Cornelius (Cornelies) was the 1st of 5 children born of John Jones and his wife Abigail Holbrook: Cornelius's siblings were: Abigail (b. 1731); David (b. 1734); Hannah (b. 1736); and Bridget (b. 1741).
"Cornelius Jones (Harvard, 1752)
Cornelius Jones, a frontier preacher, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1727, a son of John and Abigail (Holbrook) Jones. They early moved to Bellingham, from which Cornelius entered college, where he waited on table and served as a Scholar of the House. After taking his first degree he began preaching and received a call to Duxbury, but he declined it and resumed residence at the College in June, 1753. For his M.A. he prepared the negative of "An Praescientia divina, Liberatatem Creaturae tollat?"; but he left Cambridge before Commencement, and did not receive the degree until 1771.
On February 24, 1756, Jones was ordained over the newly-gathered church at Number Three, later Sandisfield. Jonathan Edwards moderated the ordaining council and preached the sermon. The church had only fourteen members, but the settlers promptly built a meetinghouse. The Parson married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Sanford, one of his parishioners. For reasons now unknown, he was dismissed in October, 1761.
When in 1762 the Province sold at auction Township Number Ten, now Rowe, Jones bought 10,000 acres and moved his rapidly growing family to his new property. Near the east mouth of the present Hoosac Tunnel he built a house of split timbers which for several years was practically the only dwelling in his projected town of Myrifield. Gradually others moved in, but his plantation remained so thinly settled that the nearest house to his was six or seven miles away. He organized a church consisting at first of only the members of his own family. When there were enough settlers, he gave the land on which a meetinghouse was built.
When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Myrifield, three days after the battle, Jones marched to Cambridge. He served only seventeen days, however, for his neighbors were beginning to leave his settlement, dreading the Indians. While waiting for the enemy he built "a model of a military engine in miniature" which he descibed as "a floating-battery" and asked the General Court to examine. It was not interested, possibly because it thought that a person living in the mountains in the western part of the Province would not be a good judge of marine engineering.
In August, 1777, Jones served as a private in the Bennington campaign, and in September he marched with the local militia to join the Western Army, driving a herd of cattle with them. He served under Captain Seth Howard at Saratoga, and his eldest son, Jacob, was killed by the Indians. Interested by what he had seen of the western lands, he sold his remaining 4000 acres in Rowe to William Parkhurst & Co. of Brookfield for 9000 pounds in current money in February, 1779. Moving to Skenesborough he settled in what is now the northeast part of Whitehall, New York, and in the next few years bought a large acreage of confiscated Tory lands in that town and Salem. Here, as at Rowe, he built a church and labored as a champion of religion and civilization on a wild frontier. In 1791 he joined in the founding of Washington Academy. For his eloquence in preaching and in the law courts, which he frequented, he won the sobriquet of "Silver Tongue." 4 Much of his energy went into a vain effort to get the government to redeem the great bundle of now-worthless paper money to which he had clung out of loyalty to the revolutionary cause. When he died, at Whitehall, on April 3, 1803, he left the Continental money to one of his sons and directed that his library of books on Divinity be kept in a central place for his horde of descendants. He had nine children by his first wife and six by his second, Alice, who survived him: (1) Sarah, m. ___ Johnson. (2) Abigail, m. Squire Bartholomew. (3) Hannah. (4) Jacob b. 1777. (5) Daniel, living in 1803. (6) Reuben. (7) John, living in 1803. (8) Ezra, living in 1803. (9) Marah. (10) Elizabeth. (11) Lucy. (12) Alice. (13) Sophia. (14) Oliver. (15) Cornelius. They were soon scattered, his graveyard was plowed and his stone broken up, but the settlement long remembered his energy, piety, and goodness."
