| Birth: | Jan. 6, 1761
Hartford
Hartford County
Connecticut, USA | | Death: | Jan. 7, 1806
Vermont, USA | 
43 yrs
Note: in this same area are: Millacent, Elizabeth and Azuba Wadsworth.
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Additional information supplied by:
Herman C. Brown
Vermont Society Sons of the American Revolution
Daniel was born January 6, 1761 (baptized April 4, 1762) at Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. He was the son of Hezekiah (bp. 1725) and Millicent (Seymour) Wadsworth (b. 1728). Daniel had at least three brothers: Israel (b. 1759, bp. 1760), Hezekiah (b. 1759), and Ezekiel (1763-1766).
On July 1, 1780, Daniel enlisted as a Private for six months in Colonel Samuel Wyllys's Third Connecticut Regiment of the "Continental Line." In 1780, the 3rd Connecticut Regiment was with the main army on the Hudson River in New York State. The Regiment wintered, 1780-1781, at Camp "Connecticut Village" above the Robinson House, Hudson River.
By September 1791, Daniel had moved from Connecticut and taken up residence in South Hero, Chittenden (now Grand Isle) County, Vermont. He took the "Freeman's Oath" in the Town of South Hero, September 6, 1791. He was not enumerated in the 1790 US Census taken in Vermont.
Daniel married, January 12, 1792, Azuba Pearl (1764-1840) by whom he had six children (2 sons and 4 daughters): Stephen P. (1792-1882), Lucretia (1796-1797), Elizabeth (1798-1859), Horace (1800-1864), and Millicent (1802-1888).
References:
(1) "The Wadsworth Family in America, 1632-1977" by Mary Jane Fry Wadsworth, 1978, Pgs. 25 and 43
(2) "History of the South Hero Island being the Towns of South Hero and Grand Isle Vermont" Vols. I & II., by Allen L. Stratton, 1980, Pgs. 42 and 767-768
(3) US Federal Military Pension Files Nos. S6335 and S19146
(4) "The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service during the War of the Revolution 1775-1783." by Henry P. Johnson, 1889, Pgs. 139-140, 168, and 180-181
(5) "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, VT. for 1882-83" by Hamilton Child, 1883, Pg. 238
(6) "Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 Vermont", Baltimore, 1975
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South Hero Cemetery
South Hero
Grand Isle County
Vermont, USA |
Created by: Barb Destromp
Record added: Jul 20, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 20538653 |
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