Edward Jones

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By Edward Jones

Governors' Papers: Samuel Ashe, Correspondence, April 1798

Jones, Edward, 1762-1841 · 1798

Samuel Ashe, North Carolina's ninth governor and earlier a Wilmington lawyer who served the Crown before siding with the Revolution, sent and received these letters in April 1798. Edward Jones is among the writers, and Hillsborough appears among the places concerned. Thirty images.

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About Edward Jones

The office of Solicitor General of North Carolina

Cheshire, Joseph B., Jr. (Joseph Blount), 1882-1961 · 1894 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. gives an account of the office of Solicitor General in North Carolina, including Edward Jones, who held it. Detached from the May 1894 North Carolina University Magazine and printed at Chapel Hill for the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, the piece belongs to the run of legal and historical articles the student magazine carried.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Edward, 1762-1841.

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Background

• Jones, EdwardNCpedia Concise historical background

Records of the time

• State Archives catalog: 91 collections naming Edward JonesState Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
• DigitalNC newspapers: 337 Orange County pages naming Edward Jones Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

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• Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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