Sergeant Daniel Bristol1

M, (4 May 1671 - 15 May 1728)
Father-Biological*Henry Bristol2
Mother-Biological*Lydia Brown2
Last Edited=27 Mar 2023
Gravestone of Daniel Bristol
     Sergeant Daniel Bristol was born on 4 May 1671 at New Haven, Connecticut.3,2,4 He was the son of Henry Bristol and Lydia Brown.2

Daniel married first in 1697 at New Haven, Connecticut, Esther Sperry, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Post) Sperry. She was born in 1677 in New Haven, Connecticut and died after 1710.
Children:
1. Ester Bristol
2. Elizabeth Bristol
3. Daniel Bristol
4. Obedience Bristol
5. Samuel Bristol
6. Richard Bristol.3,4


Sergeant Daniel Bristol married Judith Bunnell, daughter of Benjamin Bunnell and Rebecca Mallory, in 1712.1,4 Sergeant Daniel Bristol died on 15 May 1728 at West Haven, Connecticut, at age 57.1,3,2,5,6 He was buried at West Haven Green Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut. Daniel's epitaph reads:

HERE LIETH THE
BODY OF SERGANT
DANIEL BRISTOL
WHO DIED MAY 15th
A. D. 1728
AGED 57 YEARS.2


Citations

  1. Hodge, Orlando John. Hodge Genealogy from the First of the Name in this Country to the Present Time: with a Number of Allied Families and Many Historical Facts. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1900.
  2. Find-a-Grave. Online https://www.findagrave.com/
  3. WikiTree. Online https://www.wikitree.com/
  4. Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. volume II. Rome, New York: The Connecticut Society, 1923.
  5. Connecticut Department of Health. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2011.
  6. Hale, Charles R. Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934. Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, 2012.