Abraham Wood Jones (1662 - bef. 1689)

Born 2 Jun 1662 in Bristol Parish, Charles City County, Colony of Virginia, America

Descendants

Died before 5 Dec 1689 before age 27 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia, America

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Biography

Abraham Wood Jones, son of Peter and Margaret Jones,^[1] is one of four "grandsons in law" named in the will of Abraham Wood who died in 1682.^[2]

He had at least two children by Martha Batte, who was remarried by 1687.^[3]

In his mother's will dated August 12, 1718, she named her grandson Peter Jones, son of son Abraham Jones decd.^[4][5]

Vitals

born

• 1650^{[citation needed]}
• June 2, 1662^{[citation needed][6]}
• 1662/1663, Henrico, Virginia

Note: See Space:Virginia Peter Joneses#Locations for details. His the birth location in the datafield was "Charles City, Henrico County", but it wasn't. More research is needed, but I believe the family's holdings covered both Henrico County and Charles City County at this time. Both counties were served by Bristol Parish, which was formed in 1643, and later generations are found in the Bristol Parish Register (1720-1789).

married

• 1692^{[citation needed]}

died

• before April 1687 (his widow, Martha, married John Banister before April 1687)
• before 3 December 1689 (court documentation of that date^[7])
• 5 December 1689^{[citation needed][6]}
• before 1694^{[citation needed]}
• before August 12, 1718 (named as deceased in his mother's will of that date)

Abraham Jones is one of four known children of Peter Jones and his wife Margaret. He is named in the 1682 will of Abraham Wood as one of four Jones "grandchildren in law" (Abraham, Richard, Peter, and William).^[8]

His mother names Peter, son of son Abraham Jones deceased, in her 1718 will (written 12 August 1718).^[9]

Research Notes

Estimated Birth: Before 1682 is known. 1680 is not unreasonable based on his siblings' birth years. "2 Jun 1662" (in the datafield as of 13 April 2023) is unsourced. Considering his marriage to Martha Batte before 1685 (when their son Peter was born) and death before 1687, when Martha remarried, he had to have been born earlier. Martha's profile has her birthe year as 1667, so 16662 is not unreasonable (albeit unsourced) and still has him under 21 at the time of Abraham Wood's will.

I believe the four sons named as "grandchildren in law" by Abraham Wood in his 1682 will were "infant" children^[10] of Peter and Margaret and "in law" was because he was their guardian. Unsourced profiles had the birth years of siblings Richard and Abraham as 1672 and 1680, respectively. Their father Peter is said to have been born about 1634, so that fits. A 1655 marriage is attributed to Peter and Margaret, but that record may be for another couple. Peter is known to have died before Abraham wrote his will, some say the year before, some say earlier, but all of his children would have been born before 1682.^[8]

Research Notes

This profile was attached as son of a duplicate for Peter Jones's wife Margaret. It had born 1660, died 1661. It is possible they had a child who died young named Wood, but it's more likely this profile was intended to be for their son Abraham Wood Jones (most all of the profiles created in this duplicate trail for children had only a couple of years between birth and death - perhaps a quirk of the gedcom source).

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave has birth as June 2, 1662, but no source given for the information
2. ↑ See Abraham Wood's profile: Wood-1167#Will.
3. ↑ See Martha Batte's profile.
4. ↑ Transcripts of both wills posted by Kathryn Gearhart. Margaret's will is also found in Fothergill's Jones Genealogies, beginning on page 12 (accessed 6 May 2020).
5. ↑ Find a Grave has death as Dec 5, 1689, but no source given for the information.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #77033537 for Abraham Wood Jones (no pictures; no cemetery; no sources. accessed May 9, 2015)
7. ↑ from Ninth Generation, Ancestors of Joe Bruce Evans, by Bruce Evans (accessed Sept. 17, 2016):
   "Abraham died before 3 December 1689 when the Charles City County court granted Thomas Wynne a judgement against the estate of Abraham Jones, deceased."
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} See their profiles and also Space:Virginia Peter Joneses.
9. ↑ Allied Families: Early Virginia Jones Families by Kathryn Gearhart.
10. ↑ In colonial Virginia, "infant" referred to a child not yet of age.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 08 January 2018, 15:45), entry for Abraham Wood Jones (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LTNF-BJP); contributed by various users.
• Ancestry Family Trees (Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members): 1, 2, 3, 4

See also:

• "Jones of Petersburg," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Apr., 1911), pp. 287-292 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; DOI: 10.2307/1919429). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919429
• Augusta B. Fothergill. Peter Jones and Richard Jones Genealogies (Old Dominion Press. Richmond, Virginia. 1924). Online at HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005770497 (accessed 1 May 2020).

Acknowledgements

• The WikiTree profile Jones-8758 was created through the import of Cash Family Tree.ged on Oct 8, 2011 by Justin Cash.
• The WikiTree profile Jones-8763 was created through the import of Cash Family Tree.ged on Oct 8, 2011 by Justin Cash.
• The WikiTree profile Jones-8770 (birth 1650) was created through the import of Cash Family Tree.ged on Oct 8, 2011 by Justin Cash.
• The WikiTree profile Jones-24165 (m 1692; died before 1694) was created by James VanDerMark through the import of VanDerMarkJamesDavid.ged on Apr 27, 2014.
• Elaine Jeffries created WikiTree profile Jones-16780 through the import of Turley_McCormick _ Davis_Barke.ged on Apr 6, 2013.

See also:

• Augusta B. Fothergill. Peter Jones and Richard Jones Genealogies (Old Dominion Press. Richmond, Virginia. 1924). Online at HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005770497 (accessed 1 May 2020).