David Jones and Esther Morgan of New Castle County, Delaware

PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE

DAVID JONES and ESTHER MORGAN Welsh Emigrants

Published 4 June 2016

Dafydd ap John, or as he was more commonly known, David Jones, must have been a man of some importance in the early Baptist Church of South Wales to have married Esther Morgan the daughter of Deacon Morgan ap Rhydderch and his wife Jane. Certainly David Jones came from a family of some influence for him to have had married the daughter of a Baptist deacon and sister of two important Baptist ministers. Baptist Church records showed several people being excluded from Baptists congregations for marrying outside their faith and without family approval. This strongly indicates that David Jones was a devout member of the early Baptist Church in Wales.

Beyond this little is known of his background. It has been stated by some researchers that David Jones was born circa 1668 probably in Glamorganshire, Wales. As his name implies, he was the son of a man named John. His father is thought to have been “John ap John” thus his paternal grandfather was also a man named John. The surname Jones is an English derivative of “ap John” and in many early American records he is listed as David John.

While there is little known of this John ap Johns [John Jones], a direct paternal ancestor for Kenneth Louis Jones, what can be speculated is that he was a Welsh man born circa 1640 most likely in South Wales. David Jones’ grandfather a Welshman named John was probably born circa 1620 and would have been of age to have fought in the English Civil War most likely on the Parliamentarian side. Whether any of these men affiliated themselves with the Baptist faith is unknown although there are several Jones among those who established the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in Delaware.

David Jones probably came from an agricultural family of Yeoman land owners as that he had the financial means to transport his family to America where in New Castle County Delaware he became a prosperous farmer so evidently he knew the art of husbandry.

While nothing is known definitely on David Jones’ family in Wales, his in-laws were all ardent early Baptists, serving as deacons and ministers in the faith. His father in law was a very popular Baptist deacon and preacher in the Rhydwilim church and its branch at Glandwr. When Morgan ap Rhydderch died in 1680, he left his widow Jane with young sons all under the age of 9 years and a two year old daughter. Due to her mother’s prominence as the widow of Morgan ap Rhydderch, she was married to another Baptist preacher named Rev. John Griffith who raised Morgan ap Rhydderch’s children and had two more children of his own by Jane.

Because the Jones and Morgan families were religious non conformists, they suffered persecution by the king's officers until 1688, when King James II was ousted by his brother-in-law, William of Orange who had Parliament past the Toleration Act of 1689. Only then did the Baptists in Wales begin to feel free to worship openly.

A very important provision of the Toleration Act was that for the first time it allowed dissenters and nonconformists to build their own places of worship. Prior to the Act, the Baptists had mostly met in private houses but from 1690 onwards both Independents and Baptists began to erect chapels. In 1695, the Llanwenerch Baptist congregation built the first Baptist chapel in Wales under the direction of William Pritchard the founder of faith there and was the chapel was licensed for worship in 1696.

As a teenager, David Jones was attracted to the Baptist faith, whether his family was Baptist or not. The first known record concerning Jones showed that on 2 May 1683, at the age of 15, he attended a men's church meeting at in Penllyn in Glamorganshire, Wales, a village 7 miles from the Penyfai Baptist Church. Penyfai was founded as a branch of the Swansea Baptist church by John Miles one of the founders of the Baptist Church in Wales.

In 1692, Esther Morgan’s older brother Abel Morgan left his family’s church at Glandwr in Cardiganshire and moved to Llanwenarth near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire. Here he began to preach when he was only 19 years old. As that Esther Morgan’s mother Mrs. Jane Griffith had two infants, Benjamin and Sarah Griffith, to care for, it is probable that at the age of 14, she went with her brother Abel to attend to his domestic needs of cooking and housekeeping at Abergavenny.

Esther Morgan was there when the first Baptist chapel was built in 1695 and there when in 1696 Abel Morgan age 23 years was invited to become the pastor of the church in Blaenau Gwent, a branch of the Llanwenerch church. Her mother and stepfather were still living in Llanllwni, [Llanllwny] Carmarthenshire, about 7 miles from the ancestral home of her father at Llanwenog in Cardiganshire [Ceredigion].

