Daniel Fish

DANIEL FISH

Born: R.I., May 17, 1707, Portsmouth

Father: Robert Fish (1657 - 1730)

Mother: Mary Hall (1677 - 1735)

(Robert4, Thomas3, Alice2, John1), farmer, son of Robert and Mary (Hall) Fish, was b. at Portsmouth, R.I., May 17, 1707 (the year England and Scotland were united); d. in 1786, age 79, possibly at New Ashford, Berksire Co., Mass., where he was visiting his uncle Benjamin. On Oct. 22, 1730, at

        handwritten note on book crosses out 'uncle' above in favor of 'son' Portsmouth, he was m. to Mary Tallman, dau. of Benjamin2 (Peter1) and Patience (Durfee) Tallman, by Stephen Brownell, Jr., Justice of the Peace.  Mary was a cousin of Jemima Tallman who m. his brother David.

He was the first member in the Fish Family of the Vermont line of ancestry to remove from Portsmouth; he lived for a time in Swansea, Mass., where he gave land to his son George, who was living in Swansea in 1790. Some time after 1740, after the birth of five sons, he removed to a farm in West Dighton, Mass. (which has been visited by the author, and by Chas. A.10 Fish of Vermont).

The Census of 1790 lists a Daniel Fish of Dighton, Bristol Co.,Mass., with a family of one male over 16, two under 16 and four females, which may refer to his son Daniel6, who was b. July 13, 1735, and had three sons (one over 16 in 1790) and five daughters. His will, proved Oct. 3, 1786, indicated that he died at the age of 79, and another record shows that he died in 1786 at New Ashford, presumably while visiting at the home of his son Benjamin who lived on a farm at that place. His will named his wife Mary and the five sons born at Portsmouth, also Olive, wife of Gamaliel Robinson, and Mary, wife of Benjamin Whitmarsh, who must have been his daughters, b. at Dighton, and William Fish, probably a son, b. at Dighton.

In "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War" is found the record: "Daniel Fish marched from Rehoboth on the alarm of Dec. 8, 1776." This probably did not refer to our ancestor, as he was 69 years old at the time, but it must have been his third son Daniel6, b. July 13, 1735. There was also a Private Daniel Fish in Col. Topham's Regt. who marched from Portsmouth in 1776, and whose pay was due in 1777.

Children:

• Robert, b. July 18, 1731; d. Feb. 5, 1817, age 86; m. Abigail Hathaway, Oct. 1, 1755; m. (2) Sarah Look.
• George, b. Dec 22, 1732; d.Jan 1792; m. Nov 24,1763, Thankful Reynolds, m. (2) Comfort _________.
• Daniel, b. July 13,1735; m. Apr 8,1760, Barbara Bowen
• Isaac, b.Aug 4,1737; m. Lillis Mason
• Benjamin Fish b: 4 Oct 1739 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island
• William, b. Sept. 9,1742;d. 1817; m. Hannah _______.
• Matthew, b. Dec 6, 1744
• Mary, b. June 22, 1747; m. Benjamin Whitmarsh
• Elizabeth, b.Sep 2, 1749; d. Jan 6, 1751
• David Fish b: 14 Apr 1752 in Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts
• Olive, b.Nov 4, 1754; m. Gamaliel Robinson
• Jonathan Fish b: 12 Sep 1757 in Dighton, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. 1841; m. Lillis Mason

Sources:

THE FISH FAMILY of England and America, by Lester Warren Fish - http://www.dallas.net/~mcmanus/book_p105.htm

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067390757;view=1up;seq=153

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricktallm...

Talman/Tallman Families, by Herbert S. Ackerman

One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families by John Osborne Austin, Publication: Massachussetts, 1893

WorldTree Database: "The Descendants of Thomas Durfee", by Charles L. Durfee, Ancestry.com

WorldTree Database: "The Ancestral File of Allen Donald Tallman", by Allen Donald Tallman, 3 May 2004; Ancestry.com - http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=atallmen

Portsmouth, RI Vital Records, Page: 56

WorldTree Database: "Thomas, Wilbur and Courser Families", by Roger Courser; Ancestry.com - http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=rogerd2527

Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Volume 1), by James N. Arnold, Publication: Providence, Rhode Island; Narragansett Historical Publishing Company; 1891 - http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/5347/index.html

RI, Newport, Portsmouth: Town Book of Records, Marriages, Births & Deceases [1684-1853], Author: Clerk

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