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Cadwallader Jones

Jones was the son of Cadwallader and Rebecca Jones of West Hill near Hillsborough. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1832, began practicing law in Hillsborough in 1836, served as a university trustee from 1840 to 1857, and left for South Carolina in 1857.

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Cadwallader Jones, portrait plate, 1899
Cadwallader Jones, portrait plate, 1899

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StorylineInternal improvements and the 1833 Hillsborough railroad convention, 1828–18371828–1837 · 16 events · From 1828 Orange County leaders pressed for river navigation and, above all, a central railroad through the state. That year James Mebane brought a flour boat down the Haw from Murphey's Mills, and a meeting with Joseph Caldwell giving the address urged a central railroad. The 1833 convention at Hillsborough chose Thomas Ruffin president, called for a Roanoke and Yadkin Rail Road and adopted Willie P. Mangum's report that the state should pay two-fifths of any work for which private citizens secured three-fifths. By August 1834 every Orange candidate for the Assembly had declared for the central railroad, and in 1837 Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough was named to the Board of Internal Improvement. StorylineBuilding the Orange County courthouse, 1842–18461842–1846 · 7 events · Orange County's new courthouse at Hillsborough was disputed from the start, because western voters saw it as a move to fix the county seat and block a division of Orange. In February 1844 the county court voted to build instead of repairing the old courthouse and laid a tax of $8,000. The building commissioners let the contract privately to John Berry of Hillsborough without public notice, and western critics attacked the bargain. Masons laid the cornerstone that September, and Berry's Greek Revival temple-form building was standing by May 1845. The old wooden courthouse became a church, and by mid-July 1846 the repaired town clock was striking the hours from the new cupola.

