Allen Jones (Continental Congress)

Allen Jones ( born December 24, 1739 Edgecombe County, North Carolina, † November 10, 1798 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina ) was an American politician, who participated as a delegate from North Carolina to the Continental Congress.

Allen Jones was born on the territory of present-day Halifax County. His father Robin Jones was the attorney of Lord Grenville, the Lord Proprietor of North Carolina. After he had been educated at Eton College in England, Jones returned to North America and acquired the plantation "Mount Gallant ," which he cultivated as a planter. From 1773 to 1775 he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly.

After the start of the American Revolution, Jones took part in five provincial congresses 1774-1776 as a delegate. In the Revolutionary War he served in the Continental Army and reached the rank of brigadier general. Then he returned to politics and was a member of the Senate of North Carolina. There he sat from 1777 to 1779, from 1783 to 1784 and in 1787. Between 1778 and 1779 he served as president of the chamber of parliament. In the years 1779 and 1780 he was sent as a representative of his state to the meetings of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. As a staunch Federalist, Jones agreed to the Convention, the 1788 should ratify the Constitution of the United States of North Carolina, for their adoption. The majority, including his brother Willie, who was also a delegate to the Continental Congress, but decided against it. Then he perceived no public functions; he died in November 1798 at his estate in Northampton County.

His son William Richardson Davie was from 1798 to 1799 governor of North Carolina.