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North parish of Bridgewater some years after
the American Revolution and here married,
Dec. 4, 1792, Rachel, daughter of Capt. Jeremiah
Beals. After her death he married (second)
Nov. 27, 1806, Charity, daughter of Mark
PerkinB. They died, Mr. Jones Dec. 6, 1840,
and Mrs. Jones, March 20, 1849. The children
of Captain Jones, all born to the first marriage,
were : Nathan, born Aug. 19, 1794 ; Rosseter,
born Sept. 16, 1797 (father of Bradford
Elliot Jones, of Brockton) ; Sally, born Aug.
12, 1799, who married Nov. 18, 1819, John
Thompson; Augustus, bom Oct. 12, 1801; and
Asa Beals, born Sept. 21, 1803.
Capt. Augustus Jones, father of Augustus
Turner Jones, was bom Oct. 12, 1801, in North
Bridgewater. He learned the trade of carpen-
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Jones cited above, were: Abraham, Benjamin,
Nathan, Elnathan, Submit (married a Partridge),
Sarah, Lydia (married a Bosworth),
Rebecca (married a Dyer) and Mary. Of these
it was Abraham Jones who was the principal
agent in bringing about the separation of the
Raynham settlement from the parent town. He
was one of the thirty-two persons dismissed from
the parent church in Taunton to organize the
First Church in the new town—
Raynham.
Abraham, Joseph and Mary Jones were all in
full communion with this church when formed.
Joseph Jones was one of the selectmen of the
new town in 1733, and was a justice of the
peace. Several of the daughters of Squire
Jones married men of talent who became distinguished
in the learned professions, namely:
Mary Jones married Rev. John Wilder, of
Charlestown; Louisa Jones married Rev. Linus
Shaw, of Sudbury, and a third daughter became
the wife of Dr. Alden Hathaway.
From this Raynham stock has descended the
Brockton family which for a hundred years and
more has been one substantial and influential
there, and which had in the late Augustus
Turner Jones a worthy and highly honored representative,
a man who had been long and
prominently identified with the business and
financial interests of the community. Mr. Jones
was descended from the North Bridgewater settler,
Capt. Asa Jones, who was a son of Nathan
Jones, of Raynham. Nathan Jones, the eldest
son of Capt. Asa, was a corporal in Capt.Nehemiah
Lincoln's company, called out during the
war of 1812 to guard the forts along the coast.
He was a captain in 1827, major in 1828 and
lieutenant colonel in 1829. He was selectman
of the town of North Bridgewater in 184o and
1844. He was moderator of town meetings in
1836, 1837 and from 1839 to 1842.
Capt. Asa Jones came from ter, which he followed for a number of years
in partnership with his brother Rosseter, doing
considerable work in Sharon, Milton and Randolph,
as well as in their native town. Some
years prior
Raynham to the
to his death he retired from carpenter
work, his remaining days being devoted to
agricultural pursuits. He was for a number
of years connected with the State militia, being
an ensign in 1803, 1809 and 1818; he held the
commission of captain in the same in 1809, and
in that same year served on the committee of
North parish. Though a man of quiet, unpretentious
nature, devoted to his home and family,
he was an active man in local affairs and in
the religious life of the community. In early
life he was active in the work of the First Congregational
Church, being one of the committee
in 1824, and one of the advising committee
when the meeting-house was erected, in 1827;
and he was one of the charter members of the
Porter Congregational Church when it was organized
in 1850, and thereafter until his death
was active in the latter as well as very liberal
in his support.
On Nov. 27, 1828, Captain Jones was married
to Almeda Torrey, eldest daughter of Turner
Torrey, who came from Weymouth, and they
celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 27, 1878.
To this union there were bom the following
children: Augustus Turner, mentioned below,
and Sarah Fidelia, born Jan. 1, 1834. The
daughter married Oct. 18, 1857, Charles R.
Ford (now deceased), who was one of the leading
shoe manufacturers of Brockton for a number
of years. Mrs. Ford now lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Wallace C. Keith, of North
Main street, Brockton; and is also the mother
of Miss Jennie H. Ford of Brockton and Rev.
Edward T. Ford, a Congregational minister of
Tacoma, Washington.
Augustus Turner Jones began his education
in the public schools and then spent part of two
years as a pupil at the Adelphian Academy
(then conducted by the Lopmis Brothers) in his
home town, which at that time was known as
North Bridgewater. Then he entered Phillips
Andover Academy, of which Dr. Samuel H.
Taylor was principal at the time, and in 1854
completed the regular classical course to fit himself
for college. The same year he entered Amherst,
but in 1856 changed to Yale, where he
was graduated with high rank in 1858. For a
few years following his graduation he engaged
in teaching. Immediately upon leaving col-
lege he was given a position as classical instructor
in a large training school at Stamford,
Conn., President Woolsey of Yale recommending
him for this work, in which he continued