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1755 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1731 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1769 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
July 25th, 1792 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1750 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1780 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1781 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
1782 AD (search for this): entry jones-thomas
Jones, Thomas 1731-1792 Lawyer; born in Fort Neck, L. I., April 30, 1731; graduated at Yale in 1750; admitted to the bar of New York in 1755, and practised in New York; was recorder of New York City in 1769-73, when he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court. He was arrested a number of times as a loyalist, and was exchanged for General Silliman in 1780; went to England in 1781; was included in the New York State act of attainder in 1782. His estate on Long Island, Tryon Hall, descended to his daughter, who had married Richard Floyd, upon condition that the name Jones be added to that of Floyd. The estate is still in the Floyd-Jones family. Judge Jones wrote a History of New York during the Revolutionary War, a valuable contribution to history, as it is the only one from the view-point of a loyalist who participated in the events of that time. He died in England, July 25, 1792.
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