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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Civil Service
Birth: 12 Nov 1709 Bradford / Essex / MA Death: 08 Jan 1794 Hampstead / Rockingham / NH
Qualifying Service Description:
Representative to the fourth NH Provincial Congress 17 MAY 1775 to 16 NOV 1775
Additional References:
NH Provincial Papers from 1764 to 1776 Vol VII pg 468-9,665-9
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Author: David J. Perkins
Capt. Jonathan Carleton was born in Bradford, MA on 12 Nov. 1709 to Joseph Carleton and Abigail Osgood. He married Hannah Rowell on 8 Aug. 1736, she died on 5 Feb. 1738, then married Susanna Bartlett, distant cousin to Josiah Bartlett, 2ndsigner of the Declaration of Independence, on 10 Nov. 1740 in Amesbury, MA. Jonathan died on 08 Jan 1794 in Hampstead, NH. He was elected as representative for Atkinson, Plaistow, and Hampstead to New Hampshire General Assembly in 1762, 1765, 1768, 1771, and 1774. Terms were for three years. In early 1774 Royal Governor John Wentworth dissolved the provincial assembly or house of representatives, which met in Portsmouth, in an attempt to prevent the election of delegates to a continental congress. Thereafter, a series of provincial congresses began to meet in the Exeter town house, which effectively became the seat of New Hampshire’s government; the Fourth Provincial Congress ordered the provincial records to be confiscated from royal officials and brought to Exeter for safety in July 1775. Capt. Jonathan Carleton was elected to the Fourth Provincial Congress which ran from May 17thto November 16th, 1775. In September of 1776, Jonathan Carleton was listed as a signer of the Committee of Safety – Association Test for the Town of Hampstead, NH As early as 1746, Jonathan appears to have made his living working probate as either an appraiser or yeoman or administrator or guardian. State papers list many probate records with Jonathan mentioned in them for the towns of Amesbury, Plaistow, and Hampstead. Capt. Jonathan Carleton was chosen to be the Plaistow town moderator for town meetings for the years 1758, 1762-1763, 1766-1770. Selectman in 1767, 1769-1770. Chosen as Constable in 1754. Was on a committee to settle affairs between Plaistow and Atkinson in 1768. Capt. Jonathan Carleton was chosen to be the Hampstead town moderator for town meetings for the years 1772-74, 1782, and 1783. In 1783, Jonathan was 74 years old. Children by Hannah Rowell: Jonathan, b. 14 May 1737, bp. 11 Sept. 1737, d. young. Joseph, bp. 4 Feb. 1738, d. 18 Feb 1738.
Children by Susanna Bartlett: Sarah, bp. 1 Nov. 1741 Hannah, bp. 12 June 1743; m. Amos Chase on 21 Oct. 1762 in Plaistow, N.H.; d. 26 Aug. 1824 Susanna, bp. 19 May 1745 Phoebe, bp. 17 May 1747 Jonathan, b. 19 Apr. 1751
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