Was active in local affairs and in the school of a soldier, but socially, religiously and as a public spirited person. An obituary notice says: he was fond of retirement from the bustling world. He was apparently never so happy as when traveling the road of unnoticed humility."
Was decended from Wlder William Brewster of the Mayflower. He was given 6 or 700 acres by Uncas, the Mohegan Sachem, 9 or 10 years before the settlement of the town of Norwich. He established a trading post with the Indians on Poquetannock Cove and settled on land that is still called "Brewster's Neck".
Jonathan was in Boston during the Bunkerhill campaign and later was in the Battle of Long Island and there became a POW. He represented the twon of Preston in the state legislature in 1792, while Col. (later Gen. ) Joseph Williams, his brother-in-law, was there from Norwich.
Was a sea captain and had command of the "Prosperity" one of his Uncle Gen. Joseph Williams' merchant fleet when it was seized by a French Privateer, condemned before a Prize Court at Basseterre and confiscated with cargo.
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Was among the early settlers in America, about 1633. A colony came from Newburg, England to MA., selecting a charming site on the banks of the Merrimac River which the exiles named after their old home of Newbury Eng. According to the statement in Sewell papers, which refers to this particular party of immigrants, Viz., the setlers of Newbury, MA. "Men of means dissatisfied with the state of affairs in their native England favored the exodus of their sons to America with money for that purpose. John williams was in high esteem among his fellow townsmen. As one son...John's children were all daughters, Joseph was the only one to carry down the Williams name.