Collection number: MC 223
Size: 1 box
(0.33 cu.ft.)
About the Jones Family
Levi Jones (1771-1847) was a farmer, businessman, innkeeper, and prominent mason of Milton, N.H. He married Sally Worcester Wallingford (1799-1863). Their only child Charles (1834-1873) married Betsy Varney (1836-1878) in 1856. Charles and Betsy had three children, Fred P. (born about 1860), Nellie V. (born about 1862), and Charles Dana (1863-1908). Charles Jr. married Pauline Hart (b. 1966); they had five children - Katherine Mary (b. 1887), Russell Hart (b. 1893), Levi Dana (b. 1891), Hanson Varney (b. 1899), and Dorothy (b. ca. 1900). Fred married Emma Jane Cowell and had at least two children, the second of whom was Robert Edmond (1887-1958).
The Jones Farm now forms part of the New Hampshire Farm Museum on Plummer's Ridge in Milton, N.H. and was gifted to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF). A companion parcel, 322 acres in size, located on Piggott Road in Milton, was gifted to the University of New Hampshire by the Jones family. In the past, it was used extensively by forestry classes for management exercises. The variation in vegetative makeup and terrain made it ideal for educational study and for wildlife habitat management. The property is multi-use, so is open to the public for most forms of non-motorized recreation including hunting, fishing and all forms of pedestrian traffic.
About the Jones Family papers
The Jones family papers include account books kept by Levi Jones that provide a picture of the family farm operation, a series of deeds, land records, and receipts, two wills (those of Joseph Plumer, a neighbor, and Betsy G. Varney), as well as a speech delivered in 1834 by Levi on the subject of temperance. One incidental item is the transference to Elizabeth Jones in 1964 of the royalties to be earned by the work of set designer Robert Edmond Jones, one of the most influential figures in 20th‐century American theatre. He was the son of Fred P. and Emma (Cowell) Jones of Plummer's Ridge, Milton and the great-grandson of Levi Jones.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
Copyright Notice
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jones Family Papers, 1817-1964, MC 223, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Multiple accessions: #7944 (purchased from the Manuscript Co. of Springfield, March 17, 1980); #2009.07; #2012.13 (purchased from Shelley Cardiel, Kirkland, WA)
Collection Contents
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Levi Jones account book. Mostly running accounts from the operation of the family farm, 1817-1834 | |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Levi Jones account book. Mostly running accounts from the operation of the family farm, 1833-1847 | |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Levi Jones Militia/Justice of the Peace record book, 1813-1845 and estate inventory and account book, 1847-1860 | |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Levi Jones, speech on temperance, 1834 | |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Levi Jones deeds (9), 1817-1847 | |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Joseph P. Jones deeds (6), 1827-1838 | |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | Sally Jones deeds (3), 1849-1859 | |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | Charles Jones deeds (9), 1845-1859 | |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Charles Jones deeds (9), 1860-1864 | |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | Charles Jones deeds (9), 1865-1868 | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | Charles Jones deeds (6), 1869-1871 | |
| Box 1, Folder 12 | Miscellaneous deeds (3): Samuel Wallingford, Joshua G. Hall, and Fred P. Jones, 1820, 1870, 1885 | |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Miscellaneous land records (5). Agreements on property line, fence construction, and maintenance between owners of the Jones property and the owners of neighboring properties, 1824-1869 | |
| Box 1, Folder 14 | Milton, NH tax receipts, 1865-1868 | |
| Box 1, Folder 15 | Levi Jones receipts (2), 1817 | |
| Box 1, Folder 16 | Charles Jones receipts (25), 1864-1869 | |
| Box 1, Folder 17 | Miscellaneous receipts (2), 1868-1869 | |
| Box 1, Folder 18 | Wills: Joseph Plumer and Betsey G. Varney, 1821 and 1869 | |
| Box 1, Folder 19 | Charles Jones, miscellaneous documents. Include an essay on geography, 2 merit rewards, and one share in the Dover Library, 1844-1875 | |
| Box 1, Folder 20 | Jones family timber management and sale, 1951-1952 | |
| Box 1, Folder 21 | Elizabeth Jones, royalty transfer from Robert Edmund Jones, 1964 | |
| Box 1, Folder 22 | Lydia Worcester, Sally Jones silver coffin plates, 1863 | |
| Box 1, Folder 23 | Photo card of Nellie V. Jones, prob. in her twenties (taken at the Phelps Studio, 942 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.), ca.1880s | |
