User:BD2412/Undrafted/Delaware/Griffith Jones (judge)

Griffith Jones (YEAR – YEAR) was a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from YEAR to YEAR.

Philadelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions, 1695 By their Majesties Authority At a Court of Quarter Sessions held at Philadelphia the Fifth day of March 1694/525 Justices present Griffith Jones

Antho Morris Joseph Willcox Jacob Hall Joshua Carpenter John Farmer

Griffith Jones, a Philadelphia merchant, was presumably the person sitting on the bench. He had served in the Council in 1683, and had supported George Keith. (There are three men by the name of Griffith Jones mentioned in this short court record: Griffith Jones, the Philadelphia merchant; Griffith Jones, Kent County lawyer; and Griffith Jones, "late of Maryland." The last of these is clearly identified in the indictments against him by the September grand jury. Griffith Jones, Kent County lawyer, may have been in Delaware before the arrival of William Penn. Charles P. Keith, Chronicles of Pennsylvania . . . 1688-1748 [Philadelphia, 1917], I, 142. He first appeared in the records of the government under Penn in 1687, as a councilor to replace William Frampton, deceased.

The first Griffith Jones and Michael Ottley, the grandfather of Mrs. Jones, came over with William Penn, in 1682, the first being from Wales and the other from England. Griffith Jones was one of the members of Penn's first legislature, and some time afterwards settled in Appoquinimink, south of Blackbird creek.

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