DANIEL DANIELS

Served in the Revolutionary War

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From the Supplement to the Hess Family 1984, by Barbara Allison

Daniel Daniels was born on 23 November 1763 at New Jersey. He married Catherine Clevenger, daughter of Abraham Clevenger Sr. and Mary Pittman, on 17 May 1786 at Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He died on 4 September 1849 at Bedford County, Pennsylvania, at age 85. He left a will dated 16 June 1846 at Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. Daniel is buried near Sideling Hill on what was at that time his own land.  The graves on the old home place are not marked. 

Transcription of the will of Daniel Daniels         Will of Daniel Daniels, Part 1    Part 2

We see from the U.S. Census Records of (1790-1840), Daniel’s occupation was listed as a farmer.  Daniel owned one hundred acres of land valued at $50.00, in the year 1798 in Colerain Twp., Bedford County, Pennsylvania. By 1808 Daniel, owned in Belfast Twp., Bedford Co., (now Fulton) Pennsylvania, 213 Acres Patent; 2 horses, 3 cattle; and a distillery; valued at $110.00; Taxed $1.10.

From the Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files R2650, we learn that Daniel enlisted in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and that his daughter Elizabeth Welch applied 9 January 1854, in Brush Creek Twp., Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

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