Daniel Webster (1758)

Born 10 Jan 1758 in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Private Daniel Webster served with Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment (1776), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Daniel Webster is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A121201.

Daniel Webster was born on 10 Jan 1758 in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony. His parents were Daniel Webster and Hannah Vosburgh.^[1]

He married Martha Vaughan, date and location unknown. Together they had 5 children:^[2]

1. Martha
2. Betsey
3. Pamelia
4. Daniel Webster, Jr
5. Zilpah

The following is an excerpt from History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster... Page 289:

Daniel Webster, b. Jan. 10, 1758, at Sheffield, Mass., "was several times married," writes a descendant, Mrs. Mary L. (Webster) Mudge, April 16, 1900, of Maple Eapids, Clinton Co., Mich., "and had thirteen or fourteen children, among them, two or three pairs of twins." One wife was Martha Vaughn, b. Feb. 11, 1759, daughter of John Vaughn, "late of the town of Westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y."

Daniel Webster was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted at Montreal, Canada, April 1776, as private, for one year, in Cap. Lathrop Allen's Co., Samuel Elmore's Regt. of Conn, troops. The first Lieut, was from Branford, and Col. Elmore from Sharon, Ct. Service from July 1, 1776. End of service not stated, but the Regt. broke up in the Spring of 1777. It took the field under Gen. Schuyler, and in August marched from Albany into Tryon County. During the remainder of its term it stationed at Fort Stanwix and vicinity. This Company was in garrison at Fort Dayton (German Flatts), also.

Daniel Webster, Aug. 19, 1825, of Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y., aged 67 (b. 1758), applied for a pension, and certified that he enlisted for one year, on the 15th day of April, 1776, at Montreal, Canada, in Cap. Lathrop Allen's Co., of Col. Samuel Elmore's Regt. of the Conn. Line, Continental estate, and continued in service until May, 1777, when he was discharged at Herkimer, N. Y. Household property valued at $37.26. Says that there was no one living in his family except himself and wife, the latter 55 years old. Signs in a good clear hand.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-SQTY : 18 February 2020), Daniel Webster, 10 Jan 1758; citing Birth, Sheffield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009232.
2. ↑ History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: Page 291

• Webster, William Holcomb. History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut (E.R. Andrews Printing Co., New York, 1915) pp 289-291</span>

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 09 Sep 2023), "Record of Daniel Webster", Ancestor # A121201.

Original Sources

• Daniel Webster-Hannah Vosburgh entry in History and genealogy of the Gov. John Webster - Webster, William Holcomb, History and genealogy of the Gov. John Webster family of Connecticut. Rochester, N.Y. : E.R. Andrews Print. Co., 1915, p 135 (see image)