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Spouse: Jane WALLACE
Birth:
1764
Death: 9 Apr
1828, Newburgh, Orange, NY
Burial: Old Cemetery,
Newburgh, Orange, NY
Marr: 19
Jan 1785
Children: Alexander (Died in Youth) (1785-1786)
Jane (Died in Youth) (1787-)
Robert Scott (1788-1823)
Alexander (Died in Youth) (1789-)
James (1791-1808)
George Washington (1792-1836)
Amelia (Died in Youth) (1794-1796)
Edward (1796-)
Charles (1798-1848)
Catherine Walsh (1801-1876)
Elizabeth Margery (1803-1864)
Henry Kerr (1825-1825)
Notes: Daniel Niven came to New York City from the Island
of Ila, northwest part of Scotland, in 1770 at the age of 28 years.
"He was patriotic in all his ideas and a true lover of freedom. Early
in the war, with other patriots, he volunteered his services to his adopted
country and was actively engaged in various duties in New York City and
New Jersey. Becoming acquainted with Washington, who soon saw the
true and determined character of the young and active Scotchman, he received
a commission of Lieutenant of Engineers and was much employed at West Point
and other places along the River (Hudson). He was instrumental in
drawing, with others, the plans for Fort Putnam, supervising the floating
of the great chain across the River and was at the Point at the time of
Arnold’s treasonable attempt to surrender that Fort. " He went from one
point of service to another till at the close of the war, he had rank of
Major and was one of the 15 men on George Washington’s Staff. He
was one of the officers who helped to found the Society of the Cincinnati
when war was ended. (Taken from “History of Orange County, New York”, by
Samuel Eager)
(2) Catherine
Walsh NIVEN
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Birth:
28 Aug 1801, Newburgh, Orange, NY
Death: 30 Jul 1876,
Honesdale, Wayne, PA
Burial: Honesdale, Wayne,
PA
Spouse: Henry Ward
STONE
Birth: 17 May 1791,
Guilford, New Haven, CT
Death: 20 Aug 1881, Honesdale,
Wayne, PA
Occ:
Proprietor Of General Store
Father: Bille STONE (1761-1827)
Mother: Rachel WARD (1757-1847)
Marr: 24 Jun
1822/1823, Newburgh, Orange, NY
Children: Charles Niven (Died in Youth) (1824-1830)
Harriet Ward (1826-1884)
Jane Elizabeth (1829-1868)
Charlotte Niven (1831-1909)
Jeanette Scott (1833-1885)
William Henry (1835-)
Mary Blake (1838-1853)
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