The Nathaniel Vary Jones, Jr. diary covers the period from November 1887 to December 1894, including his imprisonment and his travels to Colonia Juarez for his marriage to Barbara. He also recounts the February 1891 court proceedings in which he pled guilty to the charge of Unlawful Cohabitation with Janet and Elizabeth. “The hardest part of the matter was that I had to promise to obey the law in reference to polygamy,” Jones lamented, having married Barbara just months earlier.