Children of Elizabeth Cunreds and Griffith Jones:
2.
Magdelin Jones; b: 1710, 24th day, 10th month
3.
Ann Jones; b: 1712, 22nd day, 2nd month
4.
Joshua Jones; b: 1713, 25th day, 1st month d: 1713, 7 months old,
buried at the Friends' burying place in Germantown
5.
Joshua Jones; b: 1715, last day, 6th month
6.
Caleb Jones
7.
John Jones
8.
Priscilla Jones
9.
Susannah Jones
10.
Aquilla Jones; b: 1724, 24th day, 4th month; d: 1800, 15th day, 6th
month
Second Generation
2. Magdelin Jones (Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Elizebeth and Griffith's daughter Magdelin is mentioned in Griffith's family bible.
She was born on the 24th day of the 10th month (probably December) in 1710.
She is probably the wife of Thomas Brown, who is mentioned in Griffith's will.
Magdelin is not mentioned in the will, but it appears that she was still living,
because a Magdalen Brown signed brother Aquilla's 1759 marriage certificate
between the signatures of Caleb Jones and Susanna Mason.
6. Caleb Jones (Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Elizebeth and Griffith's son Caleb Jones is mentioned in Griffith's will and in
some Quaker records. He married Ann Garrigues in Philadelphia in 1773.
Children of Caleb Jones and Ann Garrigues:
11.
12.
Griffith Jones; b: 1776
Samuel Jones; b: 1777
8. John Jones (Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Elizebeth and Griffith's son John Jones is mentioned in Griffith's will. He is
probably the same John Jones, son of Griffith, who is mentioned in Quaker
records as marrying Elizabeth Hudson at the Philadelphia Meeting in 1740/4/1,
and Ann Brown in 1761. However, there were other Griffith Joneses in
Philadelphia at the time, and John is a very common name.
9. Susannah Jones (Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Elizabeth and Griffith's daughter Susannah is identified in his will as Susannah
Mason, though it is not clear who her husband, Mr. Mason, was. He is probably
Abraham Mason, who signed the marriage certificate of Susannah's brother
Aquilla directly under Susannah's name.
10. Aquilla Jones (Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Elizabeth and Griffith's son Aquilla was born in 1724, on the 24th day of the 4th
month, apparently in Germantown. He married first Margaret Evans on the 25th
day, 10th month 1759 at the Gwynedd Meeting House. They had two children,
one of whom died in infancy. Wife Margaret died in 1765 at the age of 28.
Shortly thereafter, Aquilla moved to New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Cooper at
the Haddonfield Meeting in Glouster County, New Jersey in 1767. Elizabeth was
a member of the family that the Cooper River was named for; her greatgrandfather was the first permanent European settler in the area that is now
Camden, and founded a ferry across the Delaware River to Philadelphia. Aquilla
and Elizabeth had three more children. Aquilla worked as a shipping agent. He
had several indentured servants. Apparently, he did not share the anti-slavery
sentiments expressed in the document written at his grandfather's house, because
he owned at least one slave whose transfer record exists at the Camden County
Historical Society. Aquilla lived in Glouster County, New Jersey from 1777 until
his death on the 15th day, 6th month 1800.
Children of Aquilla Jones and Margaret Evans:
13.
14.
Mary Jones; b: BET 1759 AND 1765; d: BEF 1800
Aquilla Jones; b: ABT 1763; d: 1764, 17 months old
Children of Aquilla Jones and Elizabeth Cooper:
15.
Isaac Cooper Jones; b: 4 APR 1769, Woodbury, New Jersey; d: 26
JAN 1865, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
16.
Lydia Jones; b: sometime before 1791, when she was mentioned in
Quaker records; d: sometime after 1800, when she was mentioned in
Aquilla's will
17.
Susan Jones; b: sometime before 1791, when she was mentioned in
Quaker records; d: sometime after 1800, when she was mentioned in
Aquilla's will
Third Generation
13. Mary Jones (Aquilla Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Aquilla and Margaret's daughter Mary was born sometime between 1759 (when
her parents married) and 1765 (when her mother died), though no record of the
birth has been identified. In 1778, at the Haddonfield Meeting in Glouster County,
New Jersey, she married Marmaduke Cooper, the younger brother of Mary's stepmother, Aquilla's second wife, Elizabeth Cooper. The home that Mary and
Marmaduke lived in, known as Pomona Hall, is now the site of the Camden
County Historical Society. The M M 1788 written on the chimney of the building,
refers to Marmaduke and Mary. Mary and Marmaduke had eight children, seven
of whom are mentioned by name in Aquilla's will (daughter Mary died before
Aquilla's will was written). Marmaduke died in 1795. Mary probably died before
her father, who died in 1800, because she is not mentioned in his will but her
children are.
