Mary Louisa Dixon Jones Papers

1906-1970
Manuscript Collection #397
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Jones, Mary Louisa Dixon
Physical description
1.735 Cubic Feet, 9 document boxes, 1 oversized folder, consisting of genealogical notes, notebooks and correspondence, and miscellaneous items.
Preferred Citation
Mary Louisa Dixon Jones Papers (#397), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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Papers [1943-1966] consisting of genealogical notes, notebooks, correspondence and miscellaneous.

Biographical/historical information

Mrs. Mary Louisa Dixon Jones was born in Craven County, North Carolina. Her husband, Horace Luther Jones, was born in Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina.

Scope and arrangement

This collection consists of genealogy notes taken by Mary Louisa Dixon Jones. Her notes pertain to ancestors of herself, her husband, and her children's families and spouses. The major family names found in her notes are Dixon, Street, Sugg, French, Fonville, Willis, Aldridge, Murphrey, Hardy, Heath, Pritchard, Jones, Skinner, Daughtery, Franck, Sutton, Montford, Brice, Brock, Cray and Slocumb. Numerous related families are represented in her notes. Most of these families resided in eastern North Carolina, many in Craven County, but many others resided in other areas of North Carolina and in states all along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States especially from Virginia southward. Other notes take family lines back to the countries of their origin.

There are a few miscellaneous items indirectly related to genealogy such as history notes on North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia counties; information on English heraldry; and newspaper clippings and magazine articles concerning Miss Gertrude Carraway (undated), New Bern's Victory House (1943), a Cupola House official dying (1966), St. Paul's Church in Edenton (1948), Mrs. Lucy Phillips Russell of Rockingham (undated), and George Washington's royal ancestry. Other miscellaneous items are a program for courthouse fires, a list of dates for wills found in Virginia courthouses, notes on prominent Revolutionary War figures in North Carolina, information on Bellair Mansion near New Bern, a 1959 issue of Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, and Volume No. 6 (1952) of South Carolina And Its People with entries pertaining to Moores and tombstone inscriptions from Old Stone Church Cemetery in Pendleton, South Carolina.

The oversize folder contains genealogy notes, a picture of the South Carolina State House, a chart of the descendants of Captain James and Elinor Mackilwean fromthe 1700's to the present, and a map of the Landgrave Ketelby's Barony in Colleton County, South Carolina.

Administrative information
Custodial History

November 30, 1979, 2 cubic feet; Genealogical files for Dixon, Jones, Sutton, Street, Health, French, Francke, Hardy, Montford, Murphey, Fonville, and related families

January 25, 1980, 1 cubic foot; Genealogical notes for Cray, Sugg, Handcock, Brice, Swann, Dixon, and related families. Gift of Mrs. Helen Stevenson, Raleigh, North Carolina

August 12, 1997, (addition 1), 1 cubic foot; Research notes and family genealogies concerning a variety of North Carolina familes. Donor: Mr. William L. Murphy

