Nathan Jones

Born December 30, 1731. He married June 19, 1765. He died 1822.

A Continental Line Veteran

Nathan Jones was born December 30, 1731, and became a freeman of Bolton, Connecticut, in 1772. When the Lexington Alarm sounded in April 1775 at the start of the Revolutionary War, Nathan served eight days as a sergeant marching to the relief of Boston, and in 1777 he enlisted in the Continental Army's 2nd Connecticut Regiment, serving under Captain Waldridge through the war's hardest campaigns — defending the Hudson River, fighting in the Battle of Edge Hill at Whitemarsh in December 1777, wintering at Valley Forge, storming Stony Point in 1779, and wintering again at Morristown during one of the harshest winters of the century, before his discharge in January 1780. Nathan was a devout member of the Congregational Church; when a grandchild fell gravely ill, he was remembered pacing and crying, “I told you the child should have been baptized; why did you neglect it?” He later moved to Vermont and finally to Jay, New York, living his final years with his son. Nathan died in 1822.