Browse Items (21 total)

  • Collection: Jones Family Collection

First Parish-Tax for 1861.jpg
Diagram showing the locations of the Jones Family pews, numbered 17 and 83, in the Meeting House in the first parish of Amherst

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The Jones Family Bible, open to pages listing family births, deaths and marriages.

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Engraved metal cup that belonged to Augusta Thayer Jones

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Silver fiddleback serving spoon that belonged to Samuel Minot Jones’s mother, Mary Hubbard Field French Jones

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Cased photograph of young Minot Jones as a toddler

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Pair of gold cufflinks owned by Samuel Minot Jones

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Engraved leather writing case and fountain pen of Samuel Minot Jones

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Image of United States Army Tank Corps pin of Minot Jones

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Officer's sword and scabbard carried by Samuel Minot Jones during the Civil War, made by Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, Massachusetts

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Images of monogrammed walking stick owned by Samuel Minot Jones

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Letter written from Samuel Minot Jones to his brother while Samuel was camped on the battlefield at Sugar Creek, Arkansas. Details how the Union won the pivotal Civil War battle at Pea Ridge despite being outnumbered three to one by Confederate…

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Portrait of Thomas Jones

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View of Merchants' Row, including Cutler's store, from the Amherst Town Common

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Pen and ink drawing showing the exterior and side view of the Congregational church meeting house, now College Hall at Amherst College

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Minot Jones in his Army uniform with rifle by his side. Photograph possibly taken in an Army camp, as there appear to be cots laden with belongings in the background.
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