Jonathan Pritchard

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Served in 2nd Regiment, Waterbury Militia 1758 at Crown Point in the French and Indian War.

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Parents:

 Benjamin Pritchard (1684 - 1760)

 Hannah Marks Pritchard (____ - 1763)

Children:

 Asahel Pritchard (1763 - 1841)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Dr. & Mrs. GA T Jr. Record added: Mar 20, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 67194288

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On tax rolls in Wyoming Valley Pa 1776 (Douglass Family History source) Wyoming Massacre w/ 2/3 of people by Indians and Torys.in that he is not listed in the one list of individuals killed there that I found. But, his heirs were granted land for sufferers of the Wyoming Massacre. Appears to have died during the war but not as a result of the war. In History of Tioga County, Chapter 44 the explanation is that he was captured and never seen again after the Wyoming Massacre in 2d Regiment, Waterbury Militia, 1758, at Crown Point (French and Indian War)Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62:as a Corpl in 2nd Reg, 5th Company under REGT.COMMAND: Whiting, Nathan Colonel & Captain and Co Command Thompson, Jabez Captain in 1761 in the French and Indian War. Information from Arthur Gibbs Sylvester. Believed to have had at least nine children as heirs. Updated 4/95 from Arthur's 9/13/94 book. Town Birth Records, pre-1870, Waterbury - Jonathan son of Benjamin and Hannah b Oct 19, 1739 provided by Arthur Gibbs Sylvester

. Jonathan4 Pritchard (Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Roger1), born Milford, CT 12 October 1739, a settler in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He served in the Revolution as a substitute for a James Bagley at Shawnee Flats (now Plymouth, PA). He also served in the 2nd Regiment, Waterbury Militia (7th company) in 1758 at Louisburg, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point (French and Indian Wars), as well as in campaigns of 1759 (2nd Reg., 4th Co., Capture of Quebec, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point), 1760 (2nd Reg., 7th Co., Quebec and Montreal), and 1761 (2nd Reg., 5th Co, rank Corporal). He is mentioned at Plymouth District in the tax list of 1776. His name is not mentioned again until 1780, where there was compiled a “Bill of losses sustained by the inhabitants of Westmoreland 3 July 1778 to May 1780” (original copy in Connecticut State Library). His losses as listed here were Thirty pounds, fifteen shillings. On 12 February 1783, at Wilkes-Barre there was signed a petition to the Colony of New York for a tract of land to be granted to the Wyoming sufferers. Among the interested parties appears “Pritchard heirs, Jonathan.” This would indicate that Jonathan had died sometime between May 1780 and February 1783. This is borne out by a document (5), of about 1783, entitled “A catalogue of those that were killed in Battle of 3 July 1778, and left families, with number of (their) children. Those present are marked X.” An appendix to this document is entitled “The following died of sickness since the commencement of the war and (unreadable) families whose dependence is on their interest to these lands.” Among those in the latter list is “Jonathan Pritchard X (present) 9 (number of children).” This seems to be conclusive evidence that he was living in 1780 but dead of sickness by 1783. tradition makes Jonathan a victim of the Wyoming massacre of 1778, judging from the recollections of son, Calvin Pritchard, who, “at the age of 5, remembers the Indians taking his father prisoner at the time of the massacre, since which time he has never been heard of, and is supposed to have been killed” (9). Arthur Pritchard (letter of 28 Jan 1997) wrote “I believe that Jonathan may be been away with Continental Line units at that time. This is suggested by the following account taken from the book ‘The Spirit of Seventy-Six’ by A. S. Commager and R. B. Morris, Chap. II, p. 1006. “The Wyoming settlements - flourishing towns and farms with a population of over 2000 - had sent a large portion of able-bodied men to the Continental Line and were all but defenseless.” Jonathan at the start of the Revolution was 37 years old and a veteran of the French and Indian Wars so was qualified and joined the 24th Regiment of the Continental Line organized in Westmoreland in May 1775. His unit was probably away during the massacre.” the wife of Jonathan Pritchard may have been is not known. However, she may have married again, taking as her second husband Manasseh Cady, whose name also appears in Wyoming in 1776, and who apparently came to Tioga County, judging by the Tax List of 1800, where his age is give as 68. The evidence is confused, but there is at least one family tradition giving Cady as the second husband of Mrs. Jonathan Pritchard. the list mentioned above states that there were nine children, or least nine heirs, only the following are known: 5. i. Asahel5, 1763 - 1841 6. ii. Lyman5, ca 1768-1823, married Sarah Allington 7. iii. Calvin5, ca 1777-1847, married Anna Kennedy ca 1783-1840 iv. Phoebe, married James Dyke, a hotel keeper, near Morrell, NY v. Merriba, married Uriah Upson vi. Polly (or Mary?) married Christopher Schoonover Valley tax list 1776 : http://www.teachout.org/du/nan/uptheriver.html "UP THE RIVER" district was the settled upper section of the Susquehanna Valley, in what is now Bradford, Wyoming and upper Luzerne counties of Pennsylvania.

