Person:Thomas Jones (262)

Án excellent study of Judge Thomas Jones, his parents and descendants can be found at http://www.stonybrook.edu/lihj/IssueFiles/V21_1/Articles/Tiedemann/tiedemann.html . From that site: December 1762, at the age of thirty-one, he married Anne De Lancey, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the now deceased James De Lancey. In 1763, her brother, James, the new leader of the De Lancey faction, gave Anne and her husband about two and one half acres of land on Grand Street, near De Lancey Square, between the Bowery and the East River. The property was located on what was called Mount Pitt, the highest point in lower Manhattan. It was here, in 1765, that Thomas Jones built a mansion that befitted his stature in New York society. His niece, Elizabeth De Lancey, described it as “Elegant, and completely furnished with Coach House, Stables, and other Out houses, an Orchard, and a large Garden, well stock’d with the best Fruits and in full bearing.”

1.   Jones, W. A. Memorial of the late honorable David S. Jones. (New York, New York: Stanford and Swords, 1849)
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2.   Jones, Thomas, and Edward Floyd De Lancey. History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and of the leading events in the other colonies at that period: with notes, contemporary documents, maps, and portraits. (New York, New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1879).