Henry Floyd-Jones

He was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York (then Queens, now Nassau County) as the son of David Richard Floyd-Jones (1764–1826) and Sarah (Onderdonk) Floyd-Jones (1758–1844). He married Helen Watts (1792–1872), and they had several children, among them State Senator Edward Floyd-Jones (1823–1901) and Col. DeLancey Floyd-Jones (1826–1902).

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co.) in 1829 and 1830.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1836 to 1839, sitting in the 59th, 60th, 61st and 62nd New York State Legislatures.

Lt. Gov. David R. Floyd-Jones (1813–1871) was his nephew; Bishop William H. DeLancey (1797–1865) and Susan DeLancey, the wife of James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), were his first cousins.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130ff, 142, 208 and 284; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• [http://www.jonesnyhistory.com] Floyd-Jones family
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=daUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA97 Memorial of the Hon. David S. Jones] (1849; pg. 97ff)
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/08/12/101062634.pdf Sarah Floyd-Jones] obit of his daughter, in NYT on August 12, 1900

• {{Find a Grave|23615760}}
• [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/wattsjones/ Guide to the Watts-Jones Family Papers, 1800-1905]

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Category:1792 births

Category:1862 deaths

Category:Democratic Party New York (state) state senators

Category:People from Massapequa, New York

Category:Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly

Category:19th-century members of the New York State Legislature