Woops! Made a mistake. My message below was intended to be about EdgeFIELD, SC. Please forget about Edgecomb, NC. JB On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Jbrown400@aol.com wrote: > You all are WONDERFUL! Great response to #1 query. What I have is > that > John Jones of Edgecomb District, SC, obtained land in the > Mississippi > Territory @ 1818. This appears to be the John A. Jones who married > Betsey > Slaughter in Madison County, AL, in 1816. > > This John A. Jones says, in the census, his father was from PA. > This is > absolutely ALL we know about him, so I'm trying to look at all the > John > Joneses in Edgecomb District, SC. > > > I immediately, by a stroke of luck (?) came across a will for a John > Jones > of Edgefield who died and 1797 and left a will. I can't find anything > about John Jones, but the man he named as executor, Daniel Williams of > Wrightsborough, GA, appears to have been an important Quaker member > of the > Wrightsborough community, and records in Wrightsborough show that he > came from > Chester Co., PA. > > Looking at Chester County, there is a John Jones in W. Nantmeal and a > Daniel Williams in E. Nantmeal. Both are gone from Nantmeal by 1775. > > Looking at the family history of Daniel Williams, his grandmother was > named Jane JONES. Now, I've been down the road for a while, and I > know that > names in genealogy mean little or nothing, but without any real > information > about my John A. Jones in AL and later in McNairy County, TN, I'm > wondering > if Daniel Williams might be a distant relative of the above > mentioned John > Jones of Edgecomb, Co., (who had 7 children when he died and didn't > give > the names of but one of them). > > The prominent name in my family is John A. Jones; unusual names are > Parminus Jones and Govenor R. Jones. Not that these names mean > anything. But > every generation seems to have a John A. Jones. > > I'm fishing. I just don't know how to go about my problem except > to look > at every single John Jones in Edgecomb County, SC, who came from > PA. This > is my first encounter and it seems possible that John Jones who died > in > 1797, and named Daniel Williams as his executor, could be mine. Any > help is > GREATLY appreciated! > > Thanks, > Jan Brown > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message