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State of Service: VT
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant / Patriotic Service
Author: Mark Edward Burt
CAPT. DANIEL JEWETT was born in Manchester, Mass., Feb. 24, 1743. He married at Windham, Conn., in 1769, Zilpha Hibbard, daughter of Capt. Zebulus and Hannah (Bass) Hibbard. They settled in Canterbury, CT, where he learned the blacksmith trade of his father. In 1774 he, with his wife and two children, removed to the wilds of Vermont. He carried one hundred silver dollars in a stocking, and bought one hundred acres of land with the money at Putney, VT. He was a Whig or Liberty man prior to the Revolutionary War, and was a member of the Coroner's Jury. He was chosen by the inhabitants of the town to be one of the committee for concerting measures for disseminating among the people a spirit of opposition to the English taxation bills, and was nominated, Feb. 6, 1776, by Benjamin Carpenter, chairman of the Committee of Safety, to be 1st Lieutenant of Capt. Abijah Moore's Putney Company of the 1st Regiment of Militia of Cumberland Co., New York (as that locality was then sometimes called), and confirmed as such by the New York Provincial Congress, March 1, 1776. He marched to the assistance of his compatriots at Lexington and Concord; participated in the battle of Bennington, and, having pursued a party of fleeing British troops, was captured and taken to Fort Ticonderoga where he was confined, and was re-taken by his friends six months afterwards. He attained the rank of Captain about 1779, and returned to Putney after the war. He was chosen to town office many times and to the Legislature sixteen or seventeen terms. He died in Putney, March 30, 1829.
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