Several persons on the Madison Co., KY rootsweb have been discussing Mosias Jones. Because at least one of Christopher Harris's daughters married a Jones, I have collected some material on an early Mosias Jones. If you use this material in your family histories, please cite the sources, as I have done. All respectable family histories are expected to *cite your sources.* My research teacher, in another field, said if your research cannot be replicated by someone else, then it is worthless. (Look up replicate.) E.W.Wallace Sep 2004 MOSIAS JONES. (d. 1808) There is limited information concerning Mosias Jones. In Vol. 7 of the Lineage Book of the Daughters of the American Colonists, p, 277, Mosias Jones was married 1st to Lucy Foster and 2nd to Elizabeth (--), and he was the father of Foster Jones. Tradition in the Harris family of colonial Albemarle Co. VA is that the wife of Foster Jones was Mourning Harris. No documentation is presented in the DAC book, but some dates were given. (Lineage of Mrs. Virginia Field Walton Brooks, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas.) Foster Jones is reportedly the son of an older Mosias Jones who married 1st Lucy Foster (1697-1750) Jones was a neighbor of Christopher Harris the elder in Albemarle Co., VA ca. 1751. He was a witness to several deeds in 1762 and 1763. but earlier there is this processioning order: At a Vestry Held for Fredericksville Parish ye 23rd Sept. 1751 [present was Robt. Harris as one of the vestry) Pursuant to an Order of Louisa Court dated ye 27th Aug. 1751 it is Ordered that the parish of Fredericksville be divided into precincts for Processioning as follows (p. 35) Ordered that Mosais Jones and Christopher Harris do procession all the lands on the uper side of Buck mountain Creek and a Cross Moormans river to the Coty. Line and up the Same to the raged Mountains and under them to Brown's road and down the Same to Buck Mountain Creek. (Rosalie Edith Davis, FREDERICKSVILLE PARISH VESTRY BOOKS, 1742-1787, Vol. 1 [Manchester, MO, 1978] p. 38) A similar order involving both men was again ordered by the court dated ye 24th day of June 1752. (ibid, p. 51) Albemarle Co. was formed from Louisa Co., and in Louisa Co., we find that Mosias Jones patented land: Patent Bk 31-231: Mosias Jones, 400 acs. Louisa Co. on both sides the S Fork of Rocky Cr.; 24 Oct 1752. 40 Shill. (Virginia Genelaogical Society, MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, Vol. 31, No. 2, p. 146) Albemarle Co. DB 3-158: 13 May 1762 Christopher Harris to Saml. Karr, Augusta, for 65 pds., 331 acres both sides S fork Rockey Creek adj. Henry Bunch, Morias [Mosias?] Jones. (Rev Bailey Fulton Davis, THE DEEDS OF AMHERST COUNTY, VA, 1761-1807, AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA, 1748-1763. [Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1979], p. 54) A subsequent deed, same deed book, pp. 132-133, dated 21 Nov 1768, Christopher Harris to Thomas Grubbs, both of Albemarle Co. The tract of land was 77 acres on both sides of Moremans River. Fairly exact measurements are given. Witnesses were Mosias Jones, Higgason Grubbs, Tyree Harriss, Robt. Harriss and signed Christopher Harriss Senr Agnes Harris relinquished her dower rights at Albemarle Sept court 1769. (Ruth and Sam Sparacio, DEED ABSTRACTS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1768-1770 [McLean, VA: 1990], p. 69) Another Virginia abstracted land patent reads: Land Patent Book 24, p. 304 Mosias Jones, 200A, Pr. George Co., N. side of Stoney Crl, above Cedar Island to Chamberlaynes Bed (p. 305) 25 Jul 1746. (J. Philip Bowry III, "Virginia Land Patent Book 24, 1745-1746," MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEALOGY, Vol. 26, No. 3, August 1988, p. 306) We suspect Mosias Jones who migrated to Madison Co., KY is a younger Mosias Jones. Abstracted will of Mosias Jones, Madison Co., KY Written 8 Jun 1808. Probated 2 May 1808 (?) Book A, page 437. Sons: William, Mosias, Foster, George, Thomas, Roger and John. Daughters: Lucy Maupin, Francis Harrison (?), Elizabeth Daverson, Ann Garrison and Sarah Curroum. Exec: William and Roger Jones. Wit: Martin Gentry, Moses Bennett, and John Maupin. (Researchers publication: MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY WILLS AND ESTATES, 1785-1813 PLUS 1792 TAXPAYERS [Indianapolis, IN: Researchers Publications, n.d., p. 7)