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b. ca. 1647-8, prob. Plymouth, MA
d. 28 February 1720-21 (Dartmouth vital records; Acushnet Cemetery gravestone, age 73)
m. Mercy Warren, 28 February 1677-78, Dartmouth, MA (vital records)

Jonathan was a militia captain in the company of Benjamin Church during King Philip’s War. An account of the company during an attack includes references to Jonathan (from "Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip’s War…," comp. by Thomas Church from Benjamin’s diary and private correspondence, 1716). They started out from John Cook’s "ruined" house at "Cushnet" (Acushnet, now the northern part of the town of Dartmouth). William Fobes alerted Church to the presence of Indian women gathering hurtleberries. Their "sachem" lived in the swamps after being driven from their land in Rhode Island. Church asked "Mr. Dillano, who was acquainted with the ground and the Indian language," and Mr. Barnes to approach the group with him. One of the women, who planted an orchard and lived in a house on Sanford’s land knew Church as a former neighbor. She ran to him, calling his name. Church asked Delano to tell them not to run, but to surrender. Most did, but some were killed while running away. Jonathan gathered the prisoners, who, with the dead, numbered 66. They belonged to the sachem of King Philip. Apparently Philip and Qunnappin, with other men of the sachem, had gone to Sconticut neck. Church sent Jonathan to meet their Indian allies and capture the men. There were hundreds of Indians on the neck. 63 were captured and 3 killed. All the prisoners were taken to Plymouth.

Doug Sinclair

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