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Murderous pirate linked to Jones Beach namesake
A historian says colonial records may connect Thomas Jones, the man whose name lives on at Jones Beach, to the notorious King of the Pirates. Jones allegedly helped the pirate and his violent crew in the seventeenth century.
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