Ambrose Jones

Ambrose Jones, pioneer Morgan County settler, was born in Virginia, August 10, 1756. He volunteered for three years of service in the Revolution, from Augusta County, Virginia, in 1777. He served as private in Captain Granville Smith's and Ensign Robert Kirk's companies, Col. William Grayson's regiment, Continental Line. He was promoted to corporal, October 1778 and served at Valley Forge and White Plains. He was at Camp Middlebrook from October 1778 to February 1779. He was captured at Charleston, South Carolina, but escaped. He was discharged at Staunton, Virginia.

Ambrose Jones married Martha Craig, December 10, 1784, in the Linville Parish Baptist Church, in Greenbrier County, Virginia. He is listed in the 1810 Floyd County, Kentucky Census and was living, at the time, on Jones Creek, then Floyd, now Morgan County.

He was one of the early supporters of the South Fork Baptist Church at Malone, Kentucky, which was organized in 1808. He was admitted as a member in February 1810, was named moderator soon afterwards and ordained to preach in August 1811.

The minutes of the Malone Church are of historic interest, detailing the part Jones and other ministers took in the organization of a new Association of Baptist Churches in the eastern part of the state.

The 1813 minutes record: "The second Saturday of September 1813, the church appointed Ambrose Jones, Daniel Williams, Daniel Patton, and John Perry to attend at the business in Spring Church as messengers in a conference to become a new association. In October, this committee reported they met with six churches at the Burning Springs Church and agreed to unite in an association. They agreed to united on the terms that the Elkhorn Association and the South Kentucky Association united so some years ago. They agreed to adopt Constitution of the North District Association. They further agreed to adopt the rules of the Deacon of the North District Association and appointed an association at the Burning Springs Meeting House the first Saturday in October 1813."

Ambrose Jones died June 12, 1833. Sons and daughters of the Revolutionary soldier and his wife, Martha Craig Jones, were William Jones, born October 23, 1785; Priscilla Jones, born February 18, 1787, married Isaac Nickell; Nancy Jones, born March 17, 1790, married a Ferguson; Richard Jones, born June 8, 1795; Jenny Jones, born May 3, 1792; Barbary Jones, born April 19, 1797, married John Howerton; Sinthy Jones, born June 12, 1799, married Uriah Cottle; James Jones, born October 24, 1807, married Lucinda ?; John Jones, born November 24, 1793, married twice, secondly to Sallie Cole.

Isaac Nickell was the son of Joseph Nickell.