Children of Mary Jones and Marmaduke Cooper:
18.
Hannah Cooper; b: 18 JAN 1780; d: 1851, unmarried
19.
Margaret Cooper; b: 14 OCT 1781; married Israel Cope of
Philadelphia
20.
Mary Cooper; b: 17 OCT 1783; d: 27 FEB 1785
21.
Lydia Cooper; b: 7 OCT 1788; d: 1817, unmarried
22.
Elizabeth Cooper; b: 18 SEP 1790; d: 1811
23.
Anna Cooper; b: 28 AUG 1792; d: 1816, unmarried
24.
Joseph Cooper; b: 25 OCT 1794; d: Died young, sometime after
February 1795
25.
Isaac Cooper; b: 10 DEC 1795; d: 30 JUN 1844, unmarried
15. Isaac Cooper Jones (Aquilla Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Aquilla and Elizabeth's son Isaac Cooper Jones was born in Woodbury, New
Jersey in 1769. He voted for George Washington in the first United States
presidential election. In 1797, he married Hannah Firth in Glouster County, New
Jersey. Hannah was a descendant of many Philadelphia and New Jersey notables,
including William Penn's deputy governor, Thomas Lloyd; colonial Philadelphia
mayor Samuel Preston; merchant Samuel Carpenter, and others. Isaac Cooper
Jones brought the Jones family from New Jersey back to Pennsylvania, and later
back to Germantown. At one time, he owned a plantation in Germantown
extending from Stenton Ave to York Rd and from Chelten Ave to Washington
Lane. Isaac Cooper Jones was a merchant with various dry goods firms, and was
engaged in the East India business with branches in Liverpool and Canton. He
died in Philadelphia in 1865, at the age of 96, and is buried at South Laurel Hill
Cemetary.
Children of Isaac Cooper Jones and Hannah Firth:
26.
Samuel Tonkins Jones; b: 27 JAN 1798, New York, married first
Sarah Margaret Thomas and later her sister, Martha Thomas
27.
Sarah Jones; b: 14 JUL 1799; d: 20 JUL 1799
28.
Aquila Jones, M.D.; b: 8 JAN 1800; d: 23 MAY 1861, unmarried,
a doctor with a degree from University of Pennsylvania
29.
Edward Carpenter Jones; b: 11 JAN 1802
30.
Lydia Jones; b: 24 OCT 1804; d: 19 FEB 1878
31.
Franklin Cooper Jones; b: 27 MAR 1807, Pennsylvania; d: 26 JAN
1896, unmarried
32.
Mary Carpenter Jones; b: 20 APR 1809, Pennsylvania; d: 29 APR
1851, unmarried
33.
William Firth Jones; b: 3 JUL 1811, Pennsylvania; d: 20 MAY
1892, unmarried
34.
Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.; b: 30 JAN 1814, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d: 3 NOV 1895, 2 East Penn St, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
35.
Hannah Eliza Jones; b: 4 APR 1819; d: 21 MAR 1893; married
Lloyd Pearsall Smith
Fourth Generation
30. Lydia Jones (Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Isaac and Hannah's daughter Lydia was born in 1804. In 1826, she married Caspar
Wistar, a prominent Philadelphia physician and the nephew of the Caspar Wistar
for whom the plant wisteria was named. Caspar and Lydia had at least one son
and one daughter. Caspar died in 1867. Lydia died in 1878.
Children of Lydia Jones and Caspar Wistar, M.D.:
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
Isaac Jones Wistar; b: 1827; d: 1905
Mary Waln Wistar; b: 1829; d: 1901
Margaret Vaux Wistar; b: 1831
Caspar Wistar; b: 1833
Hannah Jones Wistar; b: 1835
William Wilberforce Wistar; b: 1837
Thomas Wistar; b: 1837
Sarah Wistar; b: 1839
Lydia Jones Wistar; b: 1841
Katharine Jansen Wistar; b: 1843
34. Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr. (Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla Jones10, Elizabeth
Cunreds1)
Isaac and Hannah's son Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr. was born in Germantown in 1814.
