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 enlisted under Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant Parker's Company and Colonel Walbridge's regiment to serve at Whitehall, NY where he served as a corporal and frontier guard.

Daniel Bixby's pension application of August 29, 1832, was apparently approved when he was a resident of Isle La Motte. In June, 1840, he asked to have his pension paid to him in New York.


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

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