Ellis Jones and his family were Quakers and as Richard Cantrell belonged to the Church of England, Richard and Dorothy were married, to use the Quaker term, “Out of Meeting.’

Dorothy Jones Cantrell seems to have been a young lady of considerable spirit and independence of character. She not only married the man of her choice, irrespective of her religious training, but later evidence is found of her love of gayety and society in an old Philadelphia, where she figured at a masquerade ball, much to the horror of her more quiet Quaker friends.