Certainly David Jones and Esther Morgan met attending the Blaenau Gwent congregation for they would not have married out of the faith. In 1698 David Jones was 28 years old and had enough financial wherewithal to support a bride or he would not have been seen as a suitable match for Esther. If David Jones was originally from Glamorganshire, it is plausible that he was attending church at Llanwenerch about this time as the young Esther Morgan was living under the care of her older brother Abel Morgan, the minister.

The couple David Jones and Esther Morgan were married most likely no earlier than 1696 at Llanwenarch. They were married perhaps even by Rev. Pritchard due to her father’s preeminence in the early church. Pritchard was present at the setting a part of her father Morgan ap Rhydderch as a deacon, and would have had a familiar connection with this family. David Jones was about 28 years old and his bride Esther was about 18 years old.

David and Esther Morgan Jones immediately began having children and eventually had nine in all. As that the couple were nonconformists none of their children’s births were recorded. The Baptist Church does not keep vital statistics for their members with a few exceptions of death records of prominent members. This makes it problematic as to determine the birth order, let alone birthdates, of their children.

David Jones did leave a will in America however and in typical fashion, he named all his sons first and then all his daughters. Traditionally wills listed sons and daughters in birth order. That being the case, the sons of David and Esther Morgan Jones were probably born in this order;  Morgan Jones, James Jones, John Jones, Daniel Jones, and David Jones Junior. Cemetery records in the Welsh Tract Baptist Church graveyard in Delaware show that Morgan Jones was born in 1697, and David Jones Junior was born in 1716, which is consistent with them being listed first and last in the will.

The couple’s daughters were listed as Jane Jones, Rachel Jones Williams, Mary Jones Deal, and an unnamed daughter wife of George Brown, perhaps Esther as there are no daughter named after the mother. They however do not seem to be listed in chronicle order.

Nine children of David and Esther Jones are known to have grown to maturity. How many baby and children died before reaching maturity will never be known. Reason suggests that most of David Jones’ children were born in Wales before coming to the Welsh Tract in Delaware at the beginning of 1712. As that David and Esther were married 15 years before they emigrated from Wales they could have had up to seven children born in Wales. Before the advent of modern birth control, the average span between the births of children was approximately 18 months to 24 months.

David Jones first child Morgan was born in 1697 and their second child James Jones in 1699. They could have had up to five more children born in Wales. But unless documented on a tombstone, all the birthdates of their nine known children are speculative and vary widely. At least two children were born in America, David Jones Junior born in 1716 and Jane Jones Passmore in 1717.

In 1701 David Jone’s in-laws, Rev. John Griffith and Jane, move to Abergavenny, Wales probably to be near Jane’s grandchildren by her daughter Esther Jones. In same year Esther’s older brother Enoch Morgan along with 16 other members of the Rhydwilim and Glandwr church under the leadership of Rev. Thomas Griffith sailed to the Colony of Pennsylvania Colony to establish a Baptist presence there. Esther’s uncle Philip ap Rhydderch had immigrated there some 12 years before but as a Quaker.

Sixteen Baptists from the counties of Pembroke and Cairmarthen, Wales, resolved to go to America, including David Jones’ 25 year old brother-in-law Enoch Morgan. The emigrants met at Milford Haven, Wales in late June 1701 and embarked on board the "James and Mary". On 8 September 1701, these Welsh Baptists landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and settled first at Pennepec [Pennypack]. While at Pennepec, Enoch Morgan’s uncle Rees ap Rhyddarch and his wife, Catherine joined them.

These early Welsh Baptists had the then unusual practices of laying of hands and singing of psalms. In 1703 they separated from the Pennypack congregation over the issue of “laying on of hands” and moved to the land purchased by them in Pencader Hundred, in Newcastle County. Originally part of Pennsylvania Colony, but now in Delaware, Pencader Hundred included Iron Hill where a small meeting-house was erected on the property.

The congregation became known as the Welsh Tract Baptist Church and was led by Thomas Griffith who served as the first pastor of the church until he died 25 July 1725 at the age of eighty years. Esther Jones brother, Rev. Enoch Morgan, one of the 16 who first came over from Wales to form the Welsh Tract Church, became its third Pastor.

Queen Anne came to the British throne in 1704 and during her reign she began to enforce Anglican Church attendance once again in Great Britain. This must have been a worry for the older Baptists who lived through the persecution of Anne’s elder brothers King Charles II and James Il. The Joneses would have been in correspondence with Enoch Morgan in America and would have learned of the establishment of a church in the Welsh Tract of New Castle County. Many Baptists in Wales began to think that the colonies were a place where they could worship freely especially in Pennsylvania were religious tolerance was part of their charter.

