Colonial Meriwether Families - Person Sheet
Colonial Meriwether Families - Person Sheet
Birthabt 1730, Hanover County, Virginia
DeathJun 1785, “Spring Garden”, Hanover County, Virginia
Known asSally
RelationshipFrom her descend Meriwether Jones, a political writer in Virginia, Gen. Walter Jones, a distinguished lawyer in Washington DC, Gen. Roger Jones of the US Army, and Commodore Catesby Jones of the US Navy.
RelationshipShe was named in the will of her sister, Lucy (Skelton) Gilliam.
FlagsVolume 1
FatherJames Skelton , 10JN-F23, M (~1700-1773)
MotherJane Meriwether , 10JN-X6H, F (1705-~1751)
Spouses
1Col. Thomas Jones II 
183,608, 10JN-DMF, M
183,608, 10JN-DMF, MBirth25 Dec 1726, Hanover County, Virginia609
Deathabt 1786, “Spring Garden”, Hanover County, Virginia
RelationshipHe was a descendant of the emigrant, Capt. Roger Jones.
OccupationClerk of Northumberland County Court until 1781
DARA062726
Military ServiceMilitary service not known to TMSI; probably militia title.
FlagsAmRev Flag, Military Flag, Volume 1
FatherCol. Thomas Jones , WQ9Q-C9, M (-1757)
MotherElizabeth Catesby Cocke , WQ9Q-SJ, F (1701-1762)
MarriageVirginia
ChildrenThomas ap Thomas , 10JN-D85, M (1755-~1801)
Catesby , 10JN-D9C, M (~1740-<1801)
Elizabeth , 10JN-DF6, F (~1756-)
Mary Bathurst , 10JN-DGD, F (~1756-)
Sally , 10JN-DHL, F (~1756-)
Jane , 10JN-DJS, F (1760-1795)
Meriwether , 10JN-DK1, M (~1766-1806)
Bathurst , 10JN-DCR, M (~1768-)
Jekyll , 10JN-DBK, M
Skelton , 10JN-DD0, M (-1812)
Research notes for Sarah Skelton
^NAME **AF has "Sarah Skelton"
!BIRTH-DEATH Petitt web page (birth place; death date/place)
!BIRTH-DEATH Petitt web page (birth place; death date/place)
DAR notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
Thomas Jones A062726
Thomas Jones was clerk of Northumberland County, Virginia Court, 1775–78. He was born, 1726, in Northumberland County, died in Hanover County, Va.
140208 - Hester Francisco Warrem
145272 - Fannie Meriweather Huffaker Grassly
195052 - Joan Elizabeth H. Grassly
Thomas Jones was clerk of Northumberland County, Virginia Court, 1775–78. He was born, 1726, in Northumberland County, died in Hanover County, Va.
140208 - Hester Francisco Warrem
145272 - Fannie Meriweather Huffaker Grassly
195052 - Joan Elizabeth H. Grassly
Research notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
^DEATH **HDS has 1786; ? has 1785
Reference notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
Thomas Jones 297
Thomas Jones, ancestor of the Kentucky branch, and of the military and naval family of Washington, D. C., born Dec. 25th, 1726; titled colonel; married Sally Skelton, daughter of James Skelton and his wife Jane, who was a daughter of Francis Meriwether and his wife Mary Bathurst.
He was clerk of Northumberland county court, which was then an hereditary office, until 1781, when he removed to his seat, “Spring Garden,” near New Castle, in Hanover county, where he died 1785-6.
He is represented in contemporary letters as living in great style at Spring Garden, which is described as being a beautiful and most delightful country residence. His widow and a part of the family continued to reside there for a long time after his death, and from their residence there, and from the beauty and elegance of this homestead, they began to be distinguished by the rest of the family as “the Spring Garden Joneses.”
This family were notorious duelists.
Col. Jones owned several large plantations, which he kept constantly in cultivation. He was evidently a gentleman of fine culture and intelligence, and was a liberal patron of the fine arts. In one of his letters to his brother Walter, then attending medical lectures at Edinburgh, he desires Walter to select for him a number of paintings by noted artists, and gives him a list of those he already had, in order, as he says, not to get two of a kind.
He owned a large and valuable estate, for he had nine children to provide for, yet in a letter to Councilor Carter in regard to the marriage of his son Thomas and Col. Carter’s daughter, he proposes to make a deed to his son for the plantation on which Col. Jones was then living, containing about seven hundred acres of land, to leave the furniture in the house except a few pieces, all the stock on the place, and eleven or twelve working slaves; which, he says, is all he “can do at present, having lost a good many valuable slaves that went to the enemy.” In a similar letter to Mr. John Turberville, to whose daughter his son Catesby was making his addresses, he proposes to give Catesby his clerkship, which, he says, is worth, one year with another, four hundred pounds, and to make him equal with his other children at his death.
Thomas Jones, ancestor of the Kentucky branch, and of the military and naval family of Washington, D. C., born Dec. 25th, 1726; titled colonel; married Sally Skelton, daughter of James Skelton and his wife Jane, who was a daughter of Francis Meriwether and his wife Mary Bathurst.
He was clerk of Northumberland county court, which was then an hereditary office, until 1781, when he removed to his seat, “Spring Garden,” near New Castle, in Hanover county, where he died 1785-6.
He is represented in contemporary letters as living in great style at Spring Garden, which is described as being a beautiful and most delightful country residence. His widow and a part of the family continued to reside there for a long time after his death, and from their residence there, and from the beauty and elegance of this homestead, they began to be distinguished by the rest of the family as “the Spring Garden Joneses.”
This family were notorious duelists.
Col. Jones owned several large plantations, which he kept constantly in cultivation. He was evidently a gentleman of fine culture and intelligence, and was a liberal patron of the fine arts. In one of his letters to his brother Walter, then attending medical lectures at Edinburgh, he desires Walter to select for him a number of paintings by noted artists, and gives him a list of those he already had, in order, as he says, not to get two of a kind.
He owned a large and valuable estate, for he had nine children to provide for, yet in a letter to Councilor Carter in regard to the marriage of his son Thomas and Col. Carter’s daughter, he proposes to make a deed to his son for the plantation on which Col. Jones was then living, containing about seven hundred acres of land, to leave the furniture in the house except a few pieces, all the stock on the place, and eleven or twelve working slaves; which, he says, is all he “can do at present, having lost a good many valuable slaves that went to the enemy.” In a similar letter to Mr. John Turberville, to whose daughter his son Catesby was making his addresses, he proposes to give Catesby his clerkship, which, he says, is worth, one year with another, four hundred pounds, and to make him equal with his other children at his death.
Research notes for Thomas & Sarah (Family)
Children: Neal has Jane Skelton Jones, b. 1790; Elizabeth Carter Jones, b. 1788; Sally Jekyll Jones, b. 1787; Thomas Jones, b. 1784 at "Bathurst"; Frances Tasker Jones.