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  1. Thirty students walk out of Sunday worship in the chapel One Sunday morning thirty students left divine service in the chapel one by one. The faculty examined each; thirteen gave acceptable excuses and the other seventeen denied any plan, so the case was dropped. People: Cadwallader Jones Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 299
  2. Cadwallader Jones graduates from the University of North Carolina Jones, the son of Cadwallader and Rebecca Edwards Long Jones of West Hill near Hillsborough, took his degree at Chapel Hill in 1832. Place: Chapel HillIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
  3. An Orange County meeting condemns Jackson's removal of the deposits Citizens of Orange met at the court house after May county court adjourned, chose Col. Cadwallader Jones chairman, and the next day adopted resolutions calling President Jackson's removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United States unauthorized, declaring a national bank necessary, and approving the course of Senator Willie P. Mangum and Representative Daniel L. Barringer. People: Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Willie P. Mangum Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Daniel L. BarringerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1834, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough celebrates the Fourth of July with an oration and a dinner at the Masonic Hall Citizens went from the court house to the Presbyterian church, where Hugh Waddell read the Declaration of Independence and Allen C. Jones gave the oration, then dined at the Masonic Hall with Alfred Moore presiding and drank thirteen regular toasts and many volunteer toasts, several aimed at Jackson and Van Buren. A court house meeting on June 18 under Maj. Allen J. Davie had named the committees. People: Hugh Waddell, Cadwallader Jones, Dennis Heartt Place: Presbyterian church and Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Allen C. Jones, Alfred Moore, Allen J. DavieSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 9, 1834, p. 3
  5. Jones begins practicing law at Hillsborough Jones began his legal career in Hillsborough in 1836 and practiced there until he moved his family to a cotton plantation near Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1857. He sat in the House of Commons for the 1840, 1842, 1848 and 1850 sessions and became solicitor of the Fourth Judicial District in April 1843. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
  6. Commissioners call for bids to build a stone jail at Hillsborough James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and James Webb, acting as commissioners, asked builders for proposals for a two-story stone jail 45 feet long, showing the plan and specifications on request and taking bids until mid-March. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, James Webb Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 26, 1836, p. 3
  7. Governor Dudley names Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough to the Board of Internal Improvement Governor Edward B. Dudley nominated Cadwallader Jones of Hillsborough and William D. Mosely of Lenoir to the state Board of Internal Improvement, and the Council of State confirmed them without a dissenting vote. Place: Raleigh (Council of State) · Also named: Edward B. DudleySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 24, 1837, p. 3
  8. Paul Cameron sells Burnside to Cadwallader Jones Jr. Paul Cameron sold Burnside, his three-year-old Hillsborough house, to Cadwallader Jones Jr. for $2,000. Jones sold it back to Cameron in the 1850s when he ran into money trouble. People: Paul C. Cameron, Cadwallader Jones Place: Burnside, 201 South Cameron Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Paul CameronSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 24
  9. Commissioners seek bids to repair the Eno bridge at Hillsborough John U. Kirkland was one of five commissioners, with Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, Josiah Turner and Catlett Campbell, who advertised for proposals to repair the bridge over the Eno at Hillsborough, with bids due in November. People: John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Cadwallader Jones, Josiah Turner Jr. Place: Eno River bridge, Hillsborough · Also named: Catlett CampbellSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 18, 1838
  10. Maria L. Spear heads the Hillsborough Female Seminary When the Hillsborough Female Academy's session opened on January 14, 1839, it was under its principal, Miss Maria L. Spear, whose work over several years past, the trustees said, had met their highest expectations. Her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, taught music, drawing and painting. William M. Green's last announcement for the school had run in 1838. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, William Mercer Green Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Maria L. SpearLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 136 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, February 14, 1839, p. 3
  11. Jones serves as a trustee of the University of North Carolina Jones was a trustee of his own university from 1840 until 1857, the years he was practicing law at Hillsborough. Place: Chapel HillIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
  12. Orange Democrats nominate Gen. Joseph Allison and a full legislative ticket A large Democratic Republican meeting at the Masonic Hall in Hillsborough, chaired by Dr. Julius C. Bracken, nominated Gen. Joseph Allison for the state Senate and Col. John Stockard, Gen. Benjamin Trolinger, Cadwallader Jones Jr. and Col. William Horner for the House of Commons. It also named delegates to a state convention to choose a vice-presidential candidate. People: John Stockard, Cadwallader Jones, Joseph Allison Place: Masonic Hall, Hillsborough · Also named: Julius C. Bracken, Benjamin Trolinger, William HornerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 4, 1840, p. 3
