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[Identification of item], in the Thomas Williamson Jones Letters #3684-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• College students--Massachusetts--Social life and customs--19th century.
• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Jones, John Cargill, fl. 1812-1814.
• Jones, Lucy C.
• Jones, Samuel Goode, 1815-1866.
• Jones, Thomas Williamson, 1788-1824.
• Physicians--Virginia--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Riots.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• University of Pennsylvania--Students--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Warrenton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Williams College--Students--History--19th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

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 University of North Carolina, 1813-1814. Thomas Williamson Jones's sister, Lucy C. Jones, attended a school in Warrenton, N.C., taught by a Mr. and Mrs. Faulkener. Thomas Williamson Jones married Mary Armistead Goode (Polly) on 14 February 1814. The couple lived at Totaro in Brunswick County. Their oldest son, Samuel Goode Jones (1815-1886), attended Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., 1833-1837. Thomas Williamson Jones died in 1824.

The collection includes 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.