1. Probably Captain Samuel Jones, Henrico County businessman, frequently employed by the state in settlement of accounts (JCSV description begins H. R. McIlwaine et al., eds., Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia (4 vols. to date; Richmond, 1931——). description ends , III, 212, 266; JHDV description begins Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia; Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg. Beginning in 1780, the portion after the semicolon reads, Begun and Held in the Town of Richmond. In the County of Henrico. The journal for each session has its own title page and is individually paginated. The edition used is the one in which the journals for 1777–1786 are brought together in two volumes, with each journal published in Richmond in either 1827 or 1828 and often called the “Thomas W. White reprint.” description ends , May 1783, p. 77; Oct. 1783, pp. 47–48). If his absence was not owing to death, he certainly died within a month after the writing of the present letter (Vi: Henrico County Court Records, Will Book 1, 1781–1787, microfilm, pp. 138–39).