In the meanwhile David Jones and Esther Morgans’s family grew and they seemed to have prospered at Abergavenny. However, when old Rev. William Pritchard died in 1707 and with the death of her mother Jane sometime before 1710, these events probably influenced Esther and David Jones’ decision to emigrate from their ancestral homes in Wales to America.

In 1710 Esther Jones’ stepfather Rev. John Griffith and her half siblings Benjamin and Sarah emigrated from Wales to Pennsylvania. Once in America, Griffith married for the 3rd time in Pennsylvania and was an Elder in the Welsh Tract Baptist Church at the time of his death. He died in New Castle County and was buried 12 November 1735 at the age of 80. His son Benjamin Griffith in 1711 was baptized in the Pennepak [Pennypack] Baptist Church and by 1720 he was the pastor of the Montgomery Church for 48 years until his death in 1768 at the age of 80. Rev. Benjamin Griffith and his half brothers Rev Abel Morgan and Rev. Enoch Morgan were also Baptist ministers. Esther Jones’ half sister Sarah Griffith was born circa 1690 was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales. She married Thomas Cooch of New Castle County Delaware and died after 1763.

The decision by David and Esther to emigrate was probably settled when Esther’s brother Abel Morgan announced to his congregation in 1711 that he was leaving his pastorate at Blaenu Gwent and immigrating to America to join his relatives there. The desire to freely pursue their religious beliefs was the chief motivator for the Jones and Morgan families’ decision to leave Wales and come to America.

The Joneses joined Rev. Morgan’s family in the crossing. Preparation for the journey to America entailed the Joneses selling all their lands, homes, livestock, and possessions and buying the provision needed for the two months trans Atlantic journey. Saying good bye to friends and relations would have take up several weeks also.

After selling all their possessions in Wales, the families of David Jones and Abel Morgan traveled to the City of Bristol and booked passage for David Jones and his wife Esther, along with at least six of their children, for what they thought would be a two month journey in order to make new lives in the Colonies.

When David Jones was about 43 years old and his wife Esther was 33, on Tuesday 28 September 1711 this band of emigrants embarked for America from the port of Bristol England. Their oldest son Morgan Jones was about 14 years old and the youngest still an infant. Esther’s sister in law also had an infant, and other small children. Little could they have known that the typical 8 to 10 week crossing to America would turn into a grueling 20 weeks as bad weather and sickness hindered their Trans-Atlantic journey.

Leaving Bristol, torrential winds forced the emigrant’s vessel to go up the coast of Wales and anchor at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire for safety. There they were detained for three weeks waiting for the weather to clear. They were within fifty miles of their ancestral home at Llanwenog. When they set sail again in October, the winds picked up again and drove them across the Irish Sea 350 miles to the harbor at Cork, Ireland. Unable to set sail for five weeks they were in “uncomfortable circumstances as most of the passengers were unwell. It had been eight weeks since boarding the ship and many ships had made the crossing of the Atlantic within that time.

Finally on the 19th of November, the ship set sail again. In early December, Rev. Abel Morgan’s wife and infant son died during the crossing and were buried at sea. The stormy Atlantic Ocean was in the depth of winter and after 140 days from the time they set sail in late September, the weary passengers disembarked at Philadelphia on 14 February 1712. The journey from Bristol to Philadelphia took an extraordinary five months.

Some of the passengers like Rev. Abel Morgan stayed at the Baptist Community of Pennypack in Pennsylvania while David Jones’s family settled in the Welsh Tract Baptist Church area in New Castle County where Enoch Morgan and John Griffith were already been established.

At various times during its long history, portions of the Welsh Tract Baptist congregation separated themselves from the main church for the purpose of organizing other bands of worshippers. The Welsh Tract Baptist Church was considered “the mother church” to several other congregations in the middle colonies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland as well as one in South Carolina which principal in spreading the Baptist faith in the Southern Colonies. The Welsh Baptists introduced singing, the laying on of hands, having ruling elders and obeying church covenants in America.

At the age of 44 years, David Jones was prepared to make a new life for himself and his family. Welsh Tract Baptist Church records show that in 1714 David John [Jones] was added to the church by Baptism. Whether this was a first confession of faith or whether he was simply rebaptized is unknown. His brothers in law, Abel Morgan and Benjamin Griffith in the same year were added to the church by letters from the Pennypack Church near Philadelphia but eventually they would move to other congregations in New Jersey Colony and Pennsylvania Colony.

