John Jones (c.1746? - ) was a marine in the 23rd (Portsmouth) Company when he arrived at Sydney aboard the Alexander in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet. He was attached to Captain James Meredith's Company at Port Jackson.
Jones enlisted in the New South Wales Corps at the end of his term of service in 1793. He may have been the John Jones who received 25 acres of a 100 acre grant of land shared with three others in September 1795.
The identity of the NSW Corps John Jones is difficult to confirm. A John Jones is found among the marines who left for England on the Gorgon in December 1791 but the 1828 lists a John Jones, free, aged 82, who arrived on the Alexander in 1788, who was residing at the Sydney Benevolent Asylum. No date of death has been found for this man.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p
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