James Jones, Sr., and Philip Jones, sons of Henry Jones, Sr., and Catherine Judkins, married sisters, Frances and Rebecca Bradford, granddaughters of Richard and Rebecca Pace. Philip died in 1760. His will was recorded in Johnston Co., NC. He had six children including Captain Etheldred Jones. Rebecca Bradford Jones married as her second husband, John Wrench, Sr., in 1764. The first mention of James Jones, Sr., was in his father’s 1733 will.
John Green, the brother of Robert and William and son of John Green, Sr., was married to Amy Pace by 1725. Amy was the daughter of Richard and Rebecca Pace and the sister of Rebecca Pace who married John Bradford and William Aycock. Rebecca Pace Bradford Aycock was the mother of Frances and Rebecca Bradford.
In 1725, Henry and Catherine Jones sold Peter Poythress land on Flat Swamp in Surry Co. and moved to their 640 acres on Oconeechee Neck on the Roanoke river in NC. Henry Jones, Sr., was deceased by 1739. Henry Jones, Jr., gifted 240 acres of his father’s land to his brother, James, and 230 acres to his brother, Philip, in 1739. Philip Jones’ land adjoined Barnaby Melton’s land. Barnaby Melton’s wife, Mary, was a first cousin of Rebecca Aycock and a cousin to her children. William Pace was at the estate sale of Henry Jones, Sr., in 1740, with James and Philip Jones. Peter Poythress was Rebecca Poythress’ first cousin.
Sarah Bradford (-d. bef. 1790) married Joseph Lane and Winifred Aycock married Jesse Lane. Both men were sons of Joseph Lane and Patience McKinne, the daughter of Barnaby McKinne and Mary Ann Exum. Frances, Rebecca, Sarah Bradford and Winifred Aycock were all daughters of Rebecca Pace Bradford Aycock. Winifred married December 16, 1755, and Rebecca and Frances married before they left Northampton Co. in 1748. Frances died by 1759. James Jones was married to his second wife, Mary [------], by 1764.
James Jones’ land in Johnston Co., NC, on Swift creek was adjacent to the land of William Aycock on Marlowe’s creek prior to 1756. In 1765, when James Aycock, son of William, sold 50 acres on the north side of Swift creek, his witnesses were his brother, Richard Aycock, and his nephew, Philip Jones. In 1765, Philip Jones and Richard Aycock were deputies under Sheriff John McCullers of Johnston Co. Philip Jones was the son of James Jones, Sr., and Frances Bradford, and Richard Aycock, was the son of William Aycock and Rebecca Pace, the mother of Frances Bradford Jones. In 1770, Sheriff Philip Jones, of Johnston Co., deeded 500 acres on the south side of the Neuse river to Richard Aycock.
John Bradford, the brother of Rebecca and Frances, had a daughter, Tabitha, who married Thomas Wootten who was an executor of James Aycock’s will. James Aycock and John Bradford were half-brothers. Tabitha Bradford Wootten was Rebecca and Frances Bradford’s niece.
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