James was on a 1771 board of viewers that laid out a road from the town of Bedford. He was a private in Capt. Wm. McCall's Bedford Co. Militia, Co. 2 in the American Revolution. He owned land in Bedford Twp. The 1921 obit. of his gr.gr. grandson, John Albert Cuppett, reads: "Mr. Cuppett took a special interest in tracing his ancestors...Miss [Sarah] Dalton's father was James Dalton, who married Miss Townsend, both of them having emigrated from England to Bedford County."
Place: Bedford and St Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania[2]
Sources
↑ Source: #S-2074039169 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Bedford and St Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania; Roll: 36; Page: 446; Image: 76; Family History Library Film: 363339 APID: 1,7590::376969
↑ Source: #S-2074039169 Page: Year: 1800; Census Place: Bedford and St Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania; Roll: 36; Page: 446; Image: 76; Family History Library Film: 363339 APID: 1,7590::376969
James Dalton's will; 1772 to 1817 tax records; deeds; census record; "Bedford County in the American Revolution" by James B. Whisker, p. 73; 1921 obituary of great-great-grandson John Albert Cuppett.
Source: S-2073394432 Repository: #R-2141266310 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=24243242&pid=219
Source: S-2074039169 Repository: #R-2141266310 Title: 1800 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Second Census of the United States, 1800. (NARA microfilm publication M32, 52 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Grou Note: APID: 1,7590::0
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jim Bowers for creating WikiTree profile Dalton-1958 through the import of Bowers Family Tree.ged on Jul 7, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James: