10 Facts About Jonathan Eddy

Jonathan Eddy encouraged the residents of Nova Scotia to join in open revolt against King George III and England.

Jonathan Eddy led a failed attempt to capture Fort Cumberland in 1776 and was forced to retreat to Massachusetts, the place of his birth.

Jonathan Eddy was born in Norton, Massachusetts in 1726 or 1727.

Jonathan Eddy received a militia captain's commission in 1758, when he apparently saw no action, and again in 1759, when his company was garrisoned at Fort Cumberland.

Jonathan Eddy made frequent excursions to see Samuel Adams and the General Court of Massachusetts, as well as to General George Washington.

Jonathan Eddy was eventually able to convince the Massachusetts legislature to provide logistical support in the form of small arms and other military supplies.

Jonathan Eddy, knowing he was being monitored by authorities loyal to the Crown, fled to Massachusetts where he was made a full colonel in the Continental Army and was given authority to raise a regiment of his own with the sole purpose of the invasion of Nova Scotia through Cumberland and Truro and then east into Halifax.

Shortly after General William Howe's army departed Nova Scotia to attack New York in 1776, Jonathan Eddy made his move.

Jonathan Eddy spent the remainder of the war managing the defense of Machias in the District of Maine, and was awarded a tract of land in the Ohio Country in 1801 for his role in the war.

Jonathan Eddy moved to Stoughtonham after the war, where he served in the Massachusetts legislature.