"WILLS. Salem, N.Y. Surrogate -
Wills, Letters, Testamentary II pages 29-32 - will Cornelius Jones, town of White Hall, Co. of Washington, N.Y. - my wife Allice Jones have her Dower pd her - to her as long as my widow use & benefit of part of the house - the Dower of Allice my wife be made up of $200 til the youngest he'r is age of seven years - my 4 daus born of Allice my wife to wit Elizabeth, Lucy, Allice and Sophia Jones #211.25 each pd them as they are age 18 yrs - to James, Hannah, Sally and Minor Jerusha Jones Ch of my son Oliver #292.25 pd by Exutors for there use & benefit - to my son John Jones $196.20 - to my dau Abigail Bartholomew $73. - to my dau Hannah Jones $116 - to Legatees of this will $102, being sum bequeathed in my former will to my dau Mary now dec'd - to my son Oliver Jones wearing apparel & ____ - to my dau Johnson household stuff of my first wife dec'd, to above 3 daus of her body - house furniture gotten since my marriage of my second wife, ____ does not take as her dower, to my 4 daus of her body - to my son Ezra Jones my latin, greek, ____ & school books - my books on Divinity for the of all my heirs - to my son Daniel Jones $496.20 wh age 21 yrs - to my youngest son Cornelius $496.20 wh 21 yrs age - to my son Reuben Jones my land, to wit the farm I now live on of 300 acres - ordain my wife Allice Exix & my sons Oliver & Reubin Jones Exrs this 28 Feb 1893. Cornelius Jones
Wits Alexander Crookshank, Nathaniel Hall, R. Hinman Martin.
Codicil made at time mentioned above - Legatees to Ch of my son Oliver Jones in last will added to bequest 8 March 1803. Cornelius Jones
Witness Elisha Bentley - William Bartholomew - Amos Austin
Pvd 5 Oct 1803 will of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 28 Feb 1803 and codicil of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 8 March 1803; Seal 6 Oct ___."
References:
(1) "Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the Year 1850." by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1920, pages 106-108
(2) "Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War of Independence." CD-ROM, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005, pages 5821-5823
(3) mss. "Abstract of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835." The Eardeley Genealogy Collection: New York State Abstracts of Wills, Brooklyn Historical Society
(4) "Cemetery Records Town of Whitehall Washington County New York" by Charles B. Moore, Revised August 1998, page 4
∼Father: John Jones
Birth: 27 September 1699 in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1786 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Mother: Abigail Holbrook
Birth: 19 August 1697 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1749 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, British Colony
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Wife #1: Sarah Brown
Birth: 1735 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States
Marriage: 1757 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, British Colony
Children:
Sarah Jones 1759–
Daniel Jones 1761–1777
Jacob Jones 1762–
Abigail Jones 1766–1850
Oliver Jones 1766–1818
Mary Jones 1768–
Hannah Jones 1770–
Ezra Jones 1777–1825
John Jones 1777–1813
Sarah's Parents:
Father: Daniel Brown
Birth: 15 Jan 1699 in Reading, Ma
Death: 11 Oct 1783 in Rutland, Vt
Mother: Mehitable Sanford
Birth: ???
Death: ???
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Wife #2: Alice
Born: ???
Died: Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Marriage: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Children:
Alice Jones
Daniel Jones 1788-
Elizabeth Jones
Ezra Jones
Lucy Jones
Sophia Jones
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"Cornelius Jones (Harvard, 1752)
Cornelius Jones, a frontier preacher, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1727, a son of John and Abigail (Holbrook) Jones. They early moved to Bellingham, from which Cornelius entered college, where he waited on table and served as a Scholar of the House. After taking his first degree he began preaching and received a call to Duxbury, but he declined it and resumed residence at the College in June, 1753. For his M.A. he prepared the negative of "An Praescientia divina, Liberatatem Creaturae tollat?"; but he left Cambridge before Commencement, and did not receive the degree until 1771.
On February 24, 1756, Jones was ordained over the newly-gathered church at Number Three, later Sandisfield. Jonathan Edwards moderated the ordaining council and preached the sermon. The church had only fourteen members, but the settlers promptly built a meetinghouse. The Parson married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Sanford, one of his parishioners. For reasons now unknown, he was dismissed in October, 1761.
