Bridger Jones Sr. (1753 - 1819)

Born 11 Aug 1753 in Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Virginia

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Died 7 Sep 1819 at age 66 in Statesboro, Bulloch, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Cornet Bridger Jones Sr. served with Wilmington District Brigade, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Bridger was born in 1753. He died in 1819. ^[1]

During the American Revolutionary War, he served as a seaman in the Georgia navy and later as a cornet in the militia of North Carolina.

In 1779 part of NC,Craven-Co went into the formation of NC,Jones Co.

In 1806 he moved his family to to Bulloch Co, GA where he served as a Justice of the Bulloch County Court from 1808 to 1813.

On 01 May 1819 he made a lengthy Last Will. The will was recorded in Bulloch County, Georgia. Of note he leaves to his “beloved son Berry (there is no Barry Noble Jones listed in the will) Jones a plantation”. His wife Rachel is mentioned with other children. ^[2]

In 1819 he was buried at Lower Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Statesboro, Bulloch Co, GA.

Bridger Jones BIRTH 1759 DEATH 1819 (aged 59–60) BURIAL Lower Lotts Creek Church Cemetery Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, USA MEMORIAL ID 38429125

AKA John Bridger Jones &/Or Bridger John Jones

Family Members Spouse Rachel Barry Jones 1762–1830 (m. 1816)

Children

Rachel Jones Wise 1791–1871

Bazel Butler Jones 1800–1857

Ann Jones Grimes 1807–1890

Inscription: IN MEMORY OF BRIDGER JONES (1759-1819), SON OF JAMES JONES AND MARY BRIDGER, A DAUGHTER OF ROBERT BRIDGER WHO WAS A GRANDSON OF COLONEL JOSEPH BRIDGER (1628-1686, COUNCILOR OF STATE IN VIRGINIA TO KING CHARLES II OF ENGLAND. JONES SERVED IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS A SEAMAN IN THE GEORGIA NAVY AND LATER AS A CORNET IN THE MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HIS FATHER HAD LOVED HIS WIFE WAS RACHEL BARRY (1762-1830), DAUGHTER OF JONES BARRY AND MARY NOBLE, A DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL NOBLE OF CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. BRIDGER AND RACHEL CAME HERE IN 1806. HE WAS A JUSTICE OF THE BULLOCH COUNTY COURT 1808-1813. THEIR CHILDREN WERE BERRY, MARY, RACHEL, BRIDGER, JR., JOHN THOMAS BRIANT, JOSIAH, BAZZEL, BUCKNER, AND ANN. AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH BERRY DEEDED TO THIS CHURCH SIX ACRES INCLUDING THIS GRAVEYARD WHERE FAMILY MEMBERS ARE BURIED.

ERECTED BY DESCENDANTS IN 1996

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 9 August 2023), memorial page for Bridger Jones (1759–Sep 1819), Find A Grave: Memorial #38429125, citing Lower Lotts Creek Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia, USA; maintained by JoAnn HAGANS Harris (contributor 46479896), two headstone photos.
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93G-6737?i=27&wc=9SYB-K6D%3A267649901%2C267760101&cc=1999178

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 11 Aug 2022), "Record of Bridger Jones", Ancestor # A061952.
• 1790 Census#1 of NC,Jones-Co for Brigger JONES with wife & 3 children & 7 slaves.
• 1800/01/01 GA,Bulloch-Co Land Grant ... "Georgia to Aaron Everitt, County Surveyor of said county, you are hereby authorized and required admeasure and lay out, or cause to be admeasured and laid out, unto Bridger JONES. a tract of land, which shall contain five hundred and fifty acres including the improvement where Jesse Mixon now lives in the county of Bullock on headrights. Taking special care that the same has not heretofore been laid out to any other person or persons and you are also hereby directed and required to record a plat of the same in your office and transmit a copy thereof together with this warrant to the Surveyor General, within the term of two years from this date. Given under our hands as Justices of the said court, this 1st of January 1800; (attest), Charles McCall, W. H. Redding, C. L. C., Samuel Peacock, Josiah Jones, William Parker.
• 1800 Census of NC,Jones-Co for Bridger JONES with wife & 7 children.
• Last Will dated=01 May 1819 in Tillman's District, Bulloch Co, GA & proved=01 Nov 1819 ... "Personally appeared before the Court of Ordinary of said county. John WISE, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw Bridger JONES sign and seal the within instrument of writing as his last Will and testament and that he saw Bazel JONES sign the same together with himself as witnesses thereto. Sworn to in Open Court this 1st day of November 1819; signatures), David Kennedy, Joshua Everett , John Wise, Thomas Rawls, (Recorded=12 Nov 1819 by Ely Kennedy, C.C.O.)
• Bridger JONES Family Bible was passed to daughter Rachel (JONES) WISE (1791-1871), to her son John Bridger WISE (1820-1863), to his daughter Saphronia (WISE) MOCK & to her niece Lula A. (WISE) BATTLES.
• 1950/08/31 U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications 1889-1970 for Bridger JONES b=11 Aug 1753 NC (#5212 Militia in Wilmington District, North Carolina Province, Colonial America) d=01 May 1819 Bulloch-Co, GA.

Acknowledgments

Jones-18276 was created on Jun 26, 2013 through the import of Hoffman Family Tree.ged by Cheri Hoffman.