Jonathan WATERBURY

                   BIRTH:
    Grace A. Waterbury and Edwin M. Waterbury, Jonathan Waterbury Genealogy (Oswego, New York: Palladium-Times, Inc., 1930)

CHRISTENING:
    Grace A. Waterbury and Edwin M. Waterbury, Jonathan Waterbury Genealogy (Oswego, New York: Palladium-Times, Inc., 1930)



DEATH:
    Grace A. Waterbury and Edwin M. Waterbury, Jonathan Waterbury Genealogy (Oswego, New York: Palladium-Times, Inc., 1930)

    BIOGRAPHY: His boyhood and young manhood were passed in Salem, Westchester,
    NY, the  period of his teens undoubtedly having seen stirring ones in the
    vicinity  where he resided which was the scene itself of one raid (Tarlton's
    against  Pound Ridge) and which must have witnessed the constant passing and 
    repassing of troops connected with various movements of Washington's army  for
    the defense of and against New York during the American Revolution.

    One of the first movements of militia from a sister colony through the 
    vicinity where he resided was led by his cousin, Col. David Waterbury of 
    Stamford, Conn., who came with troops to disarm Tories in the vicinity at  the
    direction of Major General Lee, and who also led his men through  Westchester
    County early 1n 1776, when his regiment of Connecticut troops  was the first
    to enter New York city in connection with the preparation  for defense of that
    city.

    Jonathan himself probably saw no enlisted service in the Revolution despite 
    the fact some of his descendants have erroneously believed that he did and  a
    few of them have succeeded in gaining admission to the Daughters of the 
    American Revolution upon the mistaken representation that he did. The 
    Jonathan Waterbury whose service record has been appropriated and  transferred
    to this Jonathan served in Col. Roger Enos Regiment, Captain  Reuben
    Scofield's Company of Connecticut troops in 1777, his period of  enlistment
    having been from 24 Jun. to 1 Jan. Now if Jonathan Waterbury is  here
    represented, he is seen doing a six months tour of duty in the army  at 11
    years of age. That in itself seems highly improbable. It is still  more
    improbable that when, a legal resident of New York, he would have  been
    permitted at that age to serve with the troops of another colony when  his
    father and brothers were in active service in their home colony. When  near
    the close of the Revolution, Jonathan would have been nearing an age  when he
    might have seen service the active theater of the war had largely  shifted to
    Southland so that he probably experienced no impelling urge for  enlistment.

    As a still further and seemingly conclusive argument against any belief  that
    Jonathan Waterbury saw service at any time in the Revolutionary army  is the
    fact that his granddaughter, Miss Jennette Waterbury of Ypsilanti,  Michigan,
    with whose family Jonathan's widow resided until her death in  1857 when
    Jennette herself was a girl in teens so that she remembers her  grandmother
    well, knows nothing of service by Jonathan during the  Revolution so that when
    she herself joined the Daughters of the American  Revolution a number of years
    ago, she did so solely upon the strength of  the service of her maternal
    grandfather, Lieutenant Travis.