Source of acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Helen Stevenson

Gift of Mr. William L. Murphy

Processing information

Processed by M. Elmore, July 1980; Updated by N. Hardison, April 2025

Encoded by Apex Data Services

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Key terms
Personal Names
Jones, Mary Louisa Dixon
Topical
Revolutionaries--North Carolina--History--18th century
Places
Bellair Plantation (N.C.)
Craven County (N.C.)--Genealogy
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "A") - Ashe, Albrittons, Alston, Anderson, Anthony, Arundall, Arendall, Arnold, Atkins, and Atkinson., undated
Box 1 Folder b Genealogical Notes - Aldridge, undated
Box 1 Folder c Genealogical Notes - Arthur, undated
Box 1 Folder d Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "B") - Barker, Barrington, Bright, Bond, Batchelor, Beasley, Becton, Bennett, Bell, Bender, Burnap, Benners, Blackledge, Berry, Buke, Betts, Biffle, Backus, Blanks, Bogue, Boisseau, Bonner, Bray, Bridell, Bridger, Britt, Bryant, and Byrd., undated
Box 1 Folder e Genealogical Notes - Battle, undated
Box 1 Folder f Genealogical Notes - Blount, undated
Box 1 Folder g Genealogical Notes - Brice, undated
Box 1 Folder h Genealogical Notes - Bright, undated
Box 1 Folder i Genealogical Notes - Brock, undated
Box 1 Folder j Genealogical Notes - Bryan, undated
Box 1 Folder k Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "C") - Calhoun, Cannon, Carraway, Carrey, Caswell, Chancey or Chaunay, Clark, Cobb, Colcock, Congleton, Cook, Corfrew, Corpres or Corprew, Cotton, Cox, Creagh, Crush, Crisp, and Croom., undated
Box 1 Folder l Genealogical Notes - Coleman, undated
Box 1 Folder m Genealogical Notes - Cray, undated
Box 1 Folder n Genealogical Notes - Crowell, undated
Box 1 Folder o Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "D") - Dail, Donill [?], Daniels, Darden, Douglas, Danis, Daves, Dawson, Donnell, and Duffy. One document by W. G. Boyd on the history of the Daves family makes mention of a fire that destroyed Tryon Palace in New Bern on February 27, 1798., undated
Box 1 Folder p Genealogical Notes - Daughtry, undated
Box 1 Folder q Genealogical Notes - Dixon, undated
Box 1 Folder r Genealogical Notes - Dixon, undated
Box 2 Folder a Genealogical Notes - Drury, undated
Box 2 Folder b Genealogical Notes - Durant, undated
Box 2 Folder c Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "E") - Edmundson, Eilheck, Elder, Evans, Everitt, Ewell, and Exum, undated
Box 2 Folder d Genealogical Notes - Edwards, undated
Box 2 Folder e Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "F") - Fontaines, Farmer, Fields, Fisher, Flack, Fleetwood, Fay, Foscue, Fonville, Foster, Fulsher, and Fuller, undated
Box 2 Folder f Genealogical Notes - Fervox, undated
Box 2 Folder g Genealogical Notes - Fonvielle, undated
Box 2 Folder h Genealogical Notes - Fonvielle, undated
Box 2 Folder i Genealogical Notes - Fonvielle, undated
Box 2 Folder j Genealogical Notes - Francke, undated
Box 2 Folder k Genealogical Notes - French, undated
Box 2 Folder l Genealogical Notes - French, undated
Box 2 Folder m Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "G") - Good, Gatlin, Gaston, Gale, Gardner, Gooding, Gracy/Gracie/Gracey, Grady, Graham, Grantham, Granes, Green, Graves, Gray, Greene, and Guinn, undated
Box 2 Folder n Genealogical Notes - Gignilliatt, undated
Box 3 Folder a Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "H") - Holland, Hall, Hathaway, Holliday/Holladay, Hudson, Hinton, Hammond, Hampton, Hawkins, Higgins, Hines, Hartley, Harrold, Hardy, Harrison, Harry, Hall, Hughes, Hardin, Howard, Howell, Hatch, Holms/Homes, House, Hubbard, Huggins, Humphrey, and Hunter., undated
Box 3 Folder b Genealogical Notes - Handcock, undated
Box 3 Folder c Genealogical Notes - Hardee, undated
Box 3 Folder d Genealogical Notes - Hardee, undated
Box 3 Folder e Genealogical Notes - Harper, undated
Box 3 Folder f Genealogical Notes - Harvey, undated
Box 3 Folder g Genealogical Notes - Hatch, undated
Box 3 Folder h Genealogical Notes - Heath, undated
Box 3 Folder i Genealogical Notes - Hill, undated
Box 3 Folder j Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "I") - Ipock, Isler, undated
Box 3 Folder k Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "J") - Jackson, James, Johnston, and Johnson, undated
