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Walter Jones (1745–1815)

Role

In 1806 Bushrod Washington wrote Congressman Walter Jones regarding the establishment of a university in what is now Washington, D.C.

Description

Walter Jones, the father of Walter Flood Jones, was born on 18 December 1745 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Citations

"To James Madison from Walter Jones, 12 June 1789," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0131. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 12, 2 March 1789 – 20 January 1790 and supplement 24 October 1775 – 24 January 1789, ed. Charles F. Hobson and Robert A. Rutland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 215–216.]

"To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Jones, 14 March 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-33-02-0241. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 33, 17 February–30 April 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 283–288.]

"To James Madison from Walter Jones, [ca. 14 February] 1810," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0281. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 October 1809–2 November 1810, ed. J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 229.]

"Walter Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1810," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0195. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 234–237.]

Walter Jones at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Walter Jones at Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.

Walter Jones at Find a Grave.

Dr. Walter Jones at FamilySearch.