Thomas Jones, Convict "Perseus" 1802

NOTE: The following is about a different Thomas JONES

THOMAS JONES, convict in the first fleet ship per “Alexander” arrived at NSW on 26th January 1788.
He was aged 22 years.
He was tried on 21 March 1785 in Warwick, for stealing a silver tankard. After being given the death sentence he was reprieved to transportation for seven years.

Derby Mercury - Thursday 24 March 1785 p 4
“ On Wednesday night the Assizes ended for the county of Warwick when the following convicts received sentence of Death Viz,
Chatburn, … Elis Green, … Samuel Packwood, … Samuel Smith, … John Slight alias John Browne, … John Shardlowe.
“THOMAS JONES for stealing a silver tankard from the house of Francis Moore, in Birmingham..— The first seven of whom are left for execution and the others reprieved.”

Thomas Jones went to Norfolk Island with King and the small group to establish a settlement there.

Some First Fleet information says he became a shopkeeper in Sydney. Evidence??

After returning to Sydney from Norfolk Island in 1793, Thomas Jones received a 30 acre land grant in 1794 at the Eastern Farms (Kissing Point) later Ryde. The property was purchased by another First Fleeter Joseph Hatton by 1802. Joseph Hatton was my great-great-great grandfather.

LINKS
https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/jones-thomas-31388
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet

TIMELINE
1765 - Baptised At Holy Trinity, Coventry to John & Ann Jones; 9 April
1785 - Convicted of stealing a silver tankard; 1 March
1785 -Tried at Warwick summer Assizes; sentenced to death; commuted to 7 years transportation; 29 March
1785 - Transferred to the hulk "Justitia"; 18 Aug.
1787 - Boarded the "Alexander" as part of the First Fleet; departed Portsmouth; 13 May
1788 - Arrived in Botany Bay; 19 Jan.
1788 - Departed for Norfolk Island aboard the "Golden Grove" as part of the first settlement; October
1791 - Living on 6 acres near Cascades, and 'off rations'; July
1793 - Departed N.I. aboard the "Kitty", arriving in Port Jackson 21 March
1794 - Living 'Off-rations' on a 30 acre grant at Eastern Farms
1800-1806 - Recorded as having one child living with him
1820 - Working as a Dealer as well has his 3o acres;
1828 - Operating as a baker & shopkeeper in Sydney
1843 - Death in Sydney; buried at Holy Trinity; 24 Oct.