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carried out. The lists cover the period May 1684 - August 1687.
Dorothy came to America from either Flint, or Denbigh, Wales, in the ship "Submission", September 1682. From the log of the "Submission": Ellis Jones, age 45; Jane Jones, age 40; Barbara Jones, age 13; Mary Jones, age 12; Dorothy Jones, age 10; Isaac Jones, age 4 months.
The "Pennsylvania Historical Magazine" in a list of names of "Important Colonists, who came in the 'Submission'", mentions Ellis Jones. Ellis was a resident of Bucks County, 1684, but did not remain there long, and in the Welsh Tract Purchases his name appears as having purchased one hundred acres in Nantonell Parish, Radnor. Barbara Jones married her cousin Isaac Jones, and Dorothy Jones married Richard Cantril.
Ellis Jones, a weaver and servant to the Governor, and his family were Quakers and as Richard Cantril belonged to the Church of England, Richard and Dorothy were married, to use a Quaker term, "Out of Meeting".
Dorothy seems to have been a young lady of considerable spirit and indepen- dence of character. She not only married the man of her choice, irrespective
of her religious training, but later evidence is found of her love of gaiety and society in an old history of Philadelphia where she figured (danced?) at a masquerade ball, much to the horror of her more quiet friends. She seems to have inherited her love of society from her mother, for the name of Jane Jones appears as witness to the marriage of a great many Quaker of her day, and the Quaker weddings were probably the principal events affording those of that sect an expression of their social instinct.
The will of Jane Jones, relict of Ellis Jones, executed at Philadelphia, August 3, 1730 and recorded at Philadelphia December 27, 1732 mentions her grandchildren: Zebulon Cantril, Joseph Cantril, and Dorothy Cantril, to each of whom she bequeaths "One English shilling, or the value of it in coyn current".
!SOURCE: Cantrell Family History, Glenda Ruth Densmore Harrel, Edgecliff, TX
!Reference: Early Families of the North Carolina Counties of Rockingham and Stokes with Revolutionary Service, compiled and published by members of James Hunter Chapter, National Society Daughters of American Revolution of Madison, North Carolina, published 1977.