When in 1762 the Province sold at auction Township Number Ten, now Rowe, Jones bought 10,000 acres and moved his rapidly growing family to his new property. Near the east mouth of the present Hoosac Tunnel he built a house of split timbers which for several years was practically the only dwelling in his projected town of Myrifield. Gradually others moved in, but his plantation remained so thinly settled that the nearest house to his was six or seven miles away. He organized a church consisting at first of only the members of his own family. When there were enough settlers, he gave the land on which a meetinghouse was built.
When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Myrifield, three days after the battle, Jones marched to Cambridge. He served only seventeen days, however, for his neighbors were beginning to leave his settlement, dreading the Indians. While waiting for the enemy he built "a model of a military engine in miniature" which he descibed as "a floating-battery" and asked the General Court to examine. It was not interested, possibly because it thought that a person living in the mountains in the western part of the Province would not be a good judge of marine engineering.
In August, 1777, Jones served as a private in the Bennington campaign, and in September he marched with the local militia to join the Western Army, driving a herd of cattle with them. He served under Captain Seth Howard at Saratoga, and his eldest son, Jacob, was killed by the Indians. Interested by what he had seen of the western lands, he sold his remaining 4000 acres in Rowe to William Parkhurst & Co. of Brookfield for 9000 pounds in current money in February, 1779. Moving to Skenesborough he settled in what is now the northeast part of Whitehall, New York, and in the next few years bought a large acreage of confiscated Tory lands in that town and Salem. Here, as at Rowe, he built a church and labored as a champion of religion and civilization on a wild frontier. In 1791 he joined in the founding of Washington Academy. For his eloquence in preaching and in the law courts, which he frequented, he won the sobriquet of "Silver Tongue." 4 Much of his energy went into a vain effort to get the government to redeem the great bundle of now-worthless paper money to which he had clung out of loyalty to the revolutionary cause. When he died, at Whitehall, on April 3, 1803, he left the Continental money to one of his sons and directed that his library of books on Divinity be kept in a central place for his horde of descendants. He had nine children by his first wife and six by his second, Alice, who survived him: (1) Sarah, m. ___ Johnson. (2) Abigail, m. Squire Bartholomew. (3) Hannah. (4) Jacob b. 1777. (5) Daniel, living in 1803. (6) Reuben. (7) John, living in 1803. (8) Ezra, living in 1803. (9) Marah. (10) Elizabeth. (11) Lucy. (12) Alice. (13) Sophia. (14) Oliver. (15) Cornelius. They were soon scattered, his graveyard was plowed and his stone broken up, but the settlement long remembered his energy, piety, and goodness."
"WILLS. Salem, N.Y. Surrogate -
Wills, Letters, Testamentary II pages 29-32 - will Cornelius Jones, town of White Hall, Co. of Washington, N.Y. - my wife Allice Jones have her Dower pd her - to her as long as my widow use & benefit of part of the house - the Dower of Allice my wife be made up of $200 til the youngest he'r is age of seven years - my 4 daus born of Allice my wife to wit Elizabeth, Lucy, Allice and Sophia Jones #211.25 each pd them as they are age 18 yrs - to James, Hannah, Sally and Minor Jerusha Jones Ch of my son Oliver #292.25 pd by Exutors for there use & benefit - to my son John Jones $196.20 - to my dau Abigail Bartholomew $73. - to my dau Hannah Jones $116 - to Legatees of this will $102, being sum bequeathed in my former will to my dau Mary now dec'd - to my son Oliver Jones wearing apparel & ____ - to my dau Johnson household stuff of my first wife dec'd, to above 3 daus of her body - house furniture gotten since my marriage of my second wife, ____ does not take as her dower, to my 4 daus of her body - to my son Ezra Jones my latin, greek, ____ & school books - my books on Divinity for the of all my heirs - to my son Daniel Jones $496.20 wh age 21 yrs - to my youngest son Cornelius $496.20 wh 21 yrs age - to my son Reuben Jones my land, to wit the farm I now live on of 300 acres - ordain my wife Allice Exix & my sons Oliver & Reubin Jones Exrs this 28 Feb 1893. Cornelius Jones
Wits Alexander Crookshank, Nathaniel Hall, R. Hinman Martin.