In 1840, Isaac Jr. married Sarah Whitall Woodruff, and was disowned by the
Quakers for marrying contrary to discipline (marrying a non-Quaker). Ironically,
it appears that Sarah was descended from a Quaker who was disowned, probably
for participation in the Revolutionary War, and she appears to be a very distant
cousin of Isaac Jr. on the Cooper side of the family. But Isaac Jr. began straying
from the Quaker way at an early age -- while he was in boarding school, he wrote
a letter to his father dated using secular names for the month, which his more
traditional father disapproved of in a reply letter. After being disowned, Isaac Jr.
became a Presbyterian and was actively involved in the Westside Presbyterian
Church in Germantown. Isaac and Sarah had two sons. During the Civil War, he
was a 2nd Lieutenat in Captain Mark J. Biddle's Germantown Company of Blue
Reserves, the Emergency Corps of the Third Pennsylvania Reserves, and he saw
active duty in Pennsylvania and Maryland, including the Battle of Antietam. In
his younger days, Isaac Jr. worked for his father's dry goods firm. In 1856, he
became a member of Wilson & Jones, a stock and bill brokers' firm. Later, he
came to be the Vice President and then President of the Saving Fund Society of
Germantown (later known as Germantown Savings Bank), a bank where his son
and grandsons would later serve on the board. That bank was located at
Germantown Avenue and School Lane, on the edge of the 50 acre property that
his great-grandfather Griffith inherited from Thones Kunders, though no one in
the family knew this until many years later. Isaac Jr. was still president of the
board in 1895, at the age of 82 when he suffered an acute attack of pleuropneumonia and died a few days later. He is buried at North Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Children of Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr. and Sarah Whitall Woodruff:
46.
Woodruff Jones; b: DEC 1841, Germantown, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; d: BET 1924 AND 1928, 28 W. Schoolhouse Lane,
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
47.
Thomas Firth Jones; b: 18 MAR 1844, Pennsylvania; d: 19 MAR
1908, 6:15 P.M., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fifth Generation
46. Woodruff Jones (Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34, Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla
Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Isaac Jr. and Sara's first son, named Woodruff from Sarah's maiden name, was
born in December, 1841. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in
1860. After college, he served in the Civil War as a Second Lieutenant, under
Captain Landis of Battery A, First Pennsylvania Artillery. He served through the
Antietam and Gettysburg campaigns. Woodruff was an accomplished musician,
and served as an organist and chioirmaster for the Westside Presbyterian Church
and the First Prebyterian Church. On September 23, 1873, he married Sarah E.
Dripps, and they had four children. Woodruff worked for and became an officer
of Crew, Rogers and Crew, a firm of manufacturing chemists making white lead,
oil and color. Later, he was vice president and treasurer of paint dealer John T.
Lewis Brothers. He boasted that he had voted Republican in every election since
Lincoln. His date and cause of death are unclear; he was alive at the age of 81 in
1924, when he wrote a letter to the Germantown Guide discussing the Jones
family history, but was described in a 1934 article as having died "a few years
ago." A death notice for him, clipped from a newspaper, has the handwritten date
"9-18-1928," but it's not clear how accurate that date is, particularly given that the
obituary describes him as 82 years old but he would have been 86 by that time.
Children of Woodruff Jones and Sarah E. Dripps:
48.
49.
1924
50.
Frederick Dripps Jones; b: 18 NOV 1875; d: 30 JUN 1876
Anna Woodruff Jones; b: 2 NOV 1876, Pennsylvania; d: AFT
Sara Elizabeth Jones; b: FEB 1879, Pennsylvania; d: JUL 1967
51.
1924
Mary Carpenter Jones; b: 20 AUG 1880, Pennsylvania; d: AFT
47. Thomas Firth Jones (Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34, Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla
Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Isaac Jr. and Sarah's second son, Thomas Firth Jones, was born on March 18,
1844. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, then served in
the Civil War as a private in Company A, 1st Philadelphia Artillery. He was a
private at the Battle of Gettysberg. He was a founder and elder in the Westside
Presbyterian Church in Germantown, and was superintendant of their Sunday
School. Later he was an elder at the First Presbyterian Church. He married
Cornelia Erringer on June 11, 1874. Cornelia was the daughter of banker John
Livingston Erringer, who was associated with Thomas's father, Isaac Jr., through
the banking business, and they lived near each other in Germantown. Thomas and
Cornelia had two sons. Thomas was a member of Archer & Reeves, later known
as Reeves, Parvin and Company, an importing and wholesale grocery firm. He
was also involved in the banking business, like his father, and was a director of
the Saving Fund Society of Germantown and the Market Street National Bank.