Box 3 Folder l Genealogical Notes - Jones, undated
Box 3 Folder m Genealogical Notes - Jones, undated
Box 3 Folder n Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "K") - Koonce, Kinsey, Kornegay, Kennedy, Ketchum, and Kinchen, undated
Box 3 Folder o Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "L") - Lewis, Little, Lillington, Leech, Leger/Le Ger, Lawson, Lee, Lancaster, Laker, Lane, Latham, Le Serurrier, Lee, Luderell, and Loreck/Lovick, undated
Box 3 Folder p Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "M") - Mason, Martian/Martien, Maule, McGee, McKenna/McKinna, McKenzie, Merritt, Miles, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morris, Matthews, McCoy, undated
Box 3 Folder q Genealogical Notes - Marion, undated
Box 3 Folder r Genealogical Notes - May, undated
Box 3 Folder s Genealogical Notes - Mcllwean, undated
Box 3 Folder t Genealogical Notes - Mewborne, undated
Box 3 Folder u Genealogical Notes - Miller, undated
Box 4 Folder a Genealogical Notes - Montford/Mumford, undated
Box 4 Folder b Genealogical Notes - Montford/Mumford, undated
Box 4 Folder c Genealogical Notes - Moore, undated
Box 4 Folder d Genealogical Notes - Murphree/Murphrey, undated
Box 4 Folder e Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "N") - Neill, Nelson, Neville/Neaville, Nicholson, Nixson/Nixon, Norman, and Nunn, undated
Box 4 Folder f Genealogical Notes - Old, Owen/Owens, undated
Box 4 Folder g Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "P") - Parker, Pate, Paxton, Philipse/Phillipse, Pippin, Pitt, Pollock, Porcher, Powell, Price, Preston, and Primrose, undated
Box 4 Folder h Genealogical Notes - Parrott, undated
Box 4 Folder i Genealogical Notes - Pritchard, undated
Box 4 Folder j Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "R") - Randall/Randal, Raiford, Raymond, Rogers, Rasor, Reell, Rhodes/Roads, Rice, Rigdon, Rohrer, Ross, Roulhac, Routledge/Routhledge, Rowe, and Ruffin, undated
Box 4 Folder k Genealogical Notes - Reed, undated
Box 4 Folder l Genealogical Notes - Rhem, undated
Box 4 Folder m Genealogical Notes - Richardson, undated
Box 4 Folder n Genealogical Notes - Russell, undated
Box 4 Folder o Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "S") -Sallier, Sanderson, Savage, Scarborough, Simpson, Smith, Screnen [?], Shepard/Shepherd, Sherrill, Street, Snowden/Snoden, Sutton, Spaight, Stanley/Stanly, Stockett, Stephen, Stevenson, Steward, Stokes, Stringfield, and Sweeney, undated
Box 4 Folder p Genealogical Notes - Singleton, undated
Box 4 Folder q Genealogical Notes - Shackelford, undated
Box 4 Folder r Genealogical Notes - Simmons, undated
Box 4 Folder s Genealogical Notes - Simpson, undated
Box 4 Folder t Genealogical Notes - Skinner, undated
Box 4 Folder u Genealogical Notes - Slocumb, undated
Box 4 Folder v Genealogical Notes - Street, undated
Box 5 Folder a Genealogical Notes - Sugg, undated
Box 5 Folder b Genealogical Notes - Sugg, undated
Box 5 Folder c Genealogical Notes - Swann/Sutton, undated
Box 5 Folder d Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "T") - Thorpe, Tyler, Travis, Trezerant, Tucker, Tull, Tilden, Tylden, and Tison/Tisson/Tyson, undated
Box 5 Folder e Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "V") - Vail, Van Horn, and Van Renssalaer, undated
Box 5 Folder f Genealogical Notes (Names starting with "W") - Wadsworth, Waller, Wooten, Washington, Wharton, Watson, Wiggins, Webb, West, Whitehead, Whitehurst, Whitfield, Whitley, Wickliffe, Williams, Wright, Williamson, Wilson, Wingate, Woodhouse, Wotten, Worseley, and Warters, undated
Box 5 Folder g Genealogical Notes - Ward, undated
Box 5 Folder h Genealogical Notes - Willis, undated
Box 5 Folder i Genealogical Notes - Wingfield, undated
Box 5 Folder j Genealogical Notes from Craven County, North Carolina, undated
Box 5 Folder k Genealogical Notes from Virginia, undated
Box 5 Folder l Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes - North Carolina, undated
Box 6 Folder a Correspondence and Genealogical Notes - North Carolina; Included is biographical information on Mary Louisa Dixon Jones, 1958, 1966, undated
Box 6 Folder b Four Genealogical Notebooks - North Carolina, undated
Box 6 Folder c Five Genealogical Notebooks - North Carolina, undated
