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Tignal Jones, Lt. Col./ Lt. Col.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Male 1735 - 1807  (72 years)


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  • Name Tignal Jones, Lt. Col./ Lt. Col. 
    Suffix Lt. Col./ Lt. Col. 
    Born 1735  Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1807  Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Person ID I1883  Main Tree
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2009 

    Father 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) 
    Mother Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Ridley,   b. Abt 1706, Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft  
    Married Abt 1720  [7
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Family ID F834  Group Sheet

    Family Penelope "Penny" Cain,   b. Abt 1735, Of Warwick (Independent City), Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jul 1826  (Age ~ 91 years) 
    Married 1755  Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Children 
     1. Francis Jones,   b. Abt 1755, Of Warwick (Independent City), Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Fanning Jones,   b. Abt 1758, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Reading Jones,   b. Abt 1760, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec 1815, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
     4. Penelope Jones,   b. Abt 1762, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Mary "Polly" Jones,   b. Abt 1764, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Delia Jones,   b. Abt 1766, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. John C. Jones,   b. Abt 1768, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1818, Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years)
     8. Elizabeth Jones,   b. Abt 1770, Of Wake, North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Tignal Jones, Jr.,   b. Abt 1772, Of North Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1818  (Age ~ 45 years)
    Family ID F857  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • Son; Jones, Francis-(land on Crabtree Creek in Johnston County) p. 105, 2642-2-3-0-8 Will mentions wife Penny; sons John C., Francis, Reading, Tignal, and Fanning; daughter Eliza beth Alston; grandchildren Penny Jones dau of Westwood Jones, Tignall Stewart son of Duncan S tewart, and Tignal Stewart son of Charles Stewart. The Wake Co. estate papers for Tignal Jones list as heirs: Francis Jones; Reading Jones; Fanning Jones; Absalom Alston and wife Elizabeth; Duncan Stewart and wife Penelope; Charles Stewart and wife Polly; Westwood A. Jones and wife Delilah; and Tignal, Simon, Fanny, Sally, Willis, Polly, Peggy, and Penny Jones, minor orphans of Tignal Jones Jr. Wake County Heritage Book. In 1761, he moved to Wake Co., NC, and represented Wake Co. in the Provincial Congress of 1776. In some records he is styled "Colonel". Ridley of Southampton. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living magistrate on the bench. He represented Wake Co. in the Hillsboro and Halifax Conventions in 1775 and 1776. He also represented Wake Co. in the House of Commons in 1777 and the Senate in 1797.

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

    2. [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), Book 7 p. 285.

    3. [S67] Wake County Heritage Book.

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

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

    6. [S174] Wake County North Carolina Wills, Book 7 P. 295-298.

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

    8. [S24] International Genealogical Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church., Search performed using PAF Insight on 12 Mar 2006, Penelope Cain; Female; Birth: About 1738; Spouse: Tignall Jones; Marriage: 1755 Of, , , Nort, h Carolina; No source information is available..