By Muriel Bristol | December 28, 2025
Ebenezer Jones was born in Berwick, ME, in 1735, son of Nathaniel and Joanna (Hutchins) Jones.
Mother Joanna (Hutchins) Jones died in Portsmouth, NH, May 4, 1745.
Ebenezer Jones appeared as a militia private soldier during King George’s War (1744-48). His name appeared in …
The Muster Role [Roll] of John Huckins and 19 Men under his Command Scouting 14 days from Rochester to Winipisseokee Pond [Lake Winnipesaukee] and from thence Guarding the People at Rochester ~ begun the 18th 7r [September] 1745 ~ By His Excellencys Order.
Jones received 12s 6d in payment for fourteen days spent scouting towards Lake Winnipesaukee and standing guard at Rochester in July 1745.
Ebenezer Jones appeared as a militia private soldier in Capt. Job Clements’ company assigned to guard Rochester and Barrington, NH, during King George’s War (1744-48), in August 1748.
Nathaniel Jones died in Portsmouth, NH, July 30, 1755.
Ebenezer Jones married, circa 1768, Susanna Allen. She was born in Rochester, NH, in 1749, daughter of William and Hannah (Emerson) Allen.
(The known children of Ebenezer and Susanna (Allen) Jones were: William Jones (1769-1845), Levi Jones (1771-1847), John Jones, Mary Jones (1775-1866), James Jones, Sally Jones (1778-1822), Lydia Jones (1781-1850), Amos Jones (b. 1786), and Joshua Jones (1789-1868)).
Son William Jones was born in Lebanon, ME, November 17, 1769. Son Levi Jones was born in Lebanon, ME, October 21, 1771.
Daughter Mary Jones was born in Lebanon, ME, in 1775. Daughter Sally Jones was born in Lebanon, ME, July 3, 1778.
Daughter Lydia Jones was born in 1781.
Son Amos Jones was born in Rochester, NH, September 1, 1786. Son Joshua Jones was born in Rochester, NH, March 9, 1789.
Father-in-law William Allen died in Rochester, NH, February 1, 1790.
Ebenezer Jones headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], three males aged under-16 years [John Jones, Amos Jones, Joshua Jones], and three females [Susanna (Allen) Jones, Mary Jones, and Lydia Jones. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Richd Horn and Jno [John] Jones.
Son William Jones married in [the Northeast Parish of] Rochester, NH, June 13, 1798, Charlotte Cushing.
Ebener Jones headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Susanna (Allen) Jones], one male aged 16-25 years [James Jones or John Jones?], three females aged 16-25 years [Mary Jones, Sally Jones, and Lydia Jones], and two males aged 10-15 years [Amos Jones and Joshua Jones]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Wm Jones headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Charlotte (Cushing) Jones], one female aged under-10 years [Caroline Jones], and one male aged 10-15 years [James Jones or John Jones?]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Levi Jones headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Levi Jones married (1st) in Rochester, NH, October 15, 1801, Elizabeth “Betsy” Plummer, both of Rochester. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony (NEHGS, 1908).
Sons William Jones, Levi Jones, and John Jones, all signed the Rochester division petition (or Milton separation petition) in what was then Rochester, NH, May 28, 1802.
Daughter Sally Jones married in Rochester, NH, April 14, 1803, Robert Mathes, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Mathes was born in Lee, NH, May 19, 1772, son of Samuel and Ruth (Lord) Mathes.
Ebenezer Jones and his son, William Jones, were among the “respectable inhabitants & freeholders” that sought a special Town Meeting to reconsider the initial proposed Meeting House site. That special Town Meeting was held at the home of Lieut. Elijah Horn, September 1, 1803, and decided not to change the proposed Meeting House site.
Son W. Jones paid $30.25 for Pew No. 9 in the newly constructed Milton Town House. That pew occupied the northeast corner of the ground floor, between those of P. Hantscom (Pew No. 8 on the east side), and Saml S. Wentworth (Pew No. 10 on the north side). Son L. Jones paid $32.75 for Pew No. 12 in the newly constructed Milton Town House. That pew was on the ground floor, between the Pulpit and that of S. Jones (Pew No. 11 on the north side). (See Milton Town House – 1804).
Eben Jones, Richd Walker, and Theodore Ham were one of nine Milton district school committees in 1804. Son Wm Jones, Gilman Jewett, and Timth Roberts were another one of the nine Milton district school committees. (See Milton School Committees – 1804).
Ebenezer Jones was one of fifty-two Milton petitioners that sought to have Jotham Nute appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, in August 1805.
Ebenr Jones was assessed in the Milton School District No. 2 of Lieut. J. Nute in 1806. Son Capt. Levi Jones was assessed in the Milton School District No. 1 of Joseph Plumer in 1806. Son Ens. Will Jones was assessed in the Milton School District No. 5 of John Fish in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).
Ebenezer Jones died in Milton, in 1807.
Sons William Jones and Levi Jones were among twenty-three Strafford County inhabitants that petitioned the NH Governor and Executive Council, January 31, 1810, to have Amos Cogswell, Esq., of Dover, NH, appointed as Strafford County Sheriff. Amos Cogswell was then a NH state representative and, during the War of 1812, would be elected to Dover’s twelve-man Committee of Defence, September 10, 1814.
