Daniel Warner III (1693 - bef. 1770)

Born 1 Mar 1693 in Northampton, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Thankful (Billings) Warner — married 4 Aug 1714 (to 13 Jun 1716) in Hatfield, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Elizabeth (Adams) Warner — married 29 Dec 1719 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 6 Mar 1770 before age 77 in East Haddam, Hartford, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography

Daniel Warner was born at Northampton (or Hatfield), Province of Massachusetts Bay, on the first day of March, 1693 (New Style date), to Daniel and Mary (Hubbard) Warner.^[1][2]

An array of evidence clearly indicates that Daniel married first Thankful Billings. Although the union has been questioned (see "Disputed Spouse" section), a combination of circumstances -- known marriage, daughter's birth record, and finally, Daniel's will -- prove that the younger Daniel married Thankful Billings in 1714. Three years after her 1716 death -- which followed the birth of their one child, daughter Thankful, by just five days -- Daniel was remarried, to Elizabeth Adams of Suffield, Connecticut, in December of 1719.^[3] Their intentions had been published on the 13th of September; the marriage took place on December 29.^[4]

Daniel and Elizabeth had the following (known) children:^[5]

1. Elizabeth Warner b 1721 m. Bezaleel Brainerd
2. Martha Warner b 1725 m Mathew Sears^[6]
3. Mary Warner b 1728 (probably died young
4. Anna Warner b 1731 m. Thomas Cone

Daniel died on 1 January 1770 at East Haddam, Connecticut. It is of note that his daughter Thankful is specifically mentioned in his 1755 will, immediately following his specification of what he leaves to his second "beloved" wife Elizabeth Adams; noting that Thankful is already "Disceasd", he leaves a bequest of £150 to her children. This proves her paternity, and is the conclusive piece of circumstantial evidence that she was the daughter of first wife Thankful (Billings) Warner.^[7]

Disputed Spouse

There is a century-old question about Daniel's first marriage: as indicated in his Biography, evidence plainly indicates that he married Thankful Billings in August of 1714; however, it should be noted that a 1919 genealogy asserted, without offering either a source or a rationale, that Thankful was actually the second wife of Daniel's father (profile: Daniel Warner) -- even while acknowledging that a "History of Amherst Church" (a text not located as of March, 2019) disagreed, stating that Thankful had married the younger man.^[8]

As Thankful (Billings) Warner's birth is not found in known records, her age cannot be compared to that of father or son, which likely would have helped clarify which one she wed; the junior Daniel would have been twenty-one at the time of the marriage, in August of 1714 -- somewhat younger than the average marrying age of young men at the time, but certainly not shockingly so. The 1910 "History of Hatfield" guardedly sides with the "History of Amherst Church", reporting that the junior Daniel "prob. m. (1) Thankful Billings".^[9]

For the senior Daniel to have wed Thankful Billings, his ties to wife Mary Hubbard Warner must first have been severed by death or divorce before 1714; no record of either such event has been found to date (March 2019). While Mary last gives birth to a recorded child in January of 1710^[10], she would by then -- even if married as young as age 18 in 1688 -- have been 40, and it would hardly be unusual if she did not bear children after that time; it certainly does not imply her death.

Thankful (Billings) Warner died at Swampfield -- the original name of Sunderland -- less than a week after giving birth to their only child, daughter Thankful Warner, in early June of 1716.^[11] Sunderland is the town named as the residence of Daniel Warner III in the record of his 1719 marriage to Elizabeth Adams... further evidence that Thankful Billings was his first wife.

The conclusive piece of evidence of the marriage, as noted above in the Biography, is that in his 1755 will, Daniel makes specific mention of Thankful (Warner) Dickinson -- previously deceased -- as his daughter. The birth record of the one candidate for this Thankful shows her to have been the child of Daniel Warner and wife Thankful -- Thankful (Billings) Warner.

Research Notes

Grandparents'? marriage: "WARNER, Daniel (-1692) & 1/wf Mary ____; by 1663(?4); Hadley {Springfield Fam. (ms) 712; Fulton Anc. 99, 427; Goodwin-Morgan 1:36; Bassett-Preston 309; Warner (1919) 43; Ludington-Saltus 218; Warner-Harrington 574, 705; LBDF&P (1911) 32} " -- New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1597/426908621 (subscription required)

Grandfather's? remarriage: "WARNER, Daniel (-1692) & 2/wf Martha BOLTWOOD (-1710); 1 Apr 1674; Hatfield/Hadley {Morton (1947) 23; Bridges Anc. 20; Goodwin-Morgan 1:36; Fulton Anc. 427; Sv. 1:208; Warner (1919) 43; Rockwell 112; Ludington-Saltus 218; Bassett-Preston 309; Springfield" -- New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1597/426908624 (subscription required)

