Wormsloe and Noble Jones

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

Ran across this while looking for something else:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/goldcres/sites/wormsloe.htm

 ``Wormsloe State Historic Site 

 ``Situated on a forested peninsula surrounded by coastal marshes, Wormsloe
 Plantation was established in 1737 by Noble Jones, one of the first
 British colonists in the area. The site includes a plantation house
 built by Jones' grandson in 1828, a detached library, the ruins of a
 fortified house, a mile-long drive bordered by large live oaks, and
 Confederate earthworks. Wormsloe was Noble Jones' country estate where
 he tested his horticultural interests. Jones protected the cypress and
 oak forests of his property and never cultivated the land. In addition
 to raising his family at Wormsloe, Jones also commanded here a company
 of Marines charged with Georgia's coastal defense. The surviving ruins of
 the original house are one of the only remaining examples of a fortified
 house, a common domestic design throughout early coastal Georgia.''

Nice picture of the entrance to the mile-long oak-lined driveway.

This is the same Noble Jones whose epitaph reads:

                Noble Jones of Wormsloe, Esquire
                Senior Judge of the General Court
       and acting Chief Justice of the Province of Georgia
            For twenty-one years member and sometimes
               President of His Majesty's Council,
             Colonel of the First Georgia Regiment.
                   Died Nov. 2d, 1775, aged 73

As near as I can tell he was a relative only by marriage.

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