Daniel Look (bef. 1733 - 1825)

Born before 7 Jun 1733 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Butler) Look — married 25 Feb 1763 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died Apr 1825 after age 91 in Addison, Washington, Maine, United States

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Biography

Daniel was born in Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts on June 7, 1733. He was the son of Thomas and Mercy (Lewis) Look.

About 1763, Daniel married Annie Butler also from Tisbury and where they settled and began their family. Sometime around 1770 Daniel and Annie moved their family to Addison, Washington, Maine. Sources report twelve children sometimes with slightly different birth dates as follows: Damaris b. 1764, George b. 1766, Moses b. 1768, Mary b. 1770, Anna E. b. 1770, Mercy b. 1772, Eunice b. 1774, Lois Butler b. 1778, Jane b. 1780, Hannah b. 1782, Daniel b. 1782, and Mary b. 1784.

About one year after his wife Annie died, Daniel passed away in Addison in April 1825.

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I am a direct descendant of Daniel (4th gr-granddaughter Knight-16625), and the family has always said that Daniel was "sent" to Addison by his father, who was concerned about Daniel's drinking and gambling; he thought it might straighten him out to send him to an unsettled frontier. However he persuaded him (or banished him), Daniel did come to Addison, without the support of brothers or other relatives who often accompanied families making such a move. I'm pretty sure there was drinking and gambling going on here, as well, but if it was a continuing problem for Daniel, it's not mentioned by family.

Daniel is said in some genealogies to have fought in the Revolutionary War during 1777 in defense of Machias, although I find no military records online on this--he does have a Revolutionary War Veteran marker on his grave, but he doesn't seem to have applied for a pension.

Sources

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records (orig. hand-scribed registry), 1620-1988, Tisbury, Births, Marriages, and Death. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, Frame #22 of 990]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (birth record with names of parents)

• Banks, Charles Edward. The History of Martha's Vineyard, Volume III, Family Genealogies, Boston: George H. Dean Publisher, 1966, pp: 238-245 (The Look Family)

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 21 January 2018, 00:43), entry for Daniel Look(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L8QY-N6X); contributed by various users.
• Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County Maine, by Leonard F Tibbetts and Darryl B Lamson; Picton Press, Rockport ME; 1997

1790 US CENSUS ADDISON, MAINE [1] Year: 1790; Census Place: Township East of Machias, Washington, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 179; Image: 107; Family History Library Film: 0568142 Original data: First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Steven Tibbetts for creating WikiTree profile Look-131 through the import of tibbetts_2013-05-04.ged on May 4, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Steven and others.