Box 6 Folder d Three Genealogical Notebooks - North Carolina, undated
Box 6 Folder e Genealogical Charts of Mary Louisa Dixon Jones' Family, undated
Box 6 Folder f Miscellaneous - Transactions of the Huguenot Society of Charleston, S.C (South Carolina History Book); State of N.C. Awards Program honoring Robert Lee Humber; Notes on County Histories - Buncombe, Johnston, Wake, Wilson, Perquimans, Dobbs, Lenoir, Onslow, Carteret and other counties. Included is a document on duels that took place in N.C. and a clipping from the New Bern Sun-Journal that tells the part that New Bern played in the American Revolution., 1959, 1968, undated
Box 6 Folder g Miscellanous - Notes on North Carolina County History: Land Deed (1906); a booklet titled, "South Carolina and It's People" by Pauline Young (September 1952) and a clipping on St. Paul's Episcopal Church located in Edenton, N.C., 1906, 1952, undated
Box 7 Folder a Miscellaneous - Genealogical Notes, Correspondence, Written Histories on England around the time of Magna Carta and European History around the time of Charlesmagne, Written Family Histories, and 1 issue of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Nov. 1954)., 1950, 1954, 1973, undated
Box 7 Folder b Genealogical Notes on Fonvielle, Dixon, Cray, Durant, Brock, Blount, and Brice Families: Correspondence; and one Daughters of the American Revolution Application submitted by Mary Louisa Dixon Jones, 1951, 1958, undated
Box 7 Folder c Deeds from Carteret and Onslow Counties; John Becton Deed (1762); and Genealogical Notes and Charts on Dixon, Dobbs, Tyson, Hardee, Bright, Ward, Borden, Skinner, Brock, Brice, Walters, Warters, Stroud and Sutton Families, 1762, 1908, 1951, 1953, 1966, undated
Box 7 Folder d Correspondence, Clipping, Deeds, John Carruthers Will (1751), Craven County Records, Onslow County Records, and Genealogical Notes on Taylor, French, Dixon, Brice, Skinner, Aldridge, Gale, Hill, Benners, Street, Cray, and Crawell Families, 1751, 1915, 1952, undated
Box 7 Folder e Correspondence, Land Deeds (Arthur), and Genealogical Notes on Dixon, Carraway, Isler, Rhem, Skinner, Moseley, Sprigg, Beasley, Cray, Whitfield, Reed, Howe, Smith, Brice, and Harper, 1854, 1873, 1956, 1965, undated
Box 7 Folder f Correspondence, Clippings, Deeds, Wills, Publication, "The Murphree Quarterly" (Sept. 1967), Warranty Deed (1922) concerning land purchased by Thomas and Susan Dixon; and Genealogical Notes/Charts on Barrington, Murphy, Dixon, Harvey, Parker, Holliday, Hampton, Boddie, Allred, Murphree, and Ward, 1922, 1962, 1965, 1967, undated
Box 8 Folder a Correspondence; Colonial Records - N.C.; Virginia Historical Society Certificate to Mrs. H. L. Jones; and Genealogical Notes on Hardee, Ward, Sugg, Bush, and Heath Families, 1953, 1970, undated
Box 8 Folder b Correspondence, Clippings, and Genealogical Notes - Bennett, Heath, Franck, Cray, Tyson/Tison, Jones, Purifoys, Fonvielle, Shackelford, Sutton, Street, Willis, Simmons, Pitt, and Pritchett Families, 1960, undated
Box 8 Folder c Genealogical Notes - Dixon, Ward, Sutton, Pate, Street, Sugg, Willis, Montford, and Slocumb, 1928, undated
Box 8 Folder d Correspondence and Genealogical Notes - Miller, Humphrey, Montford, Nicholson, Mumford, Jones, Hatch, Kinsey, Marion, Hill, Fonvielle, French, and Franck Families, undated
Box 9 Folder a Genealogical Notebooks (Names starting with "B" to "M"), undated
Box 9 Folder b Genealogical Notebooks (Names starting with "B" to "S"), undated
Box 9 Folder c Genealogical Notebooks (Names starting with "B" to "R"), undated
Box 9 Folder d Genealogical Notebooks (Names starting with "D" to "W"), undated
Box 9 Folder e Genealogical Scrapbook (Names starting with "B" to "M"). Scrapbook includes 1 black and white photograph., undated
Box 9 Folder f Miscellaneous - Correspondence, Notes, and Publications that include a Raleigh, NC church publication and a magazine issue of The Relief Society, a publication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Feb. 1964), 1964-1968, 1970, undated
Oversize Folder 1 Genealogical Notes, South Carolina State House Picture, Mackilwean Family Chart, Political Poster of Lt. Governor Candidate Margaret Harper and a map of the Landgrave Ketelby's Barony in Colleton County, South Carolina, undated