Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Amy BATTE

1.  Amy may have died in childbirth.


Robert John "Robin" JONES "II"

1.  Robert "Robin" Jones moved to North Carolina as agent or attorney of John Cartaret, Earl of Granville, one of the eight Lords Proprietors.  The rule of these Proprietors was overthron in 1719.  The surrender of their charters was in 1727.  Lord Granville refused to join in this surrender, whereupon it was agreed between him and the King that he should have about one half of the State of North Carolina, but was to have no political authority.  This agreement was in 1744.

2.  Robin Jones was a lawyer of eminent ability;  was educated in England, where he attracted the attention of Granville, was appointed Attorney General for the Crown for North Carolina in 1761, as appears in a dispatch from Gov. Dobbs in Rolls office, London.

3.  Willie Jones, in a letter to his son, then a youth at college, dated March 1, 1798, says of him, "I not only wish that you should equal your companions and excell myself in all useful knowledge, but that you should rival your grand-father, Robert Jones, who was in point of genius a model indeed"!

1.  Alternate date and place of death:   2 Oct 1766 Albemarle Parrish, Sussex, North Carolina