Thomas Williamson Jones letters, 1808-1836.

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Thomas Williamson Jones letters, 1808-1836.

Letters, chiefly to Thomas Williamson Jones, physician of Brunswick County, Va., from his sister, Lucy C. Jones, at school in Warrenton, N.C.; his brother, John Cargill Jones, at schools in Virginia and Chapel Hill, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina, 1812-1814, concerning life at the University, including student riots in 1814; his mother, Lucy Binns Cargill Jones, and aunt in Virginia; and other students at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania, 1820-1824. Two letters, 1830s, were written by Jones's son, Samuel Goode Jones, from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., to his mother, Mary Armistead Jones, then a widow.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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Jones, Lucy C.

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Jones, Samuel Goode, 1815-1866.

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Jones, Thomas Williamson, 1788-1824

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Physician Thomas Williamson Jones was born on 25 June 1789, the son of John Jones, Jr. (1764-1845) and Lucy Binns Cargill Jones of Level Grove, Brunswick County. He attended the University of North Carolina, 1808-1810, receiving his A.B. in 1810. He then studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Jones's younger brother, John Cargill Jones, attended schools in Virginia and the grammar school in Chapel Hill, N.C., run by the University of North Carolina. He was a student at the Universit...

Williams College

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Jones, John Pringle, 1812-1874

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University of Pennsylvania.

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