William Jones

William Jones, ancestor of the Gloucester county family; born Oct. 25th, 1734; married in the spring of 1766 Lucy, widow of Col. Charles Carter, of Cleves, Hanover county, Va., who was a sister of Christopher Taliaferro. Her mother was a Miss Walker, of Virginia.

He was sent to sea before he was sixteen years old. He appears to have been an affable gentleman of good intelligence and sterling character, and held some official positions in the colony. About the year 1780 he purchased and removed to a farm in Petsworth parish, Gloucester county, which he called Marlfield, and whither he soon removed his family. The first fifteen or twenty years of his married life he spent in the counties of Hanover and King William, where most of his children were born. Ann Carter, the only child of his wife and her first husband, married John Catlett, an eminent lawyer of King William county. They removed with their parents to Gloucester county, where Mr. Catlett also purchased a farm in Abingdon parish, on Timberneck creek. Both of the farms remain in possession of the descendants of these respective first purchasers to the present time, whose familes are also now happily united by the marriage of Maryus Jones, of Marlfield, to Mary Armistead Catlett, of Timberneck. At Marlfield is the cemetery of this branch of our family, and it contains some interesting monuments to the dead. The family were Episcopalian, and worshiped at Petsworth church, a grand old building for those days.

He lived but a few years after his removal to Gloucester county, where he died leaving a large family of boys to be reared by a devoted mother. He was the ancestor of all the Gloucester county Joneses.

She was the sister of Christopher Taliaferro; their mother was a Miss Walker of Virginia.

Lucy first married Col. Charles Carter of Cleves, Hanover County, Virginia. They had one daughter, Ann Carter, who married John Catlett, an eminent lawyer of King Willam County.