The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-29
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 179. JONES.-The editor has been prom ised an article on the Jones family of Petersburg, Va. Meanwhile the follow ing scattered notes may be found inter esting. They have been culled from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biog-
 The first Peter Jones married Marga- ret Wood, the daughter of MaJor-Gener- al Abraham Wood, a prominent and in- ent site of Petersburg. He was Bur gess for Henrico, 1644-45, 46, when he was entitled captain. At the session of Oc- tober, 1646. 1t was enacted that Captain Abraham Wood whose service hath been employed at Fort Henry" on the Appomattox, should be granted the fort and six hundred acres adjoining on con- dition that he kept ten armed men there for three years. Tn April, 1852, as Major Abraham Wood. he was Burgess for Charles City. In December, 1856. as Lieu tenant Colonel Abraham Wood, he was again a member of the House and at the same time was appointed colonel of the regiment of Charles City and Hen rico. In March, 1657-S he was elected member of the Council and continued for number of years to form one Of that body. (Vol 8. page 252)
 Peter Jones died before 1863. leaving his widow with three children, two of them were sons: Major Peter Jones and Abra- ham mentioned in Vol. 4. p. H5, as dead before April 17ls, leaving children.
 Margaret Wood Jones married again in 1863, Thomas Cooke. It Is said that this was her third marriage and his sec Her son. Peter Jones. was one of her executors. (Yol. 3. pp. 4O1-4O9; Vol. 4'pp' 441-442: Vol 5, p. ss)
 Major Peter Jones. the second, married ter, William. Thomas. John. Wood and daughters. Ann Margaret, Martha and Mary wife of Peter Jones, according to his will dated in 172l and proved in 1126. Peter Jones, his son-in-law, was the son of Arabaham Jones. (Vol 4. p. 2S4)
 At the death of Major Peter Jones in t726,s he must have been a man of ripe old age as he was a captain and Indian He Is generally called Peter Jones ST. and is sometimes confused with the founder of Petersburg, bat it was his son, Peter Jones (Vol. U, p. S6b who was Byrd in 17SS and of whom he writes When we got home We lafd the fnun- dations of two large cities-one at Shoe co.'s. to be called Richmond. and the other at the foot of the AppomattoX riv- CT. to be called Petersburg" But as we have said, there was son-in-law also called Peter Jones and the records snow that they owned adjoining tracts of land So 1t may be as Bishop Meade says that
 Petersburg owes it's name to the fact that several persons named Peter Jones settled there. Vol. f. ?; H59 .s ,no
 Peter Jones. the third called IT, the 
 Jones. who represented Amelia County | in the House of Burgesses in 1I52 (NoL l 5. D. S6) Richard Jones represented the | County in 1736. Colonel. Joseph Jones' Jones are in the Convention of 1Iss from | Dinwiddie and Brunswick. -lVol. 1. p.s9D Stephen Cooke married Amy Jones' daughter of the above Richard Jones. Bishop Meade says in his "Old l Churches of Virginia Vol. ?. ?. A. that | in 1753 Major Peter Jones, Wood Jones | and Richard Jones, were all Vestrymen of Raleigh Parish, Amelia County; ,,. | of Richard c. Jones was Mary Ellis (nee | Cocke). Vol. 4, p. 2i7 states that Mary l Cooke married Richard Ellis. She was l the daughter of Abraham Cooke. grand | rranddaughter of Thomas Cooke and | Margaret Wood Jones. Her father Apra. 1 ham Cooke died in 1759 aged 69. He lett 1 six sons and four daughters. Her young | est brother. was General William Cooke, | one of The founders of the State of Ten l nessee: Cooke County is called after him; l he was one of the first two Senators l from that State. 1I9o-lSOO, r
 samuel Booker married Rachel Jones ] in Amelia County February 4. 17S5. (Nol. ] E D. 4SOD Perhaps this accounts for the l Booker connection
 1bs. ALLEN.-A Virginia gentleman | who lived in the county where this fam | ily of Aliens originally settled gave these facts He had access to old wills. grave wards of some of the early Aliens or AlIans as they sometimes spelled the name The first Allen-was from Ireland; his name was Robert, he settled with his wife. live sons and one or two daughters in Frederick County, Virginia. In lI36: Frederick. Warren and Shenandoah Counties. all originally one County. seem to have been thickly settled by Aliens. there are some there still. The sons of Robert Allen were John. Thomas, Rob- ert David and Benjamin.