Daniel Canfield (1757 - 1832)

Born 10 Feb 1757 in Westchester County, Province of New York [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Dyer (Nettleton) Canfield — married 1 Nov 1778 in Dutchess, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 31 Oct 1832 at age 75 in Lewis County, Virginia USA

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Biography

Daniel was born in 1757^[1]. He passed away in 1832^[2].

Daniel was a private in the Revolutionary War in New York. He enlisted for five months and then reenlisted for another eleven months. Served for the full sixteen months as given in his application for a pension, No. W-9768.

Marriage & Family Life

Daniel's wife Elizabeth documented their family dates completely, in her application for widow's pension after he died. Witnesses testified that she got the facts from their family bible.

Daniel & Elizabeth wed after his Revolutionary War service. In her application for her widow's pension in 1843, Elizabeth is quoted: “She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Canfield the last of October or the first of November in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight (1778) (The precise day of the month she will not pretend to swear to, but she knows that she is correct as it regards the year, from the circumstance of the birth of her oldest child, and she has a time Record of that event) in Dutchess County, New York by Elder Lawrence, a Baptist Preacher, that her husband the said Daniel Canfield died in Lewis County, Virginia on the 31st day of October 1832.”^[3]

The couple had 11 children^[4]:

• Nathan, June 20, 1779
• Mary, November 12, 1781
• Titus, August 28, 1784
• Sarah, February 14, 1787
• Zachariah, September 28, 1790
• Daniel, August 17, 1791
• Amos, June 14, 1794
• Jedediah, September 20, 1796
• Moses, October 6, 1798
• Henry, January 18, 1801
• Margaret, June 10, 1804

Residence

In 1790 the family lived in Minisink, Orange, New York, USA^[5]. They moved from New York to West Virginia about 1797^[6][7], between Sept 1796 (son Jedediah's birth in New York) and Oct 1798 (son Moses's birth in Randolph County, West Virginia). Daniel was constable of Randolph Co. Virginia in 1799^[8].

"Daniel Canfield first bought [four tracts of] land from Jacob and Robert Friend of Maryland. The Deed Book 3, page 253, as follows: '200 acres on East side of Cheat River near the road that goes to the South Branch and known by the name of the richlands and bounded as follows to wit:' and he paid two hundred dollars for it on December 24, 1804." In 1820, he started deeding some of this land to his sons^[9].

Daniel's brother Josiah and his family moved with them to West Virginia. Those two families and their story are well documented in Hallie Canfield Kyle's "Canfield Family History."

By 1830, some family members started moving to Ohio, including Daniel and Elizabeth^[10].

Two years later, Daniel died back in Lewis County, West Virginia at 75 years old. Perhaps traveled back to visit family or live with his family in his old age.

Sources

1. ↑ Birthdate of Daniel, Ancestry.com link to Revolutionary War Pension application page: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_135029-00277
2. ↑ Death date of Daniel, Ancestry.com link to Revolutionary War Pension application page: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_135029-00276
3. ↑ Elizabeth's application for widow's pension after Daniel's death, Ancestry.com link: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_135029-00276
4. ↑ Kids' names and birthdates, Ancestry.com link to Revolutionary War Pension application page: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_135029-00278
5. ↑ Lived in 1790: Ancestry.com record and image: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/266069:5058
6. ↑ Lived in 1810: Ancestry.com record and image: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/709573:7613
7. ↑ Lived in 1820: Ancestry.com record and image: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/11953:7734
8. ↑ History of Randolph County, West Virginia, p. 74. Archive.org link to page: https://archive.org/details/historyofrandolp00bos/page/74/mode/2up
9. ↑ Land purchase: Canfield Kyle's "Canfield Family History," p. 21
10. ↑ Lived 1830 in Tymochtee, Crawford, Ohio: Ancestry.com record and image: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/286494:8058

References

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, 2010. Link at Ancestry, Daniel's full application (frames 265–271), then Elizabeth's full widow's application (frames 272–282) with all the family details: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_135029-00267

• Bosworth, A. S. A History of Randolph County, West Virginia. Elkins, W. Va., 1916. Link @ Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/historyofrandolp00bos

• Kyle, Hallie Canfield. Canfield Family History. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co, 1979.