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Jones, David

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1699, in Fork Neck, L. I.

From 1758 till 1773 he was a judge of the supreme court of New York. He died Oct. 11, 1775, in Fork Neck, N. Y.

JONES, DAVİD, clergyman, was born May 12, 1736, in New Castle county, Del.

In 1776 he entered the revolutionary army as chaplain of the third and fourth Pennsylvania battalions, and on Jan. 1, 1777, he became chaplain of General Anthony Wayne, with whom he continued until the end of the war. He died Feb. 5, 1820, in Chester county, Pa.

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