[This list] is really a bit more than just the Up the River district for 1776. For 1776, it is the County of Westmoreland, Colony of Connecticut, which includes the area from about Wilkes-Barre north up the Susquehanna to the New York border. list for the various districts of Westmoreland Co., Colony of Connecticut, August, 1776. of these tax lists can be found printed in "Proceedings and Collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," V: 209-218. tax rolls in Wyoming Valley Pa 1776 (Douglass Family History source) Wyoming Massacre w/ 2/3 of people by Indians and Torys.in that he is not listed in the one list of individuals killed there that I found. But, his heirs were granted land for sufferers of the Wyoming Massacre. Appears to have died during the war but not as a result of the war. In History of Tioga County, Chapter 44 the explanation is that he was captured and never seen again after the Wyoming Massacre in 2d Regiment, Waterbury Militia, 1758, at Crown Point (French and Indian War)Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62:as a Corpl in 2nd Reg, 5th Company under REGT.COMMAND: Whiting, Nathan Colonel & Captain and Co Command Thompson, Jabez Captain in 1761 in the French and Indian War. Information from Arthur Gibbs Sylvester. Believed to have had at least nine children as heirs. Updated 4/95 from Arthur's 9/13/94 book. Town Birth Records, pre-1870, Waterbury - Jonathan son of Benjamin and Hannah b Oct 19, 1739 provided by Arthur Gibbs Sylvester

. Jonathan4 Pritchard (Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Roger1), born Milford, CT 12 October 1739, a settler in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He served in the Revolution as a substitute for a James Bagley at Shawnee Flats (now Plymouth, PA). He also served in the 2nd Regiment, Waterbury Militia (7th company) in 1758 at Louisburg, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point (French and Indian Wars), as well as in campaigns of 1759 (2nd Reg., 4th Co., Capture of Quebec, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point), 1760 (2nd Reg., 7th Co., Quebec and Montreal), and 1761 (2nd Reg., 5th Co, rank Corporal). He is mentioned at Plymouth District in the tax list of 1776. His name is not mentioned again until 1780, where there was compiled a “Bill of losses sustained by the inhabitants of Westmoreland 3 July 1778 to May 1780” (original copy in Connecticut State Library). His losses as listed here were Thirty pounds, fifteen shillings. On 12 February 1783, at Wilkes-Barre there was signed a petition to the Colony of New York for a tract of land to be granted to the Wyoming sufferers. Among the interested parties appears “Pritchard heirs, Jonathan.” This would indicate that Jonathan had died sometime between May 1780 and February 1783. This is borne out by a document (5), of about 1783, entitled “A catalogue of those that were killed in Battle of 3 July 1778, and left families, with number of (their) children. Those present are marked X.” An appendix to this document is entitled “The following died of sickness since the commencement of the war and (unreadable) families whose dependence is on their interest to these lands.” Among those in the latter list is “Jonathan Pritchard X (present) 9 (number of children).” This seems to be conclusive evidence that he was living in 1780 but dead of sickness by 1783. tradition makes Jonathan a victim of the Wyoming massacre of 1778, judging from the recollections of son, Calvin Pritchard, who, “at the age of 5, remembers the Indians taking his father prisoner at the time of the massacre, since which time he has never been heard of, and is supposed to have been killed” (9). Arthur Pritchard (letter of 28 Jan 1997) wrote “I believe that Jonathan may be been away with Continental Line units at that time. This is suggested by the following account taken from the book ‘The Spirit of Seventy-Six’ by A. S. Commager and R. B. Morris, Chap. II, p. 1006. “The Wyoming settlements - flourishing towns and farms with a population of over 2000 - had sent a large portion of able-bodied men to the Continental Line and were all but defenseless.” Jonathan at the start of the Revolution was 37 years old and a veteran of the French and Indian Wars so was qualified and joined the 24th Regiment of the Continental Line organized in Westmoreland in May 1775. His unit was probably away during the massacre.” the wife of Jonathan Pritchard may have been is not known. However, she may have married again, taking as her second husband Manasseh Cady, whose name also appears in Wyoming in 1776, and who apparently came to Tioga County, judging by the Tax List of 1800, where his age is give as 68. The evidence is confused, but there is at least one family tradition giving Cady as the second husband of Mrs. Jonathan Pritchard. the list mentioned above states that there were nine children, or least nine heirs, only the following are known: 5. i. Asahel5, 1763 - 1841 6. ii. Lyman5, ca 1768-1823, married Sarah Allington 7. iii. Calvin5, ca 1777-1847, married Anna Kennedy ca 1783-1840 iv. Phoebe, married James Dyke, a hotel keeper, near Morrell, NY v. Merriba, married Uriah Upson vi. Polly (or Mary?) married Christopher Schoonover Valley tax list 1776 : http://www.teachout.org/du/nan/uptheriver.html "UP THE RIVER" district was the settled upper section of the Susquehanna Valley, in what is now Bradford, Wyoming and upper Luzerne counties of Pennsylvania.

