Griffith Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in about 1695. A resident of Bladen County, North Carolina, he arrived by 1728 and eventually became a justice of the peace. There in 1753 he presided over a freeholders' court which heard a case involving Cato, an enslaved man charged with attempted murder. In 1755, Jones joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions. Jones died sometime after March 1757.