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(07-31-2018 03:17 PM)Steve Wrote:  Reference for post above:

Page 19 of the 31 January 1892 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Either Mary Swann (probably the servant) or the reporter got a lot of the facts wrong. Things haven't changed much over the years.

The fugitives did not ride non-stop for 24 hours. Charles County is in Maryland, not Virginia. The railroad was years away from coming to Charles County, and Cox's Station wasn't named until the railroad came. Jones was not an employee of Cox (rather his foster brother), and he didn't row the men across the river.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, however, I do think Jones may have worked for a while after the war at the Navy Yard. Rick Smith is my expert on Jones. Also, the report is correct that Mary Swann fared very well with the Cox family after her statements, and she did receive land from them.
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