 In 1816, Jones feared that the Mississauga band his sons John and Peter lived with would fall apart, in the aftermath of the War of 1812, the famine of 1816's harvest and the influx of settlers to the area in recent years.Jones travelled to find the boys, and brought them to his farm in Stoney Creek.He arranged for the boys to be schooled in Stoney Creek, as neither spoke much English.