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David Senter

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dunstable, Middlesex County, MA, United States
Death: circa November 09, 1819
Charleston, Orleans County, Vermont, United States (Injury and exhaustion)
Place of Burial: Charleston, Orleans County, VT, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Col. Joseph Senter, I and Elizabeth E. Senter
Husband of Susanna "Susan" Senter
Father of David Senter Senter and Lucretia Weeks
Brother of Elizabeth Cummings; Joseph Senter, II; Isaac Senter; Private; Susannah Senter and 1 other

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About David Senter

Birth – Circa at least 1747/48 - Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (year based on his purchase of land in Moultonborough, N.H. in 1769, needed to be at least 21 y.o., age of majority).
1769, May 2 – “of Moultonborough“ purchased 250 acres from Johnathan Moulton Esq - Moultonborough, Strafford County (now Carroll County), New Hampshire.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3HY-Z3J4-7?i=376&...

https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafavZfor...

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(V) David Senter. son of Colonel Joseph Senter, was born at Dunstable, in 1750, and removed to Moultonborough, now Center Harbor, with his parents. From 1780 to 1792 he lived at Plymouth. He settled at Danville, Vermont, where he was one of the pioneers, and died there in November, 1819. He married Susan Chamberlain, who was baptized at Rochester. New Hampshire, July 15, 1753, daughter of Ebenezer Chamberlain, who was a lieutenant in Captain Edward Everett's company, Colonel Bedel's regiment, in 1776, in the revolutionary war. Children of David and Susan Senter : Dearborn Bean, mentioned below ; David ; Darius ; Ebenezer ; Zaccheus ; Susan and Sally.

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial
A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation · Volume 4
1914

Death – Circa Nov 1819. “grandfather David Senter started from the West Charlestown Mill to go across the woods to his son Darius Senter’s and was lost. The town rallied to search for him and he was found, but by the kindness of drink and food given to him in his exhausted state was so injured he died. He was buried on the Dark Day, November 9, 1819.” *
Burial - Nov 9, 1819 - Charlestown, Orleans County, Vermont
The Vermont Historical Gazetteer, pg 378.

Note: David Senter's son...David Senter (born circa 1775) is the one who married Jane Rolfe. There is a newspaper article were he mentions that she left him. He signed the "advertisment" as "David Senter jun." (or junior) See the son's profile here: David Senter Senter

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David Senter's Timeline

1748
1748
Dunstable, Middlesex County, MA, United States
1775
1775
NH, United States
1779
February 23, 1779
Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, United States
1819
November 3, 1819
Age 71
Charleston, Orleans County, VT, United States
November 9, 1819
Age 71
Charleston, Orleans County, Vermont, United States