When Jesse Jones was born on 10 February 1723, in Montgomery Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, John Jones, was 34 and his mother, Jane Edwards, was 36. He married Mary Ashbridge on 7 April 1750, in Goshen MM, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in 1750. He died in 1782, in Buckingham Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 59.
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English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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