Creator
Jones family

Date of Original
1749/1909

Subject
Harvard University
Georgia. Chatham Artillery of Savannah
Confederate Survivors Association
Princeton University
College teachers--Georgia
Chemistry teachers--Georgia--Augusta--Biography
Clergy--Georgia
College students--New Jersey
College students--Massachusetts
Cherokee Indians--Georgia
Practice of law--Georgia
Lawyers--Georgia
Religious life
Plantation life--Georgia
Women travelers--Georgia
Soldiers--Georgia
Legal documents
Creek Indians--Georgia
Manuscripts
Real property--Georgia--Liberty County
Real property--Georgia--Franklin County
Liberty County (Ga.)--Social life and customs
Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Savannah (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Jacksonville (Fla.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
James Island (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Georgia--History--18th century
Kentucky--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment
Mississippi--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment
Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs

People
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863
Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Bartram, William, 1739-1823

Location
United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Florida, Duval County, Jacksonville, 30.33218, -81.65565
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983

Medium
speeches
biographies
clippings (information artifacts)
land grants
indentures
land surveys
photocopies
plats (maps)
correspondence
magazines (periodicals)

Type
Text

Description
The collection consists of papers of the Rev. Charles Colcock Jones family of Liberty County, Georgia from ca. 1749-1909. The early letters (1850-1861) are between Charles Colcock Jones and Mary Jones in Liberty County, Georgia and their son, Charles Jr., while at school in Princeton and Harvard and later in Savannah (Ga.) where he set up his law practice. The letters discuss social and family life, plantation life, politics and government, religious philosophies, and events leading up to the Civil War. From 1861-1865, Charles Jr.'s letters chronicle his involvement as an officer in the Chatham Artillery stationed along the Georgia coast near Savannah, then Charleston and James Island (S.C.), and Jacksonville (Fla.). After the war, the personal correspondence is mainly between Charles Jr., his mother Mary Jones, his wife Eva Eve Jones, and his brother Joseph Jones. There is also a smattering of correspondence regarding his law practice.
The collection also contains two volumes of letters Eva Eve Jones wrote to family describing her travels through Europe in 1879, manuscripts of Charles Jr.'s writings on Georgia history, Charles Jr.'s speeches including an 1861 speech to the Chatham Artillery, and addresses (1886-1892) he gave before the Confederate Survivors Association. Also included is a copy of the original manuscript for William Bartram's book Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians attributed to Ephraim G. Squier (1821-1888). The manuscript contains tracings of Bartram's drawing of prehistoric mounds, Creek towns, and Cherokee and Creek structures not found in the published work.
Rev. Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. (1804-1863), Presbyterian clergyman and planter, married Mary Jones and resided in Liberty County, Georgia.
His son, Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. (1831-1893), lawyer and historian, married first Ruth Berrien Whitehead, then Eva Berrien Eve and resided in Savannah, Georgia. "Known as the 'Macaulay of the South,' Charles C. Jones Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century. Also a noted autograph and manuscript collector and an accomplished amateur archaeologist, Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South." - "Charles C. Jones Jr." New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Charles Colcock Jones, Jr's son Charles Edgeworth Jones was an historian as well. He authored a widely read comprehensive history of Georgia education titled "Education in Georgia.".

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_0215

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights