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Samuel Peabody. John Jones with Samuel Peabody and other inhabitants of Conway, guided them to the encampment of the enemy on the footpath, or portage, leading from Manawagonish Cove to South Bay. The Yankees were apprised of their coming and ambushed themselves some climbed into trees. However, when the commander of the attacking party arrived near their position he sent flanking parties which fired and killed nine men who were afterwards buried near the spot where they fell in one grave; the remainder fled.

Mr. Jones' employers paid him his daily wages for some time in order to retain his services, under the impression that the war would soon be over and they would be able to build ships. During this time Jones married Mercy Hilderick, who was on a visit to her brother-in-law, Samuel Peabody. There being no clergyman at hand, the ceremony was performed by Gervas Say, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Sunbury, who then lived in the township of Conway. The ravages of the privateers that infested the coasts of the Bay of Fundy obliged Jones, in common with nearly all the Conway people, to remove elsewhere. He accordingly went up the river to Jemseg Point, then covered with white oak trees. Joseph Garrison,^[1] who resided in the vicinity, made oars, capstan bars, tree-nails, etc., and sold them to traders. Becoming acquainted with Edmund Price, an old inhabitant on the river, John Jones concluded to become his neighbor, and he accordingly removed to the head of Long Reach and settled at the place called "Coy's Mistake" on the Kemble Manor. Jones had a family of eight sons and seven daughters, fourteen of whom married and raised large families. In the year 1857 his seventh son was