JONES
JONES
letter of marque he landed and settled on Great
South bay on the island of Nassau, afterward
Long Island, where he was married to Freelove,
daughter of Thomas Townsend, and received as a
marriage dowry from his wife's father a large
tract of land on the bay known as Fort Neck, and
by subsequent purchases from the Indians he be-
came owner of 6000 acres extending across the
island. In 169G he built near the mouth of the
Massapequa river the first brick house in that
neighborhood, which stood 140 years and was
known to travellers as the " old brick house." He
was admitted an assistant freeholder in 1699 un-
der the Oyster Bay patent of 1677 and in 1702 be-
came captain in the militia of Queens county, by
appointment of Governor Cornbury. He was
high sheriff of the county, 1704-13 ; was promoted
to the rank of major in the militia in 1706, and
was commissioned " ranger-general of the island
of Nassau " in 1710, which gave him the monopoly
of the fisheries of the entire shores east of
Jamaica and Little Neck bays and of all lands
within the same limits not then granted to set-
tlers. He died at Fort Neck, L.T., Dec. 13, 1713.
JONES, Thomas, jurist, was born in Fort
Neck, L.I., N.Y., April 30, 1731; son of Judge
David and Anne (Willett) Jones ; grandson of
Gen. Thomas and Freelove (Townsend) Jones,
and great-grandson of Thomas Townsend. He
was graduated at Yale in 1750 ; was licensed as
an attorney in 1755, and practised in New York
city, 1755-69. He was clerk of Queens county,
1757-69 ; recorder of the city of New York, 1769-
73 ; corporation attorney ; judge of the supreme
court under the crown, as successor to his father,
1773-76, and was arrested on June 27 of the latter
year, by order of the provincial congress, for re-
fusing to appear before that body to acknowledge
his fealty to the American cause. He was paroled
on promising to appear before congress when di-
rected. He was arrested by an armed force on
August 11, taken to New York, arraigned, and
his parole declared forfeited. He was sent as a
prisoner of war to Connecticut, and was released
December, 1776, upon signing a second parole.
He remained quietly at his home at Fort Neck
until Nov. 6. 1779, when a party of Wliigs, under
Capt. Daniel Hawley, of Connecticut, forcibly
seized and carried him to Connecticut in order to
furnish an acceptable exchange for Gen. Gold
Selleck Silliman, a college mate of Jones of the
class of 1752, held for six months by the British
forces a prisoner of war. They were exchanged
in April, 1780, and in 1781 Judge Jones removed
with his family to England. He planned to re-
turn in 1782, but the act of attainder passed by
the New York legislature prevented. He was a
governor of King's college, 1764-80, and attorney
for the board of governors. He was married to
Anne, daughter of Judge James de Lancey, of
New York city, and had no children. They liad
a city home known as "Mount Pitt," and a
spacious residence at Fort Neck, on the Great
South bay. Long Island, named " Tryon Hail,"
erected in 1770. Judge Jones is the author of :
History of New York During the Revolutionary^
War, edited by Edmund Floyd de Lancey ( 1879).
He died in Hoddesdon, England, July 25, 1792.
JONES, Thomas ap Catesby, naval officer, was. born in Virginia, in 1789 ; son of Maj. Catesby and Lettice Corbin (Turberville) Jones, and brother of Gen. Roger Jones. He was warranted a mid- shipman in the U.S. navy, Nov. 22, 1805, and was promoted lieutenant. May 24, 1812, com- mander, March 25, 1820, and cai^tain, Mar(;h 11, 1829. He was on duty with the Gulf squadron, 1808-12, in the suppression of the slave trade, and in preventing piracy and smuggling. He was in command of a flotilla of five light-draft gun- boats, intended for the protection of tlie harbors of the Gulf states against the incvirsion of British vessels during the war of 1812. When the British fleet of forty ships, intended to operate in connec- tion with the army under Pakenliam in the at- tack on New Orleans, entered Lake Borgne in 1814, he resisted their advance with his small fleet, and he did not surrender to the superior force until he was desperately wounded and had no hope of escape. He was on the Pacific coast in command of the station off California in 1840, and upon learning, from what he considered reliable author- ity, that the United States was at war with Mexico, he took possession of Monterey, and was temporarily suspended from the service. He died in Georgetown, D.C.. May 30, 1858.
JONES, Thomas Goode, governor of Alabama, was born at Macon, Ga., Nov. 26, 1844 ; son of Samuel G. and Martha Ward (Goode) Jones ; grandson of Dr. Thomas W. Jones, of Brunswick county, Va., and of Dr. Thomas Goode of Hot Springs, Va., and a descendant of John Jones, " gentleman," and of John Goode. of Whitby, both of whom came to America from England, and settled near Richmond, Va., between 1650 and 1665. He removed to Montgomery, Ala., with his parents in 1850 ; was graduated from the Vir- ginia Militaiy institute in 1862 ; served in the Army of Northern Virginia as a private and staff officer, attaining the rank of major. He was on the staff of Gen. John B. Gordon, and carried one of the flags of truce sent out by Gordon to Sheri- dan's lines at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. At the close of the war he engaged in planting and the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and established himself in the practice of law at Montgomery, Ala. He was a member of the city council, 1875-84 ; a represent- ative in the Alabama legislature, 1884-88, being
