Background
Fathered by Augustus Jones, Jones was born to Tuhbenahneequay on the 10th of July, 1798 in the Humber River valley. Jones was named Thayendanegea, sometimes spelt Tyantenagen, for his father's friend Joseph Brant. The year of Jones' birth, his father married a Mohawk woman, Sarah Tekarihogen, in a Christian ceremony.
Career
Jones was licensed to exhort by the Methodist Church on August 22, 1828. Joseph Sawyer was licensed at the same time, and the pair became the second Indians to be licensed to exhort by the Methodist Church, only Jones" brother Peter having already been so licensed. Jones himself was struck with consumption, which forced him to resign his position of schoolteacher at the Cr Mission's school.