Parents'? marriage: "WARNER, Daniel (-1754) & 1/wf Mary HUBBARD (1669-); 12 Dec 1688; Hadley/Hatfield {Hadley 147; Hatfield 444; Ludington-Saltus 137, 618; Cross Anc. 93; Putnam's Mag. 6:50; Warner-Harrington 340, 705}" -- New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21176/1597/426908626 (subscription required)

A different Daniel Warner Jr. married Anne or Anna Pember on 24 Jan. 1741 in Stafford, Tolland Co., CT.^[12][13] Although a question has been raised concerning this Daniel's identity -- speculating that this Daniel Jr. was Daniel Warner III -- the Daniel who married Anne was in fact a son of John and Tabitha (Abbe) Warner of Enfield.^[14]. A Maltby family genealogy also names him as Daniel Jr., but without specifying parentage.^[15]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1V-FQS : 10 February 2018), Daniel Warner, 01 Mar 1692; citing Northampton, Massachusetts, item 2 p 12; FHL microfilm 760,648.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LSJ2 : 10 February 2018), Daniel Werner, 01 Mar 1692; citing Birth, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 760,648.
3. ↑ A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in Three Parts, by Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field Wells, 1910, published under the direction of F.C.H. Gibbons; https://archive.org/details/ahistoryhatfiel00wellgoog/page/n462
4. ↑ "ADAMS, Elizabeth of Suffield, married Daniel Warner of Sunderland, Dec 29, 1719." -- Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/12968/3/147374596
5. ↑ Note that the Descendants of Andrew Warner includes a son Jonathan, but appears to cite "One Warner Family" which only states Daniel died in Hardwick, and had son Jonathan and maybe other children. If that's the only source, then it seems unlikely that there was a son Jonathan. ~~~~
6. ↑ May, Samuel. The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 (Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890), Pages 629-30.
7. ↑ Hartford County, Connecticut, probate case files, estate no. 3086. Last will and testament of Daniel Warner of East Haddam, dated 6 March 1755. Presented 6 March 1770. Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut). In Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Transcription or View on Ancestry: Ancestry Record USProbateCT #2945261. Abstract: Dated: 6 Mar 1755. Names wife Elizabeth; daughter Thankful Dickinson, deceased wife of Nathaniel Dickinson; grandson Daniel Brainerd, son of deceased daughter Elizabeth; daughters Martha Sears and Anna Cone. Executors Mathew Sears and Thomas Cone. Witnesses: Grindal Rawson, Christopher Holmes, Robert Hungerford
8. ↑ The Descendants of Andrew Warner, compiled by Lucien C. Warner and Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols, New Haven, Conn., Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919; hathitrust; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002007446223;view=1up;seq=75
9. ↑ A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in Three Parts, by Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field Wells, 1910, published under the direction of F.C.H. Gibbons; https://archive.org/details/ahistoryhatfiel00wellgoog/page/n462
10. ↑ [son. Joseph b. 18 Jan. 1710] "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-L7ZX : 10 February 2018), Joseph Warner, 18 Jan 1710; citing Birth, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 760,648.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LV9L : 10 February 2018), Thankful Warner, 13 Jun 1716; citing Death, , Swampfield, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 760,648.
12. ↑ Stafford Town Records, Vol. A, p. 125
13. ↑ Vital Records of Ashfield, Massachusetts, To the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1942, p. 214.
14. ↑ The Connecticut Nutmegger. Glastonbury, CT: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, 1970-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB59/i/11782/594/0
15. ↑ Maltby Family Genealogy, "Massachusetts Colony, Fifth Generation in America -- Families of the Children of Samuel4 Washburn (Jr.) and Abigail3 Leonard", John A. Maltby, 2002, http://maltbyfamily.net/genealogies/washburn/washburn_plymouth_25.html

• Birth (to parents Daniel & Mary, at Northampton): "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1V-FQS : 10 February 2018), Daniel Warner, 01 Mar 1692; citing Northampton, Massachusetts, item 2 p 12; FHL microfilm 760,648.

• Warner, Andrew F. One of the Warner Family in America. Hartford, Conn: Printed for J.J. Warner by the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1892. Page 21. "died in Hardwick. Had a son Jonathan and perhaps other children."

• First Church of Christ (Amherst, Mass.). An Historical Review: One Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Church of Christ In Amherst, Massachusetts. November 7, 1889. Amherst, Mass.: Press of the Amherst Record, 1890. Page 111.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to M. Cole (June, 2019) for providing access to the will of Daniel Warner III, proving the identity of Thankful (Warner) Dickinson as Daniel's daughter, and Thankful (Billings) Warner as her mother.

This profile was originally created by a GEDCOM import. Warner-4280 was created by Daniel Postellon through the import of Emily.ged on Sep 27, 2015.