Thomas died on March 19, 1908 of heart failure attributed to a violent attack of
erysipelas. He was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Children of Thomas Firth Jones and Cornelia Erringer:
52.
Livingston Erringer Jones; b: 30 MAR 1878, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d: 30 AUG 1941, Jackson, Wyoming
53.
Arthur Woodruff Jones; b: 22 OCT 1879, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d: 7 MAR 1957, Chestnut Hill Hospital
Sixth Generation
49. Anna Woodruff Jones (Woodruff Jones37, Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34, Isaac
Cooper Jones15, Aquilla Jones10,
Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Woodruff and Sarah's daughter Anna was born on November 2, 1876. She was
working as a Presbyterian missionary in Japan when she met Henry James
Bennett, an ordained minister. They married in Germantown on July 31, 1905,
while he was on leave. They returned to Japan and worked as Christian
missionaries in Tottori, where he performed evangelistic and educational work
and she was the principal of kindergarten and worked with women and girls. It is
uncertain when Anna died, but she was still living when her father Woodruff died
in the 1920s. Anna and Henry had five children born in Tottori, three of whom
were still living in 1992.
50. Sara Elizabeth Jones (Woodruff Jones37, Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34, Isaac
Cooper Jones15, Aquilla Jones10,
Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Woodruff and Sarah's daughter Sara Elizabeth was born in February, 1879. She
married Conover English, an attorney from New Jersey, on June 25, 1908. They
had two sons, both now deceased, Woodruff Jones English and Nicholas Conover
English. The family resided in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Sara died in July, 1967.
51. Mary Carpenter Jones (Woodruff Jones37, Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34, Isaac
Cooper Jones15, Aquilla Jones10,
Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Woodruff and Sarah's daughter Sara Elizabeth was born in August 20, 1880. She
married John T. Emlen, a social worker, on March 6, 1906. They resided in
Germantown. Mary and John had four children, who may still be living. It is
unclear when Mary died, but she was still living in 1930, when she and her family
appeared in the census.
52. Livingston Erringer Jones (Thomas Firth Jones38, Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34,
Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla
Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
The first son of Thomas and Cornelia was Livingston Erringer Jones, born March
30, 1878 in Germantown. He attended Penn Charter and went on to Princeton
University, where he graduated in 1899 with a B.S. degree. He married Edith
Bolling on June 23, 1908. This Edith Bolling is apparently not related to President
Woodrow Wilson's wife of the same name. After college, Livingston was
affiliated with his father's business, Reeves, Parvin & Company, Wholesale
Grocers. For many years, he served on the Board of Managers of the Saving Fund
Society of Germantown, where his father had been manager and his grandfather
president. Livingston was president of the Saving Fund Society of Germantown
from 1911 to 1922, when he went on to become the president of the First National
Bank of Philadelphia. He represented the 3rd Federal Reserve District on the
board of the National Credit Corporation. Livingston and Edith lived in Chestnut
Hill and had three children, who may still be living. In August, 1941, Livingston
was visiting his daughter and son-in-law at a ranch in Wyoming when he was
stricken with acute appendicitis. He died from complications of appendectomy
surgery in Jackson Wyoming on August 30, 1941.
53. Arthur Woodruff Jones (Thomas Firth Jones38, Isaac Cooper Jones, Jr.34,
Isaac Cooper Jones15, Aquilla
Jones10, Elizabeth Cunreds1)
Arthur Woodruff Jones, the second son of Thomas and Cornelia, was born
October 22, 1879 in Germantown. He attended Penn Charter and graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1900. After college, he worked as a clerk for
William Simpson Sons & Co. Commission House. Later, he became associated
with the Saving Fund Society of Germantown, like his brother, father and
grandfathers. In 1927, he became presidento f the Saving Fund Society, a position
he held for 24 years. He continued as Chairman of the Saving Fund Society from
1951 to 1956. Arthur married Dorothea Rehn around 1906, and they had five
daughters between 1907 and 1920. Dorothea died in 1926. In 1932, he married a
second time to Louisa Mather Wallis, and had three more children, including two
sons. Arthur successfully led the Saving Fund Society through the Great
Depression, which led one Germantown newspaper to write a biography of him
that spoke in reverent terms of Arthur and his ancestry. Arthur was an Elder in the
Westside Presbyterian Church and a director of the Whosoever Gospel Mission.
He died on March 7, 1957