HUGH JONES: Owings Stone Family Genealogy — 20,000+ ancestors and their relatives

Birth Abt 1635 Wincanton, Somersetshire, England [1]

Gender Male

Ancestor of /
Notable Descendants President Calvin Coolidge (through 2nd wife) (7th cousin of Carl Howard Webster)

Immigration Abt 1650 Wincanton, Somersetshire, England [1]

Died Abt 1688 Salem, Essex Co., Mass. [1]

Person ID I2527 Owings Stone Genealogy, Ancestry & Heritage

Last Modified 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00

Father ROBERT JONES, b. Bef 1615, Wincanton, Somersetshire, England

Family ID F1893 Group Sheet

Family 1 Hannah Tompkins, b. 21 Feb 1640/41, England

Married 26 Jun 1660 [1, 2]

Children

	1. Hannah Jones, b. 9 Feb 1661
	2. Sarah Jones, b. 1662
	3. Sarah Jones, b. 30 Apr 1663
	4. Elizabeth Jones, b. 2 Oct 1664
	5. Mary Jones, b. 30 Jan 1666
	6. John Jones, b. 4 Aug 1667, Salem, Essex Co., Mass.
	7. Deborah Jones, b. 10 Mar 1670
	8. Samuel Jones, b. 30 Apr 1672, Salem, Essex Co., Mass.

Family ID F1787 Group Sheet

Family 2 MARY FOSTER, b. Bef 1649

Married 31 Dec 1672 Salem, Essex Co., Mass. [1, 2, 3]

Notes

Source CD spells his name Joanes

Children

	1. REBECCA JONES, b. 15 Oct 1673, prob. Wilmington, MA
	2. Abigail Jones, b. 7 Jan 1674/75
	3. Hannah Jones, b. 17 May 1677
	4. Rachel Jones, b. 17 Apr 1679
	5. SARAH JONES, b. 10 Jul 1681, Salem, Essex Co., Mass.
	6. Hugh Jones, Jr., b. 1683
	7. Lydia Jones, b. 20 Feb 1684

Family ID F998 Group Sheet

Notes

Apparently Hugh came to New England as an apprentice to Robert Gutch and soon after was in the employ of Robert Gardner in Salem.

On Nov. 18, 1661, he received from the township of Salem a homestead grant of about 3 acres near the brook that ran down to the mill. He sold this land on Apr. 22, 1673, and on Apr. 13, 1674, bough 5 acres in the “North Neck.”

Hugh had 8 children by his first wife, then married her cousin and had 7 more!

It is unknown how Hugh Jones died but he must have come to a mysterious end. “During the Salem witchcraft trials in 1692, Elizabeth Booth deposed that the uneasy ghosts of four murdered persons appeared to her; and that ‘the spectre of Hugh Jones assured that Mrs. Elizabeth Proctor killed him because he had a poght of cyder of her which he had not paid her for.’”

Founder of a town?????

Savages says: HUGH, Salem, m. 26 June 1660, Hannah, eldest d. of John Tompkins, had Hannah, b. 9 Feb. foll. d. next yr.; Sarah, wh. d. 12 Oct. 1662; Sarah, again, 30 Apr. 1663, d. soon; Elizabeth 2 Oct. 1664; Mary, 30 Jan. 1666; John, 4 Aug. 1667; Deborah, 10 Mar. 1670; Samuel, 30 Apr. 1672; and his w. d. 10 May foll. On 31 Dec. foll. he m. Mary Foster, and had Rebecca, 15 Oct. 1673; Abigail, 7 Jan. 1675; Hannah, again, 17 May 1677; Rachel, 17 Apr. 1679; Sarah, 10 July 1681; and Lydia, 20 Feb. 1685. When he d. is not kn. but it was bef. 30 June 1692, for that day Elizabeth Booth sw. on the trial for witchcr. of Elizabeth Procter, that the spectre of Jones assur. the witness that Mrs. P. k. him, "because he had a pot of cider of her, wh. he had not paid for." Such were the nonsense stories, that the Ct. allow. to be giv. to the jury. Essex Inst. II. 198.

Note that some sources were published that give Hugh Jones royal ancestors, however, in Gary Boyd Roberts 2006 version of his Royal Descents, he states that that ancestry has been disproved.. [1, 2, 4]

Birth:

“descended from an ancient Welsh line”

Immigration:

to Salem, Essex Co., Mass.

Sources

[S13] Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, (NEHGS, Boston, Mass.)
[S106] Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Savage, James
[S66] Marriage index CD: Massachusetts 1633-1850 (#231), (Broderbund)
[S13] Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, (NEHGS, Boston, Mass.), p. 4

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