| Major Thomas Jones…Welsh
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| | York, commissioned Major Jones Captain of
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| Privateer..Namesake of Jones Beach State
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| | the Militia in Queens County, New York
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| Park, New York By Albert Walker
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| | on Oct. 20; in that same year on Oct. 14,
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| The family of Major Thomas Jones,
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| | 1704, he was appointed High Sheriff of
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| sometimes styled the chevalier, and of
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| | Queens, and on April 3, 1706 he was
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| whose descent from a noble Irish family,
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| | appointed Major of the Queens County
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| which intermarried with one from Wales,
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| | Regiment.
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| is supposed to have originated in
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| | Governor Hunter, of the Province of New
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| Merionethshire or Glamorganshire. However
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| | York appointed him Ranger General of the
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| that may be, the characteristics of the
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| | island of Nassau (Long Island),which gave
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| Welsh race are plenty discernable in
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| | to him the monopoly of the whale and
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| almost every member of the family and are
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| | other fisheries from the north to the
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| very marked in all of those who may have
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| | south shore of Long Island. This
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| become prominent in any walk of life.
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| | commission was dated Sept. 4, 1710.
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| Thomas Jones, who fought at the Battle of
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| | Major Jones died Dec. 13, 1713, and was
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| the Boyne, Aghrim and at the capitulation
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| | buried in a small grave yard on the banks
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| of Limerick, served under William III of
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| | of the then called brick House Creek, now
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| England and under James II of Ireland,
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| | called Massapequa Creek. The issue of
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| having served as a Major in the army of
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| | Major Jones and his wife Freelove was 7
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| the dethroned Monarch, which had formerly
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| | children. A brown headstone marked the
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| been from England, but of Welsh
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| | spot on which the following inscription
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| extraction, had long been seated in the
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| | written by himself, "Here Lyes Interd The
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| north of Ireland.
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| | Body of Major Thomas Jones, Who Came From
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| Major Jones was born about 1665. In 1692,
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| | Straubane, In he Kingdom of Ireland,
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| Major Jones was t the island of Jamaica
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| | Settled Here and Died December, 1713."
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| at the time of the great earthquake of
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| | From Distant Lands To This Wild Waste He
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| July 7th, being engaged in one of the
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| | Came
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| numerous expeditions under the "Letter of
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| | This Seat He Choose, And Here He Fixed
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| Marque," which so many of the English and
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| | His Name
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| Irish officers of James II sought service
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| | Long May His Sons This Peace Full Spot
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| after the defeat at the Battle of the
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| | Injoy
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| Boyne. In that same year Major Jones
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| | And No Ill Fate his Offspring Here Annoy.
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| arrived in Warwick, Rhode Island and at
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| | For many years after his death many
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| this place met and married Freelove
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| | fictions existed about Thomas Jones. The
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| Townsend, the daughter of Thomas
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| | exercise of his commission to sail as a
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| Townsend. free love was born Dec. 29,
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| | Privateer under "Letters of Marque," from
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| 1674. Thomas Townsend was the son of John
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| | the French ports, leading to the slander
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| Townsend, a prominent Quaker, who came to
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| | that he was a pirate. These myths were
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| New Amsterdam early in the 17th century
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| | cherished for over a century after his
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| about 1635., from Norwich, England. The
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| | death through ignorance and superstition,
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| family were of great antiquity, their
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| | and through ignorance and superstition
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| lands being granted them from William the
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| | that these fables extended into the
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| Conqueror. Thomas Townsend, the
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| | middle of the past century and today…
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| father of Freelove Townsend, gave to
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| | In 1929, the large tract of land given to
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| Thomas Jones and his bride a large tract
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| | Thomas Jones and his wife Free love ,
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| of Land which had formerly belonged to
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| | along with subsequent purchases by Major
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| the Massapequa Indians, on the south
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| | Jones, officially became Jones Beach
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| side of Long Island. To this vast estate
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| | State Park, as part of the New York State
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| Major Jones and his wife removed in 1696,
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| | Park System through the dedication from
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| where he built a substantial brick house
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| | Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the
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| at the head of the creek.
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| | nautical vision of Robert Moses.
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| In 1702, Lord Cornbury, Governor of New
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