Jonathan HAMBLET of Dracut, MA
 
b. 5 Feb 1753 Hudson, NH  (Gerald Q. Nash and Sandra J. Martinson and  Roland A. Marchand, Vital Records of Hudson, NH, 1734-1985,  (Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1997), p. 102.)
 
d.  29 Dec.1831  Dracut, MA  (Vital Records of Dracut, MA, Deaths p. 281, "Hamblet, Jonathan, Dec. 29, 1831.  [Jan. 1, 1832, C.R.2.].")
 
m.  Elizabeth Richardson  13 Dec 1781 (Gerald Q. Nash and Sandra J. Martinson and  Roland A. Marchand, Vital Records of Hudson, NH, 1734-1985,  (Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1997)  AND Henry Onslow Smith, M.D., "Early Church Records of Nottingham, Mass., Now Hudson, N. H.," NEHGR, vol. 91, July 1937: p. 266.)
 
Documentation of Rev. War service:
 
At NARA: File S32790.  16 Mass Regt, Rev. War
 
From the book Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
Volume VII  pages 139 and 140
Hamblet, Jonathan, Dracut.
 Capt. Peter Coburn's Co., Col. Ebenezer Bridge's (27th) regt.; order for advance pay, signed by said Hamblet and others, dated Cambridge, June 6, 1775; also, Private, same Co. and regt.; company return dated Sept. 26, 1775; also, company receipt for wages for Sept., 1775, dated Camp at Cambridge; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Camp at Cambridge, Nov. 20, 1775; also, Drummer, Capt. Zachariah Fitch's Co., Col. Samuel Brewer's regt.; service from August 23, 1776 to Sept. 30, 1776,  1 mo. 9 days; also, list of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, Muster Master for Suffolk co., dated Boston, July 7, 1777; Capt. Brown's Co., Col. Henry Jackson's regt.; also, Private, Major's Co., Col. Henry Jackson's (16th) regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from June 26, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779; credited to town of Tewksbury; also Capt. John Langdo's co., Col. Jackson's regt.; payroll for Feb. 1778, dated Lancaster; also, same Co. and regt.; payrolls for June-Aug. 1778, dated Providence; also, same Co. and regt.; payrolls for Sept. 1778, dated Pawtuxet; also, Lieut. Thomas Hollis Condy's Co., Col. Jackson's regt.; payroll for Nov. 1778; also, same co. and regt.; payroll for Feb. 1779, dated Pawtuxet; also, Lieut. Condy's (2nd) Co., Col. Jackson's regt.; muster roll for april 1779, dated Pawtuxet; enlisted June 26, 1777, enlistment for 3 years; reported on command at Newtown ,also, same co. and regt,.; payroll for July 1779, dated Providence; also, same Co. and regt.; payroll for Oct. 1779, also, Major's Col., Col. Jackson's regt.; return made up to Dec. 31, 1779, dated Camp at Providence; also, same Co. and regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780 to June 26, 1780; residence, Dracut, credited to town of Dracut; reported discharged June 26, 1780; also, return certified at Camp near Morriston, April 30, 1780, of officers and men belonging to Col. Lee's, Col. Henley's and Col. Jackson's regts., and men belonging to Massachusetts in Col. Henry Sherburne's regt., who were incorporated into a regiment under the command of Col. Henry Jackson, agreeably to the agreement of April 9, 1779; Major's Co.; rank, Private; residence, Dracut; engaged for town of Tewksbury (also given Dracut).
 
ALSO
From muster rolls in the Massachusetts State Archives, photocopied by the archivist for Kendall Mellem, Oct. 1999:
"Jonathan Hamlet Appears with rank of Privat on Lexington Alarm Roll of Minute-men of Capt. Peter Coburn's Co., Col. Bridge's Regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Dracut...
Lexington Alarms; Vol. 12, page 25"
 
From the same muster rolls:
"Jonathan Hamlet Appears with rank of Drummer on Muster Roll of Capt. Coburn's Co., Col. Bridge's regt., dated August 1, 1775.  Time of enlistment, April 26, 1775.  Time of service, 3 mos. 13 days.  Town to which soldier belonged, Dracut."  Eight Months Service; Vol. 14, Page 60." 
 
Re:  For inclusion in your Rev. War database
From:  Kendall Mellem, jimell@swbell.net  
Date: Feb. 10, 2002