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  1. Frances Jones may refer to: Frances Jones (colonist) (1710–1785), mother of the first First Lady of the United States, Martha Washington. Frances Follin Jones (1912–1999), American classicist and curator at the Art Museum, Princeton University. Frances Jones Mills (1920–1996), state official in Kentucky. Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones (born ...

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    Frances' father, Orlando Jones, was a Burgess for New Kent County in 1718 in the House of Burgesses, the leading legislative body in Colonial Virginia. Her grandfather, Col. Gideon Macon (father of Martha Macon), was also a member of the House of Burgesses from 1696 to 1702, and was secretary to Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, during hi...

    Frances, or Fanny, was born on a plantation near Williamsburg on Queen's Creek within easy distance of the growing capital. Frances had an older brother, Lane Jones, born in 1707, and Frances was born in 1710. Her mother, Martha MaconJones, died when Frances was only six years old. Orlando Jones soon remarried. His second wife, Mary Elizabeth Willi...

    Shortly after Frances Jones married John Dandridge in New Kent County, Virginia on July 22, 1730, they moved to their new home, Chestnut Grove. John Dandridge became Clerk of Courts in New Kent and kept that position for the next 26 years. He was also vestryman and churchwarden for St. Peter's Church, Church of England. John was a prominent planter...

    John and Frances Jones Dandridge produced eight children, Martha Dandridgebeing the eldest. As was typical of the time, the children were educated at home, their education being considered quite liberal. John and Frances employed a tutor for their children. It was also quite unusual that Martha was presented to society in Williamsburg at the young ...

    Her husband, Colonel John Dandridge, died in Fredericksburg on 31 August 1756. He was interred at St. George's Episcopal Churchin Fredricksburg. There are a number of conflicting reports on the date of death for Frances Jones, but the one most commonly reported is July 9, 1785.

    Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (1897). Martha Washington. C. Scribner's Sons. OCLC 3357626. Lossing, Benson John (1886). Mary and Martha, the mother and the wife of George Washington. New York : Harper & Brothers. OCLC 1708048. Brady, Patricia (2005). Martha Washington: An American Life. Viking. ISBN 0-14-303713-7.

  2. Martha Dandridge was the daughter of John Dandridge and Frances Jones. Although orphaned as a child, Martha’s mother, Frances Jones, had received a respectable inheritance from her father, Orlando Jones, who left ten slaves and land in King William County. Martha’s father, John Dandridge, from a modest background in England, emigrated in ...

  3. Orlando Jones (born April 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv , for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz 's American Gods .

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  5. Aug 29, 2023 · Frances Orlando Jones (06 Aug 1710 – 9 July 1785) was born in New Kent County, Virginia, where she also died. Frances married John Dandridge on July 22, 1730 in New Kent County, Virginia. Frances was the daughter of Orlando Jones and Martha Macon, prosperous Virginia landowners, and she is more commonly known as the mother of the first First ...

  6. Politics Runs in The Family. Frances' father, Orlando Jones, was a Burgess for New Kent County in 1718 in the House of Burgesses, the leading legislative body in Colonial Virginia. Her grandfather, Col. Gideon Macon (father of Martha Macon), was also a member of the House of Burgesses from 1696 to 1702, and was secretary to Sir William Berkeley ...

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