Cadwallader Jones

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

1. November 1828 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 JonesSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 299
2. 1832 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.In the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
3. 1836–1857 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.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
4. May 27, 1838 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: Cadwallader JonesSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 24
5. October 1838 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: Edmund Strudwick, Cadwallader Jones, Josiah Turner Jr.Search the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, October 18, 1838
6. 1839 Maria L. Spear becomes principal of Hillsborough Female Seminary After William M. Green's last announcement in 1838, the seminary's trustees named Maria L. Spear principal in 1839. People: James Strudwick Smith, Cadwallader Jones, Hugh Waddell, Stephen Moore, William Mercer GreenLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 136
7. 1840–1857 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.In the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Jones, Cadwallader
8. Early 1842 Hillsborough Literary Association forms with Dennis Heartt as secretary A Literary Association was formed at Hillsborough in early 1842 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: Frederick Nash, Cadwallader Jones, Robert Armistead Burwell, James Strudwick SmithSearch the index · DigitalNC: Wilmington Chronicle, February 9, 1842, page 2
9. April 1844 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: Cadwallader Jones, James WebbSearch the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, April 11, 1844