Person:Daniel Gard (5)

'Daniel Gard was presumably born about 1685. On 9 Nov. 1707 he was baptized as an adult at the Stonington, Connecticut Church. Five years later he accidentally killed one William Whitehair in a fight which occurred on 16 Aug. 1712. Whitehair died seven days later of internal injuries. Daniel was convicted of manslaughter for this and was sentenced to stand on the gallows for one hour with a noose around his neck and then be whipped 39 stripes [Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1706-1716, p. 351, footnote]. After this he moved to New Jersey, perhaps as early as 1715 according to one source [Guardline, Vol. 11, Nr. 11, p. 8]. He was certainly living in New Jersey by 13 Dec. 1727 when he witnessed a deed from Benjamin Hathaway, blacksmith, to John Lyon, Carpenter for land in Hanover Township [Hunterdon County, NJ Special Deeds, Vol. 1, p. 30]. He may be the father of the Daniel and Jeremiah Gard of the next generation who resided in Morris County, New Jersey, but there is no evidence that he either married or had any children. It is more likely that he was the uncle of Daniel and Jeremiah of Morris Co. and that they followed him to New Jersey after their father's death.'^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 #9 Daniel Gard, in Henderson, James R. Descendants of Roger Garde, Proven and Probable. Guardian. (Aug 1999).