Author : Albert WalkerChevalier/Welsh Privateer Origins of Thomas Jones

The family origins of Thomas Jones it is said were to have originated in either Glamorganshire or Merionethshire Thomas Jones was descended from a noble Irish family, one which intermarried with one of Welsh descent The year of Thomas Jones’ birth is uncertain but is believed to be about 1665

Thomas Jones having served under William III of England and James II of Ireland, served as a Major in the army of the dethroned Monarch He fought at the Battles of the Boyne, Aghrim and Limerick

Thomas Jones served under a "Letter of Marque" from William III of England in 1692, and shortly thereafter arrived in Rhode Island where he married Freelove Townsend, the daughter of a prominent Quaker There issue being 3 sons and 4 daughters Freelove was born December 29, 1674

The family of Freelove Townsend were of vast antiquity, having their lands granted to them from William the Conqueror in 1066

Thomas Townsend the father of Freelove, gave to his daughter and son-in-law a vast tract of land situated on the south shore of Long Island having first offered it to his son John Townsend, but he refused it saying does father want me to go out of this world

This vast tract of land was given by Chief Tackapousa of the Massapequa Indians to twelve Patentees, seven of who were like Thomas Townsend, from Rhode Island

In 1696, Thomas Jones and his wife Freelove built a substantial brick house, and to this vast estate Thomas and his wife settled The dwelling which he erected was for many years the wonder of the age It’s
cognomen being: The Old Brick House

Many strange and weird stories were told relating to it, among others, that after the death of the original owner, strange noises were heard there, and that a small circular window, seen in the gable, could never be closed Sashes, boards, and even bricks and mortar, placed in it were instantly removed by an invisible power, like that of a rapping spirit

Subsequent to Thomas Jones’ settlement to this vast domain he acquired from the Indians and other land holders and inheritance by his wife from her family, various tracts of land which included what was then known as the West Neck and Unqua properties All of which were contiguous and totaled some 6,000 acres

In the year 1710, Governor Hunter of New York commissioned Thomas Jones Ranger General of the Island of Nassau Rangers General, were sworn officers of the Crown, to whom were given by the Sovereign, the Royal rights, franchises, of waifs, estrays, hunting Royal fish, treasure trove, mines, deodands and forfeitures This office gave Thomas Jones, the monopoly of the whale and other fisheries of Long Island

Thomas Jones died December 13, 1713 Freelove died July, 1726 Both were interred at Grace Church Yard, Massapequa, Long Island

In 1929, the vast estate of Thomas Jones which totaled some 6,000 acres through the dedication of Governor Franklin D Roosevelt officially became Jones Beach State Park, part of the New York State Park System

For many years after his death many fictions existed in relation to Thomas Jones This was likely fostered because of his early seafaring life, combined with the many rights granted to him by the Crown These myths were cherished for over a century after his death, which ignorance and superstition did not fail to enhance It is devoutly hoped that the present, as well as future generations, will be more charitable, and not so free to disparage, where cause has in no degree been shown to exist Albert Walker
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Author : Albert Walker

The ancestry of the Jones family of New York can be traced back to when King James the Second ruled Several names appear in every generation, including Thomas, William, Elbert, David, John and Samuel The Irish family of Major Thomas Jones intermarried with a family from Wales Welsh characteristics are very prominent in family members These characteristics include sociable, hospitable, independent, honorable, and a remarkable memory Many of the elder family members have a fondness for genealogies, as well as having local and personal pride

Major Thomas Jones: The Welsh Privateer

Major Thomas Jones was born around 1665 He fought at the Battle of the Boyne and served under William III of England at the capitulation of Limerick Major Thomas Jones was in Rhode Island in 1692, where he met and married Freelove Townsend (born in 1674) Freelove was Thomas Townsend’s daughter Her father gave her and Thomas Jones a tract of land on the south side of Long Island Between 1702 and 1706, Major Thomas Jones was appointed captain of the militia in Queens County, high sheriff of Queens and major of the Queens County regiment He died in 1713, leaving Freelove and seven children behind The tract of land Freelove’s father gave to them, along with land purchased afterwards, is now known as Jones Beach State Park

David Jones

David Jones was the oldest son of Thomas and Freelove Jones and was born in 1699 He married Anna Willet in 1722 and was a member of the General Assembly until 1758 He was the people’s champion against parliamentary encroachment Anna died in 1759, leaving behind David and six children David didn’t follow until 1775

Ella Floyd-Jones Carscallen

Ella was a descendant of Thomas and Freelove Jones, born in 1892 She lived in Long Island and, in 1919, married John Dulmage Carscallen Ella served during World War II as a Gray Lady and member of the Red Cross Motor Corps (Babylon chapter) Both her and her husband were members of New York yacht clubs and were well known for racing their motor boats Races they participated in include the Gold Cup Regattas, the National Sweepstakes at Red Bank, NJ and the President’s Cup Regatta on the Potomac Ella passed away in 1976 after a long illness

Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones)

Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862 to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Edith’s family had such wealth and privilege in New York that they inspired the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses ” She was an American writer, landscape architect and interior designer Edith wrote humorous novels and short stories by combining her knowledge of privileged classes in New York with her natural wit One of her well known novels is “The Age of Innocence ” She married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton in New York in 1885 when she was 23 and he was 35 They got divorced in 1913 after he suffered a nervous breakdown

She moved from New York to France after getting divorced and had a lover by the name of Walter Berry, who was the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris Due to this connection, Edith was allowed to be on the front lines and worked at refugee charitable efforts during the war Once the war was over, Edith came back to the U S only one time in 1923 to receive an honorary doctorate degree from Yale University Edith died in 1937
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Author : Jan MichaelsGrowing old does have one benefit experience So, I am continuing here to share my vast pool of knowledge Of course my girlfriend can’t resist telling me I need to clean the pool, but here’s the list anyway

1 If you do anything that gets your hands wet, soapy or dirty, your nose WILL itch

2 When you give your email out anywhere on the Internet, you will soon learn all you never wanted to know about body part enhancements

3 A cat does not love you It simply allows you to live with it IF you pet, feed and clean it’s litter box on a regular basis Otherwise, you’re history

4 Your Co-Workers, on the other hand, DO love you at least as long as you continue to give them good stuff to talk about when you aren’t around

5 You are NOT the master of your fate Your mother is And when you get married, your wife is

6 Life is beautiful Life sucks life is beautiful life sucks Repeat as necessary

7 There is a chip in all cars that keeps them from starting unless you stroke the dashboard correctly and sincerely mean it when you say “Come on baby you can do it”

8 Computers will only work correctly when you DON’T need them to

9 A kiss is just a kiss, and a smile is just a smile, but a baby is forever

10 There is no such thing as a ghost that can haunt you except in your own mind

11 Nothing is carved in stone other than what will happen if you forget your other half’s birthday or anniversary

12 No matter how hard you try, you will NEVER be able to fold laundry according to your spouse’s instructions

13 Anything you think will happen, won’t and anything you think won’t happen, will

14 Love is a two way street unless you are on the freeway and then there may be lots of exits before you get somewhere
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Author : Jan MichaelsHeres some helpful information to help you decide if you fit into the small town mold Remember theres no shame in coming from a small town unless everybody in town was your relative

You can name everyone you graduated with

You know what 4-H is

You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road

You used to drag main

You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones would not (same goes with the game warden)

You ever went cow-tipping

You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough they would tell your parents anyhow)

When you did find someone old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out to the country and drive on back roads to smoke them

It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town

You had senior skip day

The whole school went to the same party after graduation

You do not give directions by street names or directions by references (turn by Nelsons house, go two blocks past Andersons, and it is four houses left of the track field)

You can not help but date a friends ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend)

Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will never own a dark vehicle for this reason

The town next to you is considered trashy or snooty, but is actually just like your town

You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the rich people

Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store

You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town

Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger

Directions are given using the one stop light as a reference

Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart

You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride

Your teachers call you by your older siblings names

You can charge at all the local stores

The closest McDonalds is 45 miles away

It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawnmower

If you laugh your head off reading this, it is because you know they are all true and you can forward this article to all six people that lives in your town!
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Author : Jan MichaelsI admit it I LIKE trivia, tho it serves no purpose for me since I can never remember any to bring up in conversation But still, it is fun, so I’ve created this list of amazing trivia that I found to be absolutely riveting

1 Snails can sleep up to 3 years
Not so amazing actually since I managed to sleep through 6 years of jr high and high school And when you think about it, what do snails have to do all their lives? Sure, they leave great slime trails and make excellent targets for salt shakers and little boys, but other than that there is not much more to do but sleep after an exhausting run across a sidewalk

2 American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
Until I read this, I was convinced that there was an olive missing from my salad, yet no one would believe me Now I am vindicated! I am now searching for proof that the airlines have taken one peanut from each bag I’ll keep you posted

3 An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain
After reading this, I realized that I know of many people with the same problem! But that is an article about politicians I am working on For me, it is usually that my eyes are bigger than my stomach

4 Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
Well, I would like to see anyone keep this up long enough to actually lose 150 calories Now that I think about it, I DO NOT want to see

5 Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he does not wear pants
This is completely understandable I mean, who wants to look at a duck with no pants on? Besides, I understand that it is the law for all birds to wear pants in the city limits of Finland

6 If you pass gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
I tried to prove or disprove this, but two things stopped me I couldn’t stand to look at a bowl of chili after the third day, and my girlfriend threatened to leave me although it was kinda hard to tell what she was really saying with that gas mask on

