Henry Onderdonk Floyd-Jones (January 3, 1792 — December 20, 1862) was an American politician from

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Life

He was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York (then

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, 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 DeLancey Floyd-Jones (January 20, 1826 – January 19, 1902) was a career officer in the United States Army, serving in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, as well as on frontier duty in the Old West. Early career DeLance ...

(1826–1902). He was a member of the

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(Queens Co.) in

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and

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. He was a member of the

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(1st D.) from 1836 to 1839, sitting in the 59th, 60th, 61st and

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s. Lt. Gov.

David R. Floyd-Jones David Richard Floyd-Jones (April 6, 1813 – January 8, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician. Early life A descendant of an old Long Island family, he was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York ( ...

(1813–1871) was his nephew; Bishop William H. DeLancey (1797–1865) and Susan DeLancey, the wife of

James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...

(1789–1851), were his first cousins.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130ff, 142, 208 and 284; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

Floyd-Jones family
''Memorial of the Hon. David S. Jones''
(1849; pg. 97ff)
''Sarah Floyd-Jones''
obit of his daughter, in NYT on August 12, 1900

External links

*
Guide to the Watts-Jones Family Papers, 1800-1905
{{DEFAULTSORT:Floyd-Jones, Henry 1792 births 1862 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Massapequa, New York Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly 19th-century American politicians