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Major Thomas Jones...Namesake of Jones Beach State Park, New York

Major Thomas Jones…WelshMilitia in Queens County, New York on Oct.
Privateer..Namesake of Jones Beach State20; in that same year on Oct. 14, 1704, he
Park,  New  York By  Albert  Walkerwas appointed High Sheriff of Queens, and on
April 3, 1706 he was appointed Major of the
The family of Major Thomas Jones, sometimesQueens  County  Regiment.
styled the chevalier, and of whose descent
from a noble Irish family, which intermarriedGovernor Hunter, of the Province of New York
with one from Wales, is supposed to haveappointed him Ranger General of the island of
originated in Merionethshire orNassau (Long Island),which gave to him the
Glamorganshire. However that may be, themonopoly of the whale and other fisheries
characteristics of the Welsh race are plentyfrom the north to the south shore of Long
discernable in almost every member of theIsland. This commission was dated Sept. 4,
family and are very marked in all of those1710.
who may have become prominent in any walk of
life.Major Jones died Dec. 13, 1713, and was
buried in a small grave yard on the banks of
Thomas Jones, who fought at the Battle of thethe then called brick House Creek, now called
Boyne, Aghrim and at the capitulation ofMassapequa Creek. The issue of Major Jones
Limerick, served under William III of Englandand his wife Freelove was 7 children. A brown
and under James II of Ireland, having servedheadstone marked the spot on which the
as a Major in the army of the dethronedfollowing inscription written by himself,
Monarch, which had formerly been from"Here Lyes Interd The Body of Major Thomas
England, but of Welsh extraction, had longJones, Who Came From Straubane, In he Kingdom
been  seated  in  the  north  of  Ireland.of Ireland, Settled Here and Died December,
1713."
Major Jones was born about 1665. In 1692,
Major Jones was t the island of Jamaica atFrom Distant Lands To This Wild Waste He Came
the time of the great earthquake of July 7th,
being engaged in one of the numerousThis Seat He Choose, And Here He Fixed His
expeditions under the "Letter of Marque,"Name
which so many of the English and Irish
officers of James II sought service after theLong  May His Sons This Peace Full Spot Injoy
defeat at the Battle of the Boyne. In that
same year Major Jones arrived in Warwick,And  No  Ill  Fate  his Offspring Here Annoy.
Rhode Island and at this place met and
married Freelove Townsend, the daughter ofFor many years after his death many fictions
Thomas Townsend. free love was born Dec. 29,existed about Thomas Jones. The exercise of
1674. Thomas Townsend was the son of Johnhis commission to sail as a Privateer under
Townsend, a prominent Quaker, who came to New"Letters of Marque," from the French ports,
Amsterdam early in the 17th century aboutleading to the slander that he was a pirate.
1635., from Norwich, England. The family wereThese myths were cherished for over a century
of great antiquity, their lands being grantedafter his death through ignorance and
them from William the Conqueror. Thomassuperstition, and through ignorance and
Townsend, the father of Freelove Townsend,superstition that these fables extended into
gave to Thomas Jones and his bride a largethe middle of the past century and
tract of Land which had formerly belonged totoday… In 1929, the large tract of
the Massapequa Indians, on the south side ofland given to Thomas Jones and his wife Free
Long Island. To this vast estate Major Joneslove , along with subsequent purchases by
and his wife removed in 1696, where he builtMajor Jones, officially became Jones Beach
a substantial brick house at the head of theState Park, as part of the New York State
creek.Park System through the dedication from
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the
In 1702, Lord Cornbury, Governor of New York,nautical vision of Robert Moses.
commissioned Major Jones Captain of the



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