[This list] is really a bit more than just the Up the River district for 1776. For 1776, it is the County of Westmoreland, Colony of Connecticut, which includes the area from about Wilkes-Barre north up the Susquehanna to the New York border. list for the various districts of Westmoreland Co., Colony of Connecticut, August, 1776. of these tax lists can be found printed in "Proceedings and Collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," V: 209-218.

GEDCOM Note

On tax rolls in Wyoming Valley Pa 1776 (Douglass Family History source)

Killed Wyoming Massacre w/ 2/3 of people by Indians and Torys. Interesting in that he is not listed in the one list of individuals killed there that I found. But, his heirs were granted land for sufferers of the Wyoming Massacre. Appears to have died during the war but not as a result of the war. In History of Tioga County, Chapter 44 the explanation is that he was captured and never seen again after the Wyoming Massacre

Served in 2d Regiment, Waterbury Militia, 1758, at Crown Point (French and Indian War) Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62: Served as a Corpl in 2nd Reg, 5th Company under REGT.COMMAND: Whiting, Nathan Colonel & Captain and Co Command Thompson, Jabez Captain in 1761 in the French and Indian War.

Most Information from Arthur Gibbs Sylvester. Believed to have had at least nine children as heirs. Updated 4/95 from Arthur's 9/13/94 book.

Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870, Waterbury - Jonathan son of Benjamin and Hannah b Oct 19, 1739

Information provided by Arthur Gibbs Sylvester

4. Jonathan4 Pritchard (Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Roger1), born Milford, CT 12 October 1739, a settler in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He served in the Revolution as a substitute for a James Bagley at Shawnee Flats (now Plymouth, PA). He also served in the 2nd Regiment, Waterbury Militia (7th company) in 1758 at Louisburg, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point (French and Indian Wars), as well as in campaigns of 1759 (2nd Reg., 4th Co., Capture of Quebec, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point), 1760 (2nd Reg., 7th Co., Quebec and Montreal), and 1761 (2nd Reg., 5th Co, rank Corporal). He is mentioned at Plymouth District in the tax list of 1776. His name is not mentioned again until 1780, where there was compiled a “Bill of losses sustained by the inhabitants of Westmoreland 3 July 1778 to May 1780” (original copy in Connecticut State Library). His losses as listed here were Thirty pounds, fifteen shillings. On 12 February 1783, at Wilkes-Barre there was signed a petition to the Colony of New York for a tract of land to be granted to the Wyoming sufferers. Among the interested parties appears “Pritchard heirs, Jonathan.” This would indicate that Jonathan had died sometime between May 1780 and February 1783. This is borne out by a document (5), of about 1783, entitled “A catalogue of those that were killed in Battle of 3 July 1778, and left families, with number of (their) children. Those present are marked X.” An appendix to this document is entitled “The following died of sickness since the commencement of the war and (unreadable) families whose dependence is on their interest to these lands.” Among those in the latter list is “Jonathan Pritchard X (present) 9 (number of children).” This seems to be conclusive evidence that he was living in 1780 but dead of sickness by 1783.

