Memorial of the Late Honorable David S. Jones: With an Appendix, Containing Notices of the Jones Family, of Queen's County

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Stanford and Swords, 1849 - 99 páginas
David S. Jones was born 3 November 1777 in West Neck, Queens, New York. His parents were Samuel Jones and Cornelia Herring. He married Margaret Jones, Susan Le Roy and Mary Clinton and had a total of eighteen children. He was a lawyer. He died 10 May 1848 in New York.
 

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Página 36 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 81 - Legislature, and was a member of the Convention that adopted the Constitution of the United States."— The Charleston Courier, Wednesday, January 28, 1835.
Página 12 - If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.
Página 76 - This seat he choose and here he fix'd his name Long may his sons this peaceful spot enjoy And no ill fate his offspring here annoy.
Página 74 - The breast work or parapet is of earth ; and there is a ditch on the outside which appears to have been about six feet wide. The other was on the southernmost point of the salt meadow adjoining the bay, and consisted of palisadoes set in the meadow ; the tide has worn away the meadow where the fort stood, and the place is now part of the bay and covered with water ; but my father has often told me that in his memory part of the palisadoes were standing.
Página 82 - No one, (says Chancellor Kent,) surpassed him in clearness of intellect, and in moderation and extreme simplicity of character; no one equalled him in his accurate knowledge of the technical rules and doctrines of real property, and in familiarity with the skilful and elaborate, but now obsolete and mysterious, black- letter learning of the common law.
Página 75 - ... and a military chest, for some other purpose than mere self-defence, yet there was not the man who was more respected, and walked abroad more boldly than that same Colonel Tom. He had the best farm too, and lived in the best and the only brick-house in all Queens county. This venerable edifice is still standing, though much dilapidated, and is an object of awe to all the people in the neighborhood. The traveller cannot fail to be struck with its reverend and crumbling ruins, as his eye first...
Página 75 - The traveler cannot fail to be struck with its reverend and crumbling ruins, as his eye first falls upon it from the turnpike ; and if he has heard the story, he will experience a chilly sensation, and 'draw a hard breath while he looks at the circular sashless window in the gable end. That window has been left open ever since the old man's death. His sons and grandsons used to try all manner of means in their power to close it up. They put in sashes, and they boarded it up, and they bricked it u|>,...
Página 16 - ... all that is venerable in our memory, Van Vechten, whose teeming eloquence was Ciceronian, and charmed every heart ; the terse, the highly gifted Henry ; the younger Jay, full to abounding, in every noble trait ; and that union of scholar, lawyer, orator and gentleman, John Wells. These were the men whom the times brought forth, and who reflected and also gave an illustrious light.
Página 67 - While we have time, let us do good unto all men : and especially unto them that are of the household of faith.

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