Jonathon Nason was about 1645 at Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Maine) to parents Richard and Sarah (Baker) Nason.[1]
Marriage and Children
Jonathan married Sarah Jenkins circa 1670.[2] Jonathan and Sarah Nason had the following known children in Kittery:
Elizabeth, b. abt 1668, Kittery
Alice, b. abt 1670; m. 1693, at Kittery, Joseph Abbott, (1666-) whose brother John m. her sister Abigail
Abigail, b. abt 1675; m. 3 Jan 1694/95, York county, ME., John Abbott (1662-1719) [also recorded at Biddeford & Saco., ME] John's brother Joseph m. her sister Alice
Mary, b. 23 Jan 1675, Kittery; m. 6 Oct 1693, at Kittery, James Grant (1671-1735)
Charity, b. abt 1678; m. 6 Apr 1696, Berwick, ME., Job Emery
Jonathan, 3rd, b. abt 1679, Kittery; m. Adah Morrell
Sarah, b. abt 1680; m. Henry Snow
Richard, d. abt 1698 childless
Residency & Other Miscellany
In 1670 Jonathan had a grant of 100 acres in the area of Kittery that later became the town of Eliot.[3]
In 1671 brothers Jonathan and John Nason were granted 100 acres land "by or near Cox's Pond"[4]
He was one of the signers on a Petition to Charles II.[3] He was a town constable in 1682.[3]
The Berwick area about ten miles from Kittery, inhabited since 1631, was attacked in 1675 during King Philip's War.
In 1676 Jonathan Nason and brother John are mentioned as having a land grant of 100 acres of which John later deeded his share to his nephew Jonathan Nason (3rd) in 1702. [Stackpole, pg.119.][1] "The lands extended up to the brook that runs into upper Mast Cove [above Waymouths improved land" the brook called Greenham's Gutt."
During the 1690-1691 the Berwick village suffered war again, was burned and abandoned, in the 'Raid on Salmon Falls' [on the Piscataqua].
In 1690 a list of eight garrisons built in upper Kittery or Berwick to defend the colonists during the Indian Wars includes Jonathan Nason's dwelling. [Stackpole, Pg.166. quoting from Coll. of Me. Hist. Society, Vol. V. pg.91-2.][1] Stackpole continues: In 1694 the Indians again raided Kittery from Berwick to Spruce Creek. Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Nason (sibling of Jonathan), was captured and held in captivity till 1699 when she was ransomed by Thomas Hutchins."
Death
Jonathan has some notariety because he was killed by his brother Baker Nason in 1691,[2] on 1 March at Piscataqua River, Kittery.[5] On 11 March 1691/2, according to Samuel Sewall's diary,
"Capt Wincoll brought us the Jury's verdict about Baker Nason killing his elder brother Jonathan nason with his Oar in the Canoe in Piscataquer River: and asks advice whether to keep him there or send him to Boston Prison. Seems to have done it in's own defence."[5]
In 1695, his estate was distributed to his widow, Sarah, sons, Richard and Jonathan, and five daughters.[6]
↑ 5.05.1 Maine Historical Society "Maine Colony Province & Court Records" Vol. IV, court records of York County; Nov 1692-Jan 1710/1; pg.10-11: C.R. 6:88.
Everett, Elizabeth Hawley "Hawley & Nason Ancestry including the following contributory lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson, Caldwell, Staples, Tetherly, Coffin, Greenleaf, Brocklebank, Bartlett, Heard, McLellan, Patterson." pub. Chicago, Ill., USA: R.F. Seymour Pub., 1929. https://archive.org/details/hawleynasonances00ever/page/48/mode/1up?q=%22Richard+Nason%22
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