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Lt. Col. Cadwallader Jones was born about 1652 in Essex County, Virginia and died 1699 in Stafford County, Virginia. He was an Indian trader, an explorer of the western regions of VA and Governor of Bahama Island (1690-1694).
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"26 March 1681/2. . . we are endeavouring by all the best ways and means we can to preserve the inhabitants of this Government from the outrages and violences of the northern Indians. I now take the liberty to send you herewith a letter I received very lately from Col. Cadwallader Jones, who commands the Fort on Rappahannock river in VA (from proceedings of the Council of MD, 1676-1681", vol. 5, pp.351-352) and he was Sheriff of Rappahannock County, VA.
Cadwallader fled to England in 1689 because he was bankrupt. While in London, Cadwallder was commissioned Govenor of Bahama Island taking office in 1690 and holding it amid controversary until 1694.
Cadwallader took full advantage of his high position as governor and had dealings with the pirates (one of whom was reported to be his step-son, Richard Taliaferro, Sr.)and generally ran a colorful administration.
Cadwallader was back in VA by 1698 when he received a land patent in Fairfax Co.
In November, 1673, Cadwallader Jones, who must then have been just twenty-one years of age, patented 1443 acres in the freshes of the Rappahannock, on the south side of the river below the falls, and here he posted himself during the anxious period of Indian depredations on the Virginia border immediately following the Susquehannock war. The Rappahannock settlements were peculiarly exposed and Cadwallader Jones seems to have come to the front as a dauntless fighting man. In June, 1680,* when the Council was considering the book of country claims sent up by the Burgesses, they found therein an item of a petition for relief by “Lt. Col. Cad. Jones,” and annotated it as follows: “The Sufferings of the Petitioner are most apparent and his resoluteness to abide his plantation ag’t all attempts and conspiracies of our Indian enemies for many years hath (as may well be supposed) maintained us in the seatment of the upper parts of Rappahannock for many miles.” This evidence is persuasive that it was Cadwallader Jones who, in 1678, lead the party of Virginia rangers into the Rappahannock backwoods, “as far from the English plantations as Cahuaga is from Albany,” and had that clash with a roving band of Senecas which resulted in acrimonious diplomatic exchanges, and the agreement by Virginia in 1684 to keep out of the piedmont highlands.” Jones’ interests were not, however, confined to the Rappahannock. He apparently inherited from his mother a part of her Stafford plantation on Chotank creek.
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"In July of 1688 Bridges was confirmed Governor of New Providence but shortly thereafter he was succeeded by Cadwallader Jones who arrived in the colony in June 1690. It is reported in history that he sold gunpowder to known pirates and failed to prosecute the theft of guns. It is said that he and his agent reigned in terror the citizens and imprisoned them without trials, practiced censorship and oppressed traders. He forced the General Assembly to adopt his previous proclamations by having his son point the guns of his ship on the Council Chamber from the harbour during the session. There was then rebellion and imprisonment of Jones followed by the leader of that faction being arrested and tried by a Grand Jury who convicted him. The jury was said to contain six pirates, two drunks and one man accused of unnatural vice. Much of this is taken from personal accounts by either side in writing but if there is a portion of truth it makes one aware of the climate the pirates created. (link 3)
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Essex County, Virginia
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Bruton, Wythe, Virginia, United States
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Essex County, Virginia, United States
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Age 47
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Stafford County, Virginia
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Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
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