JONES, JOHN
. ROSS, THOMAS
Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
Name JONES, JOHN
Year 1806
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4171
See petition of MCMASTER, DANIEL
All names on this petition : 4
. CHAFFEY, JAMES
. GERRISH, MOSES
. JONES, JOHN
. MCMASTER, DANIEL
Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
Name JONES, JOHN
Year 1807
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4171
See petition of GERRISH, MOSES
All names on this petition : 7
. GERRISH, MOSES
. JONES, JOHN
. MCDONALD, DONALD
. MCMASTER, JAMES
. MCMASTER, PATRICK
. OXNARD, THOMAS
. ROSS, THOMAS
- John Jones Lot Waweig
This Grant isn't in the database, but the Crown Grant Map indicates that John Jones was granted 500 acres on Grant 40 8 February 1784.
Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)
Name CAMPBELL, Colin
Volume NS-1
Page 156
Grant number 40
Place Passamaquoddy
County Sunbury
Date 1785-05-21
Accompanying plan Yes
Acres 166
Microfilm F16300
Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/08/12
Other names on this grant (5):
GALLOP, William 166 acres
PAGAN, Robert 11 acres
PAGAN, Thomas 11 acres
PAGAN, William 11 acres
WYER, Thomas * 166 acres
Volume A Page 141
[143/485]
No 26
John Jones merchant Grand Manan
Patrick, John, Daniel McMaster merchants Halifax
100 pounds
Beginning at a stake and stones near the entrance of the Waweig Basin (an arm of the Scoodick River) on the east side of said entrance being the upper bound of Farm Lot 76
thence to run north 76 degrees east 66 chains of 4 rods each
thence north fourteen degrees west 102 chains
thence south 62 degreees west 100 chains or until it comes to a road
thence south 18 degrees east 73 chains by said road
thence south 76 degrees west or till it comes to a brook emptying into Waweg basin
thence by the waters of said brook unto the shore of said basin to the bounds first mentioned
500 acres
30 June 1786
John Jones
Wit: William Gallop, H B Brown
Volume A Page 419
[422/485]
No 242
Daniel McMaster of the firm of Patrick, John, and Daniel McMaster merchants Halifax
James Thompson & John Caldwell yeomen St David
130 pounds
above described lot
1 January 1789
Daniel McMaster
Wit: H B Brown
Volume B Page 159
[162/753]
No 465
John Thomas Caldwell St Andrews
Silas Cummings blacksmith St Andrews
176 pounds
1 half share
above described lot
19 January 1792
John T Caldwell
Wit: Daniel McMaster
Volume D Page 31
[34/473]
No 28
James Thompson gentleman St Stephen
James Connick & Samuel Connick [also Connack] yeomen St David
250 pounds
500 acres above described lot
23 June 1803
James Thopmson
Hannah Thompson
Wit: H B Brown
Volume Q Page 7
Thomas Connick to James Strang
40 acres of John Jones lot adjoining Lot 76.
6 April 1837
Volume Q Page 502
Thomas Connick to James Strang
more John Jones lot
4 June 1838
Volume Q Page 551
Thomas Connick to James Strang
more John Jones lot and grist mill
7 July 1838
- See
https://archive.org/details/frontiermissio00bart
p 325 John Jones r Kennebec
The frontier missionary : a memoir of the life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey, A.M., missionary at Pownalborough, Maine; Cornwallis and Annapolis, N. S.; with illustrations, notes, and an appendix
by Bartlet, William S. (William Stoodley), 1809-1883; Protestant Episcopal Historical Society
Publication date 1853
- https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/333107?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1771-1813
Authors: Hallowell (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1771-1813
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
10934
7834657
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834657?cat=333107
[14/183]
p 13
At a meeting of the freeholders and other Inhabitants of this town at Fort Weston March the 20 AD 1775
...
Constable Mr John Jones. Treasurer James Howard Esq
Reconsidered the Constable vote purged the meeting and made choice of Mr John Jones again.
[17/]
p 19
At a meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the town of Hallowell Qualified to Vote in town affairs Duly Warned and Regularly Convened at Fort Western in said town on thursday the seventeenth day of July AD 1777
Agreeable to an Act of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts Bay Entitled an act for the preservation of this and the other United American States from the Danger to which they are Exposed by the Internal Enemies thereof" The town made Choice by Ballot of Leut John Shaw to procure and lay Before the Court Discried in Said Act Evidence against John Jones of said Hallowell Whose name was Exhibited to the town and Who they Supose to be of a Disposition Inimical to the Liberties and priviledges of the said States
...
