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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 mansion 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 Brunswick—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 Councillor 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 Brockville, 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 commission 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 Brockand 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, Collector 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 Brockof Queen’s Bench. Sophia married Andrew Stuart, Esq, many years Sheriff of the District of Johnstown. 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 managed H. Jones & Co.’s forwarding business, when L.. H. Holton and David McPherson respeetively managed Hooker, Henderson & Co.’s and McPherson, Crane & Co.’s business. He commenced his present manufacturing business in 1852, at Gananoque. 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 Confederation 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 difficulty, 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 Brockville stands was covered. by the forest. ii i alan a
