Jones was ap­par­ent­ly liv­ing in Car­roll, New York, in 1815. By 1835, he was di­rect­or of the New York In­sti­tute of Sac­red Mu­sic. His works in­clude:

• Psalmodia Evan­gel­i­ca (New York: 1830)
• Melodies of the Church, 1832
• Evening Mel­o­dies, 1834
• The Psalms of Da­vid, 1854
• The Psal­ter De­fined and Ex­plained, 1860

• Hughes, pp. 452-3