 In 1793 , Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe charged Jones with the surveying and construction of a new road from Lake Ontario to the Thames River . Simcoe employed the Queen 's Rangers led by Captain Samuel Smith for the road 's construction , from Hamilton to Woodstock . This road would become Dundas Street . The same year , he surveyed Flamborough Township , Beverley Township , Ancaster Township and York Township . Jones spent 1794 surveying Flamborough , Glanford , Binbrook , Delaware , Oxford , Dorchester , Burford , Grimsby and Windham . 
