From Godfrey Ragsdale by Caroline Skelton, p 15: ...the company formed in 1712 for duty-free trade with the Western Indians was composed of the following:
1. Richard Jones of Prince George County
2. Robert Hix of Surry County
3. John Evans of Prince George County, VA
4. David Crawley of Prince George County, VA
5. Nathaniel Urvan of Prince George County, VA
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Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5
Order of First Families of Virginia, 3rd Ed, 1987, p 497
Richard Jones lives in that part of Charles City Co that became Prince George Co, VA, where he held 600 acres, 1704, and in later life lived in Brunswick Co. He was called captain in 1712, 1723, 1724, and was an Indian Trader.
Brunswick Co, WB2, pp 138-140, Richard's will written August 1747, probated in Nov. 1747
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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, p108
Richard Jones of Saint Andrew's Parish, Brunswick County, 1746. Will recorded 1747. Devised lands on Nottoway River in Brunswick and Stroney Creek, in Prince George, this last to his son Daniel Jones. Mentions sons Lewellyn, Richard, Robert and Daniel, and grandson Phillip, son of Daniel; wife, Rachel.
