Er ist verheiratet mit Mary Fuller.
Sie haben geheiratet am 17. April 1650 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Colonial America, er war 27 Jahre alt.
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My source for this narrative is genealogist Amos Otis in his book "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families" published in 1888 by the Patriot Press. whom the Barnstable Joneses are descended. His story illustrates the great antagonism towards Quakers that existed in the colonies. After emigrating from England, Jones first settled in Plymouth. He was listed among the men able to bear arms in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1643. In 1650 he married Mary Fuller, the daughter of Captain Matthew Fuller and settled at Scorton in Barnstable, [Massachusetts.] His house stood in West Barnstable close to the Sandwich town line.There he kept a farm and raised his children. He was an unlearned man of little wealth. His farm, however, made him a modest living. The land upon which his farm was once located stands near the present High and Howland Streets in Barnstable just short of the line with the town of Sandwich.ressure upon people to attend church, and the only church that was recognized by the colonial officials was the church of the Pilgrims and of the Puritans, the Congregational Church. The few Quakers and Baptists that had come to the colonies were actively discouraged in their faith and even persecuted or banished. In 1657, Jones' church attendance began to flag, and finally he was fined for not regularly attending meeting. It was true that he lived about six miles from the meeting house, but in those days, people rode great distances on horseback to attend Sabbath worship. Soon after this incident it became obvious why Mr. Jones was not zealous about his church attendance. He had become a loyal member of the Quaker Society in Sandwich, [Massachusetts,] a group which was being sorely persecuted by towns people and some of the Plymouth Colony officials.It seems that Jones, having converted to the Quaker faith, was far from diligent in keeping up payments of his ministerial tax. This was a tax on all church members in a given town towards the support of the minister and his family. Now Jones, becoming interested in the Quakers, also adopted the Quaker notion that hired clergy were superfluous. No hireling was ever ordained by Scripture to stand between a man or a woman and the Divine Spirit. So it was that Jones' tax remained unpaid, and finally, Mr. Walley, the minister of the Barnstable Church, sent his son-in-law, Deacon Job Crocker, to collect what was owed. Crocker, who was the town constable, took from Jones four cows, with some calves to cover the amount owed. Now, in those days, four cows were worth about $80.00 which was about twice the amount of the accrued tax. The minister offered to return to Jones two of the cows, but Jones, as stiff-necked as he was, answered: "No. Your son-in-law drove them away; now let him drive them back. I won't go after them."ed. The minister is then said to have charged the Quakers with having bewitched his daughter and caused her death. Some time later, Mr. Walley killed one of the cows to be eaten in his house, saying that he would see if the Quakers would bewitch him. The story goes that before he had eaten all of the flesh of the cow, he fell sick and died.two years apart, so the incidents told in this story were obviously distorted to discredit the Quaker cause through innocent Ralph Jones. conversion, but the record is clear that he lived for about thirty five years as a Quaker before he died in 1692. His will was drawn up on 11 March 1691 and probated 20 April 1692.
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