Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Life and Patriotic Services of Jonathan Mix, of New Haven: Being an Autobiographical Memoir, Edited From the Original Manuscript, With Notes and AdditionsJonathan MIX was born in New Haven, Connecticut, at his father's home on the northwest corner of College and Elm streets, April 19th, 17 5 3. He was the descendant in the fourth generation from Thomas Mix (meckes), I643, one of the early settlers of New Haven and firsbt grantees. Of the period of his boyhood, little is known except through a letter written in 1810 by his half brother, Rev. Joseph Mix, from Which it appears that he grew up in the midst of plenty and contentment and under good religious in¿uences.Reaching the age of 22 years, in the full vigor of youth ful manhood, at the time when the souls of the colonists were stirred to resist the exactions of the home govern ment and to assert an Independent political existence, he entered the struggle with enthusiastic ardor and devoted himself unreservedly to, the cause of liberty. We first find him studying the art of war with the association known as the New Haven Cadets, and responding to the call tomarch at a few hours' notice from New Haven to Lexing ton to assist in resisting the British troops. He was also with the first naval expedition sent out by order of Con gress, and under the command of Ezekiel Hopkins, and participated as Lieutenant of Marines in the capture of New Providence. Throughout the war of the revolution he was constantly and actively engaged in the effort to secure the freedom and independence of the colonies, and jeopardized his life by land and by sea until his imprison ment in the dreaded Jersey Prison Ship, from which, just before the close of the war, he was released (in and returned to his family in New Haven, broken in health and ruined in fortune. He then entered upon a struggle to maintain his family, and devoted himself to the arts of peace. He made several Inventions and obtained patents for them during the administrations of Thomas Je¿erson and James Madison. He, also, had a store on Chapel street, where the New Haven County Bank now stands, and lived in the house on Elm street where Dr. N. B. Ives formerly lived, now occupied by Dr. Carmalt. He built the house now owned by Eli W. Blake, next to the Pier, pont house.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.