Person:Daniel Stafford (1)

"Daniel Stafford has already been mentioned as the son of Joab Stafford, and succeeding to his interest in company with Enos Brown, Stafford & Brown, coppersmiths, removed in 1815 to the east side of Genesee street above the square, and next to E. B. Shearman, where they dealt in all kinds of hardware. About 1820 they failed and the business was assumed by Spencer, Stafford & Co. of Albany. Daniel became next a captain of a packet boat, being in command of one of the first packets upon the canal. His residence in his later years was the house now occupied by E. S. Barnum. His wife, who was Altheina Makepeace of Norton, Mass., is still alive. He had five children." -- M. M. Bagg, The Pioneers of Utica (1877), Page 288.

In 1821 Daniel Stafford held the position of "superintendent of streets" in Utica and in 1823 he was a village trustee from the second ward. -- M. M. Bagg, The Pioneers of Utica (1877), pages 516, 553.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Munsell, Collections on the History of Albany, Vol III.
   457, 1870.

   "Daniel, born Jan. 3, 1787; married Althenia Makepeace of Norton, Mass., July 22, 1810, who was born Jan. 29, 1793. He was a hardware merchant at Utica 1812, '13; he died March 14, 1836.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Cemetery Records.

   Originally buried at Potter Cemetery in Utica, his remains were relocated to Forest Hill Cemetery, when Potter Cemetery was abandoned in the 1870s. Identified in the records as Removal #149 from Potter Cemetery to Forest Hill, records show his date of death as Mar. 14, 1835 and age at death as: 49 years, 2 months, 11 days.