Jonathan Nicholas (1757 or 1759 – September 22, 1839) was an early settler of Flanders, New Jersey, and a sergeant in the American Revolutionary War.

[2] Jonathan enlisted in the American Revolutionary War in spring 1777 at Elizabethtown reaching the rank of sergeant.

[5][6] After the war, Jonathan became a barrel maker and a settler in Flanders near Bottle Hill, in what is now Mount Olive Township, New Jersey.

(one of the sixteen additional Regiments) in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war and that I became much better acquainted with him after he was transferred into the third N. Jersey Regt.

Wherein he served a number of years in the rank of a Sergeant, and uniformly conducted himself as a good and faithful soldier, having continued in the N. Jersey line until the end of the war, when he obtained a regular discharge given at Elizabethtown this seventeenth day of February one thousand eight hundred of nineteen.

In February 1810 Jonathan filed for a pension with district judge William Pennington because he was in need of financial assistance.