 Lawyer and "Richmond Enquirer" founding editor Meriwether Jones died in a duel on August 3, 1806.John Daly Burk and Skelton Jones (Meriwether's brother) also both died in duels before completing a projected four volume history of Richmond.Ritchie editorialized against South Carolina and Georgia reopening the transatlantic slave trade, and later for U.S. intervention in the War of 1812.