Display Patriot - P-131190 - Jonathan CHANDLER

Jonathan CHANDLER

SAR Patriot #: P-131190

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State of Service: CT      Qualifying Service: Sailor / Patriotic Service

Birth: 10 Feb 1762 / Hartford / CT
Death: 30 Jul 1844 Pitcher / Chenango / NY

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Sailor on a whale boat 1777, and on the sloop Hawk 1778
  2. Drafted as soldier and stationed at New London 1779
  3. Enlisted and served as a sailor on the Dean, and on the schooner Raven 1781 where taken prisoner and confined on the Jersey

Additional References:
  1. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
  2. Pension Application

Spouse: Sarah Easton
Children: Jonathan; Clark;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2001-04-16 CA 8925 Wayne Jerome Rogers BS (155490) Jonathon   
Burial:
Hinman Cemetery (C-0035192)
Location:
Pitcher / Chenango / NY / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
64852
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
50653570
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo by permission: Wayne Jerome Rogers, California SAR



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Author: Wayne Jerome Rogers
Jonathan Chandler was born Feb. 1762. He married Sarah Easton October 1781.
He was a privateer, serving as a sailor on a whole boat in 1777, on sloop ‘Hawk’ on 1778, on the ‘Dean in 1779’, and on the schooner “Raven, which was taken prisoner at the time and confined on the Jersey Prison ship.

He was a privateer in the Revolution, and was prisoner aboard the Jersey Prison Ship, after being captured aboard the Raven. Jonathan Chandler’s pension requests were rejected because he was a privateer and not a soldier or sailor per se. He claimed to have seen all manner of death in one of his rejected pensions.
Privateer Jonathan Chandler of East Hartford Conn was on board the captured ship Raven and was imprisoned with Capt. Stephen Buckland, his cousin. He survived and provides a firsthand account of their ordeal aboard the Jersey. In Chandler’s rejected pension (as a Privateer), the then Colonel Jonathan Chandler , a hero of the War of 1812 as well, indicated that “with no change of linen the deponent was almost literally covered with lice and was sick and suffered everything but death and after remaining there about 6 months was exchanged and carried to Hartford the next Spring. He was unable to labor at all inconsequence of the sickness and hardship he endured which out of 92 prisoners taken, only 21(survived), his captain and cousin Stephen Buckland died aboard the Jersey Prison Ship.

In War of 1812, he was in a Militia Major at Sackett’s Harbor, who came on a call from General Brown who was being over whelmed and attacked by the British. He was later promoted to Colonel of the militia.

I found that he was buried in this local rural farm cemetery, ear Pitcher, NY. A flag was waving there, in a GAR holder, but he died before the civil war in 1844, so he needs a SAR grave marker. He had moved with his family from East Hartford, Ct to Chenango County in about 1801. He started several activities, a farm, a hotel, the first post office, a saw mill, a hotel, a grist mill, an ashery, a small grocery story.

He was the son of patriot Samuel Chandler; He died July 1844 in Pitcher, Chenango NY
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