Jonathan Dayton was born in a little town in New Jersey known as Elizabethtown on October 16, 1760. His father Elias Dayton was a military officer in the French and Indian War and a merchant who was into local politics. Jonathan graduated from a local academy and then went to Princeton University a little while later. He then left Princeton in the year 1775, fought in the Revolution and would later receive an honorary degree in 1776. When the war ended Dayton began studying law, and eventually made his own practice. He was the youngest member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Conventional, he was 26 years old. He believed that the government should protect any individual's right to freedom, but within the boundaries of an established
