Indexed works
Works about or by Thomas Jones. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Letters and Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Hillsborough and the Lords Commissioners
2019 · Adam Matthew Digital
Dispatches from Josiah Martin, the last royal governor of North Carolina, to Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, the secretary of state for the colonies for whom the Orange County seat is named, and to the Lords Commissioners in London. Adam Matthew Digital reproduced the file, Colonial Office CO 5/303 part 1, in 2019. Topics include women, medicine and health, land grants, the courts and litigation, German and Protestant migration to the frontier, the Regulators, riot and treason, salt and alcohol imports, Spanish shipping and crime.
Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Jones, Thomas.
Miscellaneous Collection
State Archives of North Carolina. Private Manuscripts Archivists · 1689
The State Archives' Miscellaneous Collection: letters, deeds, land grants, surveys, wills, leases and other single items dating from 1689 to 2017, some as photocopies or transcripts from other repositories. Writers and subjects vary widely, governors and generals among them, and Orange County figures among the many places touched.
Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Jones, Thomas.
Research sources
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Thomas Jones Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
