The work at hand consists of approximately 1,800 of what purport to be theearliest recorded marriage records for Augusta County, Virginia. Each entrygives the date of the marriage and the full names of the bride and groom.
Enos Jones of Augusta County, Virginia, was the son of Robert Jones & Anne Coulston of the Welsh settlement of Gwyndd in what is today Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. They were Friends or Quakers if you prefer, as were the majority of the first settlers of Gwyndd, fleeing from the religious intolerance of 17th Century England. These early Quakers were soon joined by a host of 18th Century settlers from Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England who also contributed their unique heritage to the growth of our country's culture. They were quickly followed by others from almost every corner of the world. Around the time of the American Revolution, Enos Jones and his wife Lydia, daughter of Palatine Germans, packed up their family and, along with Lydia's brothers, made their way west into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The following generations moved on west in search of new lands to farm stopping in Ross County, Ohio, then Linn County, Iowa, and finally in Page County, Iowa where the tale ends.
Col. Jefferson Franklin Jones (1817-1879), son of Thomas G. Jones and Rececca Buxton Snedicor, was born in Montgomery Co., Ky., and died in Callaway Co., Missori. He was married to Sally Ann Jameson (1828-1888) in 1844 in Callaway County. She was born in Fulton, Callaway Co., to Samuel Jameson and Malinda Harris. They were parents of sixteen children. Descendants live in Alabama, Missouri, Ohio, New York and elsewhere. The earliest Jones ancestor, Mosias Jones (d. bef. 1728), died in New Kent Co., Va. and married ca. 1719 Lucy Foster (1697-1750) of New Kent Co., Virginia.
This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.