Samuel Jones (July 26, 1734 – November 25, 1819) was an American lawyer and politician.

[2] In 1760, Jones was working in the law office of William Smith, and was admitted in October of that year to practice before the New York Bar.

[4][3] In 1786, he was appointed along with Richard Varick to collect and publish all of the statutes then in force; with only minor changes by the state legislature, this work by Jones and Varick remained the only comprehensive collection of New York's laws for the remainder of that century.

[3] Jones was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1788, but did not attend the session.

[5] That was also the year of the greatest and most historical thing he ever did: at the New York convention in Poughkeepsie to consider ratifying the United States Constitution, he broke the impasse about whether a Bill of Rights had to be added.