3ly Voted not to Reconsider that Vote pased the 17th of July 1777 Relating to John Jones being Voted Inimical to the priviledges and Liberties of the united States
4ly Voted sd John Jones Inimical again to the liberties and priviledges of sd States
- https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS108/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=48486
Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 (RS108)
Name OXNARD, THOMAS
Year 1807
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4171
See petition of GERRISH, MOSES
6 other Petitioner(s) were on this Petition
GERRISH, MOSES
JONES, JOHN
MCDONALD, DONALD
MCMASTER, JAMES
MCMASTER, PATRICK
ROSS, THOMAS
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/78954?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Land petitions, 1783-1857
Authors: New Brunswick. Crown Land Office
1806 Arnold, Oliver - 1808 Connors, Nathaniel
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1288467
8191404
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008191404?cat=78954
[566/846]
...The Memorial and Petition of MOses Gerrish and Donald McDonald
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re: 1783 license of occupation given by the Government of Nova Scotia to Thomas Oxnard, Thomas Ross, John Jones and Moses Gerrish of the Island of Grand Manan, and the adjacent Island...on condition of these setting thereon themselves and procuring other Settlers to the amount of Fifty families....May 1784 Thomas Ross, John Jones and Moses Gerrish too possession...
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25 August 1807
- https://archive.org/details/historyaugustaf00ballgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=lee
The history of Augusta; first settlements and early days as a town, including the diary of Mrs. Martha Moore Ballard, 1785 to 1812
by Nash, Charles Elventon; Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812
Publication date 1904
p73
His [John Jones] wife was Ruth Lee of Concord, Mass, a sister of Judge Lee of Wiscasset, and of John Lee, an absentee tory.
p73
John Jones's name is preserved in the records of the numerous surveys which he made, and will survive so long as title deeds to lands on the Kennebec shall pass from seller to buyer; but the man is more widely remembered through his lealty and escapades and retaliations as a tory during the war of the Revolution. The political ferment (that preceded the bloody outbreak) was active throughout the country, and the whigs and tories were rallying in bitterness to their respective party alignments, at the time when the Plymouth company with new hopefulness was vigorously engaged in multiplying and enlarging its settlements. Early in the conflict John Jones stood boldly with the tories, like Benjamin Hallowell, Sylvester Gardiner, and most of the other proprietors, looking haughtily upon the revolting patriots as s dreadful brotherhood, "in whom all tarbolent vices were let loose;" he declared for the king and parliament, and in no weak or halting manner, and when he came to the Kennebec he did not leave any of his convictions and prejudices behind.
but April 14th, 1777, it was "Voted that Lieutenant John Shaw be the man to inspect the tories and make information thereof." John Jones was still the blatant and potential leader of the obnoxious faction and the person against whom the vote was aimed. The action of the town irritated him, and provoked him to new insolences and mischievous activity. A special town meeting assembled July 17, 1777, when the voters took action as follows:
"Agreeable to an Act of the General Court of the State of Massachasetts Bay, entitled "An Act for the preservation of this and the other United American States from the danger to which they are exposed from the internal enemies thereof," the town made choice by ballot of Lieut John Shaw to procure and lay before the court described In said Act evidence against John Jones of said Hallowell, whose name was exhibited to the town, and who they suppose to be of a disposition Inimical to the liberties and privileges of the said town."
John Shaw as above directed Immediately laid the case of Jones before the Court of Sessions of the Peace at Pownalborongh; thereupon the accused, courageously relying upon the forbearance of a majority of his townsmen, petitioned the selectmen to call a town meeting to reconsider the vote against him; fifteen others "on his behalf" joined in the petition, which shows that the tories were relatively numerous In the town. The selectmen accordingly issued their warrant for a meeting October 25th, "to see if the town will reconsider the vote of July 17th relating to John Jones being voted inimical to the liberties and privileges of the United States" also "to see if the town will declare him again inimical, or vote to clear him of the charge, and direct Lieut Shaw to enter a nolle prosequi in his case." But unhappily for Jones the patriotic spirit of the town was too intense to release its indictment against him; "Voted not to reconsider that vote passed the 17th of July 1777, relating to John Jones being Inimical to the privileges and liberties of the United States; Voted, said Jones Inimical again to the liberties and privileges of said States." This settled the matter for Jones, who soon after fled, first going to James Winslow, a sympathising half-quaker friend of his who resided on the east side of the river below the town, near the upper edge of the present town of Randolph, where he remained over night, and was taken down the river the next morning, and thus escaped for a time.
