 Augustus Jones was born around 1757 in the Hudson River Valley of the Province of New York , the son of Ebenezer Jones , a Welsh immigrant . He trained as a land surveyor in New York City in his youth . After his training , he worked for some time in New York , and his name appears in paperwork for land transfers in Newburgh , New York in 1783 and 1784 . 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 300 acres ( 1 @.@ 2 km2 ) 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 . The fields around his sister 's farmhouses would later be the scene of the Battle of Stoney Creek . 
