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Col. William Garrard, who died in 1786; died in Bourbon county, Kentucky, January 9, 1822. While engaged as a militia ollicer in the revolutionary war he was called from the army to a seat in the Virginia legis- lature. Here he was a zealous advocate ot the bill for the establishment of religious liberty. Having removed with the early settlers to Kentucky, in 1783, and settled on Stoney river, near Paris, he became there a political leader, and was a member of the convention which framed the first consti- tution of the state. Here he was ordained to the Baptist ministry. In 1791, pending the convention just named, he was chairman of a committee that reported to the Elkhorn Baptist Association a memorial and remon- strance in favor of excluding slavery from the commonwealth by constitutional enact- ment. He was elected governor in 1796 and re-elected in 1800. serving eight years.

Jones, Joseph, born at "Cedar Grove," Petersburg, \'irginia, August 23, 1749, son 01 Thomas Jones, grandson of Abraham J<»ne>, and great-great-grandson of Maj. Peter Jones, who married a daughter of Maj. (ien. .\braham Wood (q. v..vol. i, 122). Joseph Jones, after completing his prepara- tory studies, devoted his attention to mili- tary afirairs. was an earnest patriot in the revolutionary war. an officer in the Virginia militia, holding the rank of colonel, ap- pointed October 25, 1784; brigadier-general. December 11, 1793, and major-general, De- cember 24. 1802: subsequently was ap- pointed collector of customs for Peters- burg. Virginia, in which capacity he served until his decease; married (first) Nancy, daughter of Col. William Call, (second") Jane, daughter of Roger Atkin- son: Gen. Jones died on his estate. Cedar

Grove, Petersburg. \'irginia, February 9, 1824. He was ancestor of William Atkin- son Jones, a member of the present congress (q. v.).

Doak, Samuel, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in August, 1749, died in Bethel, Xorth Carolina, December 12, ^830. He was graduated at Princeton in 1775, be- came tutor in Hampden-Sidney College, studied theology there, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Hanover in 1777. He removed to the Holston settle- ment (then part of Xorth Carolina, now a part of east Tennessee), and two years later to a settlement on the Little Limestone, in Washington county, where he bought a farm, built a log schoolhouse and a small church, and founded the "Salem Congrega- tion." The school he established at this place was the first that was organized in the valley of the Mississippi. In 17S5 it was incorporated by the legislature oi North Carolina as Martin Academy, and in 1795 became Washington College. He pre- sided over it from the time of its incorpo- ration till 1818, when he removed to Celhel and opened a private school, which he named Tusculum .\cademy. Mr. Doak was a member of the convention of 1784 that framed the constitution of the common- wealth of Frankland. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Washington and Greenville colleges in 1818. His son Samuel was president of Tusculum College. Tennessee, in 1857.

Bradford, John, was born irt Fauquier county. Virginia, in 1749. He served two years in the war of the revolution, and was later present at the battle of Chillicothe. He removed to Kentucky in 1785, locating

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