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- https://archive.org/details/thomasjonesfortn00floy
Thomas Jones, Fort Neck, Queens County, Long island, 1695, and his descendants the Floyd-Jones family, with connections from the year 1066
by Floyd-Jones, Thomas, 1841-
Pub by Thomas Floyd-Jones, New York, 1906
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Floyd-Jones family, of Massapequa, Nassau County, (formerly South Oyster Bay, Queen's County), Long Island, N. Y., ....
Major Jones was a Protestant gentleman of Straubane, which is in the County of Tyrone. Province of Ulster, in Ireland, about 150 miles northwest from Dublin, where he was born about the year 1665. His family, which was formerly from England, but originally of Welsh extraction, had been long seated in the north of Ireland.
In 1692 he was at Island of Jamaica, at the time of the destruction of Port Royal, by the great earthquake of the 7th of July, being engaged in one of the numerous expeditions, under "Letters of Marque," which in that year swarmed from the French ports, to take part in the then war, and in which so many of the English and Irish officers of James the Second sought service, after their defeat at Battle of the Boyne in 1690. In the same year this emigre came to Warwick, Rhode Island, and gave up a sea life. At this place he met and married Freelove Townsend, who was born December 29th, 1674. She was the daughter of Thomas Townsend, he being the second son of John Townsend, a prominent Quaker, who came to New Amsterdam early in the 17th century, about 1635, from Norwich, in Norfolk, England.
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Thomas Jones, who after the King"s defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, fought between the English, under William the Third, and the Irish, under James the Second, 1690, emigrated to this country from Straubane, Ireland, in 1692, having been a Major in the army of the dethroned monarch.
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From the book "A History of Long Island, 1903:"
"When King James II of England met with defeat on the battle field and was dethroned, Major Thomas Jones who was engaged in privateering under letters-of-marque from his Royal master, left his estates in Strabane, Ireland, whither he had removed from Wales and landed in Rhode Island in 1692-3. In 1695 he removed to Oyster Bay, Long Island, and married Freelove, daugther of Captain Thomas Townsend, and June 16th of that year he received from his father-in-law a deed for a large tract of land on Fort Neck, at South Oyster Bay, where he erected a brick house, the first of tis kind in that part of Long Island. This house became an object of great interest, and for many years after was known as the "Old Brick House." He removed there in 1696 and became a noted man in the land of his adoption. He filled many positions of note, among which we might name that of Ranger General of the Island of Nassau (now Long Island) and Major of the Queens County Regiment. He died there in 1713 leaving six children."
An excellent study with sources of Major Thomas' life in much more detail is found at the website of the Long Island History Journal: http://www.stonybrook.edu/lihj/IssueFiles/V21_1/Articles/Tiedemann/tiedemann.html . "He eventually settled at Fort Neck, Oyster Bay, in Queens County, Long Island (present day Massapequa in Nassau County), where his father-in-law gave him a large parcel of land.
From page 17 of "Thomas Jones, Fort Neck, Queens County, Long Island, 1695"
"Thomas Jones died December 13, 1713, and was buried in a small grave yard on the banks of the then called Brick House Creek, (now called Massapequa Creek.) A brown head stone marked the spot on which was the following inscription written by himself:
"Here Lyes Interd The Body of Major Thomas Jones, Who Came From Straubane, In The Kingdom of Ireland, Settled Here and Died December, 1713."
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