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Jonathan Dayton, son of a storekeeper in Elizabethtown, had served with distinction in the Revolution, and, at twenty-six, was the convention's youngest delegate. Pierce, an army comrade, said that Dayton had ``an impetuosity in his temper'' that was injurious to him, but that he also had an ``honest rectitude.''

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