Jonathan Myrick, Jr.
b. July 21, 1758 Nantucket, MA d. November 23, 1838 Hudson, NY
Revolutionary Service: Minuteman at Lexington
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A Teenager at the First Battle of the Revolutionary War
Military coat,1775-83, Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Frank Sherman Benson Fund, 1930
In 1775 at age 17 Jonathan was a “Minuteman” and fought at the first military confrontation of the War at Lexington. Minutemen were a special division of local militias trained to respond to an alarm “in a minute”. He appears on the muster roll of the Company in the American Service in Newton, Massachusetts under the Command of Captain Jeremiah Wiswall. Born in Nantucket, his father (Mirick or Myrick) and mother (Coffin) have family names long associated with the island. Jonathan, Jr. and his spouse Priscilla Brown Myrick (1764-1834) had nine children, six girls and three boys. It is not clear when they moved to Hudson.
The Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, William Barns Wollen, 1910.
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minuteman Marker, Lexington, MA
Jonathan Myrick’s grave,
Section 1B, Hudson Cemetery