Noble Jones

{{Infobox person | name = Noble Jones | image = | image_size = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = June 20, 1702 | birth_place = Herefordshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1775|11|2|1702|6|20}} | death_place = Savannah, Georgia, United States | occupation = | years_active = | spouse = Sarah Hack | children = 4, including Noble Wimberly Jones | parents = }} '''Noble Jones''' (June 20, 1702<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cadle |first=Farris W. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Georgia_Land_Surveying_History_and_Law/7kerM1_cvQEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=noble+jones+born+june+20,+1702&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover |title=Georgia Land Surveying History and Law |date=1991 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-1257-6 |pages=17 |language=en}}</ref> – November 2, 1775), an English-born carpenter, was one of the first settlers of the Province of Georgia in colonial America and one of its leading officials. He was born in Herefordshire. As part of General James Edward Oglethorpe's 42nd (old) Regiment of Foot, he commanded Georgia's Northern Company of Marines during the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748). He was the father of Noble Wimberly Jones, a physician, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, and prominent leader of the Georgia patriots during the American Revolution.

Jones established the Wormsloe Plantation, located {{Convert|8|mi}} from Savannah, Province of Georgia, in the late 1730s. Most of the plantation is now open to the public as a state historic site.

== Personal life == Jones married Sarah Hack, with whom he had four children: Noble Wimberly, Sarah, Mary and Inigo.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bragg |first=William Harris |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/De_Renne/nYDtXnXQcvcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=noble+jones+1702-1775&pg=PA400&printsec=frontcover |title=De Renne: Three Generations of a Georgia Family |date=1999 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-2089-2 |language=en}}</ref> Mary became the fourth wife of James Bulloch, an English emigrant to America in 1729.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2023-09-07 |title=Bulloch, James Stephen (1793-1849) |url=https://www.libertyhistory.net/bulloch-james-stephen-1793-1849/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Liberty County Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Death == Jones died in 1775, aged 73. He was interred at the Wormsloe burial ground, before being removed to Colonial Park Cemetery, then Bonaventure Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Northen |first=William J. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Men_of_Mark_in_Georgia/u-KBOk41nU4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=wormsloe+burial+ground&pg=PA206&printsec=frontcover |title=Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from Its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development |date=1906 |publisher=A.B. Caldwell |pages=206 |language=en}}</ref> His wife and son, Inigo, remain interred at Wormsloe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Craig Barrow Fund - Georgia Historical Society |url=https://www.georgiahistory.com/craig-barrow-fund/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=Georgia Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref>

==See also== *History of Augusta, Georgia

==References== ;General *Ebel, Carol S. "Jones, Noble". ''American National Biography'', February 2000. ;Specific <references />

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