The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Jonathan Whitaker Sr. was born 1724 at Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. He was the second owner of the family’s homestead. It is thought the record of the property transfer was burned when the buildings at the Somerset Court House were destroyed by Simcoe and his Queen’s Rangers, October 26, 1779, during Simcoe’s Raid.
Jonathan Sr.’s Revolutionary War service was Patriotic Service, as he paid for the hire of a horse and supplies. DAR sources also credit Jonathan Sr. with military service as a private in Captain Ananias’ Company of Colonel Henkinson’s Second Regiment of Sussex County, New Jersey.
Jonathan Sr. married Mary Miller. They had seven children, three of whom were Stephen, Nathaniel, and Jonathan III, who served in the Revolutionary War. In the local history documentation, Jonathan Sr. is known as Jonathan II, and Jonathan III is known as Jonathan Jr. There is a Revolutionary War memorial plaque on the wall of the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church containing both Jonathan Senior and Jonathan Junior’s names. They are both buried there.
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