By Lester Warren Fish
RHODE ISLAND - VERMONT LINE
582 DANIEL5 FISH (Robert4, Thomas3, Alice2, John1), farmer,
son of (100) Robert and Mary (Hall) Fish, was b. at Portsmouth,
R.I., May 17, 1707 (the year England and Scotland were united);
d. in 1786, age 79, possibly at New Ashford, Berksire Co., Mass.,
where he was visiting his uncle Benjamin. On Oct. 22, 1730, at
handwritten note on book crosses out 'uncle' above in favor of 'son'
Portsmouth, he was m. to Mary Tallman, dau. of Benjamin2
(Peter1) and Patience (Durfee) Tallman, by Stephen Brownell,
Jr., Justice of the Peace. Mary was a cousin of Jemima Tallman
who m. his brother David.
He was the first member in the Fish Family of the Vermont
line of ancestry to remove from Portsmouth; he lived for a time
in Swansea, Mass., where he gave land to his son George, who
was living in Swansea in 1790. Some time after 1740, after the
birth of five sons, he removed to a farm in West Dighton, Mass.
(which has been visited by the author, and by Chas. A.10 Fish of
Vermont).
The Census of 1790 lists a Daniel Fish of Dighton, Bristol Co.,
Mass., with a family of one male over 16, two under 16 and four
females, which may refer to his son Daniel6, who was b. July
13, 1735, and had three sons (one over 16 in 1790) and five
daughters. His will, proved Oct. 3, 1786, indicated that he died
at the age of 79, and another record shows that he died in 1786
at New Ashford, presumably while visiting at the home of his
son Benjamin who lived on a farm at that place. His will named
his wife Mary and the five sons born at Portsmouth, also Olive,
wife of Gamaliel Robinson, and Mary, wife of Benjamin Whitmarsh,
who must have been his daughters, b. at Dighton, and
William Fish, probably a son, b. at Dighton.
In "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary
War" is found the record: "Daniel Fish marched from Rehoboth
on the alarm of Dec. 8, 1776." This probably did not refer to our
ancestor, as he was 69 years old at the time, but it must have
been his third son Daniel6, b. July 13, 1735. There was also a
Private Daniel Fish in Col. Topham's Regt. who marched from
Portsmouth in 1776, and whose pay was due in 1777.
Children:
+ 747 Robert6, b. July 18, 1731; d. Feb. 5, 1817, age 86; m. Abigail
Hathaway, Oct. 1, 1755; m. (2) Sarah Look.
+ 748 George, b. Dec 22, 1732; d.Jan 1792; m. Nov 24,1763, Thankful
Reynolds, m. (2) Comfort _________.
+ 749 Daniel, b. July 13,1735; m. Apr 8,1760, Barbara Bowen
+ 750 Isaac, b.Aug 4,1737; m. Lillis Mason
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+ 751 Benjamin, b.Oct 4, 1739; m. Aug 16,1764, Keziah Round
+ 752 William, b.Sep 9, 1742; d. 1817; m. Hannah ________.
753 Matthew, b. Dec 6, 1744
754 Mary, b. June 22, 1747; m. Benjamin Whitmarsh
755 Elizabeth, b.Sep 2, 1749; d. Jan 6, 1751
756 David, b. Apr. 14, 1752
757 Olive, b.Nov 4, 1754; m. Gamaliel Robinson
+ 758 Jonathan, b.Sep 12, 1757; d. 1841; m. Lillis Mason
to be continued......
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