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Sources consulted for the biography of:Robert G.W. Jones (1826–by 1900)
Biographical Information
- Birth date and death date with erroneous year on gravestone, Union Baptist Church, Charles City Co.
- United States Census Schedules, Charles City County, 1850 (age twenty), 1860 (age twenty-five), 1870 (age thirty-eight in Tyler Township entry and age thirty-nine in Harrison Township entry), 1880 (age fifty), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Middle names in Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, Oct. 24, 1871.
- Charles City County Marriage License.
- Charles City Co. District No. 1 Colored Voters, 1867, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Military Rule Election Records (1867, 1869), Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Registers of Signatures of Depositors, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company (1865–1874), Records of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Charles City Co. Deed Books, 11:521, 525; 12:191, 287, 479, 544; 14:691–692; 16:82–84.
- Charles City Co. Common Law Order Books, 8:203, 288, 406, 9:101, and 10:189, 214 (appointment of administrator for Jones's estate on March 15, 1900)
- John R. Waddill and R. G. W. Jones v. John B. Wallace, Charles City Co. Chancery Cause, 1900-013, Library of Virginia.
- D. C. and H. C. Creed & Co., v. R. G. W. Jones etc., Charles City Co. Chancery Cause 1902-014, Library of Virginia (with August 19, 1899, date for Lincoln National Building and Loan Association's initiated a lawsuit against Jones who was then still living).
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 23–24, with life dates presented as "(1827–1900?)."
Political Career
- Summary of the Result of the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held on the 6th Day of July, 1869, 9, published in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870).
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1869–1870 sess.), 36, 37, 54, 607, 610, 615.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1870–1871 sess.), 387.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Nov. 25, 1869; Nov. 26, 1869; July 30, 1873.
- Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880 (1903), 203.
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