Jonathan Staples (1753 - 1832)

Born 29 Mar 1753 in Mendon, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Rachel (Holbrook) Staples — married 29 Dec 1777 in Uxbridge, Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay

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(VI) Jonathan, son of Abraham (4) Staples, was born in Mendon, died in Danby, Vermont, December 28, 1832, aged seventy-nine. He was a soldier in the revolution from Mendon, a private in Captain Joseph Daniels' company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment, Third Company, Twentieth Regiment, at Roxbury in 1775. He was also in Captain Peter Penniman's company, Colonel Wood's regiment in April and May, 1777, in the Rhode Island campaign, and in the same company under Colonel Job Cushing, August to October, in 1777, and in Captain Philip Ammidon's company, Colonel Tyler's regiment, in July, 1780, in Rhode Island. Soon after the revolution he removed to Vermont. Jonathan Staples removed from Wardsboro to Danby, Vermont, and settled on the farm now or lately owned by Martin Bromley, and was a man of energy and industry. In his later years he drew a pension for his revolutionary service.

Staples, Jonathan brother of Abraham, also from Rhode Island, settled on the farm owned by F. and M. Bromly. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and drew a pension. He was one of the early settlers here, and was a man of energy and industry. He m. Rachael Holbrook; they both died about the year 1840, quite old having raised a family of seven children : Sally, Sylvia, Ellery, Willard, Rachael, Abraham and Jonathan. Sylvia m. Elijah Alexander, and lived in Charlotte Vf.; Rachael m. Dexter Bartlett, and lives in Otto, N. Y.

He is buried at the Quaker Cemetery in Danby, Rutland, VT.

Sources

• "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 2" edited by William Richard Cutter

• "The History and Map of Danby, Vermont" By John C. Williams