MR. ROBERT JONES, (TYDDYN Y FELIN), REMSEN, ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

ROBERT JONES (Tyddyn-y-Felin) emigrated from Carnarvonshire in 1801, landed at New York and came directly to this locality. He bought of the Holland Land Company sixty acres, situated just east of the village between the highway to Prospect which passes the J. G. Jones farm, and that leading from Remsen past the stone church to the State road. Here he made a clearing and built a log house nearly opposite the J. G. Jones house.

But he lived only a few years after his arrival, and his widow and their youngest son, Moses, conducted the farm.

About 1820 they built a stone house at the top of the hill ten rods or so north of the Prospect road, though not a vestige now remains to mark its site.

Of their children William the eldest married Jane, in London, England, and immediately came with his bride to America, locating here a year previous to the arrival of his father and the rest of the family; Margaret, married Robert Evans (Nant), of Steuben; Emma married John Williams; Elizabeth married Hugh Jones; Jemima married Robert Owen; John; Moses married Dinah Davis; and Ann married William H. Owens. The children of William and Jane Jones were Robert, who married Sophia, daughter of John Evans (Boon); Ellis, who lived for many years near Boonville where he died; Daniel; Ann, who married Griffith Jones; Moses, who married Evans; and Margaret, who married a Mr. Ketcham.

The children of Moses and Dinah (Davis) Jones were Jane, born in 1818, married Henry W. Roberts in 1837; Ann, who married Moses Nash Fuller, and removed to Chicago; Ezekiel, captain of Company I., 146th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, taken sick in barracks at Rome, dying there at the home of Mr. John Parry, November 6, 1862, aged thirty-eight years; Simeon and Josiah, both of whom removed to Minnesota; Benjamin; and Moses, who died in infancy. Ezekiel married Deborah Avery. Children: Avery D., Flora, Dean, Elvira, Lula and George.

A narrative history of Remsen, New York.