Daniel Tichenor, Sr.

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Daniel Tichenor was born into a strict Puritan community that, when he was not yet ten years old, was convulsed by a threat to its religious principles and governing powers. The monarchy in England had renewed the charter of the colony by combining it with Connecticut and imposing some Connecticut rules that a group of residents found intolerable. This group, including Daniel's father Martin, negotiated the right to establish a new colony where they could impose their own preferred laws. In 1666, Martin sold his house in New Haven and moved with his entire family to the new colony on the Passaic River in New Jersey that would be named "Newark."[1]

Some evidence suggests that Daniel was a bit of a prodigy in this dispute that led his parents to relocate after more than 20 years in New Haven. He would have been exposed to sermons and family discussions about these issues throughout his life and, in accordance with the Pilgrim belief that all should be able to study the Bible, he would have been better educated that many youth in those days. A Daniel Tichenor on 24 June 1667 signed the Fundamental Agreement that established the basic rules for the Colony. Although Daniel, Martin's son, is recognized as this signatory by the society for the Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey, he would have been only ten years old at the time.
However, when the initial six-acre lots were allocated to the adult, male members of the new colony, only Martin Tichenor received a lot, suggesting that there was no other Daniel Tichenor in the colony at that time.

As he matured, Daniel was given civil privileges and duties within the colony. In 1684 he was allowed to take up land in the common; in 1689 he was chosen fence viewer; and in 1690 "pounder." The last two duties are related: the fence viewer ensured that property was properly fenced, and the pounder brought stray cattle and hogs to the pound when they escaped. The town records also include the following assignment on 5 March 1693:

Whereas, there is much Prophanation of the Lord's Day in the Time of Worship, by the playing of the Boys and Girls; therefore Daniel Tichenor and Thomas Lyon are chosen to look after them, and to correct them, or call them by Name as they shall see occasion, for the Year ensuing." During this time he also married Elizabeth (nee Baldwin) Tichenor, whose father was also one of the signers of the Fundamental Agreement for Newark.

Martin gradually increased his real estate holdings. Daniel received two acres from his father's original six acres on 1 June 1680. On 2 May he bought 4-1/2 acres adjacent to that lot. He received interests in additional land in 1697 and 1701. All of these land holdings are small by the measure of his descendants' acquisitions, but their size reflects a deliberate choice by the Pilgrim community. As historian Timothy J. Crist notes:

They did not aim to accumulate vast estates that could only be worked by slaves and indentured servants. Instead, they aimed to worship God and build a common life together. They did not expect their town to keep growing and get bigger. They shared the New England view that when a town got too big and there was no more land to distribute within easy distance of the church, it was appropriate for a group of families to move on to the next area with available land and there establish a new church and a new town government.

Crist notes that the founders of Newark had created "a closed, inward–looking town led by men of uncommon experience and ability," but by the time Daniel was given his responsibility to supervise unruly youth, one of these men of ability, their second minister, Abraham Pierson, Jr., had left the town and in 1701 he became the first President of Yale University. The founders "focus on godly government was already past its sell–by date."

Many of Daniel's descendants who moved west would retain this desire for "godly govenment," but their view of what that meant diverged under rapidly changing circumstances. In some frontier settlements with large farm holdings their dispersed churches would try to exercise the authority that had been law in Newark. In most cases, the educational standards of the Puritans would be impossible to meet in those conditions.

Daniel is named in his father's will and in Daniel's will, he names his wife, Elizabeth, and children, Jane Tuttle, John, Joseph and Daniel.

removed from Old Burial Ground, Newark, NJ in 1889.