DANIEL, Fairfield, s. of Jehu the sec. left wid. Elizabeth and ten ch. to div. his est. (which vol. 1, p. 306 was quite large), acc. inv. of 14 July 1727. Of six s. we may judge the order of success. in age to concur with 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, Elizabeth Hull, and Jane Sherwood 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. L545. and double that sum was sh. of the eldest s. The youngest 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 more polit. change for our country in 1800, wherein he was made third Vice-Presid. of the U. S.