Wm Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Charlotte (Cushing) Jones], one male aged 10-15 years, one female aged 10-15 years [Caroline Jones], and two females aged under-10 years [Sophia W. Jones and Eliza P. Jones], one male aged under-10 years [William A. Jones]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Palatiah Hanson and Ebenr Ricker. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).
Joshua Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-15 years [himself], two females aged 26-44 years, one male aged under-10 years, and one female aged under-10 years, and one female aged 45-plus years [Susanna (Allen) Jones]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Aaron Wentworth and Isaac Worcester. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).
Son Amos Jones married in Berwick, ME, June 9, 1813, Martha Lord, he of Milton, and she of Berwick, ME. Rev. Joseph Hilliard performed the ceremony. She was born in Berwick, ME.
Son Joshua Jones served as a Corporal in Capt. William Courson’s Milton militia company when it marched to Portsmouth, NH, in September 1814 (See Milton in the War of 1812).
Mother-in-law Hannah (Emerson) Allen died in Rochester, NH, May 11, 1817.
Son Joshua Jones married in Milton, December 10, 1818, Sarah K. “Sally” Cowell. She was born in Milton, May 6, 1793, daughter of Samuel and Amy (Kilgore) Cowell.
Son Joshua Jones was among the seventy-nine Milton inhabitants that petitioned to have James Roberts appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, April 3, 1820.
Sons Wm Jones, Levi Jones, and Joshua Jones signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. Sons Wm Jones, and Levi Jones, signed also the Milton militia division petition of November 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).
Daughter Sally (Jones) Mathes died in Milton, August 22, 1822. aged forty-four years, one month, and nineteen days.
Sons Wm Jones and Joshua Jones signed the June 1823 petition requesting that Gilman Jewett be appointed as a Milton coroner. (See Milton Seeks a Coroner – June 1823).
Susanna [(Allen)] Jones of Milton, widow and relict of Ebenezer Jones, made her last will November 3, 1824. She devised $30 to her eldest son, William Jones. She devised $1 each to her other sons, Levi Jones, James Jones, John Jones, and Amos Jones. She devised $10 to her granddaughter, Lydia Jones, daughter of Amos Jones. She devised $1 each to her grandchildren, Hannah Mathes, Comfort Mathes, William B. Mathes, Ebenezer J. Mathes, Robert Mathes, Joseph Mathes, and Sally Mathes. She devised a good feather bed, two pillows, a bolster, a woolen bed quilt, a blanket, a sheet, two pillowcases, an undersack, and a good bedstead (and its cords) to her granddaughter, Susan Jones. She devised $1 to Susan Lad [Ladd], daughter of Samuel Lad [Ladd].
She gave $120 to her daughter, Mary Jones, as well a four-foot square table, and one-half of her beds, bed clothes, bed steads, bed cords. Mary was also given one-half of her wearing apparel, and one third of her pewter, crockery, tin and glassware. She gave $30 to her daughter, Lydia Jones, as well as a four-foot square table, and one-half of her beds, bed clothes, bed steads, bed cords, excepting that given to granddaughter Susan Jones. Lydia was also given one-half of her wearing apparel, and one third of her pewter, crockery, tinware, and glass. She bequeathed all of her real estate and whatever personal property not otherwise devised, to son, Joshua Jones, and she also named him as executor. (She signed with an “X”). Thomas Leighton, Daniel F. Jones and Levi Jones signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 32:46).
Susanna (Allen) Jones died in Milton, January 9, 1825. Her will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Dover, NH, January 19, 1825. (Strafford County Probate, 32:48).
Son Levi Jones was elected as one of the two Strafford Agriculture Society vice-presidents in October 1826, and appointed to a committee to audit the treasurer’s accounts (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), November 3, 1826).
Son William Jones and John Scates were the Milton delegates to the Republican, i.e., Democrat-Republican or Democrat, NH State Senate District No. 5 Convention, which was held in Rochester, NH, January 8, 1829. The convention chose James Bartlett of Dover, NH, as it candidate (Dover Enquirer, January 13, 1829). (See Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations).
Wm Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Charlotte (Cushing) Jones], two females aged 20-29 years [Eliza P. Jones and Mary E. Jones], one male aged 20-29 years [William A. Jones], one female aged 10-14 years [Charlotte C. Jones], and one male aged 10-14 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Timo Roberts and John Scates. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Levi Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], two males aged 20-29 years [Joseph P. Jones and another], one female aged 40-49 years, one female aged 30-39 years, one female aged 15-19 years, and one female aged 5-9 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Hayes, Jr., and Sarah Plumer. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Robert Mathes headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years, two males aged 15-19 years [Robert Mathes, Jr., and Joseph Mathes], and one female aged 10-14 years [Sarah Mathes]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of D.M. Plummer and John Palmer. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Joshua Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years, one female aged 10-14 years, and two males aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Wm Warren and Jos. Bickford. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).
