John T Jones

AUDITED 1 Aug 2026 — BIRTH CORRECTED 'ABT 1790' -> 1760, ON THE GRAVESTONE, NOT ON THE PENSION. ⭐ The old value was never an observation: it sits exactly 23 years before his eldest recorded child [2126]'s 1813 birth, and his wife [2125]'s 'abt 1792' sits 21 years before it -- the signature of BACK-DERIVED estimates. The correction is anchored on the St Paul's / Millers Tavern stone (b. 1760), tied to this person by the exact death date 18 May 1842 and by the 1838 deed of Midway to his daughter Virginia, wife of Dr. Jefferson Minor ([2123]). ⛔ DELIBERATELY NOT DONE — THE PENSION IS NOT CITED AND NO SERVICE IS ASSERTED. An adversarial check on 1 Aug established that Essex County held SEVERAL men named John Jones. Virginia's own commissioner wrote: 'There are several soldiers named John Jones whose names appear on the Army Register.' File VAS1295 is a DIFFERENT Essex John Jones -- substituted for Lewis Haile in 1776, then 'went to the North, where he remained until the close, when he returned, and married and settled in the said County of Essex' -- which conflicts with VAS1297's man having been wounded at Charlestown. VAS1297 carries no age, no birth year, no family and no unit, and stops in 1816; its petitioner is 'very much disabled' and assigns the whole $40 annuity to George Saunders in 1816, while this family had just been deeded 410 acres and held 931 acres by 1820. ⚠⚠ CONSEQUENCE FOR AN EXISTING FACT: this person ALREADY carries a Military event, E5822 dated 6 May 1816, which is almost certainly that same unproven pension. IT IS FLAGGED HERE AND HAS NOT BEEN TOUCHED -- removing or re-pointing a fact is Owen's decision. ➡ WHAT WOULD SETTLE IT: the Virginia Auditor's pension roll 1812-1842 -- if John Jones of Essex drops off the roll in 1842 the pensioner IS this man; if in 1820, he is not. Also Essex personal property tax lists 1782-1815 year by year, where two men appear as two tithable lines. ⭐ RULED OUT, so nobody repeats it: the printed 'Descendants of Gabriel Jones of Essex and Culpeper Counties' is a DIFFERENT family (Gabriel left Essex for Culpeper in 1744; eight absence controls all returned zero). Memo: jones-susan-parentage-junction.md === APPENDED 1 Aug 2026, later the same day — TWO OF HIS CHILDREN ARE NOW SOURCED, AND THE 'JOHN JONES (B)' QUESTION IS ANSWERED. (1) Essex Co. chancery 057-1837-013 (1837) calls the orphaned children of Thomas M. Jones's guardian 'their GRANDFATHER THE SAID JOHN JONES, who has been duly appointed their Guardian'. So 'JOHN JONES (B)', the principal on the 1834 guardian's bond, IS THIS MAN — the children's paternal grandfather — and [866] Thomas M. Jones is therefore HIS SON BY DIRECT RECORD, not by inference. The open question flagged in the note above ('whether JOHN JONES (B) is the grandfather or an uncle') is CLOSED: grandfather. (2) Essex Co. Deed Book 46, 15 Oct 1838: he conveyed 'Midway' to Jefferson Minor and 'VIRGINIA THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAID JOHN JONES'. So [2123] Virginia is sourced to him too. ☞ HYPOTHESIS, NOT A FINDING, RECORDED SO IT CAN BE TESTED: Essex clerks distinguished same-named men by the FATHER'S INITIAL. This man's father is [2137] BENJAMIN Jones. '(B)' may therefore read 'John Jones, son of B[enjamin]' — which would be independent support for the [2137]->[2121] link, still the weakest joint in this line. DO NOT CITE THIS; test it. It does at least mean '(B)' is NOT Benjamin F. Jones, the separate guardian who appears by 1839 and whose relationship to the wards is stated NOWHERE in either chancery cause. ⚠ In the 1837 suit this man is simultaneously GUARDIAN, GUARDIAN AD LITEM, DEFENDANT and the COMMISSIONER who sells the estate and reports on it — a conflict plain on the record, and the likeliest reason a separate guardian appears by 1839. ⭐ HIS GRAVESTONE STOOD AT MIDWAY: Essex County Historical Society Bulletin vol. 28 (May 1986) p.2 records 'a full sized bricked up grave, covered by a white marble slab with John Jones inscription ... in a field to the north of the residence until about 1950 when it was moved to St. Paul's Church graveyard'. Find a Grave memorial 98552010 shows that slab at St Paul's, Millers Tavern: 'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN JONES ... in Essex Co. Va. ... A.D. 1760 ... A.D. 1842'. The stone his 1760 birth rests on stood on the farm he deeded away in 1838. Its lower epitaph is fraternal, probably Masonic, and is not legible in that photograph. PROOF CLASS: MOTHER = UNDERDETERMINED (Owen, 7 Oct 2026) - F606's Massy Crow b. c. 1775-90 cannot be his mother; reopens on the Jones x Crow marriage bond. 7 Oct 2026 (round-10 triage): the documented Massy Crow, wife of a Benjamin Jones, had children born c. 1805-10 and is too young to be John's mother (see [2138]); his mother is unknown. His FATHER is not affected: the 1808 deed to 'his son John' (per the Midway NRHP nomination; not yet read) still points to [2137] Benjamin, and that link stays ungraded until the deed is read. A lead only: pension VAS1297 assigned its annuity to a George Saunders in 1816, and Moore has a Lucy Jones marrying a George Saunders - weak, since that Lucy was born c. 1805-10.