Soon upon arriving David Jones purchased some land in White Clay Creek Hundred of New Castle County, approximately 2.5 miles from the Welsh Tract Baptist Church. There David became a prosperous farmer and also bought land in neighboring Pencader Hundred. He owned various tracts of land from 200 to 300 acres in New Castle County directly south of Rev. John Griffith’s 167 acres on the branch of Christiana Creek near present day Newark. Here he planted fruit orchards and raised wheat and hay for his livestock and David and Esther had at least two more children.

David Jones was 57 years old when Rev. Thomas Griffith the founder of Welsh Tract Baptist Church died in 1725. He was succeeded by Rev. Elisha Thomas , born in Carmarthen County in 1674, and who came to Philadelphia with Enoch Morgan in 1701. Thomas only served five years before dying at the age of 56 years. David Jones’ brother- in- law , Enoch Morgan became the third pastor of the church. He would serve the church for nearly ten years until his own death in 1740.

On 13 March 1733, the Welsh Tract Baptist Church began keeping official records of its members. In these records were some of the names of early members, deaths of prominent members, information on members who were excluded from fellowship and those who removed to other congregations. Male and female membership were listed separately.

Family members of David Jones listed in these records had special notations by their names. His brother in law Enoch Morgan was listed as “minister died’, father- in- law John Griffith “Elder died’, his son John Jones “removed” to South Carolina, son Daniel Jones was excluded for offenses, his son Morgan John, wife Esther “John”, his sister-in-law Joanna Morgan wife of Enoch Morgan, perhaps his daughter Rebeckah John, his sister in law Sarah Griffith daughter of John Griffth and Jane, his daughter in law Eleanor Jones wife of Morgan Jones, and perhaps his daughters Eleanor John and Mary John.

Surprisingly, David John [Jones] was shown as being excluded from the Baptist Church. The fourth book in the church record was “intended for to set down the names of those that must needs be excluded from the church for their faults (when they cannot be reclaimed after all lawful care and tenderness is used) where both their names and their faults shall be recorded together.” However any reason for why David Jones was excluded is not recorded. He must have come back into fellowship with the Baptists prior to 1748 when his death is recorded in the official record of members. The record does not give the date or the offense for which David Jones was excluded. His son Daniel Jones on the other had been excluded “first for being guilty of ye sin of drunkenness, and for his application to such as is Said had curious arts. 2ly [Secondly] being charged with fornication,  3ly [thirdly] his obstinacy and disobedience to ye Church.”

In 1736 a portion of Rev. Enoch Morgan’s Welsh Tract Baptist congregation removed them selves and went to South Carolina to start a Baptist church on the banks of the Peedee River. It was in a portion of the area between North Carolina and South Carolina bearing the name Welsh Neck. Several relatives from Kenneth Louis Jones wife’s Williams side of her family became famous preachers in this religious community and probably knew David and Esther’s son John Jones who went with his family with this portion of the church to South Carolina.

David Morgan’s brother in law Rev. Enoch Morgan died on 25 March 1740 about 65 years old. Upon his death Rev. Owen Thomas took charge of the church and filled the pulpit here untill May 27, 1748, about three months before David Jones died. Under the guidance of Rev. Thomas, the old church built in 1703 was demolished in 1746 and a new church was built on a lot containing six acres, “The edifice is a neat brick building, thirty feet square.” The new pastor Rev. David Davis became pastor of the Welsh Tract Baptist church shortly before the death of David Jones.

David Jones died on 20 Aug 1748 in New Castle County two days after making out his Last Will and Testament which should that he was a prosperous farmer. He was about 80 years old and survived by his wife Esther Morgan Jones and all but one of his children according to his will. His tombstone reads “David Jones Departed this life Aug 20 1748 aged 80” and he was buried in the Welsh Tract Baptist church’s graveyard.

David Jones must have been extremely ill when he wrote his Last Will and Testament as he had it made on August 18 and then he died two days later. The Will was probated a week after his death on 27 August 1748 which seemed to have been done rather quickly.

