Person:Daniel Messenger (1)

Name^[1]^[2]	Captain Daniel Messenger
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Est 1683
Residence^[1]	1702	Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage	28 Jan 1703/04	Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Lydia Royce
Residence^[1]	1715	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Residence^[1]	1730	Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Death^[1]	Est 1751

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Messenger, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
5:1181.

"Daniel (Messenger), b c. 1683, d c. 1751; Capt.; from Norwalk to W[allingford] 1702; res. Hartford 1715, Harwinton 1730; …"
↑ 13. Ebenezer⁴ Hopkins, in Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932)
44.

"Daniel Messenger, the pioneer settler of Harwinton, from Hartford in January 1730, was 'first in age and position' among the early settlers. (Chipman's History of Harwinton, pp. 27-30.) He was commissioned captain of the train band of Harwinton by the General Assembly held at Hartford, 10 May 1744. (Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut from May 1744 to November 1750, Charles J. Hoadley [1876], pp. 1, 38.)

Daniel was the son of Samuel and Susanna ~~(Mills)~~ Messenger of Jamaica, Long Island; his grandfather, Andrew Messenger, appears as a signer of the 'fundamental agreement' at New Haven, Connecticut, 4 June 1639, and was an original proprietor and Magistrate of Jamaica."