7 In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes
Now, this piece of trivia leaves ALOT to the imagination, which is probably a good thing BUT, I would like to point out, you would have to be pretty limber to get some on those hairs nuff said

8 The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
I know this trivia fact is not true because I have gone drinking with my ants several times and I have watched them fall over in several different directions usually they tend to fall on my uncles tho

9 The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night
I am not sure about this fact I have seen several spiders at night and never once felt compelled to eat one Though I hear that spider is tasty if barbecued correctly

10 And now for our final fun trivia fact:
Females Lions do the lions share of the work when it comes to hunting and cub raising Males tend to sun themselves a lot and some of them mate over 50 times a day No wonder the females do all the work
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Author : jgraf Do you think when they asked Thomas Jefferson for his ID, he just took out a

nickel?
- from Musings

I can’t, for the life of me, recall how I emerged from the haze of those days But one (relatively) clear morning, I awoke to the aspiration of leaving substances behind, and a hankering to rejoin the establishment In need of gainful employment, I applied for office work As luck would have it, I submitted my dog-eared, coffee-stained resume to the winner of the annual Employer-from-Hell award

Born and raised in Skinflint, Michigan, when Cuthbert M Philbot read that you could feed a family of four in India for a hundred dollars a year, he sent his whole family there During the previous week, there had been a slight problem at the office Philbot had accidentally smiled and got a charley horse in his face The company had a tough sick leave policy There was no time off for illness or surgery Death was accepted, but you had to give three weeks’ notice

In the waiting room, I worked my way through an application To, "Length of residence at present address?" I wrote, "About 30 feet, not counting the porch " Where it said, "Tell us something about yourself," I entered, "I like my coffee weak and my women strong " At the bottom, where it said, "Sign here," I scrawled, "Pisces "

When I finished, I picked a copy of Jaws off the coffee table and began reading Presently, a distraught employee came out of the boss’s office, and I could hear Philbot trailing on, "I’m sorry, but if you take two hours for lunch today, I’ll have to do the same for every man whose wife gives birth to triplets "

I was in luck when, a few moments later, Philbot came out just in time to catch me off guard, nose in the book, rooting for the shark He could see he’d found the right man for a position on his team

"I want you to be happy here," said Philbot, giving me a quick tour of the office "If there’s anything you need, I’ll show you how to get along without it Oh, and, until further notice, don’t use the suggestion box The handle is broken and it won’t flush "

I was given my own office It was small, but private Except when another employee barged in to ask for a broom

The first day on the job, I came off as a real trendsetter I was the first one in the office to wear purple and white shoes Then I lost the white one But clothes, to me, are easy come, easy go Ever since I’d heard someone say, "Whenever I’m down in the dumps I buy new clothes," I knew where I’d be doing most of my shopping

Settling in, I hammered away on my computer keyboard Within a few moments, I had to requisition a new keyboard, as the hammer had quickly rendered the first one to a collage of plastic art This time, bowing to convention, I used my fingers I entered data steadily through the day Round about three o’clock, a colleague dropped by, saw what I was doing, and informed me that, while it was certainly energy efficient to work the way I was, it would be more productive to turn the power on first

Thanking him for the tip, I once again modified my approach I did not feel bad, however, about the lost time Although I can produce about 90 words a minute - in my own language - if you’re going to be picky and ask me to type readable copy, then it falls to about seven words, tops Had I been more adept, I would no doubt have felt devastated at the loss of significant production

Changing horses, I spent the rest of the day filing By five o’clock, with virtually no nails left, I punched out

The second morning, I arrived fifteen minutes late for work "Why are you late?" Philbot asked

"I fell down a flight of steps," I replied

"It doesn’t take fifteen minutes to fall down a flight of steps, " growled Philbot

That day, in a bid to improve efficiency, I undertook a little research project of my own It didn’t take long to verify my conjecture, that too many clients were creating a high level of stress, resulting in lower production I took to the phone and by early afternoon had disposed of over 70% of the company’s clientele

I waxed creative, informing some clients that we were going bankrupt, others that we were facing a class action suit and could no longer remain above ground with our operations Still others learned from me that we were downsizing and had to drop the ballast

By day’s end, a great sense of ease pervaded the office With the workload drastically reduced, we now had some much needed breathing space I prepared memos soliciting suggestions for our newly allotted recreation time, and recommended a shorter workweek, as well as significantly expanded vacations

I damn near made it to the end of the week Although I had carefully concealed my identity by signing all my outgoing memos with the handle of one of my altar-egos, "The Count of Bondaglio,"

I sensed the boss’s suspicion mount with the following little master-slave interchange:

Philbot: "I notice that you come to work late every morning "

Me: "Yes, but you’ll also notice that I leave early every afternoon!"

That was enough to terminate my residency in Office City, Illinois, though I suppose I should also mention, in passing, that Philbott had discovered I had pawned my computer equipment, and replaced it with a mini-Jacuzzi

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