The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Jonathan Hubbard was born 17 September 1733, at Brimfield, Massachusetts, a son of Samuel Hubbard and Hannah Bliss.1 Hubbard had five sisters and two brothers: Samuel (he died at age 20 years), Hannah, Martha, Mary, John (died young), Esther and Rachel (died young).
Hubbard was a private in Captain James Sherman’s Company of Colonel Pyncheon's Regiment. The regiment marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775, for one day of service.2
Jonathan Hubbard married Mary Keep at Brimfield, 10 June 1762.3 She was born at Brimfield, 28 January 1739, a daughter of John Keep and Abigail Munn.4 They were the parents of Bathsheba, Samuel, Solomon, John, Mary, Martha, Jonathan, Reuben and James.5
Hubbard set up housekeeping at Brimfield and remained there for most of their lives, although their sons Jonathan Jr., Solomon, John, and James were among the early settlers of Cortland, New York. Jonathan Hubbard appeared in the 1790 U.S. Census6 at Brimfield, and again in the 1800 U.S. Census.7
The Brimfield Town Meeting of 28 August 1779 voted that soldiers receive credits for their service against taxes owed. Jonathan Hubbard’s credit was nine pounds.8
Hubbard likely moved to Cortland, to live with one of his sons after 1800. Jonathan Hubbard died 17 May 1806, aged 72 years. Mary Keep Hubbard died 13 August 1828, aged 89 years. Both were buried at the Cortland Rural Cemetery.9
1. Howes, Florence Conant ed. Vital Records of Brimfield, Massachusetts to 1850. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1931, Pg. 78. Online at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61401/images/dvm_primsrc000029-00078.
2. Massachusetts, Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. A compilation from the archives. Boston, Wright and Potter Printing Company, State Printers, 1901, Pg. 434 Online at https://archive.org/details/masssoldiers08bostrich/page/434/mode/2up.
7. U.S. Census, 1900, Brimfield, Massachusetts, Pg. 912 – Jonathan Hubbard household.
8. Town of Brimfield, Massachusetts. Historical celebration of the town of Brimfield, Hampden County, ... .Springfield, Massachusetts, The Clark W. Bryan Company, 1879, Pg. 320, 321. Online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044051737948&view=1up&seq=418&skin=2021.
9. Tombstone photo and FindaGrave Memorial for Jonathan Hubbard and Mary Hubbard. Online at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40215724/hub.
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