[JAMES] FIRST LEGISLATORS OF UPPER CANADA 108 
and some in Upper Canada. Ephraim was the tenth son. He set- 
tled in Augusta township, where he was long known as “ Commissary 
Jones,” through his having charge of the Government stores. He 
married a Miss Coursoll, of Montreal, and had four sons and four 
daughters as follows: 
1. Charles, born 1781, was a miller and merchant, and began the 
settlement at Brockville, where he died in 1840. He was member 
for Leeds from 1820 to 1828, and was afterwards appointed a member 
of the Legislative Council. 
2. William owned mills at Beverley (now Delta). He died at 
Brockville in 1832. 
3. Jonas, a pupil of Dr. Strachan, studied law, was appointed 
Judge, and in 1837 was made Judge of the Queen’s Bench. He 
died at Toronto, in 1848. His eldest son, David Ford Jones, was 
member for Grenville for three terms, 1816-1828, and again chosen 
in 1836. 
4, Alpheus was Collector of Customs and Postmaster at Prescott, 
where he died in 1863. 
5. Charlotte married L. P. Sherwood, afterwards Judge of the 
Queen’s Bench. 
6. Sophia married Andrew Stuart. 
7. Lucy married Dr. Hubbell, of Brockville. 
8. Eliza married H. J. Boulton, of Toronto, at one time Governor 
of Newfoundland. 
Ephraim Jones was succeeded as member in 1786 by Dr. Solomon 
Jones who had been a surgeon in Burgoyne’s Army, and who also had 
settled in Augusta. There were two well known but unrelated fami- 
hes of the name of Jones in Grenville county. Solomon was one of 
four brothers — Daniel, Solomon, David and John —who came to 
Upper Canada from Fort Edward, New York. Two other brothers 
were killed in the war, and a seventh settled in Nova Scotia. Daniel 
was, along with Charles Jones, son of Ephraim, one of the founders 
of Brockville. He was the father of Daniel Jones, who was knighted. 
His other son, David Jones, was member for Leeds, and was appointed 
registrar and judge. David Jones, brother of Solomon, was the pros- 
pective husband of Jane McCrea, who was murdered by the Indians in 
northern New York, and whose death played an important part in 
the Revolutionary War. 
(For most of these facts in regard to the Jones family I am 
indebted to Leavitt’s “ History of Leeds and Grenville.”) 
Leeds and Frontenac counties included the townships at present 
contained therein, together with all the land north to the Ottawa 
River. These two together were entitled to one member. The 
