 Sometime in the 1780s, Jones fled the United States with his family as loyalists during the American Revolution.Jones was sent ahead of the rest of his family, and obtained of land in Saltfleet Township.Soon after this Jones' father Ebenezer, his brother Stephen and Stephen's family, and his sisters, Mary Jones Gage, widow of James Gage and Susannah Gage, wife of William Gage followed.