{"id":316,"date":"2019-08-29T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2020-01-19T19:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:35:42","slug":"james-l-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/uscommissioners\/james-l-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"James L. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James L. Jones (1824-)<\/p>\n<p><strong>OFFICE LOCATION: <\/strong>West Chester, PA<\/p>\n<p><strong>TENURE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a010\/31\/1850 &#8211; 11\/12\/1851<\/p>\n<p><strong>HEARINGS:<\/strong>\u00a01<\/p>\n<p><strong>RENDITIONS: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p><strong>CASES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Williams Case (1851) &#8211; 1 returned<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commissioner Jones&#8217;s deputy, Marshal Milton Lapman, seized Williams as she was released from a West Chester prison at 4 am on June 28, 1851, after serving a five-month sentence for larceny. In &#8220;an almost incredible short space of time,&#8221; she was taken before Commissioner Jones, who issued a certificate of removal and remanded Williams to the custody of the claimant. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1851-07-04-Baltimore-Sun-Elizabeth-Williams-Case-NP.pdf\">1851-07-04<\/a> Baltimore <em>Sun<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>The West Chester\u00a0<em>Village Record <\/em>reported that the predawn hearing lasted only 15 minutes, and no anti-slavery lawyer was present to defend Williams. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1851-07-03-PA-Freeman-Secret-Inquisition-Chester-County-Elizabeth-Williams-.pdf\">1851-07-03<\/a> <em>Pennsylvania Freeman<\/em>, quoting West Chester\u00a0<em>Village Record<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jones&#8217;s appointment as U.S. Commissioner was announced in November 1850. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/files\/2019\/08\/1850-11-16-New-Orleans-Crescent-NP-1.pdf\">1850-11-16<\/a> New Orleans <em>Crescent<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James L. Jones (1824-) OFFICE LOCATION: West Chester, PA TENURE:\u00a0\u00a010\/31\/1850 &#8211; 11\/12\/1851 HEARINGS:\u00a01 RENDITIONS: 1 CASES:\u00a0 Elizabeth Williams Case (1851) &#8211; 1 returned Commissioner Jones&#8217;s deputy, Marshal Milton Lapman, seized Williams as she was released from a West Chester prison at 4 am on June 28, 1851, after serving a five-month sentence for larceny. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-wingert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}