Everything about John Gabriel Jones totally explained
John Gabriel Jones (
June 6,
1752 –
December 25,
1776) was a 18th century colonial American pioneer and politician. An early settler of Kentucky, he and
George Rogers Clark sought to petition Virginia to allow Kentucky to become a part of the
Colony of Virginia at the outset of the
American Revolution.
He was named in honor of his uncle, the noted Virginian lawyer
Gabriel Jones.
Biography
Born to John Jones, John Gabriel Jones set out for Kentucky at a young age where he lived for several years and eventually became a prominent lawyer in the region. In June 1776, after a 7-day meeting in
Harrod's Town lasting from
June 8 to
June 15, he and
George Rogers Clark were elected by popular vote to represent western
Fincastle County as members of the
General Assembly of Virginia. Shortly before the two reached
Williamsburg however, the state legislature had already adjourned and Jones instead turned back at
Richmond to visit the settlements on the
Holston River while Clark continued to the capital.
On
October 8, Jones and Clark were both in attendance at the fall session and they were successfully able to use their influence to have Kentucky constituted as a county of Virginia by reconstituting Fincastle County into
Montgomery,
Washington and
Kentucky counties, however they were not recognized as members of the assembly. While in Richmond, Clark visited Governor
Patrick Henry and managed to acquire 500 pounds of
gunpowder from Virginia which was ordered to be shipped to
Pittsburgh. They later helped ship the gunpowder down the
Ohio River and hid the cargo 11 miles outside of present-day
Maysville, Kentucky.
In December, Jones and Colonel
John Todd gathered a group of ten men to retrieve the gunpowder. On
December 25, as they marched along the Ohio River, they were ambushed near the
Lower Blue Lick by a group of warriors led by the
Mingo chieftain
Pluggy with Jones and several others being killed in the fighting.
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