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Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Ridley[1]

Female Abt 1706 - Aft


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  • Name Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Ridley 
    Born Abt 1706  Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft   [2, 3, 4
    Person ID I1879  Main Tree
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2009 

    Father Nathaniel Ridley,   b. Abt 1685, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1719, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Day,   b. Abt 1686, Of Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft , Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 17 Oct 1706  Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Family ID F895  Group Sheet

    Family Francis Albridgton Jones, Sr./ Sr.,   b. Abt 1695, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1755, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Married Abt 1720  [5
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Children 
    +1. Mary Jones,   b. Abt 1721, Mulberry Island, Warwick, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1767/1769, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years)
    +2. Jemima Jones,   b. Abt 1724, Of Johnston, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft
    +3. Ridley Jones,   b. Abt 1724, Of Johnston, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Nathaniel Jones, Sr./ Sr.,   b. Abt 1725, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jan 1810, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 85 years)
    +5. John Jones,   b. Abt 1729, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Judith Jones,   b. Abt 1730, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1778, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years)
    +7. Matthew Jones,   b. Abt 1731, Of Halifax, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft
    +8. Tignal Jones, Lt. Col./ Lt. Col.,   b. 1735, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1807, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     9. Lucy Jones,   b. Abt 1742, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Betsy Day Jones,   b. Abt 1744, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    +11. Francis "Frank" Jones, II/ II,   b. Abt 1733/1748, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    +12. Lydia Jones,   b. 1748, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1821, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    +13. Albridgton "Britton" Jones,   b. Abt 1750, Johnston, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1788, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years)
    Family ID F834  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • Executor; Wife; will of Jones, Francis The Jones family came from Virginia, settled in NC on Crab Tree Creek, 12 miles from present- day Raliegh He owned land on Swift Creek in Johnston Co., Jacket Swamp in Edgecombe Co., and Crabtree Creek in Wake Co., NC. It is believed that Albridgton and Mary lived in that part of Edgecombe Co. that later became Halifax Co. Ridley of Southampton. Mary Ridley ws the third child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Day) Ridley, born abt 1706. She married Francis Jones, son of Francis and ____Tignal Jones of Warwic k Co., VA. He was a nephew of her stepfather, Matthew Jones. It seems likely that Francis and Mary (Ridley) Jones started out married life on a 200 acre plantation acquired from Nathaniel Jones on the N. side of the W. prong of the Cypress Swamp in Nottaway Parish, Isle of Wight Co., VA. They sold the land in 1740 and moved to Edgecombe Co., NC where he received a land grant in 1744. She is said to have been living in 1784. Francis Jones died in Edgecombe by Aug. of 1755. He mentioned thirteen children in his will, but the order of their birth is not certain.

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] Family Records: Young, Sara -- CD, Sara Young, (Receive on CD January 2001).

    2. [S51] Ridley Of Southampton, Brom Nichols.

    3. [S153] The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina : compiled from English, colonial and family records, with personal, Groves, Joseph A. (Joseph Asbury), 1830-. (Main Author), (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), p. 285.

    4. [S155] Jones family, (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1991), 1753000 , Item 10., p. 285.

    5. [S498] Isle of Wight County marriages, 1628-1800, Chapman, Blanche Adams , b. 1895. (Main Author), 962246 Item 2., P. 30.