Although I was hopeful that the Benjamin Jones still listed here as the son of John was my relative, I'm now thinking that my Benjamin may be one of the unknown sons of John's father. David Jones, father of John, who married Esther John, may have come to the colonies with John or with a possible brother.  Much research still remains to be done and we are hoping that DNA testing can close in the possible relatives. 

The John Jones family was one of a couple of hundred immigrants that were brought to Pennsylvania by William Penn. 
John Jones and Ann James were both baptized in the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in upper Delaware which was then Pennsylvania.  John on December 4, 1736 and Ann James on September 3, 1737.  John Jones and several other members of the church were given a letter to them dismiss them from the Welsh Neck Church as they made plans to start a new colony. 

Records for any family of this era a difficult to find and confusing to interpret.   The one document that cements many of the children to John Jones is a will by his father David Jones on August 1748.  This multi-page document I have extracted the pertinent connections. 

In the will "David Jones of Pencader hundred in ye County of New Castle upon Dellaware Yeoman being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory ... Do make & ordain this my last Will & testament....I give and bequeath to Esther my dearly beloved wife one third...to my son Morgan Jones ... ten pounds...and land and plantation where Thos. Nelson lately lived..to my son James Jones the land and Plantation where he now liveth... ten pounds to Esther daughter of John Jones... to my Son John Jones ye sum of five pounds besides ten pounds that I ordered my son Morgan to pay... to my Son Daniel Jones ye land and place where I now live...unto my Son David Jones ye new plantation on ye south end of my land... upon Condition the his sister Jane shall live along with him while she continues unmarried..to my daughter Rachell Williams the sum of ten pounds besides ten pounds ordered... her husband Richd. Williams... I give to each of George Browns Children (a suspected marriage to a deacsed daughter) Thomas Brown... John Brown...William Brown...George Brown... when they arrives to full age.. I give and bequeath to my grand Son Benjm. Jones son of John Jones the land and improvements thereon Christiana Creek in White Clay Creek Hundred where widow Helpatrick now liveth to be delivered him when he arrives to ye age of twenty five years to him and his assigns forever,  But if he dies before he arrives to good age ye said land and premises shall be for ye use of his brother Enoch Jones his heirs and assigns forever to be delivered him when he arrives to ye age of twenty-five years. 
                             (signed and sealed) David Jones.
 

1736, Sept 30 - Benjamin Jones files for a Land Grant for 550 acres in Craven Co., S. C. [SC Archives and History, Series 213019, Vol. 0041, page 00140, Item 000]  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 or unidentified son of David Jones in Delaware who died in 1748.

1737 -  A group of Delaware Baptists were given a large tract of land on the Pee Dee River to settle and establish a new church on the perimeters of known civilization about 60 miles north of Charleston called Welsh Neck or Jame's Neck.  Rev. Phillp (1701-17540 who married Elizabeth Thomas,  became the first minister of the Pee Dee church.   They shortly move the community further upstream to be about 135 miles north of Charleston. 

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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