One tradition makes Jonathan a victim of the Wyoming massacre of 1778, judging from the recollections of son, Calvin Pritchard, who, “at the age of 5, remembers the Indians taking his father prisoner at the time of the massacre, since which time he has never been heard of, and is supposed to have been killed” (9). Arthur Pritchard (letter of 28 Jan 1997) wrote “I believe that Jonathan may be been away with Continental Line units at that time. This is suggested by the following account taken from the book ‘The Spirit of Seventy-Six’ by A. S. Commager and R. B. Morris, Chap. II, p. 1006. “The Wyoming settlements - flourishing towns and farms with a population of over 2000 - had sent a large portion of able-bodied men to the Continental Line and were all but defenseless.” Jonathan at the start of the Revolution was 37 years old and a veteran of the French and Indian Wars so was qualified and joined the 24th Regiment of the Continental Line organized in Westmoreland in May 1775. His unit was probably away during the massacre.”

Who the wife of Jonathan Pritchard may have been is not known. However, she may have married again, taking as her second husband Manasseh Cady, whose name also appears in Wyoming in 1776, and who apparently came to Tioga County, judging by the Tax List of 1800, where his age is give as 68. The evidence is confused, but there is at least one family tradition giving Cady as the second husband of Mrs. Jonathan Pritchard.

Although the list mentioned above states that there were nine children, or least nine heirs, only the following are known: 5. i. Asahel5, 1763 - 1841 6. ii. Lyman5, ca 1768-1823, married Sarah Allington 7. iii. Calvin5, ca 1777-1847, married Anna Kennedy ca 1783-1840 iv. Phoebe, married James Dyke, a hotel keeper, near Morrell, NY v. Merriba, married Uriah Upson vi. Polly (or Mary?) married Christopher Schoonover

Wyoming Valley tax list 1776 : http://www.teachout.org/du/nan/uptheriver.html

The "UP THE RIVER" district was the settled upper section of the Susquehanna Valley, in what is now Bradford, Wyoming and upper Luzerne counties of Pennsylvania.

[This list] is really a bit more than just the Up the River district for 1776. For 1776, it is the County of Westmoreland, Colony of Connecticut, which includes the area from about Wilkes-Barre north up the Susquehanna to the New York border.

Tax list for the various districts of Westmoreland Co., Colony of Connecticut, August, 1776.

Copies of these tax lists can be found printed in "Proceedings and Collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," V: 209-218.

GEDCOM Note

On tax rolls in Wyoming Valley Pa 1776 (Douglass Family History source)

Killed Wyoming Massacre w/ 2/3 of people by Indians and Torys. Interesting in that he is not listed in the one list of individuals killed there that I found. But, his heirs were granted land for sufferers of the Wyoming Massacre. Appears to have died during the war but not as a result of the war. In History of Tioga County, Chapter 44 the explanation is that he was captured and never seen again after the Wyoming Massacre

Served in 2d Regiment, Waterbury Militia, 1758, at Crown Point (French and Indian War) Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62: Served as a Corpl in 2nd Reg, 5th Company under REGT.COMMAND: Whiting, Nathan Colonel & Captain and Co Command Thompson, Jabez Captain in 1761 in the French and Indian War.

Most Information from Arthur Gibbs Sylvester. Believed to have had at least nine children as heirs. Updated 4/95 from Arthur's 9/13/94 book.

Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870, Waterbury - Jonathan son of Benjamin and Hannah b Oct 19, 1739

GEDCOM Note

Information provided by Arthur Gibbs Sylvester

4. Jonathan4 Pritchard (Benjamin3, Benjamin2, Roger1), born Milford, CT 12 October 1739, a settler in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He served in the Revolution as a substitute for a James Bagley at Shawnee Flats (now Plymouth, PA). He also served in the 2nd Regiment, Waterbury Militia (7th company) in 1758 at Louisburg, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point (French and Indian Wars), as well as in campaigns of 1759 (2nd Reg., 4th Co., Capture of Quebec, Ticonderoga, and Crown Point), 1760 (2nd Reg., 7th Co., Quebec and Montreal), and 1761 (2nd Reg., 5th Co, rank Corporal). He is mentioned at Plymouth District in the tax list of 1776. His name is not mentioned again until 1780, where there was compiled a “Bill of losses sustained by the inhabitants of Westmoreland 3 July 1778 to May 1780” (original copy in Connecticut State Library). His losses as listed here were Thirty pounds, fifteen shillings. On 12 February 1783, at Wilkes-Barre there was signed a petition to the Colony of New York for a tract of land to be granted to the Wyoming sufferers. Among the interested parties appears “Pritchard heirs, Jonathan.” This would indicate that Jonathan had died sometime between May 1780 and February 1783. This is borne out by a document (5), of about 1783, entitled “A catalogue of those that were killed in Battle of 3 July 1778, and left families, with number of (their) children. Those present are marked X.” An appendix to this document is entitled “The following died of sickness since the commencement of the war and (unreadable) families whose dependence is on their interest to these lands.” Among those in the latter list is “Jonathan Pritchard X (present) 9 (number of children).” This seems to be conclusive evidence that he was living in 1780 but dead of sickness by 1783.

One tradition makes Jonathan a victim of the Wyoming massacre of 1778, judging from the recollections of son, Calvin Pritchard, who, “at the age of 5, remembers the Indians taking his father prisoner at the time of the massacre, since which time he has never been heard of, and is supposed to have been killed” (9). Arthur Pritchard (letter of 28 Jan 1997) wrote “I believe that Jonathan may be been away with Continental Line units at that time. This is suggested by the following account taken from the book ‘The Spirit of Seventy-Six’ by A. S. Commager and R. B. Morris, Chap. II, p. 1006. “The Wyoming settlements - flourishing towns and farms with a population of over 2000 - had sent a large portion of able-bodied men to the Continental Line and were all but defenseless.” Jonathan at the start of the Revolution was 37 years old and a veteran of the French and Indian Wars so was qualified and joined the 24th Regiment of the Continental Line organized in Westmoreland in May 1775. His unit was probably away during the massacre.”

Who the wife of Jonathan Pritchard may have been is not known. However, she may have married again, taking as her second husband Manasseh Cady, whose name also appears in Wyoming in 1776, and who apparently came to Tioga County, judging by the Tax List of 1800, where his age is give as 68. The evidence is confused, but there is at least one family tradition giving Cady as the second husband of Mrs. Jonathan Pritchard.

Although the list mentioned above states that there were nine children, or least nine heirs, only the following are known: 5. i. Asahel5, 1763 - 1841 6. ii. Lyman5, ca 1768-1823, married Sarah Allington 7. iii. Calvin5, ca 1777-1847, married Anna Kennedy ca 1783-1840 iv. Phoebe, married James Dyke, a hotel keeper, near Morrell, NY v. Merriba, married Uriah Upson vi. Polly (or Mary?) married Christopher Schoonover

GEDCOM Note

Wyoming Valley tax list 1776 : http://www.teachout.org/du/nan/uptheriver.html

The "UP THE RIVER" district was the settled upper section of the Susquehanna Valley, in what is now Bradford, Wyoming and upper Luzerne counties of Pennsylvania.

[This list] is really a bit more than just the Up the River district for 1776. For 1776, it is the County of Westmoreland, Colony of Connecticut, which includes the area from about Wilkes-Barre north up the Susquehanna to the New York border.

Tax list for the various districts of Westmoreland Co., Colony of Connecticut, August, 1776.

Copies of these tax lists can be found printed in "Proceedings and Collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," V: 209-218.