Person:Daniel Seaver (4)

MILITARY:

Daniel P. Seaver, a resident of Kingston NH, enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on 8 August 1861 at the age of 22. He enlisted in Company B, 3rd Infantry Regiment of New Hampshire on 22 August 1861. He was wounded on 10 July 1863 at Morris Island SC. He was discharged from his unit on 23 August 1864 in Bermuda Hundred VA ["Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers," Historical Data Systems, Provo UT, accessed at "American Civil War Soldiers" database on www.ancestry.com].

CENSUS:

In the 1870 US census, the Daniel P. Seaver family resided in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. The household included Daniel P. (age 30, farmer, $125 in personal property, born NH), Dolly (age 30, keeping house, born NH), Augustus (age 9, attending school, born NH), Fanny (age 6, attending school, born NH), John (age 4, at home, born NH), Stephen (age 2, at home, born NH), Georgia A. (age 2 months, at home, born NH) and George (age 2 months, at home, born NH). [LDS Microfilm 0,552,346, page 253, dwelling #84, family #79].

In the 1880 US census soundex for New Hampshire, the Daniel P. Seaver (age 42, born NH,works on a farm, father and mother born NH) family resided in Kingston, Rockingham County, NH. The family included his wife Dolley (age 41, born NH, keeping house, father and mother born NH), son Agustus (age 19, born NH, works in a shoe factory), son John P. (age 14, born NH, works on a farm), son Stephen T. (age 13, born NH, at school), daughter Georgianna (age 12, born NH, at school), daughter Dora E. (age 7, born NH), and daughter Carrie B. (age 5, born NH). [LDS Microfilm 1,254,767, page 224B].

Daniel P. Seaver resided in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the 1890 United States Veterans Census. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War (private, Company B, 3rd New Hampshire Infantry, enlisted 18 July 1861, mustered out 5 November 1865, served 4 years, 3 months, 27 days) (Roll 40, Page 3, ED 224, viewed at www.ancestry.com).

In the 1900 US Census, Daniel P. Seaver (head, white, male, born Aug 1839, age 60, widowed, born NH, parents born NH, a farmer, owns farm free of mortgage) resided in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire [National Archives Microfilm Series T623, Roll 950, page 241, ED 196, Sheet 11, Line 94].