Cadwallader Jones (JT-143)

Born around 1650, Cadwallader Jones (JT-143) was the first of the family to grow up in Virginia.  His father, Richard Jones (JR-165) died very soon after his birth.  Raised by a step-father, poor Cadwallader had to pretty much make his own way in this world.  He has become a very controversial figure throughout many genealogist family trees, and is much confused in most discussions of his life. 


Over the years, I have collected just about every historical document pertaining to the record of his life.  The blog cadwalladerjones.blogspot.com gives this record, "document by document".  He has become my favorite great....great....grandfather.  The first record of his life is found in Volume II, Cavaliers and Pioneers, p. 138.  This record begins November 5, 1673.  Check it out...it is a story worth telling.

Richard Jones (JS-165) To Virginia 1649

Richard Jones (JS-165) was the first of my JONES family to move across the great pond, never to return to the Island.  The move was not his first choice, since he was part of that group forced to leave England after the close of the English Civil War. [ It seems that the family always managed to come down on the wrong side of the fence!]

He is recorded in Gray's Inn Admissions, p.116, folio 609, 1608 as "one of sons of Thomas Jones, of Llanvayer, Co. Denbigh".  [Thomas Jones (JR-180)]  Of course there is a great deal of history to this time in the family tree, and it took a good bit of tree climbing to put things all together.

It was the 13th of March, 1649 that he arrived to the shores of Virginia.  The story is yet to be told.