On the 4th of November he appeared before the Court at Pownalborongh, and was ordered to "recognize in the sum of ?100 to answer the accusation of the town of Hallowell against him for being Inimically disposed toward this and the other United States of America." The following named persons were recognized as witnesses In the case In the sum of ?5 each: Samuel Bullen, George Brown, John Robbins, L Costigan, Oliver Wood, John Carlow, Ezekiel Chase. When the time arrived for convening the Court to try Jones, Justice James Howard, who had started on his Journey from Fort Western to Pownalborongh, "encountered a terrible fall upon the Ice (December 1777), which prevented his attendance," and no other Justice of the quorum being at hand to supply his place the Court adjourned without day; and as the "transportation act," under which the prosecution was Instituted, expired on the first of the next month (January 1, 1778), nothing farther was done with Jones under the town meeting proceeding.
John Jones was also the respondent in another case growing out of his toryism. At the session of the court held at Pownalborough in the fall of 1777, he was indicted for an attempt "to hurt and destroy the credit of the public bills of the United States of America and the State, by speaking in the hearing of divers subjects of the State, of and concerning said bills, as follows: "Damn the trash. I had rather have half the sum in silver. Curse the continental bills. I wish they were in hell. there's no value in it." The record, after the arraignment and plea, then proceeds: "Timothy Langdon, attorney for the government, being in court, says he will not farther prosecute the case, and it was nolle prossed. This result was on account of a defect in the indictment.
Thus ended in court the cases against John Jones for disloyalty; they were dropped without trials, perhaps in a spirit of forbearance toward the accused, who, without his obtrusive toryism, would have been a worthy and esteemed citizen, but probably because the prosecution apprehended that a determined defence by the bold and sprightly respondent, and the mixed condition of public sentiment, would defeat conviction before the jury. James Howard, the first settler and faithful factotum of the province government at ancient Hallowell, was a leading Justice of the court; Jones was his fellow-townsman; both were affiliated with the English Episcopal Church, and had worshipped together at services conducted by the surpliced frontier missionary, Jacob Bailey, within the walls of Fort Western. Under the circumstances it is not strange that Judge Howard, although a whig, should shrink from sitting in Judgment on his tory neighbor and brother churchman, whose toryism differed not much from that of some others of his town, only it was more brazenly demonstrative and noisy and exasperating.
After running successfully the gauntlet of prosecution In the local court, slipping unpunished through the meshes of the law in the bailiwick where his few friends and claqueurs could make themselves felt in his Interest, Jones presently and unexpectedly found himself in the hands of a power that took little heed of social or neighborly amenities. If the law was unable to repress him in Lincoln county because of surrounding influences and hesitating magistrates, there was a tribunal, possessing full star-chamber attributes, that could." He was seized by order of the revolutionary government and lodged in Jail at Boston; there he remained for some time In humiliating and irksome confinement. It being the policy of the government to permit all politically proscribed persons to remove beyond the limits of the United States, Jones was tacitly allowed that privilege, and under the guise of an escape, quite agreeable to the authorities, he fled to Canada, where, instead of retrieving his character and name, he took the field in the service of the British, and engaged in a mild form of guerilla warfare, on two occasions penetrating to the Kennebec, and once retaliating severely though bioodlessly upon one of his old political foes. Colonel Charles Cushlng of Pownalborough, as related by himself in a letter to his friend and fellow-tory, the Rev Jacob Bailey.
- https://archive.org/details/historyaugustaf00ballgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=lee
The history of Augusta; first settlements and early days as a town, including the diary of Mrs. Martha Moore Ballard, 1785 to 1812
by Nash, Charles Elventon; Ballard, Martha, 1735-1812
Publication date 1904
p 253
Mrs Ballard's Diary
13 October 1786
Dr Lee here.
...
[Doctor John Lee m Sally Howard d Lieut Samuel Howard m Margaret Lithgow. John Lee was a brother of Silas Lee, lawyer and of the wife of John Jones.
p 265
[Silas Lee, lawyer, of Wiscasset. No lawyer then resided in Hallowell. Silas Lee was a brother of John Jones's wife, and hence Lee's connection with the Jones's mill property, which seems never to have been in the ownership of the Ballards.
p 571
Marriage Intentions
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John Lee of Penobscot and Sarah Howard of Hallowell, int m 16 March 1784
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