“In the name of God Amen on the Eighteenth day of Aug one thousand seven hundred and forty eight, I David Jones of Pencader Hundred in the County of New Castle upon Delaware , yeoman ”being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God Therefore calling to mind of morality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die Do make and ordain this My Last Will and Testament that is to say principally & first of all I give and commend my soul unto ye hand of God that gave it and my body I commend to ye Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at ye direction of my Executors and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to have bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner,

•       I give and bequeath to Esther my dearly beloved wife one third part of all properties all my lands during natural life and all my household goods except for what shall after be excepted and to have half of the grain in and about the barn and half of the profits from the orchards and the remainder of my estate after all my debts and legacies are paid.

•       Item I give unto my son Morgan Jones ye land and plantation where Thomas Nelson lately liveth to his heirs and assigns forever

•       Item I give unto my son James Jones the land and plantation where he now dwelleth being 240 acres of land as it is specified in writing on the same and also the sum of 10 pounds from his brother Morgan as above mentioned and to have on condition he pays ten pounds to Esther Jones daughter of John Jones.

•       Item I give to my son John Jones ye sum of 5 pounds in addition to the 10 pounds my son Morgan Johns as above mentioned.

•       Item I give unto my son Daniel Jones ye land and places where I now live to his heirs and assigns forever and one cow and one ax

•       Item I give unto my son David ye new plantation on the southside of my land and improvement there upon being 100 acres land to be surveyed out of ye south end of my land his heirs and assigns forever upon condition that his sister Jane shall live along with him while she continues unmarried and like wise I give him my son one bay mare and filly besides ye ten pounds his brother Morgan is to pay him as above. But if my said son David dies without issue that ye said land and possessions shall go to ye use of David Jones son of ye said above mentioned Morgan Jones to his heirs and assigns forever upon condition that ye said Morgan Jones or said David Jones his son shall take care of and assist ye said David Jones ye Elder in bargain making or the like when need requires by reason of his noncomprisement and likewide I give the beast cart and one plow to my son.

•       Item I give unto my daughter Jane fifty pounds bond due me from William Addear and twenty pounds in cash besides ye ten pounds I have ordered my son Morgan to pay her as above and one chest with drawers that is now on her name and one rug and one blanket and one sheet and one horse named Robin.

•       Item I give unto my daughter Rachel all deeds and writings that is in my cashby belonging to her husband Richard Williams being the writing of his land.

•       Item I give unto my daughter Mary Deal ye sum of ten pounds besides the 10 pounds I have ordered my son Morgan to pay her as a fore said mentioned.

•       Item I give to each of George Browns children, to Thomas Brown ye sum of ten pounds,to John Brown ye sum of ten pounds, William Brown ye sum of ten pounds, George Brown ye sum of ten pounds to be paid to each of tthem when they arrive at full age by my executor.

•       Item I give to my grandson Benjamin Jones, son of John Jones, the land and the improvement there on Christana Creek in White Clay Creek hundred where widow Thelpilrich now liveth to ne delivered when he arrives at age 25 years but if he dies before he arrives to the age of 25 his land and premises shall be for ye use of his brother Enoch Jones and his heirs and assigns when he arrives at age 25.

•       Lastly I constitute, make and ordain my said wife and my three sons Morgan, James, and Daniel to be joint executors of my Last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disanull all and every other former testaments wills, legacies and bequests and executors by me in any way before named.

Witnesses Daniel Griffith, Thomas Jones and Catherine Bloys. Letters of Administration of his estate was granted to David Jone’s widow Esther Morgan Jones.

Esther Morgan Jones lived six years longer dying on 2 Oct 1754 at the family farm. Her tombstone reads “In Memory of Ester Jones, who Departed this Iife October 2, 1754. aged 76.”

Children of David Jones and Esther Morgan  as listed in David Jones will

1. Morgan Jones was born 1697 Llanwennerch, Wales and died 4 June 1760 Pencader Hundred , New Castle County, Delaware. He came with his family to America from Wales in 1712 to join others in his mother Esther's family.

On 17 Dec 1724 Morgan married Eleanor Evans daughter of Roger and Mary Evans in the Old Swedes Church in Wilmington, Delaware Colony. His wife was born 1700 Chester County Pennsylvania, Colony and died 7 September 1759 Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, In memory of Eleanor Jones, who departed this life Sep 7, 1759, aged 59. "Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." Thess.

Morgan Jones and Eleanor Evans had 9 children. The couple apparently lived the balance of their lives in New Castle County as members of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church

2. James Jones born 1699 died 1786 New Castle Delaware. Married Susannah Williams sister of Richard Williams and had 10 children

3. John Jones born circa 1701 in Monmouthshire, Wales died 19 September 1759 at Pee Dee in Welsh Neck South Carolina. He was born in Wales and came to America at age 10 years with his parents in 1712.

John Jones married a woman whose first name was Ann. Her surname may have been James. On 4 Dec 1736 he was baptized in the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in New Castle County, Delaware.

Shortly after his baptism, in 1737 he and others from the church moved to Pee Dee, South Carolina. Records show that on 11 Mar 1738 he and Ann transferred membership to the Pee Dee, SC church. “Our brother John Jones and his wife Ann Jones who were members of our communion are removed and recommended to our Christian friends on Pedee in South Carolina by a letter March 11, 1738.”

Land grants in 1738 showed he had 250 acres in the Welsh Tract or "New Camberarer" in South Carolina. Land grants were allotted 50 acres per person which indicates that he had five people in his family at this time. Other records show that the 250 acres were in Queensborough Township. Queensborough Township was established and first settled by Scots-Irish and Welsh people from Pennsylvania and Delaware in 1735. It was located on the west side of the Great Pee Dee River in what are the present-day counties of Florence and Marion, South Carolina.

Most of the Welsh ended up living in the adjacent Welsh Tract - also established during the 1730 Township Act - and few remained in the Queensborough Township.

Situated on fairly poor soil compared to the Welsh Tract, Queensborough never really took offJohn Jones was officially dismissed “by a letter to our sister church on Pee Dee river in South Carolina Nov ye 1st, 1741” from the Welsh Tract Baptist Church in Delaware.

By 1741 John Jones owned 500 acres. Church records of the Pee Dee Welsh Neck Baptist Church show that John died on 19 Sep 1759 in Queensborough township. Nothing is known about his burial location. . The few Welsh that had settled the area simply spread out and drifted away in search of better lands.

4.  A daughter perhaps Esther born circa 1703 died before her father. She married George Brown and had four sons, Thomas, John, William, and George. George Brown died before 1762.. Appointment of Attorneys.

I, John Brown of of Mill Creek Hundred, County of Newcastle on Delaware, eldest son and one of the heirs of George Brown dec'd, send Greetings. Know that for diverse good causes and considerations, me thereunto moving have ordained and appointed my beloved brothers William and George Brown, carpenters or millwrights, my true lawful attorneys(Gives permission to sell property in his name.) I hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of Sept., 1762.

5. Mary Jones born circa 1705 Wales died in Mar 1783 in Joppa, Hartford, Maryland after 1783 married John Deal [or Dale] had two children.

John Dale "Sr"-was born in 1712 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He died on 2 Apr 1778 in Joppa, Harford, Maryland. He was buried in Joppa, Hartford, Maryland. He was the son of Archibald Dale  (1691-17670 and grandson of John Dale (1658-1708)

6. Daniel Jones born circa 1707 died after his father circa 1746 Daniel John was disowned bythe Baptist Church first for being guilty of “ye sin of drunkenness”, “for his application to such curious arts”, for being charged with “formication” and “his obstinacy and disobedience to ye Church.”

7. Rachel Jones born circa 1709 married Richard Williams born about 1705 in Wales son of James Williams

8. David Jones Jr born circa 1716 and died 2 December 1758  age 42 in New Castle County, Delaware. He was buried in the Welsh Baptist Church grave yard. Theres no evidence that he married. He is buried next to his parents.

9. Jane Jones was born circa 1717 and died 20 July 1761. She was the youngest child of David and Esther (Morgan) Jones and and was raised in the Welsh Tract.

She married John Passmore after August 1748 over the age of 31. The Passmores of Chester and Lancaster counties are all said to descend from John Passmore (1680-1746) from a Quaker family. John Jr. Passmore was born 1705 in Husk, Berkshire, England. It is not known if they had any children. Her husband John Passmore is not buried in the church cemetery.

She is buried amongst her siblings, parents and other Jones family. There are no other Passmores in the cemetery. “In Memory of Jane Passmore daughter of David and Esther Jones who departed this life 20 July 1761 aged 44 years.” James Jones her elder brother probably paid for her funeral and tombstone as all other members of the family were deceased or without the financial means.