| DANIEL, Fairfield, s. of Jehu the sec. left wid. Eliz. and ten ch. todiv. his est. (which [p.306] was quite large), acc. inv. of 14 July1727. Of six s. we may judge the order of success. in age to concurwith the arrangem. at pro. office, Jehu; Stephen; Peter; David; Moses,Y. C. 1734; and Aaron, Y. C. 1735; and more confid. can we presume,that sev. of the ds. Hannah, Mary Wheeler, Eliz. Hull and JaneSherwood were b. bef. sev. of the s. I wish the hs. of the m. ds.could be respectiv. assign. Moses and Aaron were minors; and their brs. Stephen and Peter were several. made guardns. Nine of these ch.had ea. £545. and double that sum was sh. of the eldest s. Theyoungest s. Aaron, b. 4 Jan. 1717, was the disting. good man, presid.of N. J. coll. f. of the more disting. (but not as a good man), Aaron of N. Y. the great manager of the polit. change for our country in1800, wherein he was made third Vice-Presid. of the U. S197 |