Daniel
"David"
Putnam
Born in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, Colony
Ancestors 
Son of Israel Putnam
and Hannah (Pope) Putnam
Brother of
Israel Putnam Jr, Hannah Pope (Putnam) Dana, Elizabeth Putnam, Mehitable (Putnam) Tyler, Molly Mary (Putnam) Waldo, Eunice (Putnam) Grosvenor, Daniel Putnam, David Putnam and Peter Schuyler Putnam
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 16
in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, Colony
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Oct 2010
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Biography
His name is not David and he was not born in 1739, and he did not die in 1759.
Daniel Putnam was born 10 Mar 1741/2, in Pomfret, Connecticut s. of Israel & Hannah.[1] Eben Putnam mistakenly called him David.[2] but it was Daniel who died Aug. 8, 1758 at age 17 and is buried in the South Cemetery in Brooklyn[3][4][5]
Sources
- ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002
- ↑ Putnam, Eben. A History of the Putnam Family in England and America: Recording the Ancestry and Descendants of John Putnam of Danvers, Mass., Jan Poutman of Albany, N.Y., Thomas Putnam of Hartford. Salem, Mass: The Salem Press and Publishing Co., 1891.
- ↑ Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions.
- ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 02 January 2020), memorial page for Daniel Putnam (10 Mar 1742–8 Aug 1758), Find A Grave: Memorial #29590795, citing South Cemetery, Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by David Simpson (contributor 46841829) Gravestone photo
- ↑ Gravestone photo attached
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Daniel is the proper first name at birth. David is a mistake. proper dob is 10 mar 1742
Same person with the wrong birth date on both. Older brother was born Jan 1739, so Daniel aka David could not have been born in March. This is further confused by the mistake of the Putnam Genealogy