Background
He was born at Hebron, Connecticut, December 22, 1778, and was the third son of Samuel and Lydia (Tarbox) Jones.
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Samuel Jones
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He graduated from Yale College in 1800. He studied law in the office of Honorary
Career
He was fitted for college under the tuition of Review Doctor Amos Bassett, of his native parish. Sylvester Gilbert, of Hebron, with whom for a short time he practiced his profession, after having been admitted, in September, 1803, to the bar of Tolland County, Connecticut.
In 1804 he removed to Glastonbury, Connecticut, and in 1808 to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he practiced his profession till the spring of 1845.
About 1840 he published a Treatise on the Right of Suffrage. From 1845 to 1849, he was an Inspector of the Portuguese of Boston, and from then till 1851 he continued to reside in that city.
His remains were interred in Stockbridge. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
Membership
He represented Stockbridge, on several occasions, in the Massachusetts Legislature, was at one time a member of the electoral college, and in 1843 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the State of Massachusetts to assist in setting off land to the settlers on the North East. boundary of Maine, in accordance with the Webster–Ashburton Treaty.
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United States