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Ontario. In 1876, he was created a Queen’s
Counsel (Q. C.)
Liberal.
THE JONES FAMILY.
(ONE BRANCH.)
Josiah Jones came to Boston A. D. 166s, settling
at Weston, Massachusetts. He died A. D. 1714, aged
94 years.
Elisha, grandson of the above, lived at the man¬
sion house and farm at Weston; he had fourteen
sons and one daughter. They all espoused the
Royal cause at the time of the American Revolution,
and, at the close of the war, some came to Canada,
and others settled in Nova Scotia and New Bruns¬
wick—all U. E. Loyalists.
Ephraim Jones, the tenth son, settled in Augusta,
then Johnstown District, Upper Canada, of which
District he was the representative in the first
Parliament of Upper Canada, held at Newark, now
Niagara Town. Ephraim had four sons and four
daughters, Sons: Charles, William, Jonas, and
Alpheus ; daughters: Charlotte, Sophia, Lucy, and
Eliza.
Charles was a merchant and miller; he built mills
at Yonge, the most extensive at that time in Canada.
He owned large property in and around Brockville,
where he died in 1840. He was a Legislative Coun¬
cillor and member of Parliament.
William, the second son of Ephraim, died at
Brockville, in 1832. He was a merchant and miller,
and lived many years at Beverly, now Delta, where
he had a grist-mill, store, etc.
Jonas, the third son, was educated, as were the
others, by the late Bishop Strachan, at Cornwall.
He studied law, and practiced many years in Brock¬
ville, being successful in his profession and attaining
its highest honors. He served during the War of
1512, and was at the taking of Ogdensburgh. He
received his first commission as Lieutenant of
Cavalry (attached to ist Regiment Leeds Militia ;
Colonel Breakenridge), June 22nd, 1812—commission
under seal of Sir Isaac Brock ; his second commis¬
sion as Colonel 3rd Regiment. Leeds, June 18th,
1522. He was for some years Judge of the District
Court of the then Bathurst District, and also of the
Johnstown District. Subsequently, he was appointed
one of Her Majesty’s Judges of the Court of Queen’s
Bench, which required his removal to Toronto, A. D.
1837, where he died in 1848, aged 57 years. His
great knowledge of the manners and ways of the
people, caused his decisions and judgments both in
the District Courts and in the Queen’s Bench, to
give great satisfaction. His manliness of character
and honesty of purpose caused him to be much
beloved by the people of the United Counties of
Leeds and Grenville, and his removal from Brock¬
and assistance to the early settlers of Leeds and
Grenville is not yet forgotten.
Alpheus, the fourth son, lived at Prescott, and was
for many years, and at the time of his death, Col¬
lector of Customs and Postmaster, He died in 1863,
much respected.
Of the four daughter of Ephraim Jones, Charlotte
married Livius P. Sherwood, a barrister, of Brock¬
of Queen’s Bench. Sophia married Andrew Stuart,
Esq, many years Sheriff of the District of Johns¬
town. Lucy married Dr. Hubbell, who lived and
died in Brockville. Eliza married H, J. Boulton,
a barrister in Toronto, afterwards Governor of
Newfoundland.
three daughters. David Ford Jones, the eldest, was
the Brockville Grammar School, under Elms and
Bushby, and subsequently at Upper Canada College.
Preferring business or mercantile life to a profession,
Dunscombe & Beckwith, West India merchants in
New York. Afterwards, in 1839 and 1840, he man¬
aged H. Jones & Co.’s forwarding business, when
L.. H. Holton and David McPherson respeetively
managed Hooker, Henderson & Co.’s and McPher¬
son, Crane & Co.’s business. He commenced his
present manufacturing business in 1852, at Ganan¬
oque. He was first elected to represent the South
Riding of Leeds in January, 1864, in the Parliament
of Canada, and supported the Act for the Confeder¬
ation of this Dominion. He refused nomination for
the next term, but was again elected for the South
Riding of Leeds in 1874, and re-elected in 1878. He
served in one of the incorporated battalions raised
during the Rebellion of 1837-8, and was ensign
under Colonel S. P. Jarvis, “Queen’s Rangers,” for
nearly two years. He raised the Gananoque Battery
of Artillery in 1862, at the time of the Trent diffi¬
culty, receiving commission as captain June 21st,
1862. The battery was twice called out for active
service during the Fenian Raids.
THE PURVIS FAMILY.
Peter Purvis was born at Berwick-on-Tweed,
a British soldier; at the close of the war of 1776
receiving his discharge at Quebec.
the garrison at Ogdensburg when that place was
handed over to the Americans. At the time when
he reached Elizabethtown, the place where Brock¬
ville stands was covered. by the forest.
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