Thomas Jones
Name: Thomas Jones
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 9th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: Isaiah Mealy
Place of Birth/Residence: New Market, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 08/07/1864
Company: D
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Private
Notes:
Manumission recorded 2/29/1864; MD Land Records state the enlistment date as 01/17/1864; Slave for life
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 285; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 528, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; Frederick County Land Records, JWLC 1, page 190.