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  1. Orange voters elect Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and a mostly Whig delegation to the Commons Orange County elected Whig Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and Whigs William A. Graham, Nathaniel I. King and Dr. Michael W. Holt to the House of Commons; Democrat Cadwallader Jones Jr. took the fourth seat with votes from Whig friends. The county gave John M. Morehead a majority of about 500 over Romulus M. Saunders for governor, and the Recorder declared Orange a Whig county. People: Willie P. Mangum, William A. Graham, Cadwallader Jones Place: Election precincts, Orange County · Also named: Nathaniel I. King, Michael W. Holt, John M. Morehead, Romulus M. SaundersSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 13, 1840, p. 3
  2. The wardens of the poor publish three years of poorhouse accounts The Orange County wardens of the poor reported that the county poorhouse had spent $3,440 between March 1838 and March 1841, about $1,150 a year, on thirty to thirty-five paupers, thirty-one at the time, under steward William Gattis and Mrs. Gattis. Two hired Black men worked the poorhouse farm and a Black woman washed and cooked, and the board had $1,053 on hand. People: James Webb, Cadwallader Jones Place: County poorhouse, Orange County · Also named: William GattisSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 6, 1841, p. 3
  3. Hillsborough's female seminary engages Moses Ashley Curtis as superintendent The trustees of the Hillsborough female seminary, among them James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones, William Cain, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore, Nathan Hooker and P. H. Mangum, engaged the Rev. M. A. Curtis as superintendent, kept the same women teachers, and set the next session to open on July 15. People: Moses Ashley Curtis, James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore Place: Hillsborough · Also named: William Cain, Nathan Hooker, P. H. MangumHillsborough Recorder, June 24, 1841, p. 3
  4. Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at a meeting in the Presbyterian session house in Hillsborough on the evening of January 20, 1842, after a preliminary meeting the night before, with Frederick Nash as president; James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones and Robert Burwell as vice presidents; Dennis Heartt as secretary; and Walter A. Norwood as treasurer. Heartt, a charter member, had helped organize it. People: Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick Smith, Walter A. Norwood Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Robert Burwell · Also mentions: Presbyterian session houseSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2 · Also: Hillsborough Recorder, January 27, 1842, p. 3
  5. Orange County sends Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate while voting for Whig governor John M. Morehead Orange voters gave Governor John M. Morehead, the Whig, 1,576 votes to 1,172 for Louis D. Henry, yet elected Democrat Joseph Allison to the state Senate over Hugh Waddell and returned only one Whig, Henry K. Nash, to the House of Commons with Democrats John Stockard, Julius C. Bracken and Cadwallader Jones Jr. The Whig Recorder blamed poor Whig turnout and alleged illegal votes, and some Whigs spoke of contesting the result. People: Hugh Waddell, John Motley Morehead, Joseph Allison, Henry Kollock Nash, John Stockard, Cadwallader Jones Place: Election precincts, Orange County · Also named: Julius C. Bracken, Louis D. HenrySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 11, 1842, p. 3
  6. The legislature elects Cadwallader Jones Jr. of Hillsborough solicitor for the judicial district The General Assembly elected Cadwallader Jones Jr. of Hillsborough, then one of Orange County's members of the House of Commons, solicitor for the judicial district on the fourth ballot, by seven votes over John F. Poindexter. People: Cadwallader Jones Place: General Assembly, Raleigh (Jones was of Hillsborough) · Also named: John F. PoindexterSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 8, 1842, p. 3
  7. Andrew M. Steel is convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of his mother At the fall superior court, Judge Manly presiding, Andrew M. Steel was tried for murder in the death of his mother, Nancy Steel, whom he had shot on April 19. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to be branded and imprisoned for twelve months. People: Hugh Waddell, William A. Graham, John Wall Norwood, Cadwallader Jones Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Andrew M. SteelSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 21, 1843, p. 3
  8. Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry The commissioners named by the county court to build the new courthouse, James S. Smith, Cadwallader Jones sen., Osmond F. Long, John U. Kirkland, Harrison Parker, William Murray, Edwin M. Holt and Michael W. Holt, let the contract privately to John Berry of Hillsborough without public notice. Western critics attacked the bargain in the paper through the spring. People: John Berry, James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, John U. Kirkland, Harrison Parker Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Osmond F. Long, William Murray, Edwin M. Holt, Michael W. HoltSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 30, 1844, p. 3
  9. John U. Kirkland is elected a Warden of the Poor for Orange County At an election in April 1844 Orange County chose Cadwallader Jones, Dr. James Webb, Green Jordan, Nathaniel Bain, James Faucett, John U. Kirkland and Samuel N. Tate as Wardens of the Poor. People: John U. Kirkland, Cadwallader Jones, James Webb Place: Orange County · Also named: Samuel N. Tate, James FaucettSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1844
  10. Orange citizens hold funeral honors for Andrew Jackson at Mason Hall A large gathering of Orange citizens and the officers of the Hawfield Regiment marched in a funeral procession at Mason Hall in memory of Andrew Jackson, with minute guns, a prayer by Rev. Anderson Hughes and an oration by Cadwallader Jones Jr. People: Joseph Allison, Cadwallader Jones Place: Mason Hall, Orange County · Also named: Anderson Hughes · Also mentions: Mason HallSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, July 24, 1845, p. 3
