Daniel  BIXBY

Biography
Daniel Bixby was probably born in May, 1763, at Winchendon MA, the son of Daniel and Tabitha Bixby. He married Dorothy and had 10 children who were born at Rockingham, VT. Daniel died after 1840 probably at Chazy, NY. During his life at Rockingham, he was a member of the Universalist Church, a town constable and the only Bixby voting in 1797.

Daniel's pension application tells about his service record during the Revolutionary War. He enlisted at Walpole, NH probably in May, 1780, for six months and served in Colonel Nichol's regiment, Major Webber's battalion, Captain Peter Page's Company.

He was mustered at Springfield, MA and sent to Claverack, NY and later to West Point 'at the time of Arnold's disgraceful evacuation and General Washington's return from Connecticut'.

He enlisted a second time under General Bellows and was sent to stop the Indians and Tories from burning Royalton, VT. About May 1781 he was dismissed from this second enlistment. In July the same year he...Read full story


The Bixby Genealogy, part II, by Willard G. Bixby. NYC: Willard Bixby, 1914. p227-229.

Revolutionary War
BIXBY, DANIEL
Ancestor #: A010577
Service: NEW HAMPSHIRE Rank(s): CORPORAL
Birth: 5- -1763 IPSWICH-CANADA PLT WORCESTER CO MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 6-15-1840 CHAZY CLINTON CO NEW YORK
Pension Number: *S14166
Service Source: *S14166
Service Description: 1) ALSO PVT, CAPT PETER PAGE, MAJ WEBBER, COL NICHOLS
2) LTS SMITH, PARKER, COL WALBRIDGE

RESIDENCE
1) City: WALPOLE - County: CHESHIRE CO - State: NEW HAMPSHIRE

SPOUSE
1) DOROTHY X
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