One early South Carolina court judgement lists John Fraser vs Benjamin Jones in 1717.  Some land records put a Benjamin Jones in South Carolina by 1725 ahead of other suspected ancestors.[South Carolina Dept of Archives and Hist.]

 About 1745 - Benjamin Jones may have been an immigrant to Virginia but so far we have not been able to prove that. Most researchers seem to think he lived in Culpepper Co., VA and moved to South Carolina with his family by 1749. [Gifford. LDS records online, 1999]

There are several Benjamin Jones in early records of South Carolina that I'm presently trying to sort out. Because there are several Benjamin Jones it is difficult to tell which person is attached to which record. Any help that I can get on this is most appreciated.  Richard Jones believes that my Benjamin Jones may have been the son of John Jones who comes to the PeeDee river in 1738 with a group of thirty Welsh anabaptists from Delaware.  They were given grants to about 2000 acres of land to establish a religious community which was first called Pee Dee Church but later changed to Welsh Neck Church.  [emails of Richard Jones 12/28/08] The problem with this theory is that the Welsh Benjamin Jones is not supposed to be of legal age (25) in 1748.  This is probably not for my Benjamin since he is projected to be too young if he is born in 1724 and unlikely to have the money or political clout to get a Land Grant of this size.  The question still remains as to whether it could still be relative, say the brother of David Jones on Delaware who died in 1748.  It also doesn't fit the ages of the children.  I figure that my Benjamin has to have been born before 1700. 

1738, August - John Jones files a land grant for 250 acres on James Neck up Pee Dee river. 

There are a number of land records Book G-G, p. 48, Sept. 1749, Agreement (this one would place him in the southern part of the state.  )
Newell Edwards, planter, agrees to deliver to John Scott, shipwright; both of Berkeley Co.; on Edward's plantation where he dwells, 100 pine trees fit for sawing or splitting for rails; 12 white oak trees, 12 red oak & all live oaks on the plantation. Scott agrees to pay 5 shillings for each pine tree; 20 shillings for each white oak; 10 shillings for each red oak; 2 shillings 6d. for each live oak. Each gives bond of £50 currency. Witnesses: John Crosthwaite, Benjamin Jones. Before Jacob Motte, J. P. William Hopten, Register. [Langlely, Clara A.. S. C. Deed Abstracts 1719-1772, Vol. II, p.199]

Pages 20-26. Petition of Mary DeLaFontaine of the City of London in the Kingdom of Great Britain, widow, sheweth that your petitioner in her own right together deceased, do hold as tenants in common a certain Barrony or tract of land containing 12,000 acres in Granville County, the eastermost part whereof is adjoining to a Branch of Port Royal River called Oketty Creek, from whence it extends Westerly towards the township of Purisburgh, which said Barrony was granted by the Late Lords Proprieteors of the said Province to one Isaac Lowndes, who by a certain Deed Poll bearing date 26 Aug. 1729 declared that his Name was used in said Grant only as a trustee to Thomas Lowndes, and by divers means conveyances and bequests the said baron became vested in Robert Thorpe and your petitioner as tenants in common, that is to say Nine thousand acres of said Barony became vested in the said Robert Thorpe, and Three thousand acres became vested in your petitioner. Prays for a Writ of Partition.
Commission to Daniel Heyward and Andrew Verdier, Esquires, Justices of the Peace in Granville County to receive the report of the commission. 4 July 1758. This Commission cites a Writ dated 4 Apr. 1758 directed to William Scott, Benjamin Jones, Drury Dunn, John Cole, and John Scott, and of Granville County, planters. There had been an earlier Writ cated 11 nov. 1756 to John Garvey, William Scott, Benjamin Jones John Scott, and Michael Sealey of Granville County, planters directing a division between Mary DeLa Fontaine and the heirs of Robert Thorpe, but the earlier commissioners had failed to make the division.
[So. Carolina Mag. of Ancest. Res., Vol. 1, p.5]

I don't have a copy of the will or probate record for this family but I believe that one exists. Family tradition has it that the wife of Benjamin Jones is Elizabeth Crain/Crane. This is how Adam Crain Jones gets his middle name. I have been unable to confirm this without a marriage record or probate record. If someone out there has a copy I would like to have it for my files.

1760 - "The Long Canes Massacre" - A group of settlers in the outback area of South Carolina, near the present city of Troy, S. C. banded together by wagon train to leave the region due to the progressively more violent threats of Cherokee Indians.  The hundred and fifty or so settlers had made it to Long Cane Creek where they were attacked by about a hundred Cherokee.  Only twenty-three settlers were reported killed but several of them were children.  Benjamin Jones was one of the settlers and his unnamed daughter who had married a Rosemond was supposed to have been killed here.  No complete list of all the dead has been created.  You can find out more on this web page.      http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/LongCane.massacre.html

1790- Census of Laurens Co., S. C.  - 

M637  Roll: 11  Page: 436

p. 437
Laurens                       Jones, John                         2                3       4             -        -
Laurens                       Jones, Thomas                    1                -        1             -        -
Laurens                       Jones, Thomas                    2                2       1             -        -

Source:

Gifford, Porter W., LDS records online. submitters address: 9107 Devonshire, Dallas, TX USA 75209 Submission: AF95-000181
Conway, Nancy. records on "H. A. Jones family" by email of 9 Sep 1999, nacisue@webtv.net
Langlely, Clara A.. S. C. Deed Abstracts 1719-1772, Vol. II, p.199, 1984, Southern Historical Press, Inc., P. O. Box 738
Lucas, Rev. Silas E., Jr. Some South Carolina County Records, Vol. 2, So. Historical Press, 1989. c/o Rev. Silas Lucas Jr., P.O. 738 Easley, SC 29641-0738
South Carolina Marriages, Vol. IV. 1787 -1875, Implied in the Miscellaneous Records of South Carolina. 1994, Langdon and Langdon Genealogical Research, 132 Langdon Road, Aiken, S. C. 29801-9536
Sec of State -Misc. Records Bk. 2, p.532-533, Roll#Misc 16, South Carolina Archives,

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