Codicil made at time mentioned above - Legatees to Ch of my son Oliver Jones in last will added to bequest 8 March 1803. Cornelius Jones
Witness Elisha Bentley - William Bartholomew - Amos Austin
Pvd 5 Oct 1803 will of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 28 Feb 1803 and codicil of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 8 March 1803; Seal 6 Oct ___."
References:
(1) "Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the Year 1850." by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1920, pages 106-108
(2) "Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War of Independence." CD-ROM, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005, pages 5821-5823
(3) mss. "Abstract of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835." The Eardeley Genealogy Collection: New York State Abstracts of Wills, Brooklyn Historical Society
(4) "Cemetery Records Town of Whitehall Washington County New York" by Charles B. Moore, Revised August 1998, page 4
∼Father: John Jones
Birth: 27 September 1699 in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1786 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Mother: Abigail Holbrook
Birth: 19 August 1697 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1749 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, British Colony
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Wife #1: Sarah Brown
Birth: 1735 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States
Marriage: 1757 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, British Colony
Children:
Sarah Jones 1759–
Daniel Jones 1761–1777
Jacob Jones 1762–
Abigail Jones 1766–1850
Oliver Jones 1766–1818
Mary Jones 1768–
Hannah Jones 1770–
Ezra Jones 1777–1825
John Jones 1777–1813
Sarah's Parents:
Father: Daniel Brown
Birth: 15 Jan 1699 in Reading, Ma
Death: 11 Oct 1783 in Rutland, Vt
Mother: Mehitable Sanford
Birth: ???
Death: ???
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Wife #2: Alice
Born: ???
Died: Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Marriage: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Children:
Alice Jones
Daniel Jones 1788-
Elizabeth Jones
Ezra Jones
Lucy Jones
Sophia Jones
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Cornelius (Cornelies) was the 1st of 5 children born of John Jones and his wife Abigail Holbrook: Cornelius's siblings were: Abigail (b. 1731); David (b. 1734); Hannah (b. 1736); and Bridget (b. 1741).
"Cornelius Jones (Harvard, 1752)
Cornelius Jones, a frontier preacher, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1727, a son of John and Abigail (Holbrook) Jones. They early moved to Bellingham, from which Cornelius entered college, where he waited on table and served as a Scholar of the House. After taking his first degree he began preaching and received a call to Duxbury, but he declined it and resumed residence at the College in June, 1753. For his M.A. he prepared the negative of "An Praescientia divina, Liberatatem Creaturae tollat?"; but he left Cambridge before Commencement, and did not receive the degree until 1771.
On February 24, 1756, Jones was ordained over the newly-gathered church at Number Three, later Sandisfield. Jonathan Edwards moderated the ordaining council and preached the sermon. The church had only fourteen members, but the settlers promptly built a meetinghouse. The Parson married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Sanford, one of his parishioners. For reasons now unknown, he was dismissed in October, 1761.
When in 1762 the Province sold at auction Township Number Ten, now Rowe, Jones bought 10,000 acres and moved his rapidly growing family to his new property. Near the east mouth of the present Hoosac Tunnel he built a house of split timbers which for several years was practically the only dwelling in his projected town of Myrifield. Gradually others moved in, but his plantation remained so thinly settled that the nearest house to his was six or seven miles away. He organized a church consisting at first of only the members of his own family. When there were enough settlers, he gave the land on which a meetinghouse was built.
When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Myrifield, three days after the battle, Jones marched to Cambridge. He served only seventeen days, however, for his neighbors were beginning to leave his settlement, dreading the Indians. While waiting for the enemy he built "a model of a military engine in miniature" which he descibed as "a floating-battery" and asked the General Court to examine. It was not interested, possibly because it thought that a person living in the mountains in the western part of the Province would not be a good judge of marine engineering.