Col. Levi Jones married (2nd) in Rochester, NH, November 24, 1831, Mrs. Sally [(Worcester)] Wallingford, both of Milton. Rev. Isaac Willey performed the ceremony (NEHGS, 1908). She was born in Berwick, ME, July 22, 1793, daughter of Lemuel and Mary (Woodsum) Worcester. (She was the widow of Samuel E. Wallingford (1790-1826)).
MARRIED. In Milton, by the Rev. Mr. Willey, of Rochester, Levi Jones, Esq., to Mrs. Sally Wallingford, both of the former place (Dover Enquirer, November 29, 1831).
Daughter-in-law Charlotte (Cushing) Jones died in Milton, November 12, 1838, aged fifty-eight years.
DIED. In Milton, on the 12th day of November last, Mrs. Charlotte Jones, aged 59, wife of Mr. Wm. Jones, after a protracted illness of more than fifteen years (Dover Enquirer, February 5, 1839).
Son-in-law Robert Mathes died in Milton, March 13, 1840, aged sixty-eight years.
Died. In Milton, on the 13th inst., at the residence of his son, Elder Robert Mathes, aged 68 (Dover Enquirer, March 31, 1840).
William Jones had a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one male aged 20-29 years [William A. Jones], and one female aged 20-29 years [Charlotte C. Jones]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Fernald and James C. Roberts.
Joshua Jones headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years, one female aged 20-29 years, two males aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years, two females aged under-5 years, and one female aged 60-69 years. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Michael Lyman and Thomas Leighton.
Son William Jones died in Milton, January 26, 1845, aged seventy-five years.
DEATHS. In Milton, Jan. 26, Mr. William Jones, aged 75, a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Methodist church; he has gone to the land from which no traveller returns (Dover Enquirer, February 18, 1845).
Joshua Jones, a farmer, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sally [(Cowell)] Jones, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), George Jones, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), William Jones, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Lydia Jones, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Mary Jones, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), and Lydia Jones, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH) Joshua Jones had real estate valued at $1,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Lovice [((Coffin) Dean)] Sweetlove, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Daniel Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. ME).
Daughter Lydia Jones died in Milton, July 23, 1850, aged sixty-nine years.
DEATHS. In Milton, July 23, suddenly, Miss Lydia Jones, aged 69 (Dover Enquirer, August 13, 1850).
Joshua Jones, a farmer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Salley [(Cowell)] Jones, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH). Joshua Jones had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $1,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of William Wentworth, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and William A. Jones, a shoemaker, aged thirty years (b. NH).
George H. Jones, a shoemaker, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Lucy J. [(Varney)] Jones, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), Adelade Jones, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Charles A. Jones, aged eight years (b. NH), Ira W. Jones, aged five years (b. NH), Mary A. Jones, aged three years (b. NH), and Mary Jones, aged eighty-three years (b. NH). George H. Jones had personal estate valued at $500. Mary A. Jones had personal estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of William A. Jones, a shoemaker, aged thirty years (b. NH), and A.F. Corson, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years (b. NH).
Daughter-in-law Sally ((Worster) Wallingford) Jones died in Milton, January 12, 1863, aged sixty-nine years, five months, and twenty-one days.
DEATHS. In Milton, 12th inst., Mrs. Sally Jones, widow of the late Levi Jones, Esq., aged 69 years (Dover Enquirer, January 15, 1863).
Daughter Mary Jones died of dysentery in Milton, August 19, 1866, aged ninety years, eight months.
DEATHS. In Milton, Aug. 19, Miss Mary Jones, aged 90 years, 8 months (Dover Enquirer, August 23, 1866).
Reminiscences. … Mary [Jones], maiden sister of Joshua Jones, [died] at about 92 (Dover Enquirer, July 26, 1877).
Son Joshua Jones made his last will, March 9, 1868. He devised to his wife, Sally K. [(Cowell)] Jones, and children, Mary E. [(Jones)] Varney, William A. Jones, Susan A. [(Jones)] Wallingford, Lydia T. [(Jones)] Tasker, and George H. Jones. Charles Jones, Betsy [(Varney)] Jones, and Nancy J. [(Holland)] Varney signed as witnesses.
Son Joshua Jones died of palsy in Milton, June 17, 1868, aged seventy-nine years, three months, and eight days.
DIED. In Milton, June 17, Mr. Joshua Jones, aged 79 years (Dover Enquirer, June 25, 1868).
Sally K. [(Cowell)] Jones, keeping house, aged seventy-seven years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Sally K. Jones had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $100. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of George H. Tilton, a miller, aged thirty years (b. NH), and [her son,] George H. Horn, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH).
Sally K. [(Cowell)] Jones, keeping house, aged eighty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her son,] Geo. H. Horn, a farmer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and Sarah A. [(Ricker)] Horn, keeping house, aged sixty-two years (b. NH).
Daughter-in-law Sally (Cowell) Jones died of old age in Milton, May 8, 1884, aged ninety-one years, one day.
References:
Find a Grave. (2020, October 22). William Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/217586882/william-jones
Wikipedia. (2025, July 17). King George’s War. Retrieved from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George%27s_War
Milton Observer 