A sketch of the Jones Family
 and a History of the Descendants of Philip Jones
 of Franklin County Indiana

By Sarah E Jones Furry of Vinton, Iowa

The Jones family left their Maryland home for Ohio in May 1796, in a Colony raised by a Dr. Smith of Washington D. C. Each family of the Colony deposited with Dr. Smith $300.00. He preceded the Colony the year before and bought a tract of land from the Siamese Purchase, located between the two Miamies, near Cincinnati, Ohio, for this Colony. As there were no railroads in those days, the Colony traveled overland in wagons, destined for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where it had been planned previously to proceed down the Ohio River to the vicinity of Cincinnati.

After the Colony was well on its way, stories of the depredations and cruelties of the Indians became so frequent that several of the families concluded to stop until the Indians became less troublesome. The Jones family stopped near Connensville, Fayette County Pennsylvania, and remained there until the spring of 1801, when they proceeded down the Ohio, landing at Columbus, a suburb of Cincinnati, May 2^nd, 1801.

They remained here during the summer and winter of that year, while the fathers and sons located a tract of land in the vicinity, and built a good substantial log house, and in the spring of 1802 the family moved out to it.. This new home became known as Mount Lookout, a beautiful farm overlooking Cincinnati...*

The four sons of the Jones family settled later in Franklin County, Indiana. near Brookville, and they with their sons became successful farmers.

The parents, Philip(1) and Elizabeth Dowdon Jones,

Philip(1) Dowdon Jones, died at Mount Lookout, Ohio August 20, 1828

Elizabeth Dowdon Jones died at Mount Lookout, Ohio October 1, 1831. They were both more than eighty years of age when death came. They left numerous descendants now living in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa.

 

"Clear Drinking Manor" Is eight miles from Washington D. C., just north of Chevy Chase, Montgomery County., Maryland. There is only twenty acres left of the original tract in the Jones name, a descendant of the family. The names Collumbia, Williams, and Nash are found in The Colonial records of Maryland. I have not a complete list of those who went to Ohio as Dr. Smith's Colony, but from such information as I have I am of the opinion that William Collumbia, Zachariah Williams, and John Nash were among the number, and were sweethearts of Sussannah, Sarah, and Martha Jones respectively, whom they afterwards married at Connellsville, Pennsylvania in 1797 and 1798. The Williams family were connections of Josiah Parker, who by marriage was connected with the Charles Jones family. Josiah Parker was a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary War.  In Maryland and Virginia from which States they came, and if fact all the older cities of Colonial times via Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, etc. in which family pedigree is based solely upon Revolutionary records, has a social importance .......

[The] Bible published by Mathew Carey, 122 Market St., Philadelphia in 1912. On the left page of the picture are the names and birthdates of Philip and Elizabeth his wife, and also those of their ten children. On the right page of the picture, there are five names and birthdates of those named. The first one is John Jones found at the bottom of the list on the left page, the youngest child Philp Jones. The three next are evidently names of children of branch families of the Jones family. The fifth name, William Collumbia is the fourth child of Willam and Susanna Jones Columbia.

The notes above were taken from: 
*A sketch of the Jones Family and a History of the Descendants of Philip Jones
 of Franklin County Indiana
By Sarah E Jones Furry of Vinton, Iowa

Transcribed by Nancy Curtis Eurich, from a copy of the original work, given to my mother Frances L. Alexander.  Spelling and grammar are as in the original.  No corrections or changes of any kind have been made to this manuscript. ~nce

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