In August, 1777, Jones served as a private in the Bennington campaign, and in September he marched with the local militia to join the Western Army, driving a herd of cattle with them. He served under Captain Seth Howard at Saratoga, and his eldest son, Jacob, was killed by the Indians. Interested by what he had seen of the western lands, he sold his remaining 4000 acres in Rowe to William Parkhurst & Co. of Brookfield for 9000 pounds in current money in February, 1779. Moving to Skenesborough he settled in what is now the northeast part of Whitehall, New York, and in the next few years bought a large acreage of confiscated Tory lands in that town and Salem. Here, as at Rowe, he built a church and labored as a champion of religion and civilization on a wild frontier. In 1791 he joined in the founding of Washington Academy. For his eloquence in preaching and in the law courts, which he frequented, he won the sobriquet of "Silver Tongue." 4 Much of his energy went into a vain effort to get the government to redeem the great bundle of now-worthless paper money to which he had clung out of loyalty to the revolutionary cause. When he died, at Whitehall, on April 3, 1803, he left the Continental money to one of his sons and directed that his library of books on Divinity be kept in a central place for his horde of descendants. He had nine children by his first wife and six by his second, Alice, who survived him: (1) Sarah, m. ___ Johnson. (2) Abigail, m. Squire Bartholomew. (3) Hannah. (4) Jacob b. 1777. (5) Daniel, living in 1803. (6) Reuben. (7) John, living in 1803. (8) Ezra, living in 1803. (9) Marah. (10) Elizabeth. (11) Lucy. (12) Alice. (13) Sophia. (14) Oliver. (15) Cornelius. They were soon scattered, his graveyard was plowed and his stone broken up, but the settlement long remembered his energy, piety, and goodness."
"WILLS. Salem, N.Y. Surrogate -
Wills, Letters, Testamentary II pages 29-32 - will Cornelius Jones, town of White Hall, Co. of Washington, N.Y. - my wife Allice Jones have her Dower pd her - to her as long as my widow use & benefit of part of the house - the Dower of Allice my wife be made up of $200 til the youngest he'r is age of seven years - my 4 daus born of Allice my wife to wit Elizabeth, Lucy, Allice and Sophia Jones #211.25 each pd them as they are age 18 yrs - to James, Hannah, Sally and Minor Jerusha Jones Ch of my son Oliver #292.25 pd by Exutors for there use & benefit - to my son John Jones $196.20 - to my dau Abigail Bartholomew $73. - to my dau Hannah Jones $116 - to Legatees of this will $102, being sum bequeathed in my former will to my dau Mary now dec'd - to my son Oliver Jones wearing apparel & ____ - to my dau Johnson household stuff of my first wife dec'd, to above 3 daus of her body - house furniture gotten since my marriage of my second wife, ____ does not take as her dower, to my 4 daus of her body - to my son Ezra Jones my latin, greek, ____ & school books - my books on Divinity for the of all my heirs - to my son Daniel Jones $496.20 wh age 21 yrs - to my youngest son Cornelius $496.20 wh 21 yrs age - to my son Reuben Jones my land, to wit the farm I now live on of 300 acres - ordain my wife Allice Exix & my sons Oliver & Reubin Jones Exrs this 28 Feb 1893. Cornelius Jones
Wits Alexander Crookshank, Nathaniel Hall, R. Hinman Martin.
Codicil made at time mentioned above - Legatees to Ch of my son Oliver Jones in last will added to bequest 8 March 1803. Cornelius Jones
Witness Elisha Bentley - William Bartholomew - Amos Austin
Pvd 5 Oct 1803 will of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 28 Feb 1803 and codicil of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 8 March 1803; Seal 6 Oct ___."
