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Sources consulted for the biography of:Peter K. Jones (ca. 1834–1895)
Biographical Information
- Age "about fifteen" on September 25, 1849, in Petersburg Hustings Court Registry of Free Negroes and Mulattoes, 1839–1850, Library of Virginia.
- Age "about twenty-two" on July 7, 1856, in Petersburg Register of Free Negroes, 1850–1858, Library of Virginia.
- Age 33 reported on July 18, 1870, United States Census Schedules, Greensville County, 1870, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Second marriage in Marriage Register, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia (age 37 on December 18, 1872).
- Account of second marriage in Richmond Whig and Advertiser, December 20, 1872.
- Death Certificate, Department of Health, Washington, D.C.
- Biography with variant birth date in Old Dominion: A Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art 6 (June, 1870), 363.
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 23
Convention of 1867-1868
- Election results for Greensville County in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Election results for Sussex County in Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 25, 1867.
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867… (1868), esp. 116–117, 365, 407, 676–677, 722.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868], 28, 389.
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978):461–484.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 359.
Political Career
- Quotation in Liberty, and Equality Before the Law. Proceedings of the Convention of the Colored People of Va., Held in the City of Alexandria, Aug. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1865 (1865), 3–4.
- 1869 election in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 14.
- Jones's election to the House of Delegates in 1871 (Election Record No. 4), 1873 (Election Record Nos. 6, 411), 1874 (Election Record No. 6), and 1875 (Election Record No. 10), all in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1869–70 (1870), esp. 607, 615.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1870–71 (1872), 387.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1874 (1874), 114–115, 218, 226.
Newspapers
- New York Anglo-African, June 24, 1865
- Washington, D.C., New National Era, September 8, 1870
- Washington, D.C., New National Era and Citizen, August 14, 1873
- Richmond Daily State Journal, January 30, 1874; February 20, 1874
- Washington, D.C., People's Advocate, May 21, 1881; May 28, 1881
- Washington, D.C., Evening Star, March 13, 1894
Obituary
- Announcement of memorial service in Washington, D.C., Evening Star, December 21, 1895
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