Many of the old mill stones used in the water power mills were made by the Cloyes family.  One of the natural as well as curious objects of the town was the old House Rock.  It was composed of two granite slabs thirty feet in length, which in the subsidence after an upheaval, met on the upper edge at an angle which formed a peaked roof, the edges resting on the ground.  The walls were blackened with smoke, as it was probably often used as a temporary lodging place for strolling Indians.  The slabs were flawless, and finally furnished the material for mill stones which were hewn into shape by Jonas Cloyes about 1822 or a little later. Mr. Cloyes was also a land surveyor; and when the town in 1850 granted the sum of $75.00 to pay for a new survey of the town and procuring a map of the same, Colonel Jonas Cloyes and Warren Nixon were employed to make the surveys.  The map is said to be both accurate and complete.  Mr. Cloyes was also interested in the uplift of the town, and realized the advantages to be derived from good and accessible literature.  The first library of the town had it's beginning about 1785.  The book fund was the proceeds of the sale of the last of the common lands.  But little is known of it's history.  It was reorganised in 1815 under the name of the Social Library, by several of the leading citizens of the town; among them was Jonas Cloyes.  This library was in existence for several years, and might well be called the progenitor of the present beautiful public library of stone, which was built as a memorial to the soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War.  Effeciency seems to have been the slogan of the Cloyes family, and it wassurely recognised by the Framingham citizens, as each generation served the term as one of its selectman.  (Encyclopedia of New England Families)

1810;  Named suretie with Elijah Clayes, Eli Bullard, John Hemenway, for probate of James Clayes of Framingham (his father).  (Middlesex Co. ProbateRecords)

Military service: June 29, 1816, 4th Regiment, First Brigade, Third Division, Mass. Militia, War of 1812564

1818 - 1821;  Selectman.  (Encyclopedia of New England Families)

1832; Did plan of town of Framingham - printed and used many years562, old brick house on Worcester turnpike buit by him563

Occupation: land surveyor - quarryman564

Burial: Edgell Grove Cemetary, Framingham, MA561