Mar.Int. pub 10 Mar 1743 with Mary Pease. R.V.R.Served 1775,1777In Sutton, NH 1776r152 In petitions of inhabitants in the west part of Haverhill,July and December, 1749, Jonathan was against being set off as anew parish. Plaistow, NH had been set off as a separate parishearly that year. His name was published as a member of theAntipedo Baptists (1774).Before going to Sutton,NH, Jonathan Nelson had helped to makethe first highways in Perrytown. It has been said that he helpedto hew the logs for the small structure which the early settlersbuilt somewhere in the present Mill Village, which for a fewyears served for a meeting house. Before going to Perrytown tolive, Jonathan Nelson had been deacon of a church in Rowley butthere has been no record found to show who were the officers ofthe early church in Perrytown. He settled about one fourth of amile above Mill Village, on the stream. Moses Quimby's lots were33 and 34, which included most of what is now Mill Village.Jonathan Nelson's was the mill lot, and made the remainder ofthe village. Dea. Jonathan was considered a worthy, industriousman. He was kind and pleasant in manner, tall, slender, andremarkably erect in person, even in old age.He was in Sutton,NH with one son in 1769, clearing roads. Hemoved there in 1776. He is listed for taxes of s.2,p.9 there in1788.