William Jones (deputy governor)

[1] They arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1660, in company with the regicides, judges Edward Whalley and William Goffe, both Generals and family members of Oliver Cromwell.

They moved to New Haven in August of the same year; took possession of the mansion of Governor Theophilus Eaton, and continued to live there until their deaths.

During their hiding in New Haven in the Judges' Cave, Jones' house was their place of refuge for eleven days.

For twenty-eight years, Jones was elected to the office of Assistant, or Magistrate, of the United Colonies of New England.

This office combined the duties of a Magistrate with those of a Senator, or member of the Superior House of the Legislature, except during 1685, when Governor Andrews of New York suspended the government of Connecticut.