John Gabriel Jones
Military Person
1752 – 1776
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Who was John Gabriel Jones?
John Gabriel Jones was a colonial American pioneer and politician. An early settler of Kentucky, he and George Rogers Clark sought to petition Virginia to allow Kentucky to become a part of the Colony of Virginia at the outset of the American Revolution.
He was named in honor of his uncle, the noted Virginian lawyer Gabriel Jones.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1752
Williamsburg - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Dec 25, 1776
Licking River
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on July 23, 2013
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