The Ancestors of My Daughters Comprising Three Mayflower Pilgrims One Colonial Governor Over Forty Colonial, Fourteen POULTNEY, VERMONT NATHAN HENRY JONES 1914 And the Lord said unto Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book.”—EXODUS xvii, 14. That the generations to come might know them, even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children.-Ps. lxxviii, 6. Through their trials we inherit our blessings. Their faith is our faith, their hope our hope, their God our God. T INTRODUCTION HE purpose of the compiler of this book is to give the direct line of ancestors of Pierpont Edwards Jones and Beulah Blish Jones and descendants of their parents, Captain Nathan Jones, Jr., and wife, Priscilla Brown; Colonel Daniel Blish and wife, Beulah Wilcox; and the maternal ancestors of his daughters. To their descendants, this book is of inestimable value. Where the line of descent is not completed, it is because of lack of interest on the part of those to whom an appeal was made for proper data. The compiler has substantiated all dates and events by proof from church, national, state, town and family records, and gleanings from family bibles and charts. Due credit has been given to family genealogies. The compiler has received numerous inquiries in regard to the Jones coat of arms. All the information that he can give on this subject is that Mrs. Olivia Newell of Kenosha, Wis., sent him a photograph of a silver tankard which belonged to Colonel Elisha Jones, a descendant of Lewis Jones, and on which was engraved the Jones coat of arms. The motto is in the Welsh language, and when translated reads, "Without God, without Nothing." He has also received a photograph of the same coat of arms from the late General Edward F. Jones of Binghamton, N. Y. Poultney, Vt., July, 1914. NATHAN H. JONES. |