Jones family papers, 1723-1936.
Title:
Jones family papers, 1723-1936.
The collection consists of family, social, and business correspondence and papers for the Jones and Habersham families. Members of the family represented in these papers include: Noble Jones (1701-1775); his son, Noble Wimberley Jones (N.W. Jones I) (1724-1805), and his son, George Jones (1766-1838). George Jones was married three times; several generations from these marriages are included in the collection: from George Jones' first marriage to Mary Gibbons, their son Noble Wimberley Jones (N.W. Jones II) (1787-1818); their son George Noble Jones (G.N. Jones I) (1811-1876) and his wife Mary Wallace Savage Nuttall (1812-1861) and their children: George Fenwick Jones (1841-1876), Wallace Savage Jones (1846-1902), Noble Wimberley Jones (N.W. Jones III) (1841-1876), Sarah Campbell Jones (1843-1925), who changed her name to Lillie (Lily) Noble Jones. Also included are the children of George Fenwick Jones and his second wife, Anna Wylly Habersham: George Noble Jones (G.N. Jones II) (1847-1955); Josephine Noble Jones (1873-1952), who married James Alfred Pearce Crisfield; and Mary Savage Jones (1873-1958), who married Clarence Gordon Anderson, Jr. Also included are several letters of George Wymberley Jones DeRenne, the son of George Noble Jones I by his third wife, Eliza (Van Deren) Smith. G.W.J. Derenne also went by the names of George Frederic Tilghman Jones and George Wymberley Jones. He married Mary Nutall, the daughter of Mary Wallace Savage Nuttall by her first marriage. There are also some papers of the Habersham family, maternal ancestors of G.N. Jones II: James Habersham (1712-1775), Joseph Habersham (1751-1815), Robert Habersham (1783-1870), William Neyle Habersham (1831-1899), and Anna Wylly Habersham (1849-1888) before her marriage to George Fenwick Jones. The plantation records focus primarily on Georgia and Florida plantations. The Georgia plantation records include grants, deeds, mortages relating to tracts owned by the Jones family in the following counties: Appling, Burke, Chatham, Columbia, Effingham, Franklin, Jefferson, and Richmond. The Florida plantation records include a journal of Chemonie, January 1861-June 1864, and a large number of patents and conveyances for Chemonie, El Destino, and Oscilla Eldorado. The patents are signed by the various presidents of the period and bear the presidential seals of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. The plantation records also include slave records from the various plantations such as birth and marriage records and bills of sale. Also included in the collection are genealogies of Jones, Habersham, and related family lines; a collection of U.S. Continental Currency; "shin plasters"; Confederate bonds; letters regarding the opening of Laurel Grove Cemetery; and the yellow fever epidemic.
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9 boxes ; 4.5 cubic feet.
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