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Christ Church parish in Calvert county. He was also recomniended by the bishop of London, who was the chancellor of the College of William and Mary, as professor of mathematics, and he served the college in that capacity, 1702-22, when he returned to England. He also served as chaplain of the general assembly which met at Williams- burg, and as " lecturer" in the Burton parish church, also preaching at Jamestown. He pro- posed some radical changes in the college system, including a professorship of history, and that the college should be a training school for the civil service of the colony. He recommended that " the county surveyors should be appointed by the president and masters, out of such as have taken a Bachelor of Arts degree there, and that clerks of the secretai'ies be also taken from the college alumni." He also recommended six chairs: one of divinity, the incumbent to be chaplain and catechist; one of mathematics; one of philosophy; one of languages; one of history and one of humanity, the incumbent to be also grammar master. The idea of a chair of history and a school of administration was entirely unique in America at this time. After a long absence in Europe lie returned to Virginia, where he resumed parochial work and finally removed to Cecil county, Md., where he built up the parishes of St. Mary Anne and North Sassafras. He urged the building of brick churches, rather than wooden structures. He continued in his work until he was ninety years of age and had spent sixty-tive years as an educator and clergy- man. He was the first academic writer on Virginia history, being the author of TJie Present State of Virginia (London, 1724), which includes sketches of Maryland and North Carolina. He died in Cecil county, Md., Sept. 8, 1760.

JONES, Hugh Bolton, artist, was born in Bal- timore, Md., Oct. 20, 1848; son of Hugh Burgess and Laura Eliza (Bolton) Jones, and grandson of William R. and Jemima Jones and of Hugh and Maria L. Bolton. He studied art in Baltimore, and visited Europe, where he studied 1877-81. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York city, in 1881, an Academician in 1883; a member of the Society of American Artists in 1881, and of the American Water Color society. He was awarded medals at the Paris exposition and at the World's Colum- bian exposition. His works include: Return \f the Coios (1877); Tangier (1878); Brittany (1878); October (1882); On Herring Run, Balti- more (1884).

JONES, Jacob, naval officer, was born near Smyrna, Del., in March, 1768. His father, a farmer, died in 1772, and he was brought up by a stepmother and was educated at Lewis academy. He studied medicine under Dr. Sykes at Dover,

1786-90, and attended a course of lectures at the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania. He practised at Dover, but disliking the profession, he obtained, through the influence of Governor Clayton, the position of clerk of the supreme court for Kent county, serving 1792-99. On April 10, 1799, although thirty-one years of age, he obtained a warrant as midshipman in the U.S. navy and made his first voyage on board the United States, Capt. John Barry, when that ves- sel carried Chief-Justice Ellsworth and General

Davie to Fi-ance. He served on the Ganges and subsequently on the Philadelphia under Captain Bainbridge. When the Philadeljyhia was captured by the Tripolitans, he was imprisoned for nineteen months. Upon his return to the United States he was promoted lieutenant, and after serving on the New Orleans station, he was given command of the Argus. On April 20, 1810, he was made commander and was transferred to the Wasp, and sent to Europe with official despatches. When war was declared between England and the United States in 1812, he returned home, and after refitting the Wasjy, put out to sea. On Oct. 13, 1812, he fell in with the British sloop-of-war Frolic, under Captain Whingates, which was act- ing as envoy to a fleet of well-armed merchantmen bound from Honduras to England, and tho mer- chantmen under press of sail escaped, leaving the Wasp and Frolic in action. The vessels got into close quarters and the engagement continued without intermission. The sea was verj^ rough and the gunners on the ir«sp reserved their fire until the side of their ship was descending, thus bringing the effect of the shot below the deck of the Frolic. The English, however, filled their broadside as the ship was rising, and soon stripi:)ed the Wasp of all her spars and rigging, leaving her masts unsupix)rted. To prevent the escape of the Frolic, Commander Jones ran down upon her and fired a raking broadside, at the same time giving the order to board. The effect of the last broadside had been such that, when the men from the Wasp gained the deck of the Frolic, they found but one seaman at the wlieel and tliree officers on deck, who immediately threw down their swords. The Frolic was put under the command of Lieutenant James Biddle, with