Horatio Jones (1763–1836) was a soldier in the American Revolution and an early European-American settler in the Genesee Valley of Western New York.
During the remainder of the war he is said to have been instrumental in helping to rescue others taken prisoner by the Seneca, including Major Moses Van Campen.
They established a trading post in Waterloo, New York, then called Schanves, where their eldest son, Colonel William W. Jones, was born.
In spring 1790 the Joneses moved to the Genesee Valley, settling near Beard's Creek in what is now the town of Leicester.
In 1791, Jones officially purchased the lot of land in Geneseo on which his homestead, Sweet Briar, was constructed.