Daniel White (1661 - 1739)

Born 23 Feb 1661 in Upper Houses, now Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Mould) White — married Mar 1683 in Middletown, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1739 at age 78 in Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut

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Biography

Daniel White 2/23/1661 –12/18/1739

Daniel was the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth White. He was born in Middletown Connecticut on the 23rd of February, 1661.

In March 1682 (or ’83) he married Susannah Mould of New London Connecticut. They had seven children – all boys – and all born in Middletown.

Daniel must have lead a very quiet life as I could not find much about him. One can deduce that since he lived in Middletown all his life, he probably took care of his father’s land as well as his own. (This seems a likely explanation for his remaining in the background – perhaps, too, his father’s very busy public life convinced Daniel hat he would himself much prefer to live a quieter life. In rereading his father’s busy life , one can see that he must have been gone a great deal of the time and thus relied on his sons to do most of the work at home. This is all speculation on my part, I hasten to add.)

In his will, Daniel’s father gave him, “the house, barn and other buildings he now live in and is possessed of in Middletown, with 6 acres of upland adjoining; also one third of my meadow and swamp at Wongunk, and also one third part of my neck and wet meadow; all this besides what I have formerly given him by deed. “ We also mentioned that his sons Daniel and Joseph should supply firewood for their step mother.

Daniel died on the 18th of December, 1739, in Middletown

Daniel White was an Ensign in the navy.

Ensign Daniel White was the third son of Captain Nathaniel, and was born at Middletown upper houses, February 23, 1661. He lived in his native town, held various town offices, and died December 18, 1739. He had eight sons and three daughters.

Ensign Daniel White was the son of Captain Nathaniel White and his first wife Elizabeth. He married Susannah Mould, of New London, CT, daughter of Hugh Mould, a noted ship-builder. Her mother, Martha Coit, was the daughter of John Coit, the first shipwright in New London, and was the second wife of Captain Nathaniel White, Daniel 's father.

Burial

Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut

Sources

• Kellogg, Allyn Stanley. Memorials of Elder John White (Case, Lockwood and Co., 1860) [Page 37].

"10. Ensign Daniel White, son of Capt. Nathaniel, (3) was born at Middletown, Upper Houses, Feb. 23, 1661. (So the town record: the grave-stone says, Feb. 27.) He lived in his native place, and was chosen a townsman, or selectman, of Middletown in 1690, and a constable in 1701. He died Dec. 18, 1739.

• Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States.

• Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934

• White, Andrew Curtis. Memorials of Roderick White and His Wife, Lucy Blakeslee of Paris Hill, N.Y (1892) Page 6.

• The Connecticut Quarterly (Hartford, Conn., 1897) Vol. 3, Page 108.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #51067151