Private Isaac Dunton Jr.

Isaac Dunton Jr. (1765 - 1791) of English heritage, was the son of Isaac Dunton Sr. and Sarah Jennings. He married Beulah Morse in Natick in 1786. He enlisted in 1781 at the age of 16 for three years service in the Continental Army. As his brother in law Adam Morse later testified “He enlisted into the service of the American Army about the year of about 1781 for the term of three years and remained a soldier of the revolution until Peace was declared and the soldiers disbanded.” He served in Captain John Smith’s Company of Infantry in New York and New Jersey among other locations. He died in Holden, MA in 1791.