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Daniel Fordham

Male 1730 - 1816  (85 years)


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  • Name Daniel Fordham  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Born 10 Dec 1730  Mecox, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 12 Jun 1816  Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9] 
    Buried Old Burying Ground, Sag Harbor Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Notes 
    • Our Town: Sag Harbor's Revolutionary War Patriots

      On September 4, 1941, Louis Tooker Vail wrote the Sag Harbor Express th at there was a "wealth of Revolutionary War data that clusters about Sag H arbor [known to] very few people in Sag Harbor," and he named 19 Revolutio nary War Patriots buried in the Old Burying Ground noting that "there m ay be more." Vail added "the wives of these Patriots... fought just as ha rd for the American Cause in their way, and are as fully deserving of reco gnition as their husbands." Vail gave the names of these "brave" and "patr iotic" women beside those of their husbands.

      Fordham, Captain Daniel (1730-1816) and Phebe Jessup Fordham (1736-1806 ). Fordham served in Colonel Josiah Smith's regiment of Minute Men. He bec ame a refugee and aided other refugees. After the war he was a mariner a nd innkeeper in Sag Harbor. Buried #397 OBG.


      DAR Associated Ancestor (Revolutionary) Record
      FORDHAM, DANIEL
      Service: NEW YORK Rank(s): ENSIGN, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
      Birth: 12-6-1730 SAG HARBOR NEW YORK
      Death: 6-12-1816 SAG HARBOR NEW YORK
      Service Description:
      1) ENS, 8TH CO, COL MULFORD; MM
      2) SIGNER OF THE ASSOCIATION, SUFFOLK CO
    Person ID I06323  White
    Last Modified 10 Jun 2019 

    Father Nathan Fordham,   b. Abt 1695, Southampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Dec 1774, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Abigail White,   b. Abt 1701, Southampton, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1774, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 74 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married Abt 1718  Sag Harbor, LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F01747  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Phebe Jessup,   b. 3 Mar 1736, Noyac, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1806, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 11 Nov 1756  Noyac, LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Nathan Fordham,   b. 7 Aug 1757, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1838, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
     2. Frances Fordham,   b. 4 Dec 1761, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1835, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)  [natural]
     3. Charlotte Fordham,   b. 7 Mar 1763, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1813  (Age 50 years)  [natural]
     4. Frederick Fordham,   b. 27 Mar 1765, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jun 1782, after release from prison ship, Wallabout during the Revolution Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 17 years)  [natural]
     5. Jairus Fordham,   b. 2 Aug 1767, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jul 1831, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years)  [natural]
     6. Thaddeus Fordham,   b. 29 Jul 1769, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1843, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)  [natural]
     7. Samuel Fordham,   b. 14 Nov 1771, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Feb 1803, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years)  [natural]
     8. Joel Fordham,   b. 4 Apr 1774, Sag Harbor, Suffolk Co., LI, NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     9. Daniel Fordham,   b. 2 Jun 1779, Saybrook, CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Feb 1806, Lost At Sea Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 26 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 10 Jun 2019 
    Family ID F01752  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S025971] Colonial Families of Long Island, NY, and Connecticut Being the Ancestry & Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith, Seversmith, Herbert Furman, (Los Angeles, 1944).

    2. [S030584] Long Island Forum.
      Fordham Genealogy, Louis T Vail, February 1944, pg.28

    3. [S047059] Sag Harbor in earlier days : a series of historical sketches of the harbor and Hampton port, Sleight, Harry D, (Bridgehampton, NY: Hampton Press, 1930).
      p.79

    4. [S012849] The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, Mathers, Fredric Gregory, (Albany NY J.B. Lyon Co. 1913).
      p.343, 344

    5. [S019243] The History of East Hampton, Long Island, Hedges, Henry Parsons, (Sag Harbor, NY: 1897).
      p.186

    6. [S019208] The Early History of Southampton, L. I., New York, Howell, George Rogers, (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1887).
      p.245

    7. [S044822] Eardeley, William A., 'Sag Harbor Cemeteries 1773-1870', 1912, LDS#0017930.

    8. [S047652] The Columbian, (Early American Newspaper Series, New York Biograpical and Genealogy Society).
      Paper: Columbian, published as The Columbian; Date: 06-19-1816; Volume: VII; Issue: 2037; Page: [2]; Location: New York, New York

    9. [S038908] The Old Burial Ground at Sag Harbor, LI, NY, Zaykowski, Dorothy Ingersoll, (Heritage Books, Inc., 2003).

    10. [S019510] East Hampton Journal, Old Burial Grounds, Sag Harbor, (East Hampton, NY :1926).
      pg.323


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