My Revolutionary War Patriots, Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts

This is Patriot #3 in this series of blog posts about my ancestors in the Revolutionary War. My 5th great grandfather Jonathan Flint was born on 11 August 1730 in Reading, Massachusetts, the son of Jonathan Flint (b. 1689) and Mary Collston Hart. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth Collston, who was only 16 when she was accused of being a witch during the 1692 witchcraft hysteria. She was arrested…