Rowland Jones (1778-1867)
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-04781
- Given Name
- Rowland
- Family Name
- Jones
- Birth Date
- 1778
- Death Date
- 1867
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Rowland Jones was a white man who lived in Burlington, New Jersey, in the early 19th century. He was a Quaker. In 1820, he purchased the freedom of a young black woman named Fanny Pursue who had previously belonged to the late Mercy English, a fellow Quaker.
Rowland Jones was also known as a neighbor and client of Peter Hill, a black clockmaker in Burlington. A tall case clock that Peter Hill made for Rowland Jones in 1812 is now in the collections of the Westtown School Archives in Westtown, Pennsylvania. - Keywords
- white person
- Places
- Burlington
- Related Person
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Peter Hill (1767-1820)
- References
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See “Hill, Peter (1767-1820),” in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston (Norton, 1982), http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer00loga, p. 311.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71893750/rowland-jones - Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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Additional Participant in:
- 1820-09-10 Sale / Promise to Manumit: Fanny Pursue (Role: Buyer)