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Jonathan Nicholas applied for pension -- Feb. 17, 1819, Flanders, Morris, N.J.
Statement of the Service of Jonathan Nicholas in the War of the Revolution included the written statement "My enlistment having expired I left the army at Elizabethtown TO REMOVE MY PARENTS OUT OF ELIZABETHTOWN FROM DANGER and rejoined it again as a volunteer at Morristown where Washington had encamped for winter quarters after the battle of Trenton and Princeton in December 1776."
Jonathan Nicholas' parents may have been born in Wales but he was born in Elizabethtown.
Also:
"State of New Jersey
County of Morris
Personally appeared before me Rhese Nicholas a Justice of the Peace in person for said County - Jonathan Nicholas of Roxbury in said county in the Revolutionary War in the New Jersey Line and now is a pensioner of the United States and is Eighty-one years of age in March next that he is acquainted with Mrs. Sarah [Price] Handley the widow of Richard Handley discussed [ ] has [known] been from her infancy. Mrs. Handley was the daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Price of E. Town N. J. and was married to Richard Handley now deceased at E. Town N. J. on the 18 May 1779" [He goes on to state he was married one week later so he was a child in Elizabeth Town].
Let us find Jonathan's parents who were in NJ during the Revolution. Sincerely, Liz bambooos@aol.com
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