Cave Jones (1769–1829), Episcopal minister and chaplain, was born in New York City and graduated from Columbia College (later Columbia University) in 1791. By 1793 he had moved to Accomack County, where he was an Episcopal minister until 1801. Jones returned to New York City as an assistant minister at Trinity Church, 1801–11. He was a chaplain in the United States Army, 1816–18, briefly professor of geography, history, and ethics at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the latter year, and a chaplain at the United States Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn from 1823 until his death. In 1825 Jones manumitted two of his slaves in Virginia under the auspices of the American Colonization Society, and at least one of them went to Liberia the following year. Jones died in Brooklyn (Sprague, American Pulpit description begins William B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, 1857–69, 9 vols. description ends , 5:264; Thomas, Columbia University Officers and Alumni description begins Milton Halsey Thomas, Columbia University Officers and Alumni, 1754–1857, 1936 description ends , 113; [Francis L. Hawks], A Narrative of Events connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia [1836], appendix, pp. 55, 65, 67, 72; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 3:51, 137, 384, 389 [29 Apr. 1816, 17 Apr. 1818, 22, 26 May 1824]; Edward C. Boynton, History of West Point [1864], 219–20, 314; Christian Herald 10 [1823]: 379; Callahan, U.S. Navy description begins Edward W. Callahan, List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900, 1901, repr. 1969 description ends , 300; Richmond Enquirer, 30 Sept. 1825, 21 Feb. 1826; New-York Evening Post, 30 Jan., 3 Feb. 1829).