Charles City County: Patents Issued during the Regal Government. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 10 No. 1 (Jul 1901) pp 24-31.
263. Richard Jones, Clerk. Augt. 30, 1650. 950 acres. Lying two miles of thereabouts from the river on the back of Merchants hope.
377. Richard Jones Cl. Mar. 12 1655. 1500 acres. 950acs. part therof being two miles or thereabouts from the river on the back of Merchants hope north on the said Me’chants land.
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, September 1925, XV, Nos. 2-4, "Notes on Southside Virginia, by Walter A. Watson, Richmond, 1925,
. p 23, "Dr. James Jones was one of the leading men of Nottoway County. He was born on the eve of the Revolution in Nottoway Parish, Amelia Co, VA. His paternal ancestors were of Welsh lineage and of honorable fame in the fatherland. A grandfather with two brothers came from Wales to America."
