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470 Harvard law-school in 1858, and has since prac- tised in Boston. He is the editor of the " Ameri- can Law Review," has written extensively for lit- erary periodicals, and is the author of " A Trea- tise on the Law of Mortgages of Real Property " (2 vols., Boston, 1878); "A Treatise on the Law of Railroads and Other Corporate Securities " (1879) ; " A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Personal Property " (1881) ; " Pledges, including Collateral Securities " (1883) ; " Forms in Convey- ancing" (1886); and "An Index to Legal Periodi- cal Literature " (1887).

JONES, Llewellyn, Anglican bishop, b. in Liv- erpool, England, 11 Oct., 1840. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he was graduated in 1862. He was curate of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, from 1864 till 1874, when he was appointed rector of Little Hereford, near Tenbury. He was nominated by the crown to the see of Newfoundland, and was consecrated bishop in St. Paul's cathedral, 1 May, 1878. In 1879 he accepted the episcopal superintendence of the Church of England in Bermuda, and has since visited the island every alternate winter.

JONES, Noble Wimberly, patriot, b. near London, England, in 1724; d. in Savannah, Ga., 9 Jan., 1805. He was the son of Dr. Noble Jones, an early settler of Georgia, who was treasurer of the province and a councillor of state. The son was associated with his father in the practice of medi- cine in Savannah from 1748 till 1756. At an early age he held a military commission, and was a mem- ber of the assembly in 1761 and subsequently, and served frequently as speaker. He was an active patriot in 1774, corresponding with Franklin, who was then in England. He was speaker of the first Georgia legislature, and a delegate to the Con- tinental congress from 1775 till 1776, and from 1781 till 1783. He lost a son at the capture of Sa- vannah in 1778, was taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston in 1780, and carried to St. Augustine. Dr. Jones was exchanged in July, 1781, and prac- tised medicine in Philadelphia until December, 1782, when he returned to Georgia, and again served in the assembly. He practised in Charleston from 1783 till 1788,* after which he lived in Savannah. He was president of the convention that revised the state constitution in 1795.

JONES, Rebecca, Quaker preacher, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 8 July, 1739 ; d. there, 15 April, 1818. From an early age she frequented Quaker meetings, notwithstanding the opposition of her mother, and, wishing to join the society, she made application to Catharine Payton, of Worcestershire, England, who had come to visit the Friends in this country in 1754. She was admitted into the ministry on 12 May, 1760, at the monthly meeting in Phila- delphia. In 1784 she went to England on a relig- ious visit, returning in 1788. In 1799 she visited the Society of Friends in New England, and before returning to Philadelphia went to Canada and preached in Kingston to a large assemblage, through the efforts of the chief justice.

JONES, Roger, soldier, b. in Westmoreland county, Va., in 1789 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 15 July. 1852. He was appointed 2d lieutenant of marines on 29 Jan., 1809, and on 12 July, 1812, was transferred to the artillery, with the rank of cap- tain. He received the brevet of major for services in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, and lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in the sortie from Fort Erie. On 10 Aug., 1818, he was appointed adjutant-general, with the rank of colonel, and on 17 Sept., 1824, was brevetted colonel. On 7 March, 1825, he was appointed adjutant-general of the army, which post he held till his death. He was brevetted brigadier-general in June, 1832, and ma- jor-general in May, 1848. — His brother, Thomas ap Catesby, naval officer, b. in Virginia in 1789 ; d. in Georgetown, D. C, 30 May, 1858, entered the navy on 22 Nov., 1805, and became lieutenant. 24 May, 1812. commander, 28 March, 1820, and cap- tain, 11 March, 1829. From 1808 till 1812 he was engaged in the Gulf of Mexico, where he was suc- cessful in suppressing piracy, smuggling, and the slave-trade. When the British naval expedition against New Orleans entered Lake Borgne in 1814, he endeavored to intercept forty British boats with his small flotilla. Although wounded and com- pelled to surrender, his conduct was much praised. He commanded the Pacific squadron in 1842, and took possession of Monterey on receiving the erro- neous information that war existed between the United States and Mexico, for which he was tem- porarily suspended from the service.

JONES, Samuel, soldier, b. in Virginia in 1820; d. in Bedford Springs, Va., 31 July, 1887. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in July, 1841, and assigned to the 1st artillery. After serving on garrison duty, he was appointed pro- fessor of mathematics and instructor of tactics, holding these offices from 1846 till 1851. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1847, and captain in 1853, when he served on frontier duty in Texas. He was assistant to the judge-advocate of the army in Washington, D. C, from 1858 till 1861, when he resigned his commission to enter the Confederate army with the rank of colonel. Soon afterward he became brigadier-general, and in 1863 he was ap- pointed to command a division with the rank of major-general. He commanded the Confederate forces in West Virginia till 1864, when he brought his troops to re-enforce Gen. Lee's army on Rapi- dan river. After the war he engaged in farming in Mattoax, Va., but removed to Washington in 1880, and obtained a clerkship in the War depart- ment, which he retained until his death.

JONES, Samuel Porter, clergyman, b. in Chambers county, Ala., 16 Oct.. 1847. He went with his father to live in Cartersville, Ga., in 1859, and after the civil war studied under various tutors, but was unable to take a collegiate course on ac- count of feeble health. He was admitted to the bar in 1869, and married one month afterward, but his private and professional life was a failure on account of his passion for drink. After his father's death in 1872 he made a profession of re- ligion, and in one week from that time preached his first sermon, entering the North Georgia an- nual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in the same year. From the first his suc- cess as a revivalist was remarkable. He was fre- quently called to other places, preaching during the first eight years of his ministry about 400 ser- mons a year. In 1881 he was appointed agent of the Decatur orphans' home, and since that time has given his services to revival work in the large cities of the United States. Several collections of his sermons, made up from the notes of short- hand reporters, have been published. They in- clude "Sam Jones's Sermons " (Nashville, 1885) ; " The Music Hall Series " (Cincinnati, 1886) ; and "Quit Your Meanness" (1886); revised edition, entitled " Sam Jones's Own Book " (1887).

JONES, Seaborn, lawyer, b. in Augusta, Ga., in 1788 ; d. in Columbus, Ga., in 1874. He entered Princeton, but was obliged to leave before graduation on account of his father's failure in business. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar by special act of the legislature. He became so-