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Preferred Citation

Gabriel Jones Papers, 1766. Accession 38888, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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Biographical/Historical Information

Gabriel Jones was born about 1715 and was living in Culpeper County, Virginia, by 1766. He married Mary Boughan Edmondson, widow of John Edmondson (d. ca. 1733) of Essex County, Virginia, sometime after 1733. They had at least five children. Mary Jones had one daughter by her first marriage, Sukey Edmondson, who married Thomas Wiatt of Essex County.

Scope and Content Information

Livery of seisin, 27 June 1766, for slaves from Gabriel Jones and his wife Mary Jones of Culpeper County, Virginia, to their children, Lucy Poindexter, Jeane Gray, Elizabeth Green, Dorothy Johnston, and Gabriel Jones, Jr. The slaves were originally part of the estate of John Edmondson of Essex County, Virginia, who was the first husband of Mary Jones. The document makes reference to an earlier deed for these slaves from Thomas Wiatt, husband of Sukey Edmondson Wiatt, only daughter of John Edmondson and Mary Edmondson (Jones) to Gabriel and Mary Jones' children. This document is incomplete.