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John Winston Jones graduated from the Law School of The College of William & Mary in 1813. In 1818, after a few years of practicing law, he became the prosecuting attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court in Chesterfield County, Va. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1829 and 1830. Jones was elected as a Jacksonian to the 24th Congress and re-elected as a Democrat at the 4 succeeding Congresses March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1845. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1843-1845 and Member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1846. John Jones's grandfather was a member of the House of Burgesses in Colonial Days.

John W. Jones, an affluent man, owned both Dellwood and Woodson Plantations located in Chesterfield County, as well as Clifton Hill, known today as Fort Clifton. He married Harriet Boisseau and together they raised 3 children; Mary Winston, James Boisseau and Alexander, at Dellwood Plantation. Upon his death in 1848, John Winston Jones was interred at the Cemetery on Dellwood Plantation. The estate next passed to his wife Harriet, and in turn to their son, James B.

Following in his father's footsteps, James B. graduated from The College of William & Mary Law School, in 1841. He married Anne Crawley on October 13, 1842 at Dellwood Plantation. James owned Dellwood during the Civil War. Together with Major Augustus Drewery, of Drewery's Bluff, Jones financed the heavy artillery for the Battle at Drewery's Bluff that was fought on May 15, 1862. This battle helped to save Richmond by fending off Union vessels. During this time, Dellwood Plantation was open to sick and injured soldiers (both Union and Confederate). In the book titled My Confederate Girlhood, Kate Cox Logan writes: "During the war years, Dellwood hosted a motley group of temporary borders. Mr. Jones' house was full of those who needed help. Two Confederate Generals, Ransom and Long had their families in the fine old house, invited there by my cousin. Then there were also sick soldiers, and you never went away from those doors without carrying some especially nice things for soldiers elsewhere."