References:
(1) "Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the Year 1850." by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1920, pages 106-108
(2) "Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War of Independence." CD-ROM, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005, pages 5821-5823
(3) mss. "Abstract of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835." The Eardeley Genealogy Collection: New York State Abstracts of Wills, Brooklyn Historical Society
(4) "Cemetery Records Town of Whitehall Washington County New York" by Charles B. Moore, Revised August 1998, page 4
∼Father: John Jones
Birth: 27 September 1699 in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1786 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Mother: Abigail Holbrook
Birth: 19 August 1697 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1749 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, British Colony
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Wife #1: Sarah Brown
Birth: 1735 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States
Marriage: 1757 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, British Colony
Children:
Sarah Jones 1759–
Daniel Jones 1761–1777
Jacob Jones 1762–
Abigail Jones 1766–1850
Oliver Jones 1766–1818
Mary Jones 1768–
Hannah Jones 1770–
Ezra Jones 1777–1825
John Jones 1777–1813
Sarah's Parents:
Father: Daniel Brown
Birth: 15 Jan 1699 in Reading, Ma
Death: 11 Oct 1783 in Rutland, Vt
Mother: Mehitable Sanford
Birth: ???
Death: ???
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Wife #2: Alice
Born: ???
Died: Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Marriage: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Children:
Alice Jones
Daniel Jones 1788-
Elizabeth Jones
Ezra Jones
Lucy Jones
Sophia Jones
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"Cornelius Jones (Harvard, 1752)
Cornelius Jones, a frontier preacher, was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1727, a son of John and Abigail (Holbrook) Jones. They early moved to Bellingham, from which Cornelius entered college, where he waited on table and served as a Scholar of the House. After taking his first degree he began preaching and received a call to Duxbury, but he declined it and resumed residence at the College in June, 1753. For his M.A. he prepared the negative of "An Praescientia divina, Liberatatem Creaturae tollat?"; but he left Cambridge before Commencement, and did not receive the degree until 1771.
On February 24, 1756, Jones was ordained over the newly-gathered church at Number Three, later Sandisfield. Jonathan Edwards moderated the ordaining council and preached the sermon. The church had only fourteen members, but the settlers promptly built a meetinghouse. The Parson married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Sanford, one of his parishioners. For reasons now unknown, he was dismissed in October, 1761.
When in 1762 the Province sold at auction Township Number Ten, now Rowe, Jones bought 10,000 acres and moved his rapidly growing family to his new property. Near the east mouth of the present Hoosac Tunnel he built a house of split timbers which for several years was practically the only dwelling in his projected town of Myrifield. Gradually others moved in, but his plantation remained so thinly settled that the nearest house to his was six or seven miles away. He organized a church consisting at first of only the members of his own family. When there were enough settlers, he gave the land on which a meetinghouse was built.
When the news of Lexington and Concord reached Myrifield, three days after the battle, Jones marched to Cambridge. He served only seventeen days, however, for his neighbors were beginning to leave his settlement, dreading the Indians. While waiting for the enemy he built "a model of a military engine in miniature" which he descibed as "a floating-battery" and asked the General Court to examine. It was not interested, possibly because it thought that a person living in the mountains in the western part of the Province would not be a good judge of marine engineering.
In August, 1777, Jones served as a private in the Bennington campaign, and in September he marched with the local militia to join the Western Army, driving a herd of cattle with them. He served under Captain Seth Howard at Saratoga, and his eldest son, Jacob, was killed by the Indians. Interested by what he had seen of the western lands, he sold his remaining 4000 acres in Rowe to William Parkhurst & Co. of Brookfield for 9000 pounds in current money in February, 1779. Moving to Skenesborough he settled in what is now the northeast part of Whitehall, New York, and in the next few years bought a large acreage of confiscated Tory lands in that town and Salem. Here, as at Rowe, he built a church and labored as a champion of religion and civilization on a wild frontier. In 1791 he joined in the founding of Washington Academy. For his eloquence in preaching and in the law courts, which he frequented, he won the sobriquet of "Silver Tongue." 4 Much of his energy went into a vain effort to get the government to redeem the great bundle of now-worthless paper money to which he had clung out of loyalty to the revolutionary cause. When he died, at Whitehall, on April 3, 1803, he left the Continental money to one of his sons and directed that his library of books on Divinity be kept in a central place for his horde of descendants. He had nine children by his first wife and six by his second, Alice, who survived him: (1) Sarah, m. ___ Johnson. (2) Abigail, m. Squire Bartholomew. (3) Hannah. (4) Jacob b. 1777. (5) Daniel, living in 1803. (6) Reuben. (7) John, living in 1803. (8) Ezra, living in 1803. (9) Marah. (10) Elizabeth. (11) Lucy. (12) Alice. (13) Sophia. (14) Oliver. (15) Cornelius. They were soon scattered, his graveyard was plowed and his stone broken up, but the settlement long remembered his energy, piety, and goodness."
