| Last name | Jones |
| First name | Rebecca |
| Display name | Rebecca Jones |
| Birth date | 1739 |
| Death date | 1817 |
| Birth place | phila |
| Gender | f |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends |
| Bio notes | Quaker minister and educator. Daughter of William Jones and Mary Jones, an Anglican who ran a school in her home; attended Quaker school run by Anthony Benezet; first appearance in Quaker ministry (1758); acknowledged a minster (1760); took over her mother's school (1761-aft. 1781); Ministerial travels in England (1784-88); shopkeeper, Phila. (aft. 1788); founder, Westtown School. Close friend of John Woolman. |
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff