Willie Jones (ca. 1740-1801) Papers, PC.656

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Willie Jones (ca. 1740-1801) Papers, PC.656

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Title
Willie Jones (ca. 1740-1801) Papers
Call Number
PC.656
Creator
Unknown
Date
1781, 1852, 1959
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Letter to Gov. Thomas Burke from Jones, Halifax Co. legislator, president of N.C. Council of Safety (1776), and member of Continental Congress (1780-1781), relaying rumors of a British cavalry raid toward Halifax from Virginia (July, 1781). Material relating to Jones includes a biographical sketch by Fred A. Olds; appeals for preservation of "Constitution House" and Jones's home "The Grove" in Halifax; statement by descendant of Allen Jones concerning John Paul Jones's adoption of that surname; and a photocopy of "The Willie Jones-John Paul Jones Tradition" by Samuel Eliot Morison (William and Mary Quarterly, Apr., 1959). Also lottery advertisement (1852).

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Jones, Willie
  2. Burke, Thomas
  3. Olds, Fred A.
  4. Jones, Allen
  5. Jones, John Paul
  6. Morison, Samuel Eliot
  7. North Carolina Council of Safety
  8. United States. Continental Congress
  9. William and Mary Quarterly
  10. Governors
  11. Legislators
  12. British
  13. Lotteries
  14. THE WILLIE JONES-JOHN PAUL JONES TRADITION
  15. Cavalry
  16. Attacks
  17. Halifax County
  18. Halifax
  19. Virginia
  20. Constitution House (Halifax)
  21. The Grove (Halifax)