CS 71

J76 1849

INTRODUCTION.

In making up this little volume, the principal object of the present writer was to collect together the different obituary notices of his late honored Father, in a form less ephemeral than those in which they originally appeared. And in addition, to reprint the biographical sketches of the more prominent members of the family of Jones, of Queens County.

The memoir which precedes the obituary notices may be regarded as an illustrative commentary upon them, a simple statement of facts, necessary to a more complete view of the career of the subject of such sincere and hearty eulogium.

The influence of the character of Mr. Jones, was as extensive as the knowledge of it; and a record of the testimony of the best judges to his purity, integrity, and elevation, is justly due to his good fame--the richest legacy he has left his children.