Hello Gina. A JONES marrying a JONES, how lucky can one get! This is fairly common among our JONES clans. At any rate, there is a "BIG PICTURE" to JONES migration into the Valley of the Ohio. In the early 1700s, the French and British had differing views as to who owned and controlled the land west of the colonies and south of the French settlements. Attempts to settle this dispute was made by a treaty in 1748 known as the treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle. It basically left in question the control of land between the northwestern lakes to the Cumberland Mountains, and from the heads of the Ohio to the Mississippi. Interestingly, they seemed to ignore the fact that this land was undisputedly the dominion of the North American Indian. A discussion of this can be found in a book called Valley of the Ohio, by Mann Butler, and published by Kentucky Historical Society in 1971. Competition between the English and the French was the driving force for most of the early migration. The colonies were essentially used by the British government to expand their influence into the western lands. European peoples suffering religious persecution or economic oppression; including German, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, and English, found little available near the coastal areas of the colonies. They were forced to migrate into the western parts of these colonies. Early migration included the Conococheaque Valley of Pennsylvania, the Potomac of Maryland, and the Shenandoah of Virginia, all borderland to the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains. In 1747, the British government granted a petition to a group of leading Virginians (of whom Laurence Washington was one), approving 500,000 acres of land in the Ohio Valley to be located between the Monongahela and Kanawha rivers. This was to induce settlers to occupy the eastern part of the Ohio Valley. The British government then allowed the governor of VA to grant land, and in the course of a very few years, granted hundreds of thousands of acres of land, the largest being for 800,000 acres, to the Loyal Land Company of VA. (Dr. Thomas Walker being an important member). A discussion of this is found: Rise of The American People, 1750 - 1775, in The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1957. A helpful booklet is: The Ohio Company of Virginia 1748 - 1798, by Samuel Wilson, offprinted from Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. XIV, Nos. 3, and 4., 1926. As you might guess, this led to open conflict, The French and Indian War of 1754 - 1763, as we record it. [Interestingly, it took more lives than our War of Independence.] An excellent reference to this is The French and Indian War 1754 - 1763, The Imperial Struggle for North America, by Seymour Schwartz, Castle Books, 1928. The face of settlement change, with the Treaty of Paris, 1763. France surrendered all her possessions east of the Mississippi River, with the exception of New Orleans. However, the Indians remained hostile. Multiple large and small "land companies" tried to obtain claims to this vast territory. One of particular interest to you is that of Richard Henderson of NC. In 1764, he started a land company known as Transylvania Company, and hired a poor fellow named Daniel Boone to act as agent. Webster Co., KY and its town of Dixon, were initially part of Henderson Co., KY. A discussion of this can be found: A Topographical Description of The Western Territory, by Gilbert Imlay, published 1797, reprinted Economic Classics, New York, 1969. As you might imagine, there were a number of JONES families involved in many of these land schemes and migration groups. Henderson's group centered in Bute Co. NC where he grew up. This was to become Granville, NC. A large number of JONES families were from this area. A helpful text is An Abstract of NC Wills, by Fred A. Olds, Southern Book Co., 1954. It is organized by NC counties, and has a listing of JONES families who left wills in NC for this early time period beginning ca. 1760. Another helpful text for general reading is: The American Heritage Historical Atlas of United States History, by McGraw-Hill Book Co., and American Heritage Publishing Co, NY. Please note that a copy of these references are available at the Joseph Wheeler Jones Memorial Library, Danville, KY. See website: thegoldenlionbb.com. Hope this is helpful, Jerry. The Jones Genealogist.