Elizabeth Jones

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Elizabeth BRERETON was born 1691 in Northumberland Co., VA. She was the daughter of Thomas BRERETON and 3. Mary.

family

Mr. Robert Jones, of Fleet's Bay, Northumberland County, and Some of His Descendants" by by Keach, O. A. The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 23. Published January 1, 1915 link

11. Robert 3 Jones (Capt. Wm., 2 Robert 1

This Robert Jones m. Elizabeth Brereton prior to 1716.

1718, June 18. Petition of Robert Jones and Elizabeth, his wife, for a commission of administration on the estate of Thos Brereton, the younger, Elizabeth next of kin to Thos. Brereton

Children (St. Stephen's Parish register)

1. Brereton Jones, son to Robert b. Jan. 4, 171
2. Betty Jones, dau. to Robert b. Jan. 9, 1718
3. Robert Jones, son to Robert b. Jan. 26, 1721
4. Wm. and
5. Thomas Jones, sons to Robert b. Oct. 15, 1723

origins

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brereton-326

The lives of Col. Thomas' children are less fully documented than his own. His eldest son, Capt. Thomas Brereton appears to have married twice.

Capt. Thomas' first wife is unknown, but the couple had a son Thomas who did not live to adulthood.

Capt. Thomas married secondly to Mary who appears to be the widow of a man named Nutt.

Some sources identify him has William Nutt. Irene E. Amato's notes on the Nutt family call her husband William Nutt Jr., whose estate was probated in August of 1697; however, I have not located this reference to a probate.

Mary's maiden name is unknown, though she appears to have married well, three times.

She was widowed and unmarried in 1697 and must have married Brereton soon after, and was widowed a second time in 1699, giving birth to Brereton's daughter, Elizabeth, in that year or the year following.

Mary remarried thirdly, to Capt. Leonard Howsen and died before Howsen's will was probated in 1704.

Her daughter Mary Nutt was mentioned in Capt. Leonard Howsen's will of 1704, and both her mother and father were dead.

The early deaths of Capt. Thomas Brereton, Mary Nutt Brereton Howsen, and their various children indicates that Elizabeth was too young to have known either of her parents, or most of her closest family which died off before her marriage. This makes Elizabeth's naming of her first born, "Brereton", a poignant reinforcement of her heritage. Her only identifiable kin is Mary Nutt who was under 21, but older than 16 in 1704, when Howsen died and she was asked to choose a guardian. Mary died in 1719 when her will is probated by John Tarpley.

The Tarpley family intermarried with the Nutt family, and John was probably Mary's paternal first cousin or uncle.

biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brereton-327

Elizabeth was born not long after her father's death and is Thomas Brereton's sole heir. Thomas Brereton had a son Thomas by a first marriage (possible to the widow of Andrew Jones) however this young Thomas Brereton died at age 9 or 10 in 1705 per the Northumberland Order Book 5, p. 88. Elizabeth Brereton chose Thomas Pinkard as her guardian. Pinkard was the brother of Margaret Pinkard, the second wife of Capt. William Jones, and the mother of Robert Jones, who would become Elizabeth Brereton's husband. Robert Jones married Elizabeth Brereton by 1716, since their first born child, Brereton is registered in St. Stephen's Parish. Robert and Elizabeth petition for administrator of the estate of Thomas Brereton, the younger on the 18th of June 1718. Robert Jones and Elizabeth his wife state themselves as, "next of kin". The Brereton estate went through many years of probate, but unfortunately the records are not available to review the specifics. Robert appears to have had financial problems at this time and worked for Robert Carter as overseer of his vast Prince William plantations. Letters survive and indicate the two were often at odds. He left Carter's employment about 1727 and is found as the first Sheriff of Prince William county 1731-32 and listed as a Justices of Prince William in 1735. In 1743, he patents land in Fauquier County that he later gives to his eldest son Brereton. He in Lunenburg County by 1746 where he took the oath of office as the Justice of the Peace. He settled on a plantation of around 900 acres on land that today would fall into Halifax and Charlotte Counties. Elizabeth was alive at least as late as 1742, but was dead by 1748.[3]

from http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/brereton/190/

When she was about seventeen years of age, Elizabeth Brereton was married to Robert Jones, son of Capt. William Jones and Margaret Haynes, also of Northumberland County.

References:

• 1. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, editor, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York 1915, p. 194.
• 2. Beverly Fleet,Abstracts of Virginia Colonial Records, Vol. XIX, Northumbria Collectanea 1645 - 1720, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore 1961, pp. 12 - 15; 23;  95 - 99; 105; 107; and 120-122.

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After the death of Joseph Scott, his widow, Sarah, married Robert Jones in Amelia County 16 June 1750 . Thomas Nash was his security. Robert was from Lunenburg County, the son of Col. Robert Jones and Elizabeth Brereton, but settled in Amelia County after his marriage to Sarah.

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• Residence: St. Bertoline, Barthomley, Cheshire, England - 23 Oct 1666
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 9 2021, 17:50:19 UTC

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Elizabeth Brereton

Birth: 1693 - Northumberland County, Virginia
Death: Apr 1746 - Essex County, Virginia
Parents: Thomas Brereton
Husband: Capt. Robert Jones III (1698-1750) - married 1716.

Biography

from "Adventurers of Purse & Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5"

Elizabeth Brereton was born after her father's death, was given two rings, one with a small seal with her grandfather Brereton's coat of arms, by the will of Leonard Howson, 13Dec. 1704-21 Feb 1704/5. She married before 1716 Col. Robert Jones, who petitioned, 18 Jume 1718 for administration on the estate of Thomas Brereton the Younger, his wife Elizabeth being next of kin. Issue: Brereton Jones [4]

Family

From http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/a/r/Leslie-C-Haralson-TX/WEBSITE-000...

Robert Jones (son of Richard Jones and Sarah Garlington) was born 1695 in Mecklinburg County, VA, and died date unknown.

Children of Robert Jones are:

• Robert Jones, b. Abt. 1710, d. 1771, Parish of St. James, Mecklenburg County, VA.
• +James Jones, b. Abt. 1711, d. date unknown.
• +Richard Jones, b. Abt. 1713, Mecklinburg County, VA, d. 1779, Halifax County, VA.
• +John Jones, Sr., b. 1715, Mecklenburg, VA, d. 1792, Mecklenburg, VA.
• +Ambrose Jones, b. 1717, Mecklinburg County, VA, d. January 23, 1792, Granville County, NC.

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References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6J6-G3D
2. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Brereton) Jones (1693-1746)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brereton-327 : accessed 30 January 2025).