Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. (1804 —1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia. While in the North, Jones agonized over the morality of owning slaves, but he returned to Liberty County to become a planter and a missionary to slaves. He served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Georgia (1831—32), Professor of church history and polity at Columbia Theological Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, (1835—38), returned to missionary work in 1839, and was again Professor at Columbia Seminary (1847—50).