  11. The Orange Volunteers dine at the Hillsborough House and elect John Cameron captain Townspeople gave the Orange Volunteers, raised for the Mexican War, a dinner at Robert F. Morris's Hillsborough House, where Cadwallader Jones Jr. and Gen. Joseph Allison addressed them. The company then marched to the court house and elected John Cameron captain and Shepard K. Nash first lieutenant, and was accepted as Company I, the ninth company of the North Carolina Regiment. People: Joseph Allison, Cadwallader Jones Place: Hillsborough House and court house, Hillsborough · Also named: John Cameron, Shepard K. Nash, Robert F. MorrisSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 21, 1847, p. 3
  12. Orange County railroad meeting backs a central route through Orange and Guilford A county meeting at the Hillsborough court house, chaired by Dr. Edmund Strudwick, adopted William A. Graham's resolutions that the central railroad should run through Orange and Guilford, pledged enough subscriptions to grade the road through the county, and named ten delegates to the Salisbury railroad convention in June. Graham and Giles Mebane spoke. People: William A. Graham, Edmund Strudwick, Giles Mebane, Dennis Heartt, David L. Swain, Cadwallader Jones, John Wall Norwood, John U. Kirkland, James Patterson Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 21, 1849, p. 3
  13. North Carolina Railroad stock books open at Hillsborough The commissioners opened the North Carolina Railroad subscription books at the Hillsborough court house, where John M. Morehead, David L. Swain and William A. Graham addressed the people; the editor called the first day's subscriptions respectable, and the books stayed open thirty days. People: Cadwallader Jones, Edmund Strudwick, John Motley Morehead, David L. Swain, William A. Graham Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also mentions: North Carolina RailroadSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 1, 1849, p. 3
  14. Democrats win the Orange and Alamance Senate seat and all four Commons seats In the state election, voters of Orange and Alamance, still voting together for the legislature, chose Capt. John Berry for the Senate and Cadwallader Jones Jr., Daniel A. Montgomery, Bartlett Durham and George Patterson for the Commons, all Democrats, over the Whig ticket headed by Chesley F. Faucett. The two counties also gave David S. Reid 1,855 votes for governor to Gov. Charles Manly's 1,634, reversing Manly's narrow lead there in 1848. People: John Berry, Charles Manly, Cadwallader Jones Place: Orange and Alamance counties · Also named: Daniel A. Montgomery, Bartlett Durham, George Patterson, Chesley F. FaucettSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 7, 1850, p. 3
  15. Hillsborough meeting resolves to build a plank road to Milton Citizens of Orange and neighboring counties met in Hillsborough during court week and resolved to build a plank road from Hillsborough to Milton, naming committees to sell stock in $50 shares and to ask the next legislature for a charter and state aid. Hugh Waddell urged a branch to Haywood by way of Chapel Hill. People: Giles Mebane, Hugh Waddell, Josiah Turner Jr., John U. Kirkland, Cadwallader Jones Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 8, 1854, p. 3
  16. Orange elects William A. Graham to the state Senate and Phillips and Turner to the Commons Orange County voters elected the Whig ticket: William A. Graham to the state Senate over Cadwallader Jones Jr., and Samuel F. Phillips and Josiah Turner Jr. to the House of Commons over John F. Lyon and William Nelson. The county gave Alfred Dockery, the Whig candidate for governor, 1,080 votes to Thomas Bragg's 963, and voted against the liquor 'Reform' question. People: William A. Graham, Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips, Josiah Turner Jr., William Nelson, Thomas Bragg, Cadwallader Jones Place: Orange County · Also named: John F. Lyon, Alfred DockerySearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 9, 1854, p. 2
  17. Hillsborough holds a town meeting over an outrage at the Female Academy and three men are bound over After young men committed what the editor called a scandalous outrage in the Hillsborough Female Academy building on the night of September 28, 1858, citizens met the next morning with Cadwallader Jones in the chair, heard Judge Frederick Nash, and resolved that town and county officers should bring the offenders to trial. The culprits were arrested that afternoon and on September 30 three were bound over by Calvin E. Parish to the March Superior Court. People: Cadwallader Jones, Dennis Heartt, Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Josiah Turner Jr., Calvin E. Parish Place: Hillsborough Female Academy, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 6, 1858, p. 2
  18. An Orange County mass meeting at the courthouse takes up the crisis of the Union Called by William A. Graham, Paul C. Cameron, Cadwallader Jones, John W. Norwood and other men of both parties, a meeting of Orange County people at the Hillsborough courthouse on Saturday, December 15, directed that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions on the state of the Union and adjourned to December 22. People: William A. Graham, Paul C. Cameron, Cadwallader Jones, John Wall Norwood, Pride Jones, Dennis Heartt, William H. Brown, Henry Kollock Nash Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 19, 1860, p. 3
  19. Col. Cadwallader Jones, chairman of the county court, dies Col. Cadwallader Jones, chairman of the Orange County special court and of its finance committee, died at his home near Hillsborough in his seventy-fourth year. A Virginia-born former navy midshipman and army officer who had long sat on the state Board of Internal Improvement, he had lived in Orange about thirty-five years, and the February county court entered tributes to him on its records. Place: His residence near HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 13, 1861, p. 3

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Jones, Cadwallader, 1843- · 1847

Two hundred items from Cadwallader Jones, born 1843, covering 1847 to 1925, half a linear foot in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2487. Personal narratives and officers' correspondence from the Confederate army cover Charleston during the Civil War, North Carolina politics between 1861 and 1865, social conditions at Hillsborough and at Greensboro, Alabama, and sharecropping in the years afterward.

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