"WILLS. Salem, N.Y. Surrogate -
Wills, Letters, Testamentary II pages 29-32 - will Cornelius Jones, town of White Hall, Co. of Washington, N.Y. - my wife Allice Jones have her Dower pd her - to her as long as my widow use & benefit of part of the house - the Dower of Allice my wife be made up of $200 til the youngest he'r is age of seven years - my 4 daus born of Allice my wife to wit Elizabeth, Lucy, Allice and Sophia Jones #211.25 each pd them as they are age 18 yrs - to James, Hannah, Sally and Minor Jerusha Jones Ch of my son Oliver #292.25 pd by Exutors for there use & benefit - to my son John Jones $196.20 - to my dau Abigail Bartholomew $73. - to my dau Hannah Jones $116 - to Legatees of this will $102, being sum bequeathed in my former will to my dau Mary now dec'd - to my son Oliver Jones wearing apparel & ____ - to my dau Johnson household stuff of my first wife dec'd, to above 3 daus of her body - house furniture gotten since my marriage of my second wife, ____ does not take as her dower, to my 4 daus of her body - to my son Ezra Jones my latin, greek, ____ & school books - my books on Divinity for the of all my heirs - to my son Daniel Jones $496.20 wh age 21 yrs - to my youngest son Cornelius $496.20 wh 21 yrs age - to my son Reuben Jones my land, to wit the farm I now live on of 300 acres - ordain my wife Allice Exix & my sons Oliver & Reubin Jones Exrs this 28 Feb 1893. Cornelius Jones
Wits Alexander Crookshank, Nathaniel Hall, R. Hinman Martin.
Codicil made at time mentioned above - Legatees to Ch of my son Oliver Jones in last will added to bequest 8 March 1803. Cornelius Jones
Witness Elisha Bentley - William Bartholomew - Amos Austin
Pvd 5 Oct 1803 will of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 28 Feb 1803 and codicil of Cornelius Jones dec'd made 8 March 1803; Seal 6 Oct ___."
References:
(1) "Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the Year 1850." by Thomas W. Baldwin, 1920, pages 106-108
(2) "Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War of Independence." CD-ROM, Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005, pages 5821-5823
(3) mss. "Abstract of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835." The Eardeley Genealogy Collection: New York State Abstracts of Wills, Brooklyn Historical Society
(4) "Cemetery Records Town of Whitehall Washington County New York" by Charles B. Moore, Revised August 1998, page 4
∼Father: John Jones
Birth: 27 September 1699 in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1786 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts
Mother: Abigail Holbrook
Birth: 19 August 1697 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, British Colony
Death: 1749 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, British Colony
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Wife #1: Sarah Brown
Birth: 1735 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, United States
Marriage: 1757 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, British Colony
Children:
Sarah Jones 1759–
Daniel Jones 1761–1777
Jacob Jones 1762–
Abigail Jones 1766–1850
Oliver Jones 1766–1818
Mary Jones 1768–
Hannah Jones 1770–
Ezra Jones 1777–1825
John Jones 1777–1813
Sarah's Parents:
Father: Daniel Brown
Birth: 15 Jan 1699 in Reading, Ma
Death: 11 Oct 1783 in Rutland, Vt
Mother: Mehitable Sanford
Birth: ???
Death: ???
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Wife #2: Alice
Born: ???
Died: Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Marriage: 1787 in Whitehall, Washington, New York, USA
Children:
Alice Jones
Daniel Jones 1788-
Elizabeth Jones
Ezra Jones
Lucy Jones
Sophia Jones
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